| Description | Council meeting, 21 November 1805
[Sederunt given]
Mr More, Dean of Guild, Baillie Lumsden and Mr Catto, Master of the Guild Brethren's Hospital, qualified as members of Council by swearing the usual oaths, and Messrs More and Catto accepted the offices of Dean of Guild and Master of the Guild Brethren's Hospital respectively, and gave their oaths de fideli administratione. (215v)
The Council appointed the following as Assessors to Alexander More, Dean of Guild, for the year ending Michaelmas 1806: Provost George More, Provost Thomas Leys, Provost John Dingwall, Provost James Hadden, Baillie William Shepherd, Baillie Charles Farquharson, Baillie Peter Duguid, Baillie Thomas McCombie, Baillie George Tower, Mr Gavin Hadden, Mr James Young and Mr Alexander Fraser, all merchants in Aberdeen. (215v - 216r)
The Council appointed the Taxers and Stent Masters: Robert Garden and Alexander Galen, two of the present Baillies; Alexander More, Dean of Guild, James Young junior, Treasurer, Gavin Hadden, late Dean of Guild, George Thomson, late Treasurer, Baillie William Lumsden, Baillie Thomas McCombie; Charles Walker, George Storey, Robert Tower, Alexander Duncan junior, John Collison, George Burnett, John Symon and John Smith youngest, all merchants in Aberdeen; William Kennedy and David Hutcheon, advocates in Aberdeen; Deacon John Barron, watchmaker, and Deacon John Ligertwood, wright in Aberdeen, Trades councillors. The Council directed the Taxers and Stent Masters to raise the following sums: £526 10 shillings for the King's Subsidy for the year Martinmas 1804 to Martinmas 1805; £145 8 shillings 2 pence for the Town's Eque, Missive Dues and expenses incurred by the Commissioners to the Convention of Royal Burghs for the year ending July 1805; plus the £54 4 shillings 3 and 1/2 pence overspend by the Treasurer in the previous year. (216r - 216v)
The Council remitted to the Provost, the Baillies, the Dean of Guild and the Treasurer, or any three of them, a petition from George Henderson, Tacksman of the Town's Mills, stating that the Flour Mill had been destroyed by fire, and requesting directions from the Council whether a new mill and kiln was to be erected, or whether the old mill should be repaired. (216v - 217r)
The Council authorised the Provost to support the subscription to erect a monument to the memory of the late Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, and in commemoration of the victory obtained by the fleet under his command over the combined fleets of France and Spain, off Cape Trefalgar on 21 October 1805. (217r)
The Council approved the "Regulations and Instructions for the Government of Persons employed as Coal Brokers at the Port of Aberdeen", as drawn up by the magistrates. [Regulations engrossed.] (217r - 218v)
The Council approved the agreement made by the magistrates with John Menzies Esq of Pitfodels, allowing the sale of a large tract of land, bounded on the west and north by the Lands of Cults, Countesswells, Hazlehead, Springfield and Rubislaw and lying within the Freedom Lands, in spite of the suggestion by Council records, particularly a Contract of Marches dated 5 January 1610 (recorded in the Council Register on 3 April 1610), that a considerable part of the land had not been granted to the proprietor of Pitfodels. The agreement stated that, if the Town was found to have an interest in some of the land, the rent would be split in proportion between Mr Menzies and the Town. The Council recommended to the magistrates to ascertain whether the Town had a just title to the land in question, and, if so, to prosecute the Town's claim. (218v - 219v)
The Council fixed 11 December 1805 for a meeting to settle the Poor's Funds. (219v) |