Tue 9 Oct 1804
Half Yearly General Meeting. Tonnage £1334 14s 3d. Balance after wages, etc, £1094 14s 9d. Dividend of £5 declared.
It having been reported by the Committee that the sum of £61 has been expended in cleansing our upper level from mud which has been collected principally by mud brought down the Badbrook [Slad Brook] which has deposited itself in the lowest level of the Thames & Severn Canal and has been afterwards conveyed by the passing of vessels into the Stroudwater Canal, resolved that the Thames & Severn Canal Committee be requested to build an aqueduct as soon as possible to convey the Badbrook Stream under the Thames & Severn Canal.
Mr Edward Hill had proposed to pay 20 guineas for the purchase of ground containing about [blank] feet on each side of Hills Bridge on which a warehouse has been erected, he undertaking to keep in repair that part of the bridge that is connected with the warehouse. Proposal accepted, the seal of the Company to be affixed to a conveyance of the same.
Mr Lewis attended proposing to pay 1s 6d per ton tonnage to the Company to land coal opposite his Dye house below Brimscombe Bridge rather than to convey it from the wharf at Brimscombe. Proposal complied with, it being evidently favourable to the interests of the Company.
Tonnage on road stone to be raised to 2s per ton to Wallbridge and so in proportion in future.
Sir Samuel Wathen appointed a Committee man for the ensuing half year in the room of the late Rev. William Ellis.
At a General Half Yearly Meeting of the Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation held at the George Inn in Stroud on Tuesday the 9^th of Octo^r 1804
Nath^l Wathen Esq^r in the Chair.
The Minutes of the last General Meeting were Read and Confirmed.
The several Books and Accounts were produced respecting the Affairs of the Company as directed by the Act of Parliament and Examined and Confirmed.
It appears by the Accounts that the Sum of £1334..4^s..3^d has been received for Tonnage from the 10^th of April last to this day, a part of which has been applied towards the payment of Wages, Disbursements & there remains in the Treasurers hands after paying the last Dividend with the 200^£ in addition to the Coal Trade and the Sum of 110^£ for Income Tax for the last Year ending 6^th of April the sum of £1094..14^s..9^d.
Ordered that a Dividend of £5 on each Share be paid by the Treasurer on the first day of November next, and the our Clerk do transmitt Circular Letters to all the Proprietors to inform them they may draw upon the Treasurer or apply to him for payment of the same
It having been reported by the Committee that the Sum of £61 has been expended in cleansing our upper Level from mud which has been collected principally by mud being brought down the Badbrook water which has deposited itself in the lowest Level of the Thames and Severn Canal and has been afterwards conveyed by the passing of Vessells from time to time into the Stroudwater Canal. Resolved that a Letter be sent to M^r Joseph Till of Hambro Wharf to be presented to the Thames and Severn Canal Committee stating the above circumstances, and requesting them to order that an Aqueduct be erected as soon as possible to convey the Badbrook Stream under the Thames and Severn Canal.
The Committee also reported that M^r Ed^d Hill had proposed to pay Twenty Guineas for the purchase of ground containing about ( blank) feet on each side of Hills Bridge on which a Warehouse has been erected,he undertaking to keep in repair that part of the Bridge that is connected with the Warehouse. Resolved that his proposal be accepted and that the seal of the Company be affixed to an Conveyance of the same
M^r Lewis attended proposing to pay 1^s/6^d per Ton Tonnage to the Company on being permitted to land Coals on the Ground opposite his Dye House below Brimscombe Bridge rather that convey it from the Wharf at Brimscombe as heretofore. Resolved that this proposal be compl^d with it being evidently favourable to the interests of the Company. Ordered that Road Stone be raised to 2^s per Ton Tonnage to Walbridge and again in proportion in future. Resolved that Sir Samuel Wathen be appointed a Committee Man for the ensuing half Year in the Room of the late Rev^d W^m Ellis.
