| Description | Council meeting, 15 October 1805
[Sederunt given]
The Council refused the petition from John Matthews and others, bakers in Aberdeen, requesting that the Council defer admittance of James Rennie as a Free Craftsmen, until the petitioners could raise a process against James Rennie alleging wrongful admittance into the Incorporation of Bakers. (212v - 213r)
The Council approved the report of the committee appointed to name an arbiter for the disputes between Messrs Harrison & Company, Garden Farquharson & Company, the Shoremaster and John Rae, late Tacksman of the Shore and Harbour Dues concerning the damage sustained by the Henry of Sunderland and its cargo, and concerning the deterioration of the Town's Ballast Lighters. The committee recommended Dr Alexander Dauney, advocate in Aberdeen, as sole arbiter for the disputes. (213r)
The Council remitted to a committee of the magistrates and the office bearers concerned, the request for the terms on which the Council would sell the following rights: the superiority of the Half Barony of Torrie, belonging to the Master of Mortifications, and the feu duties and casualties payable to the Master of Mortifications by David Morice, advocate, from the Lands of Altens, Middleton and Tullos, parts of the Half Barony of Torrie; and the superiority and feu duties of the Lands of Kinmundy and Boddoms, belonging to the Master of the Guild Brethren's Hospital. (213v)
The Council approved the report of the committee appointed to consider the proposals from Rev Dr Ogilvie, on behalf of the Managers of the Chapel of Ease, concerning the houses built on the Town's Commonty between the Denburn and the Chapel of Ease. The committee recommended that the Managers of the Chapel of Ease, or the persons who built the houses, should pay an annual feu duty to the Treasurer of 1 shilling 6 pence per foot of frontage along the new turnpike road, in return for a grant of rights over the property. (213v - 214r)
The Council admitted one Burgess of Guild and four Craftsmen. [No names given.] (214r) |