Mon 15 Sep 1800
Special meeting of Committee. Mr Richard Owen Cambridge conceives he has legal claims on Company to keep in repair weir erected by them on banks of his mill pond. He does not consent to an embankment on site of old weir. Mr J J Wathen to give his opinion and to wait upon Mr Richard Owen Cambridge at Richmond to bring business to amicable termination.
At a Special Meeting of the Committee of the Stroudwater Navigation held at the Committee room at Walbridge on Monday the 15^th Sep^r 1800
Present: Rev^d Will^m Ellis, Jos^h Grazebrooke, Rev^d Jos^h Colborne, Rowles Scudamore, Nath^l Wathen, Nath^l Jones, Jn^o Allaway.
A Letter was produced by M^r Nath^l Wathen received from Rich^d Owen Cambridge Esq^r in answer to Letter of the 2^d day of Sept^r written at the request of the Committee (a Copy of which is moistted(?) in our Letter Book) by which it appears that M^r Cambridge conceives that he has a legal claim on our Company to keep in repair the weir erected by them on the Banks of M^r Cambridges Mill pond, and is not consenting to an Embankment being made at our Companys expense on the site of the Weir in order to restore the ground to its former state. Resolved that the Committee feeling themselves incompetent to come to a final determination on the Subject of M^r Cambridges Letter, wherein he threatens to bring an Action against the Company as it involves legal niceties do request M^r J I Wathen to take the business into his consideration and to give his opinion, and if he should conceive it necessary, to wait on M^r Owen Cambridge at Richmond in order to bring the business to an amicable termination, That M^r Nath^l Wathen be requested to immediatly to put his Brother into possession of all the circumstances of this difference with M^r Cambridge, & the Letters that have passed on the subject.
