Mon 22 May 1837
Special Meeting. Letter from Mr Clegram, engineer of Gloucester & Berkeley Canal Co, requesting permission to fit stop boards into grooves in wing wall of Whitminster Lock at upper end to enable stank to be made for keeping water of level below Whitminster Lock when Bristol Road level is drained. Permission granted without prejudice to rights of Navigation to draw down lower level. No right to interfere with locks or water without permission.
At a Special Meeting of the Committee of the Stroudwater Navigation held at the Committee Room at Walbridge on Monday the 22nd Day of May 1837
Present: M^r Cosham, M^r Eycott, M^r Beard, M^r Wyatt, M^r Fisher, M^r Wood.
Read a letter of the 19^th inst^t from Capt W^m Glegram Clerh or Engineer of the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal Company requesting permission of this Company for that Company to fit stop boards into the grooves which are in the wing walls of the Whitminster Lock at the upper End thereof to enable A stank to be made there for keeping back the water of the Level below the Whitminser Lock, - when it may hereafter be necessary to draw down the Bristol Road Level.
Ordered that the permission required be granted: but the same is expressly understood to be without prejudice to our rights, as secured by Act of Paliament, to draw down the lower level whenever it shall be found or deemed proper so to do, and also, as not conceding to the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal Company, any right to interfere with any of our locks or other works, without our permission; and so as their Clerk do acknowledge in writing that the above permission is granted with the limitation aforesaid.
