Thu 2 Mar 1780
Mr Hillhouse’s bill of £102 5s for the pleasure barge having been objected to by the last General Meeting it will be considered at the next General Meeting on 13 April.
Stile to be put on towing path at Ewin’s house, and the towpath be mounded with withy setts and hurdles from there to Mr Reddall’s little orchard.
At a Meeting of the Committee held by Adjournment at the George Inn in Stroud on Thursday the 2^d of March 1780
Present: Joseph Wathen, James Dallaway, James Winchcombe, Fream Arundell, William Knight, John Allaway, John Hollings.
Read the Minutes of the last Meeting.
The Committee have not yet staked out M^r Butchers Land.
M^r Merrett have attended and remeasured M^r Chances Lands. Ordered that our Clerk do write to M^r Chance and Compare the admeasuremention with him.
The Wear in the Island at Easton is erecting agreeable to the order of last Meeting.
The Mound is making in the Orchard late Kemmetts.
The Hedge adjoining to the Road at Easton is now Cutting.
M^r Hollings Reported that he has waited on M^r Wyatt but di not settle for his Lands.
Rece'd a Letter from M^r Hillhouse informing us that he has drawn on us for £102..5 for the Pleasure Barge. Ordered that our Clerk do inform M^r Hillhouse that as some Objections were made to the said Barge by the Proprietors of the Navigation at the last General Meeting, We have therefore taken the Liberty of returning the Draft, and Submitt the discusion and Settlement of the same to the next General Meeting.
Ordered that a Stile be immediately put on the Towing Path on M^r Reddalss Land at Ewins House, and that the Towing Path be mounded from Ewins House to the little Orchard of M^r Reddalls with Withy setts and Hurdles.
Ordered that the General Half Yearly Meeting of the Proprietors be advertised to be held at the George Inn in Stroud on Thursday the 13^th of April nest and that Circular Letters be sent next week to all the Proprietors residing out of the County.
Adjourn'd this Meeting to Thursday the 30^th Instant at four o'Clock in the afternoon at the George Inn in Stroud.
