Fri 13 Nov 1840
Special Meeting. Messrs Fisher resigned office of solicitor to Proprietors. Mr Wathen appointed solicitor.
Mr Samuel Stephens Marling enquired terms on which he could build wall on Company’s culvert at Ebley. Surveyor and solicitor to Company to view culvert.
Mr Henry Lewis offered to rebuild wall in Spring. Company refused to pay £5 toward expense. Henry Lewis to repair wall forthwith.
Charles Clutterbuck to remove stone and pay tonnage and wharfage at Bristol Road Wharf.
Mr Holbrow, surety of Mr William Purcell.
Mr Mason to receive every week from William Purcell monies collected and pay all to Mr Hawker, chief Clerk.
Mr Hawker proposed Anthony Scott and William Fryer as his sureties.
£250 provided by Mr James Gordon for Mr Mason to be deposited with them as surety.
At a Special Meeting of the Committee of the Stroudwater Navigation held at the Committee Room at Walbridge on Friday the 13^th Day of November 1840
Present: M^r Cosham, M^r Wathen, M^r Hughes, M^r Holbrow, M^r P H Fisher, M^r Croome, M^r S Fisher, M^r Jos Fisher, Hen^ry Wyatt Esq^r in the Chair.
[Mess^rs Fisher resign Office of Solicitors to the Com^y]
Mess^rs Fisher resigned the Office of Solicitor to the Company of Proprietors of the Navigation and the thanks of the Committee were unanimously voted to them for their long and valuable Services, and for their many and gratuitous Services to the Canal Proprietors. And it was proposed and seconded and carried unanimously that M^r Wathen be appointed the Solicitor in the Room of Mess^rs Fisher.
M^r Samuel Stephen Marling appeared on the part of his firm at this Meeting to enquire the terms upon which He might be permitted to build a Wall on the Company's Culvert at Ebley and it was agreed the Surveyor and Solicitor of the Company should go and view the situation of the said Culvert where the intended Wall is wanted to be built and agree the terms upon which permissions be granted to the said Mess^r Marling in the pursuance of the Resolution at the General Meeting of the Proprietors of the 22^nd April last.
In reference to a Resolution of the Committee regarding M^r Lewis's Wall a Letter from M^r Henry Lewis was read at this Meeting offering that He will undertake to rebuild the Wall in the Spring referred to in His Letter or that part which requires it in a substantial manner provided the Canal Company would give five Pounds towards the expence, which proposal was refused on the ground that the Committee have nothing to do with the Wall. Ordered that notice be given to the said Henry Lewis, by the Solicitor to repair the said Wall forthwith from the dangerous state in which the same at present appears to be.
Ordered that Charles Clutterbuck at Whitminster be given notice to remove the Stone and pay for the Tonnage and Wharfage thereon at the Bristol Road Wharf, or the same will be sold to pay the said Tonnage and Wharfage due from the said Charles Clutterbuck.
A Bond of Indemnity from M^r Will^m Purcell our Clerk was produced at this Meeting, and upon the motion of M^r Holbrow, Ordered that M^r Mason do once in every Week receive from William Purcell and pay over all Monies which shall be paid to Him by the said W^m Purcell as soon as received to M^r Hawker our Chief Cleark, M^r Holbrow being the surety of the said W^m Purcell.
M^r Hawker's Bond of Indemnity being produced and it appearing that His sureties, W^m Halliday and Susannah Scott are both Dead; He proposed Anthony Scott of Gower Street London Esq^r and William Fryer of Stroud Gentleman his Sureties; Ordered that the Bond be prepared from M^r Hawker and His Sureties to indemnify the Company on account of his Clerkship and the trust reposed in him.
Orderd that the Note for £250 of M^r Jame Gordon given to M^r Mason be in..(?) over to the Company and deposited with them as a Security to the said Company and applicable to any deficiency of the said M^r Mason in consequence of the trust reposed in him in lieu of His entering into a Bond with surerties as required by the Resolution of the Meeting at which He was appointed.
Ordered that the following Bills be paid, viz:
James Giles: £27..10..7
R Bushell: 10..3..11
Rich^d Cox: 9..10..10
Henry Dangerfield: 6..6..7
William Gaby: 3..19..11
Dan^l Hoskins: 2..6..4
Gloster Journal: 2..15..5
Do ChronicleL 1..3.._
