| Description | Council meeting, 8 April 1806
[Sederunt given]
The Council authorised the magistrates to sell by public roup on 19 April 1806 a lease of not more than seven years, of a quarry near Cairncry belonging to the Town, following an application for the lease from Alexander Hay, William Howie and George Walker, masons. (233r)
The Council approved the report of the committee appointed to consider the request from George Christie that the boundary be straightened between his lot of the Craigwell Croft and the planted brae at Denburn. Following inspection with Mr Fletcher, the committee recommended a new boundary [exact details given], and stated that George Christie should pay £20 for the additional ground he thereby acquired, and that he should be obliged to erect a stone fence along the new boundary. The Council remitted to any two members of the committee to oversee straightening of the new boundary and erection of a stone fence. (233r - 233v)
The Council remitted to the Provost, the four Baillies, the Dean of Guild and the Treasurer, Mr Price, Shoremaster, Baillie Duguid, Provost Leys, William Johnston and John Catto, to visit the Harbour and Piers on 21 April 1806. (233v)
The Council authorised the Treasurer to grant a bond or bill to the parents of the deceased Alexander Black (formerly Webster), late of His Majesty's ship Temeraire, for £100, payable to them in liferent during their joint lives, and to their children in fee. (233v)
The Council remitted to the magistrates, or any three of them, to negotiate with Rev Dr David Cruden, Dr Ogilvy and Mr Paterson (Managers of the Chapel of Ease), representing the Presbytery of Aberdeen, to resolve the dispute over the boundaries of the Skait Croft, and the houses allegedly built on part of the Town's Commonty. (234r)
The Council granted the application from William Copland, advocate in Aberdeen, to continue in the post of Collector of the Cess for the City and Liberties, for an allowance of £40 for his trouble, risk and expense, on sureties provided by George More and Alexander More, merchants in Aberdeen. (234r - 234v)
The Council recommended to the magistrates to consider the committee report presented to Council on 11 April 1805 concerning the deepening of the Navigation Channel, and to arrange for any work to be undertaken. (234v)
The Council appointed Robert Garden, merchant and one of the present Baillies of Aberdeen, Ruling Elder, to be their Commissioner to the next General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, to be held in Edinburgh on 20 May 1806, being satisfied of his qualifications for the commission. (234v - 235r) |