| Description | Council meeting, 21 May 1800
(Sederunt given)
The Council ratified the recommendation of the magistrates to grant the application from the pilots of Footdee and Torry for an increase in the rates of pilotage for vessels using the harbour, owing to the great increase in the cost of living (Table of new rates given). Also resolved that the pilots were to be organised into crews of six, and bound them to abide by the Regulations established in the Act of Council of 29 October 1793, and to obey a Superintendent of the Pilots. (1r - 2r)
The Council ratified the report of the committee on the Perambulation of the Inner Marches (report engrossed), and recommended to the magistrates to take action on the following matters:
To direct the Procurator Fiscal to inspect the ruinous timber tenement of foreland in the west side of the Gallowgate belonging to (no name given) Cruickshank.
To order John Allan, mason, to remove his dunghill on the Porthill.
To punish before the magistrates the owners of the many dunghills on the north side of the road leading to Duff's Parks, as they were causing a nuisance and damaging the road.
To clean out the ditches on either side of the road leading to the Links by Hammerfield Croft, as the road was damaged by excess water.
To punish those who were driving horses and carts through Garvock's Wynd into the Links, thereby damaging the road.
To order Mr Gildawie, mason, to alter the march stones in the Links, along the property of Mr William Forbes, in accordance with the settlement made with him.
To order the Deacon of the Wrights and Coopers Trade to remove the large encroachment made on public property at the south end of the Executioners House, in which the Wright and Cooper Trade had enclosed and cropped the ground between their property and the public road, and had let it to the Executioner at a yearly rent. (2r - 3r)
The Council accepted the offer from Baillie William Ritchie of 18 guineas yearly for the feu of six stances of ground for houses in Lady Drum's Hospital Garden, as there had been no bids for the ground at the public roup. (3r - 3v)
The Council remitted to a committee of the magistrates, the Dean of Guild and the Treasurer, or any three of them, the application by Messrs Young and Walker, manufacturers, for a feu of part of the Town's Commonty immediately south of the west part of their sawmill at Poynernook. (3v)
The Council granted the application of William Strachan, baker in Aberdeen, on behalf of the Burgher Congregation in Belmont Street, for liberty to erect a monument in the south-west corner of the Churchyard wall in memory of Alexander Dick, their late Pastor, for a consideration of 15 guineas to be paid to the Master of Kirk Work. (3v)
The Council remitted to the magistrates and the Dean of Guild, a petition from the tenants on the Lands of Skene, for liberty to defer payment of their victual rents, owing to the poor quality and quantity of the 1799 oat and bear crops. (3v - 4r)
The Council refused the application from James Davidson of Kinmundy, one of the feuars of the Lands of Skene, to be made a tenant, rather than a feuar, and to be remunerated for the improvements he had undertaken, as the failure of the 1799 crop made payment of his rent or feu duty difficult. (4r - 4v) |