Fri 10 May 1833
Special General Meeting re ground for sale for site of Gas Works. Mr Richard Wyatt, on behalf of Mr William Morley Stern and intended Gas Company, requested to buy land on south side of canal adjacent to land bought from Mr Holliday, land occupied by Mr Grazebrook on west, land of Mr Snowden on east, towing path and wagon road on north. To lay down pipes through Wallbridge Wharf to turnpike road on east and to bridge at Chippenham Platt. £5 for said land. £1 per mile per annum and proportion. Tonnage on coals for Gas Works £5 per mile per annum until such time as the tonnage for 700 tons of coal has been paid. Ground to be sold subject to regulations for security of the puddle banks, bridges and other works. Gas Company to pay half expense of erecting or repairing future bridges.
Mr Winter, solicitor, and Mr Brickwood, secretary, to Exchequer Loan Board request Company to allow Whitminster Lock gates to remain open for passing into G&B Canal of water from Whitminster Mill pond (not to be derived through feeder of Stroudwater Navigation in the pond). Lock gates to remain open for present.
At a Special General Meeting of the Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation held at the Canal Office in Walbridge on Saturday the 18^th of May 1883 at 11 o'Clock in the forenoon for taking into consideration the proposal which has been made for purchasing a small piece of Ground belonging to the Canal Company, lying near the Canal Bridge on the Road leading to Froomhall Mill in the Parish of Stroud, for the site of certain Gas Works intended to be erected thereon, and other objects connected the those Works.
Henry Wyatt Esq^r in the Chair.
A Request having been made by M^r Richard Wyatt (on the part of M^r William Morley Steers or a certain Company of Persons formed for suppling the Town and Neighborhood of Stroud with Gas Lights) that the Company of Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation would sell them All that Piece of Ground extending in Medium Length Forty Four Yards and in medium Width about Six yards lying near the Road leading across the Canal at Froomhall Mills and the Canal Bridge there having a Piece of Land contracted to be purchased by the said William Morley Steers or the said intended Gas Company of M^r Halliday on the South Side thereof - Land in the Occupation of M^r Grazebrook on the West - Land of M^r Snowden on the East, and the towing path of this Canal Navigation and the Waggon Road there on the North Side thereof (such Piece of Land to be marked out by the Committee) and also to permit and suffer the said William Morley Stern or the said intended Gas Company to lay down Pipes for the conveying of Gas along and under the towing Path Side or Bank of this Canal from the said intended Gas Works through Wallbridge Wharf to the Turnpike Road there on the East and also from the said intended Gas Works to the Bridge at Chippenham Plat Westward for the purpose of conveying Gas and to connect branches with the same main Piped for conveying Gas thereat on the Side of the said Line. And that said M^r Richard Wyatt having on the Part of the said William Morley Steers or the said intended Gas Company agree to give to this Company the Sum of Five Pounds as the Consideration money for the said Land and also to give the Sum of One Pound per Mile per annum (and so proportionally for any greater or less quantity than a Mile) of Distance to which the Said Pipes may extend as a Rent for the use of the Land of the said Canal Company used in laying down the said Pipes whilst and so long as the said William Morley Steers or the said proposed Gas Company shall pay this Company Tonnage or in the nature of Tonnage for or after the Rate of Seven Hundred Ton Burthen of Coals Goods or Wares brought up the said Canal to the said intended Gas Works per Annum and the Sum of Five Pounds per Mile per Annum (and so proportionably for any greater or less quantity than a Mile) of such Distance as aforesaid when and so soon as and whilst the said intended Gas Company shall not have paid a Tonnage equal to Seven Hundred Tons per Annum of Coals Goods or other Wares brought up the said Canal to their said Works.
Ordered that the sail Land or Ground be sold and conveyed to the said William Morley Steers or the said intended Gas Company and that Permission be granted to them to lay down take up repair and restore the said Pipes on the Terms aforesaid and that the Seal of this Company be affixed to the necessary Deeds or Conveyances thereof at the Expence of the said intended Gas Company - Subject to such Regulations and Provisions as shall be deemed requisite by the Committee of this Navigation in regard to the Security of the Puddle Bank the Bridges and other Works of this Canal and other Matters and things which shall be deemed necessary to the Proprietors of this Company and the rights of such other Persons as may be affected thereby and also for the said William Morley Sters or the said intended Gas Company putting the Canal Bridges there in such State of Repair as the same was in previously to the Commencement of the Works of the said Gas Company, and thenceforward subject to their Contributing one half part of the Expence of erecting any future Bridge or Bridges there and during such repairs of the present or any future Bridge or Bridges from time to time as shall be deemed necessary by this Canal Company, and subject to a Provisoe that the right to lay down the Pipes and (?) the same be made determinable on the Cessation of the use of the said intended Works as Gas Works - It being also understood that this Company shall not be required to be at any Expence or Trouble in and about the Title to the said Land.
M^r Minter the Solicitor and M^r Brockwood the Secretary to the Exchequer Loan Board having attended the Meeting and requested the Company to allow the Whitminster Lock Gates on the Stroudwater Navigation to remain open for the passing through the same into the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal of such Water as may be caused to flow into the same from Whitminster Mill Pond (the same not being to be derived through the Feeder of the Stroudwater Navigation Company in the said Pond) and having offered to give the Indemnity of the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal Company, sanctioned by the Exchequer Loan Board, for the same,
Ordered That the said Lock Gates be suffered to remain open for the present on receiving within Ten Day from this Date an approved Indemnity as above proposed against any Loss Costs Damages or Expensed which the said Stroudwater Navigation Company shall or may be put to by any Person or Persons or in any way or manner for or by reason of hteir suffering the said Lock Gates to remain open or for or by reason of their suffering the Water from Whitminser Mill Pond to flow the same as aforesaid from the Sixteenth day of May now Instant up to such Time as and whilst the said Stroudwater Navigation Compnay shall suffer the said Gates to remain open and the said Water to flow as aforesaid.
