Volume Ten - Pre-Victorian to the present day - even more aspects - Penarth Harbour, Dock & Railway Company . . .

31.3.1859 : Final Measurements of Earthwork, Messrs. Rennie & Co's. Contract.

Resolved, that the Engineers be instructed not to enter into final measurements of Earthwork with Messrs. Rennie & Comp. without further instructions from the Board.

Payment, Rennie & Coy. - Works - £6,106 - 14 - 3d.

13.4.1859 :  Messrs. Smith & Knight hesitant about taking up a definite £20,000 of shares, but ready to accept 10% of Certificates thus.

The Secretary was desired to inform Mr. Hawkshaw that he cannot be aware of the reasons which actuated the Directors in coming to the resolution not to permit final measurement of Rennie & Co's. Earthwork, but that, as Committees of the House of Parliament will soon be rising, they hope to see him in Cardiff, when they will explain.

Resolved, that the opening of the undertaking for traffic take place on the first of June 1859.

11.5.1859 : Messrs. Smith & Knight's Contract for the Works of the Dock & Branch Railway leading thereto sealed, as ordered on 23rd February.

A letter from Messrs. Smith & Knight, dated 10.5.1859, offering £236 - 19 - 9d for the temporary bridge as it stands.

Mr. Logan agreed verbally with the Directors to take the Bridge in the quantity shown on the design originally made for its erection (for which the Company paid £2,000), and to remove it from the river and its banks within a fortnight from this date, (cutting off any piles that may not be drewn, not less than four feet below the bed of the river), and to allow the Company 10d. for every cu. foot of scanting and 4/- for every cwt. of cast and wrought iron.

Mr. Logan's tender was accepted.

Payment Rennie & Co. - Works - £9,742 - 17 - 0d.