Tue 15 May 1900
Stonehouse Parochial Committee wished to purchase ground from Company at their mud tip for sewerage tanks, with path from canal towing path, 4 feet wide, properly fenced off. Yearly rent of £1 for 21 years and right to reach place along towing path from east.
Stoning of Oil Mills Bridge and Stonehouse Cross roadways are responsibility of Company.
Application from John Lee of Ship Inn for a flagstaff on roof sanctioned.
100 handbills to be distributed among bargemen and others. Extracts from Byelaws of Company, nos. 2,13,14,20,22,23.
Committee Meeting held at Wallbridge on Tuesday the 15^th day of May 1900 @ 3 o'clock pm
Present: Mr C H Hooper Chairman, Mr H Hamilton Mills Solicitor, Mr E P Little, Mr A J M Ball, Mr A B Hooper, Sir W H Marling Bart, Mr S S Marling, Mr W J Stanton, Mr W Davies.
Mr E P Little conveyed to the Committee the wish of the Stonehouse Parochial Committee to purchase the ground as per plan from the Company at their Mud-tip at Stonehouse for the sewage tanks near the Railway, in lieu of the arrangement 9fol 250) for leasing.
The Committee accordingly rescinded that resolution and agreed to sell to the Parochial Committee a small portion of the land they required as marked in red on plan presented for the tanks with a path to lead thereto from the Canal towing path, say 4 feet in width, such area to be properly fenced off by the Parochial Committee.
In view of the probability that in about 21 years the tip will have received as much mud as it can take it was decided that for that period the right be conceded to the Parochial Committee to deposit the emptyings of their tanks on Canal Company's land, as arranged from time to time with their Clerk for their disposal or return for a yearly Rent of £1, such payment to include also for the same period, the right to reach the place along the Companys towing path from the East.
It was left to Mer H Hamilton Mills, the Companys Solicitor with Mr Snape to arrange this with Mr F Winterbotham Clerk of the Stroud District Council.
It was agreed that as the Committee had decided that the structure of the Oil Mills Bridge is the responsibility of the Company, the stoning of its Roadway be also so accepted, and similarly the Roadway of Stonehouse Cross bridge, as to which there had been question.
The Clerk submitted an application from John Lee of the "Ship Inn" to permit a flag staff of the roof, which was sanctioned conditionally upon his making the roof sound to the satisfaction of Mr Snape.
At the request of the Clerk, the Committee sanctioned the printing of (say 100) handbills for distribution among the bargemen and others, being extracts from the Bye-Laws of the Company (N^0 2, 13, 14, 20, 22, 23) which had of late been less regarded than is desirable.
The annual Inspection of the Canal was fixed for Monday, May 28, as to the upper section, and for either Tuesday May 19 or Wednesday May 30^th for the lower by the Chairman and any others able to accompany him.
