Thu 27 Oct 1870
Letter from S S Marling, Honorary Surveyor of the Cainscross Division of roads, requesting permission for the commissioners of those roads to widen the bridges over the canal at Dudbridge and Eastington at their expense. Permission granted on condition that works are done to the satisfaction of the Company Surveyor and that repairs of the added portion of the relevant bridges be borne in future by the Commissioners of the Cainscross Division of roads.
Mr Beard and Mr Croome reported that they had required Samuel Rowles to prosecute his captains for fraud upon him, because he said that they had charged the full tonnage to him, and that the false returns of tonnage rested with these captains and not with him. Mr Rowles had failed to obtain a conviction in either cases owing to the irregularity of his accounts with the captains. Because of Mr Rowles expense and trouble in this matter it was resolved that the penalty of £58 be waived if he pays the deficient tonnage and £1 1s towards the costs of the solicitor and that in future Mr Rowles be allowed to pay his tonnage monthly instead of through his captains upon each cargo.
At a Meeting of the Committee of the Stroudwater Navigation held at the Committee Room at Wallbridge on Tuesday* Oct^r 27^th 1870
Present: M^r Thornton, Cap^tn Fisher Chairman, S Phipps, M^r J T Fisher, J C Hallewell, G H A Beard.
The various Accounts Books & Vouchers signed by M^r Coley the Auditor & certified to be correct were produced examined and passed.
The Treasurers book was produced examined & signed & passed.
A letter having been read from S S Marling MP as Honorary Surveyor of the Cainscross Division of roads requesting permission for the Commissioners of those roads to widen the bridges over the Canal at Dudbridge & Eastington at their expense, Resolved that this permission be given as to both or either of the Bridges on condition that the works are done in a manner & that time to be approved by the Companys Surveyor and that the repairs to the added portion of the respective Bridges be in future borne by the Commissioners of the Cainscross Division of roads.
M^r Beard and M^r Croome reported that they had required Samuel Rowles to prosecute his Captains for fraud upon him, as he stated that they had charged the full tonnage to him, and that the false returns of tonnage rested with the captains and not with him, but that Rowles has failed to obtain a conviction in either case owing to the irregularity of his accounts with the captains. M^r Beard and M^r Croome however considered that M^r Rowles had incurred sufficient expense and trouble in the matter to be a warning for the future, _It was Resolved_ that the penalty of £58 incurred by M^r Rowles be waived, if he pays the deficient tonnage and the sum of £1.1 towards the costs of this Company's Solicitor in the matter, and that M^r Rowles shall in future be allowed to pay his tonnage monthly, instead of through his captains, upon such cargo.
