Tue 29 Jan 1805
Charles Joseph Harford claimed shares nos.79,80, will of Joseph Harford.
A letter was received from Mr J. Sills written at the request of the Thames & Severn Committee declining to undertake the erection of an aqueduct for the conveyance of the Badbrook water under the Thames & Severn canal under the idea of it not being practical. Resolved that our clerk be directed to report to the Thames & Severn Committee that an aqueduct may be built without any difficulty and that it is highly expedient that it should be done as speedily as possible as while the Badbrook stream continues to flow into the canal, the lower level of the Thames & Severn will be continually filling up with mud which will in great part be conveyed from such level into our canal and that therefore the committee must again urge the necessity of building the proposed aqueduct.
Letter from Mr Wheeler, clerk to the Gloucester & Berkeley Canal Committee, stating in reply to our letter of the 17 December that as the branch of the G&B canal to the Hock Crib is intended to commence at more than three quarters of a mile beyond the South Bank of the Stroud Canal no alteration will be made in crossing our navigation and that under such circumstances an indemnity proposed in the letter of our clerk to be made to our company appeared to be unnecessary. Our clerk is to reply stating that if such indemnity shall be withheld, our committee will expect an assurance signed by the Gloucester & Berkeley Canal Committee that no alteration will be made in crossing our navigation and that no clause shall be introduced into their proposed New Act of Parliament that shall in any way alter or infringe on the former enactments in their various acts, that affect in any way whatsoever the interests of our company, and that an answer to this letter be requested as speedily as possible for the satisfaction of our Committee.
At a Meeting of the Committee of the Stroudwater Navigation held at the Committee room at Walbridge on Tuesday the 296th of January 1805
Present: Nath^l Wathen, Jos^h Grazebrooke, Rev^d j Colborne, Rowles Scudamore, Benj^n Grazebrook, Nath^l Jones.
Read the Minutes of the last Meeting.
Continued the Orders of the last Meeting.
M^r Jo^h Grazebrook attended on behalf of Charles Joseph Harford of the City of Bristol Esq^r amd made out his Claim to two Shares N^o 78, 80 in the Stroudwater Navigation late the property of his Father Joseph Harford of the said city of Bristol Esq^r deceased by producing Letters of Administration 29^th Jan 1803 by the perogative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury to the said Charles Joseph Harford, by which he becomes entitled to the said Shares and his claim is hereby admitted.
A Letter was received from M^r Jos^h Sills written at the request of the Thames and Severn Committee declining to undertake the erection of an aqueduct for the conveyance of the Badbrook Water under the Thames and Severn Canal under this idea not being practicable. Resolved that our Clerk be directed to report to the Thames and Severn Committee that an Aqueduct may be built without any difficulty and that it is highly expedient and that it should be done as speedily as possible; as while the Badbrook stream continues to flow into the Canal, the Lower levell of the Thames and Severn will be continually filling up with mud which will in a great part be convey^d from such Level into our Canal, and that therefore the Committee must again use the necessity of building the proposed Aqueduct.
Our Clerk produced a Letter from M^r Jn^o Wheeler, Clerk to the Glocester and Berkly Canal Committee in reply to the Letter that was directed by the Committee Meeting of the 17^th Dec^r to be addressed him, that no other Branch of the Glocester and Berkly to the Hock Crib is intended to commence at more than three quarters of a Mile beyond the South Bank of the Stroud Canal no alteration will be made in crossing our Navigation and under such circumstances an indemnity is proposed in the Letter of our Clerk to be made to our Company appeared to be unnesissary.
Resolved that our Clerk do reply to the letter received from M^r Wheeler, stating that if such an indemnity shall be withheld, our Committee will expect an assurance signed by the Glocester and Berkly Canal Committee, that no alteration will be made in crossing our Navigation and that no clause shall be introduced into the proposed New Act of Parliament that shall in any way alter or impinge on their former enactments in their previous Acts that affect in any way whatsoever the interests of our Company and that an answer to this Letter be requested as speedily as possible for the satisfaction of our Committee.
Adjourn'd this Meeting to Tuesday the 12^th day of March next at 3 o'Clock in the afternoon at the Committee at Walbridge
