Mon 17 Dec 1804
Mr Denyer, the Thames & Severn Company Clerk, had returned a verbal answer to the letter written to Mr J. Sills in pursuance of an order the General Meeting of 9 October proposing to our company to pay one half of the expense of an Aqueduct to convey Badbrook water under the Thames & Severn Canal. Clerk to send a letter to Mr Joseph Sills stating that our Committee declined to concur in such proposal it being evident that the Thames and seven Company had no claim whatever on our Company to contribute towards the expense of erecting an Aqueduct under their canal.
Our clerk is to inform Mr Sills that a beacon at Framilode shall be erected with all convenient speed agreeable to the desire of the Thames & Severn Company in lieu of that destroyed by one of their trows, relying on the promise of their committee to defray the expense thereof.
Very considerable inconvenience and loss living been sustained by the company from the neglect of persons to remove within a reasonable time coal, stone, bricks, timber, etc, from their differing wharves, the following rates of wharfage be henceforth charged on all articles imported or deposited for exportation viz; 2d per ton for the first twenty-eight days, and 2d per ton per week for every week after expiration of that period until the goods shall be removed from the wharf and that notice to this effect be given to all parties now having any articles deposited therein.
The Gloucester & Berkeley Canal Company having given notice of an intended application to Parliament for Powers to alter the line of their canal it appears absolutely necessary that certain Members of our Committee be deputed to watch the progress of the Bill. Tthe following gentlemen are therefore requested to attend in London for that purpose viz: Mr Burgh, Mr B. Grazebrook and Mr Wathen. Ordered that our clerk do write a letter to the committee of the Gloucester & Berkeley Canal Company requesting them to indemnify us for any necessary expenses which may arise in consequence of this proposed alteration.
Mrs Anna Maria Ellis claimed shares nos.82,83,101, will of William Ellis.
At a Meeting of the Committee of the Stroudwater Navigation held at the Commitee room at Walbridge on Monday the 17^th of Dec 1804
Present: Samuel Wathen, John Allaway, Henry Burgh, Rowles Scudamore, Nath^l Wathen, Joseph Grazebrooke, Benj^n Grazebrooke, Nath^l Jones.
Read the Minutes of the last Meeting.
Continued the Orders of the last Meeting.
Our Clerk reported that M^r Denyer the Thames and Severn Co^y Clerk had returned a verbal answer to the Letter written to M^r J Sills in pursuance of an Order of the General Meeting of the 9^th Octo^r 1804 proposing to our Company to pay one half of the expence of an Aqueduct to convey the Badbrook water under the Thames and Severn Canal.
Resolved that a Letter be forthwith sent to M^r Jos^h Sills stating that our Committee declined to concur in such a proposal it being evident that the Thames and Severn Company had no claim whatever on our Company to contribute to the expence of erecting an Aqueduct under their Canal. Our Clerk is also directed to inform M^r Sill that a Beacon at Framiload shall be erected with all convenient speed agreeably to the desire of the Thames and Severn Company in lieu of that destroy^d by one of their Trows relying on the promise of their Committee to defray the expence thereof.
Very considerable inconvenience and loss having been sustained by the Company from the neglect of persons to remove within a reasonable time Coal, Stone, Bricks Timber etc from thier different Wharfs.
Ordered that the following rates of Wharfage be henceforth charged on all Articles imported or deposited for exportation Viz: Two pence per Ton for the first twenty eight days and two pence per Ton per week for every week after the expiration of that period until the Goods shall be removed from the Wharf and that notice to this effect be given to all parties now having articles deposited therein.
The Glocester and Berkly Canal Company having given notice of an intended application to Parliament for powers to alter the line of their Canal, it appears absolutely necessary that certain Members of our Committee be deputed to watch the progress of the Bill, and that the following Gentlemen are therefore requested to attend in London for that purpose, Viz: M^r Burgh, M^r B Grazebrook & M^r Wathen. Ordered that our Clerk do write a Letter To the Committee of the Glocester and Berkly Canal Company requesting them to imdemnify us for any necessary expences which may arise in consequence of this alteration.
M^r Nath^l Wathen attended on behalf of M^rs Anna Maria Ellis, the relict of the late Rev^d Willm Ellis and produced he Probate of the Will of the late M^r Ellis of the Green in the Parish of Painswick Glos proved in the Perogation Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury on the 6^th day of October last and made another claim in virtue of no sole residuary Legatee to have Shares N^o 82, 83, 101 in the Stroudwater Navigation late the property of the Rev^d Wil^m Ellis deceased, such Claim is therefore admitted.
Adjourned this Meetimg to Tuesday the twenty ninth day of January next at 3 o'Clock in the afternoon at the Committee room at Walbridge
