Wed 28 Oct 1829
Half Yearly General Meeting. Tonnage £2561 17s 2d. Balance after wages, etc, £1668 9s 3d. Dividend of £8 declared.
Record of discussions regarding the request of the Committee of the Gloucester & Berkeley Canal Company to take water for their canal from Whitminster Mill's pond.
At a General half Yearly Meeting of the Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation held at the George Inn in Stroud on Wednesday the 28th day of October 1829
Henry Wyatt Esq 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 Act of Parliament) and were examined and confirmed.
It appears by the accounts that the Sum of £2561.17.2 has been received for Tonnage etc from the 17th day of April to the 17th of October, a part of which have been applied towards the payment of wages, disbursments, etc, and that there remains in the Treasurers hands after paying the last dividend the sum of £1668.9.3.
Ordered that a dividend of eight pounds be paid on each Share by the Treasurer on the 2nd day of November next & that our Clerk do transmit circular Letters to all the proprietors to inform them that they may draw upon the Treasurer or apply to him for payment of the same.
Application having been made by the Committee of the Gloucester & Berkeley Canal, for leave to supply their Canal with Water from the River Frome or Stroudwater at or near the Mill pond head of the Whitminster Mills, by means of an aqueduct or weir into the level of the Stroudwater Navigation called the Bristol-road level at a place near the lock called Whitminster Lock, and nearly contiguous to the said Mill pond, whereby the water may flow into our Canal, and thence into the Gloucester & Berkeley canal at the Junction of the two Canals;
And the Committee of the Gloucester & Berkeley Canal having offered to enter into an engagement to remove the mud and silt which may accumulate from time to time in the Stroudwater Navigation, by reason of their so taking the water of the River Frome through the same; as also to bear harmless the Proprietors of the Stroudwater navigation from all costs charged damages and expenses which may at any time and from time to time arise or be incurred by them, in consequence of so taking the water:-
Ordered that the Company of Proprietors of the Gloucester & Berkeley Canal be permitted to supply their said canal with water from the River Frome or Stroudwater at the place and by the means above mentioned = provided the works necessary for that purpose be made, and from time to time, repaired and altered by the order and under and by the direction and to the satisfaction of the Committee from time to time of the Stroudwater Navigation and provided no alteration be made in the present old Weir in the said Whitminster Mill pond used for supplying the Stroudwater Navigation with water therefrom. And provided a satisfactory document be given under the Seal of the Company of Proprietors of the Gloucester & Berkeley Canal, or otherwise, to the satisfaction of our Committee, whereby the taking of the said water by the means aforesaid, shall be distinctly recognised as a permitted and not an absolute or independent right on the part of the Gloucester & Berkeley Canal Company; -- and whereby the last mentioned Company shall be bound to remove. at their own costs, the silt and mud which shall accumulate thereby, when and to the extent and in manner requested by the committee of the Stroudwater Navigation. But the permission hereby granted is to continue only until the Company of Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation shall see fit to determine the same.
