Mon 19 Sep 1796
Repairs ordered nearly completed.
Committee of Gloucester & Berkeley Canal attended. Intended deviation from planned line of their canal to intersect Stroudwater at point now in lowest level of canal. Proposal to continue our second level below Junction by an embankment and to erect a lock in lieu of Whitminster Lock. Provision needed that proposed embankment be continually kept in repair at expense of Gloucester & Berkeley Canal. Committee should be indemnified from all consequences from making such an embankment. Committee of Gloucester & Berkeley Canal agreed and stipulated that culvert should be made to drain adjacent lands.
Mr William Chance produced agreement dated 30 April 1778 stating price to be paid by Company to Daniel Chance for certain pieces of land to be purchased by Company. Mutual agreement that if Company relinquished any corners or bits of said lands Daniel Chance should take them at price Company was to give. Mr Chance claimed to be paid difference between price paid on purchase of land and increased price at which Company sold certain corners and bits of land. Committee against Mr Chance and referred him to General Meeting.
At a Meeting of the Committee of the Stroudwater Navigation held at the George Inn in Stroud on Monday the 19^th of Sep^r 1796
Present: Samuel Wathen, John Allaway, Josiah Isles Wathen, Joseph Grazebrooke, Nath^l Wathen, Rich^d Bigland, Rev^d W^m Ellis, Sam^l Smith, Benj^n Grazebrooke.
Read the Minutes of the last Meeting.
Our Clerk reported that he had tramsitted our Letter to M^r Hogg, to which he has not received any answer.
Ordered that M^r Sam^l Baylis be continued in the Office of second Clerk untill the next Committee Meeting.
Our Clerk reported that the different repairs ordered by the Committee are nearly compleated.
A Committee of the Glocester & Berkley Canal attended to communicate to our Committee and intended deviation from the line of their Canal as the same is mark'd out upon their Plan & Book of Reference, by which intended deviation their Canal will intersect ours at a point now in the lowest Level of our Canal, and they proposed to continue our second levell below the point of the Junction by means of an embankment, and to erect a Lock below the Junction point, in Lieu of the Whitminster Lock.
Our Committee suggested the propriety of making a sufficient provision that the proposed embankment should be continually kept in repair at the Expence of the Glocester and Berkley Canal Company, and that our Company should be indemnified from all consequences arising from the making of such embankment.
The Committes of the Glocester & Berkley Canal agreed that such a provision should be made, and particularly they stipulated that a Culvert should be made under the said embankment for the purpose of draining the adjacent Lands.
M^r W^m Chance attended and produced an agreement dated 30^th April 1778 between Dan^l Chance the Elder and our Company whereby after stating the Price agreed to be paid by the Company to the said Daniel Chance for certain pieces of Land intended to be purchased by the Company, It was mutually agreed between the said parties that if the Company should be desirous to relinquish and Corners or Bits of saind Land that the said Dan^l Chance should take the same at the price the Company was to give respectivly for the said Lands.
M^r Chance claimed to be paid by the Company the difference between the price they paid upon the Purchase of the Pieces of Land mentioned in the above agreement, and the increased price, for which the Company lately sold certain Corners and Bits of Land, parcel of the Land mentioned in the said Agreement.
The Committee were of Opinion against M^r Chances Claim both upon the construction of the Agreement, and by reason of extrinsic circumstances, and they refer'd him to a General Meeting.
Adjourn'd this Meeting to Monday the 10^th of October next at 12 o Clock in the forenoon at the George Inn in Stroud.
