Tue 9 Oct 1787
General Half Yearly Meeting. Tonnage £601 16s 1½d. Balance £698 6s 9d. Dividend of £3 15s declared.
Mr Ben Grazebrook to pay £25 tonnage for barges to and from Gloucester and Bristol till next half yearly meeting.
Edward Harford Esq appointed member of Committee in place of James Dallaway deceased.
Large quantities of coal, property of Proprietors of Thames & Severn Canal, passed through Stroudwater Canal toll free to be used in making Thames & Severn Canal, have been and are about to be sold, not having paid usual tonnage. Enquiry to ensure tonnage due is paid.
Thanks of meeting to John Webb Esq, member for City of Gloucester, for his attention to rights and interests of Company.
At a General Half Yearly Meeting of the Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation held this Ninth day of October 1787 at the George Inn at Stroud.
Joseph Harford Esq^r in the Chair.
The Minutes of the last General Meeting were Read and confirm'd.
The several Books and Accounts were produced respecting the affairs of the Company as directed by the Act of Parliament & Examined and confirm'd.
It appears by the Accounts that the Sum of £601..16..1½ have been Received for Tonnage from the 10^th of April last to this day, which with the Ballance of last half year makes the Sum of £935..9..10, our of which there have been £237..3..1 expended in payment of Debts, Repairs, etc, and there remains a Ballance of £698..6..9. Ordered that a Dividend of Three pounds & fifteen Shillings be made on each Share to be paid by the Treasurer on the first Day of December next. And that our Clerk do transmit circular Letters to those Proprietors who are absent from this Meeting, to inform them that they may draw upon the Treasurer or apply to him for payment of the same.
Ordered that M^r Ben: Grazebrooks Barges to and from Glocester and Bristol do pass and repass the Canal till the next half yearly Meeting in consideration of his paying Twenty five pounds for Tonnage & Wharfage during that time.
Resolved that Edward Harford Esq^r be appointed a Member of the Committee in the room of James Dallaway deceased.
The Committee having reported to the General Meeting that they are inform'd that large Quantities of Coal the property of the Proprietors of the Thames & Severn Canal which have passed through the Stroudwater Canal toll free being proposed to be used in making the Thames and Severn Canal have been and are about to be sold not having paid the usual Tonnage to the detriment of the Proprietors of the Stroudwater Canal. The Committee are directed to enquire into the same and apply to the Committee of the Thames and Severn Canal in order to concert some Plan for ascertaining the respective Quantities used or sold that the Tonnage due to the Stroudwater Canal may be duly paid.
Resolved Unaminously that the Thanks of this Meeting be given to John Webb Esq^r Member for the City of Glocester for his great attention to the Rights and Interest of this Company, and that the same be transmitted to him by the Chairman.
