1783-1822
Gloucestershire Archives TS/166
Minutes of General Meetings of Proprietors
Meeting at 80 Lombard Street London
Meeting adjourned to Company’s office, Brimscombe.
Meeting at Brimscombe Port, Gloucestershire
Insufficient proprietors.
Meeting at 80 Lombard Street, London
Insufficient proprietors.
Meeting at 80 Lombard Street London
Mathew Chalie called to the chair
Committee elected.
W. Protheroe attended to ascertain the Company’s intention to reduce tonnage on coal passing through the canal and taken down the Thames to places such as Radcot. A communication would be made with W. Waters his partner. The decision was deferred until more proprietors would be present.
Meeting at 80 Lombard Street London
All tonnage on coal raised in the Forest of Dean and going through the Thames and Severn canal to or below Tadpole on the River Thames and not returning thence be reduced to one shilling and six pence per ton to commence from the 7th instant and to continue till the 30th April 1815.
Resolved to hold a meeting at Brimscombe Port on the Monday preceeding the first of July in every year.
Treasurer to dispose of £600 India bonds to pay the further call of three pounds per share in the North Wilts canal.
Meeting at 80 Lombard Street London
Insufficient proprietors.
Meeting at Globe Tavern, Fleet Street, London
Net proceedings from the canal amount to £2659. 0s.10d
Dividend on each new share of £1.10s. 14s per original share.
Surplus of shares being £24.0s.10d.
Reduction on coal to continue.
Meeting at Brimscombe Port.
Mr Miller proposed to pay 6d per ton on all Anchors, Anchor Palm, bricks, brass, shruff, box wood, copper, coals, dye wood uncut,(except young fustic) deals deal baulk, pig and iron bar, pig and sheet lead, mahogany, pitch, spelter, stone, tin, and tinplate, tar, turpentine, timber square and round, and 1d per ton upon all goods or merchandize, received or shipped by his vessels in lieu of the company’s present charges for wharfage, housage, cranage or weighing, whether the same be wharfed, housed, craned or weighed or not. Proposal accepted and remain in force until one month notice given on either side.
Meeting at 80 Lombard Street London
The sum of £2706. 7s. and £2904 4s. 11d to transfer to the Company of Proprietors of the Thames and Severn Canal Navigation. Power of Attorney granted to John Stevenson Salt to receive the dividends.
Common seal of the company be affixed to a Deed of Enfeoffment being a conveyance of a messuage and other Hereditaments at Brimscombe from the Thames and Severn Canal Company to Mrs Mary Lewis.
Meeting at 80 Lombard Street London
Insufficient Proprietors.
Meeting at 80 Lombard Street London
Insufficient proprietors.
Meeting at Freemason’s Tavern, Queen Street, Lincolns Inn Field, London
Committee elected.
Net proceeds £986.16s.8d
Dividend 17s per share
£600 being the last call on the sum of £5000 subscribed by this company towards the North Wilts Canal.
Meeting at Brimscombe Port
Doubts having arisen as to the precise boundary in the Parish of Radcott beyond which the drawback on coal is to be allowed, resolved that the word Radcott is meant that part of the parish of Radcott which is below the bridge.
Meeting at 80 Lombard Street London
Insufficient Proprietors.
Meeting at 80 Lombard Street, London
Election of committee
Death of Mr Joseph Proctor, Company’s agent at Siddington.
Unnecessary to appoint a successor until the annual survey has taken place in the Summer. Mr Denyer to keep accounts in the meantime.
Messrs Protheroe and Waters are prepared to introduce Forest of Dean coal to distant markets on the River Thames if a further drawback of tonnage be allowed. To promote the introduction of such coal it is proposed an additional drawback of one shilling per ton on all Forest of Dean coal along the length of the canal and going to below Eynsham Bridge between the first day of October 1816 and the first of October 1817 upon the production of certificates showing the coal has been landed below Eynsham Bridge.
Meeting at 80 Lombard Street, London
Insufficient proprietors.
Meeting at Freemasons Tavern, Queen Street, Lincoln Inns Field, London
Election of committee
Proceeds of canal £1756
Dividend of 30 shillings per share.
Meeting at 20 Lombard Street London
Insufficient proprietors.
Meeting at 20 Lombard Street London
Election of committee.
Drawback of 1 shilling per ton in addition to the drawback of two shillings per ton be allowed out of the tonnage of Forest of Dean coal sold from Newbridge Wharf on the River Thames to Witney and places North east thereof on the North side of the Thames upon production of proper certificates verified on oath before a Justice of the Peace that the same has been sold to such places provided they are claimed within one month after each quarter day. Viz; 25th March, 24th June, 29th September, and 21st December.
Meeting at 20 Lombard Street London
Insufficient proprietors.
Meeting at Freemasons Tavern Queen Street London
Election of committee.
Net proceeds of the canal £2594 2s 9d.
Dividend of £1 10s on each new share and 13% on each original share. Treasurer to transfer the sum of £9.6s.8d £31 and £24.2s.9d being the surplus of dividends of the present and two last years.
All stone the product of the Forest of Dean going to Oxford be placed on the same footing as agreed by the General Assembly on 26 May 1814.
A list of the Proprietors of the Thames and Severn Canal dated 6th April 1818 follows.
Meeting at Brimscombe Port
Mr Denyer to settle for the piece of land belonging to Mr. Pinfold near Lechlade.
Resolved that a competent mortgage on the tolls of the Stroud and Chalford road be accepted in satisfaction for the land taken of and mounding done by the company at Brimscombe and the Bourne for the making of the road. W. Salt to use £184. 11s being the dividend on the sinking fund or £4 percent stock and the first sum of money that may come in and future dividends for the works.
Mr Charles Jones be allowed the use of the house at Siddington and six tons of coal annually and perform the duties he has hitherto done under the direction of Mr Denyer.
Meeting at 20 Lombard Street London
Insufficient Proprietors.
Meeting at 20 Lombard Street London
Election of committee.
Meeting at 20 Lombard Street London
Mr Disney reported on meetings with the North Wilts Canal Company.
Reduction on coal passing through the canal to continue.
Such a drawback on all coal passing from the Thames and Severn Canal through the North Wilts canal and delivered at or below Abingdon be 1s 6d per ton.
Meeting at 20 Lombard Street London
Insufficient proprietors.
Meeting at Freemasons Tavern, Queen Street, Lincolns Inn Field, London
Election of committee.
Proceeds of canal £3331.12s.1d
Dividend £1.10s per new share and £1.4s.6d on each original share. Surplus dividend to be paid into a holding fund. Treasurer to dispose of a an Exchequer Bill for £1000 to pay the divided declared. Also £300 has been taken from general receipts of tonnage for alterations and repairs.
List of proprietors on 6th April 1819.
Meeting at 20 Lombard Street London
Meeting adjourned.
Meeting at Brimscombe Port
Mr Cox of Oxford applied for a portion of the Bourne Yard and the house late Dimmocks for establishing a coal yard. To be let on the following terms viz; Pay £14 for the house and gardens and threepence per ton wharfage for every ton of coal which he carries past or lays upon the yard. To pay the company for 3000 tons certainly and if he carries 4000 tons or more to pay threepence per ton for 4000 tons but no more. A stone wall to be erected to partition off the above yard from that used for boat building. The expense to be borne by the company.
In consequence of the delays made by persons trading on the canal in the payment of tonnages, no credit to be given in future for tonnage or wharfage on coals or more than three months running account. Six weeks credit allowed on the tonnage of goods or merchandize carried to or from London and then only on sufficient security.
Resolved that the Salt Warehouse on the wharf at Brimscombe Port occupied by Mr Baker be raised to correspond with the adjoining one and when complete an increased rent be charged.
Warehouse to be built on the Latton wharf not exceeding the size of the Brimscombe Port warehouse occupied by Mr Miller.
The stable at Inglesham to be taken down and the materials thereof to be taken to Siddington to be used in the erection of a carpenters shop and the carpenter to be employed there in lieu of Thames Head heretofore.
Mr Watts be allowed a cart way thro’ the garden at Wallbridge wharf as tenant to the company paying £1.1s yearly for the same. Mr Watts making the requisite fence and engaging that all coal goods and wares used in his trade be brought to the company wharf.
Mr Denyer to pay Mr Dimmock the sum of forty guineas for the buildings erected by him and left at the Bourne Yard late in his occupation.
Several trespassers on the towing path continue in violation of the notices given to the parties. Peremptory letter to be sent indicating prosecutions will be forthwith.
Selling price of coal at Lechlade be reduced as follows and continues until Mr Denyer sees fit to raise it: Bilston from 31s to 29s per ton, Hard Forest 25s to 23s, Newport 27s to 26s, Soft Forest 23s to 21s, To be advertised in the Oxford Journal
Tonnage upon unhewn stone produced at the summit level be raised one halfpenny per ton per mile.
Proprietors of the Bell Inn at Chalford be allowed the use of the footpath from his premises to the towing path upon his paying annually 2s 6d.
Mr Charles Jones to visit and inspect the line of the canal from Siddington to Inglesham once every week and as much after as his attention in other places will allow.
Byelaws to be added.
No boat or vessel be allowed an iron guard on her bows or sides of greater thickness than one quarter of an inch nor be allowed to pass any lock or be navigated along with a square head or stern or any projection on the sides or bottom or be constructed in any respect as to damage locks, bridges, masonry, banks, lining, puddling, or other works or may be prevented passing any lock or navigating the canal with any bargeman.
That all boats or vessels navigated on this canal shall be gauged on their sides in three places viz at the stem, stern, and centre of the side and marked accordingly in each place and that the agent at Brimscombe be employed to put all boats and vessels in dock to ascertain the truth of such marks or gaging should he doubt the accuracy of the same.
But that no charge be made to the owner of the boat for dockage unless they are found faulty. And that such marks or gauging be at equal distance of three inches between the places where they shall be affixed.
All boats or vessels not so marked shall be liable to pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding forty shillings nor less than twenty shillings.
Meeting at 20 Lombard Street London
Insufficient Proprietors.
Meeting at 20 Lombard Street London
Mr Denyer to be directed to procure a new wrought iron boiler for the steam engine and the same to be constructed under his direction.
Drawback of 1s per ton on Forest of Dean coal to be discontinued.
Meeting at 20 Lombard Street London
Insufficient Proprietors.
Meeting at 20 Lombard Street London
Net proceeds for year ending 6th April £1848.10s.6d
Dividend of £1 10s per new share and 1s 6d on each original share.
Improvements along the line of the canal have amounted to £700 taken from the tonnage.
Meeting at 20 Lombard Street London
Insufficient proprietors.
Meeting at 20 Lombard Street London
Election of committee.
Mr McIntosh had not attended to communicate his intentions with respect to repairs of the canal.
Meeting at 20 Lombard Street London
Meeting adjourned by Matthew Chalie.
Meeting at Freemasons Tavern, Great Queen Street, Lincoln Inns Field, London
Election of committee.
Net proceeds £2311 3s 11d but the canal requires considerable repairs, so no dividend paid.
Application to the Commissioners for the loan of £10,000 for a general repair and improvement of the canal, the repayment to be secured from tolls. If the Commissioners refuse the loan the committee is instructed to raise the amount through public bodies or individuals willing to advance the sum on the security of the company.
Meeting at Brimscombe Port
Mr David Davies of Lydney applied for a portion of the Bourne Yard, late Cox’s, to establish a coal trade there. The land to be let to him on the following terms viz; he pay £20 for the house and gardens and threepence per ton wharfage for every ton of coal which he carries past or lands upon the yard there so that he pays the company for 3000 tons certain and if he carries 4000 tons or more he shall pay threepence per ton for 4000 only except for coal carried to and consumed at Chalford (which unless actually landed is not subject to wharfage) but form no part of the above 3000 or 4000 tons.
The sum of twenty guineas be given to Mr Denyer and ten guineas to Mr Jones as a reward for their extraordinary care and attention care to the company’s interests generally and for the their exertions in making improvements at Latton and repairs to the line of the canal.
Company to settle with Mr Watts respecting tonnage by allowing him one third of the amount at present and in future his voyages to be considered starting in Stroud.
Mr Disney appointed to attend meetings of the Wilts and Berks canal navigation and be vested with powers of acting and voting with the said navigation.
Meeting at 20 Lombard Street London
Insufficient proprietors.
Meeting at 20 Lombard Street London
Election of committee.
Meeting at 20 Lombard Street London
Insufficient proprietors.
(Comical drawing of a proprietor enhancing an accidental blob of ink.)
Meeting at Freemasons Tavern, Great Queen Street, Lincoln Inns Field, London
Election of Committee
Resolved that the repairs to the canal started within the last year be continued and that the net proceeds of the canal £1459 17s 0d be retained for ongoing repairs. No dividends to be paid.
All stone produced at the summit level taken for repairing the Wilts and Berks and the North Wilts branch to pay tonnage rate of one penny per ton per mile .
All stone produced at the summit level for repairing the Wilts & Berks Canal and the North Wilts Branch to pay tonnage of 1d per ton per mile.
Tonnage on all road stone produced of the summit level used in the repair of the Stroud and Chalford turnpike road be reduced to one penny per ton per mile provided the whole repair of such road between the Bell Lock and Mr Lewis’ house at Brimscombe Port be done with such stone only and conveyed in boats when on their return.
Common seal to be affixed to Mr Miller’s (a bankrupt) petition to the Lord Chancellor for his certificate.
Attention drawn to the fine that can be imposed on persons not attending the General assemblies.
Meeting at 20 Lombard Street London
Insufficient numbers of proprietors.
Meeting at 20 Lombard Street London
Insufficient numbers of proprietors.
