Tue 23 Oct 1883
Company Seal to be affixed to the Agreement between the Company and Mr Sibly re bathing in the Canal by Wycliffe College, Stonehouse, pupils.
Judith Fisher claimed share no. 116, will of Joseph Timbrell.
Clerk produced a letter from Mr Barnard explaining that he has obtained an estimate for the work.
Clerk reported that he and Mr Hamilton Mills had attended a meeting of the Representatives of the Allied Navigations at the Canal Office in Gloucester on the 28 September when Mr Clegram stated he believed that Thames & Severn Canal Co were willing to entertain in principle a proposal such as that embodied in the proposal of the 27 February 1882 and suggested a committee be appointed to negotiate on the lines of that proposal. Resolved that our Clerk (Mr Snape) attend any meeting of any committee that may be convened on the subject and report to this Committee the recommendations arrived at.
Committee Meeting held at Wallbridge on Tuesday the 23^rd day of October 1883 @ 3,o,clock pm
Present: E C Little Chairman, Mr A J M Ball, Mr H H Mills, Mr J Howard, Mr W Davies junr, Mr C H Hooper, Mr E F Gyde.
The various accounts books and vouchers signed by Mr Sturge the Auditor and certified to be correct were produced and passed.
The Treasurers Book was produced, examined and Signed by the Chairman.
[2] Ordered that the seal of the Company be affixed to the agreement between the Company and Mr Sibly as to bathing in the Canal by pupils attending Wycliffe College Stonehouse. The same was accordingly done.
[32] Stephen James Dudbridge of Stroud in the County of Gloucester accountant attended on behalf of and under written authority of Judith Fisher of Stroud in the County of Gloucester widow Sole Executrix of the will of Joseph Trimbrell Fisher late of the Grange near Stroud aforesaid Gentleman deceased who died on the sixteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighty three at Weston-super-Mare in the County of Somerset and made out her claim to one share numbered 116 of the Undertaking of the Stroudwater Navigation and now standing in the name of the said Joseph Trimbrell Fisher deceased in the Books of the Company of Proprietors of the said Navigation by producing the Title of the said Share and the Probate of the will of the said Joseph Trimbrell Fisher deceased the will bearing the date the ninth day of October one thousand eight hundred and fifty six and proved in the District Registry attached to the Probate Division of Her Majestys High Court of Justice at Wells on the eleventh day of June one thousand eight hundred and eighty three.
And the claim was admitted accordingly and a new Certificate ordered to be made out on the Certificate or Title of the said Joseph Trimbrell Fisher deceased being delivered up.
Cheques drawn: £ s d
Mr H H Mills: 7..10..0
Mr H H Mills: 6..8..4
Mr F Sturge: 5..5..0
Mr O Cam: 43..17..5
Messrs Hill & Low: 4..5..0
[Total] £65..5..9.
[29] The Clerk produced a letter he had received from Mr Barnard stating that the matter of repairing the boundary wall at Dudbridge wharf had been under consideration for toms time past & that he had obtained an estimate for the work.
[57] The Clerk reported that he and Mr Hamilton Mills had attended a Meeting of the Representatives of the Allied Navigations at the Canal office in Gloucester on Friday the 28^th September 1883, when Mr Glegram stated that he believed the Thames and Severn Canal Co were not now unwilling to entertain the proposal of the 27^th February 1882, and suggested that a Committee should be appointed to necgosiate on the lines of that proposal, which was accordingly adopted.
Resolved that the Clerk (Mr Snape) attend any Meeting of any Committee that may be convened on the subject and report to this Committee the recommendation arrived at.
