Tue 26 Nov 1833
Special Meeting. Letter from Mr Wilton, solicitor of Gloucester & Berkeley Canal Company. Application to be made in next session for leave to bring in Bill for taking water from River Frome, otherwise called Stroudwater River, through Navigation, and to purchase land and construct such channels, cuts, tunnels, culverts, pipes, trunks, valves, gates, feeders, reservoir, weirs, aqueducts, engines and works as requisite, and to take water from River Frome, above mill called Whitminster Mills into Stroudwater canal.
Also to increase or alter existing tolls, rates and duties and to raise a further sum of money to enlarge powers and provisions for making and maintaining a navigable canal. Not advisable to oppose Bill, but to take care that the interests of the Company be taken into account as directed by the Special Meeting of 15 December 1831. Messrs. Fisher to communicate with solicitor of Gloucester & Berkeley Canal Company. Supply continues for present. Request for objects and plans, and a copy of clauses of intended Bill.
At a Special Meeting of the Committee of the Stroudwater Navigation held at the Committee Room at Walbridge on Tuesday the 26^th Day of November
Present: M^r Cosham, D^r Drake, M^r P H Fisher, M^r Wood, M^r S Fisher, M^r Jos Fisher, M^r Eycott, M^r Grazebrook, M^r Wyatt, M^r Croome, M^R T C Croome.
The Clerk reported that he had forwarded to the Clerk of the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal Company a Copy of the Resolution of the last General Meeting relative to Compensation being required for any further Supply of Water through the Stroudwater Navigation and the acknowledgement of the receipt thereof by the Clerk of that Company.
M^r Fisher reported the Receipt of a Letter from M^r Wilton the Solicitor of the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal Company giving Notice of the Intention of that Company to apply in the next Session of Parliament for leave to bring in a Bill for taking water from the River Froom through this Navigation and a Notice of the same Object which appeared in the Gloucester Journal of the 11^th Instant in the following Words:
"Notice is hereby given, that application is intended to be made in the next Session of Parliament, for leave to bring in a Bill to authorise and empower the Gloster & Berkeley Company to take water for the use of the Glsoster & Berkeley Canal, from the River Froome, otherwise called The Stroudwater River, and to purchase Land and construct such Cannels, Cuts, Tunnels, Culverts, Pipes, Trunks, Valves, Gates, Feeders, Reservoirs, Weirs, Aqueducts, Engines and Works, as may be requisite for effecting the purpose aforesaid, or to take such water by any of the means aforesaid from the said River Froome, otherwise called the Stroudwater River, in to and through the Stroudwater Canal, otherwise called the Stroudwater Navigation, form some point or places in the said River Froome, otherwise called the Stroudwater River, above a certain Mill called Whitminster Mill into the said Stroudwater Canal otherwise called the Stroudwater Navigation, which said intended Works will be in the several Parishes of Wheatenhurst, Morton Valence, Saul, Eastington, Frampton upon Severn, and Fretherne, or some or one of them in the County of Glouceser. And also to increase or alter the existing Tolls, Rates, & Duties which the said Company are now authorised and empowered to take and receive, ant to enable the said Company to tak and receive certain other Tolls and Rates in addition thereto. And also to enable the said Gloster & Berkeley Canal Company to raise a further sum of Money for the purposes of the said Canal and Works connected therewith; And also to alter, amend, and enlarge the powers and provisions contained in the several Acts passed for making and maintaining the said Canal, that is to say, an Act passed in the thirty third Year of the Reign of King George the third intituled "An Act for making and maintaining a Navigable Canal from the River Severn, at or near the City of Gloucester into a place called Berkeley Pill in the Parish of Berkeley, and also a Cut to or near the Town of Berkeley in the County of Gloucester" and also several Acts passed in the thrity seventh, forty fifth, and fifty eighth Years of His said Majesty King George the third and in the Third and Sixth Years of the reign of King George the Fourth, and in the Third Year of the reign of King William the Fourth relating to the said Canal.
Henry H Wilton
Solicitor to the Gloster & Berkeley Canal Company
Gloucester the 11^th November 1833"
This Meeting being summoned to take the same into Consideration, It appears to be the Opinion of the Committee that it is not desirable to oppose the Introduction of the bill but to take Care that the Interests of this Company be secured therein in like manner as directed by the Special General Meeting of the fifteenth Day of December 1831.
Ordered that Mess^rs Fisher do communicate with the Solicitor of the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal Company and intimate that the Supply will be continued for the present and request that a Communication be made of the Objects and Plans of the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal Company and a Copy of the Clauses of the intended Bill preparatory to our making a final Communication as to our Determination on the Subject.
