Tue 13 Oct 1818
Thomas Grazebrook has been sufficiently compensated for injury sustained by alteration of the warehouse.
A letter from solicitors received on behalf of the Mill owners on the rivers about electing new Commissioners to replace those who have died; this was declined.
At a Meeting of the Committee of the Stroudwater Navigation held at the Committee Room at Walbridge on Tuesday the 13^th day of October 1818
Present: Rowles Scudamore, John Snowden, Thomas Holbrow, Henry Eycott, George Wathen, Richard Miller, William Stanton, Nath^l Jones, John Mogan, Rev^d Jos^h Jones, John Holbrow.
Read the minutes of the last Meeting.
Ordered that M^rs Hogg be again tendered the Money which M^r Trinder estimates the damage occasioned by putting the Mud upon her Land with the addition of four Pound, making in the whole Twenty five Pounds.
Order'd that M^r Thomas Grazebrook has been sufficiently compensate for any injury sustained by him in the alteration of the Warehouse & therefor a further sum cannot be allowed.
The following is a copy of a Letter from M^r Thomas Croome: "The Millowners associated with preserving their rights and interests in the Stroud River have done me the honour of appointing me their Solicitor, and by their direction I enclose an extract for the Resolutions of this day (the 12^th Oct^r) to be laid before the Committee." The following is a Copy of a Resolution of the Millowners at a meeting held at Cainscross the 12^th October 1818: "Resolved that our Solicitor be directed to apply to the Company of Proprietors of the Stroudwater Canal Navigation and ask whether they have any objection to appoint new Commissioners in place of those who are dead. And presuming they have no objections, to request them to do so by application at the next Sessions, and to beg the favor of them to furnish him previously with a list of the Commissioners intended to be proposed for our consideration."
The Committee in answer to M^r Croome's Letter beg leave to state that it not appearing to them the least benefit can result by the appointment of Commissioners, in as much as no determination of Commissioners could be conclusive upon any question of importance, they decline making such appointment.
