| Description | Council meeting, 5 November 1806
[Sederunt given]
The Council heard the precept from Alexander Dauney LLD, Sheriff Substitute of Aberdeenshire, directing the Council to elect a Commissioner for the Burgh for the election of a Member of Parliament for the Burghs of Aberdeen, Montrose, Brichen, Aberbrothick and Inverbervie at Aberbrothick on 24 November 1806. The Council fixed 10 November 1806 for a meeting to elect their Commissioner. The Council directed Richard Merchant, Town Sergeant, to inform all magistrates and members of the Council of the meeting. (257r - 257v)
The Council appointed the Taxers and Stent Masters: Thomas McCombie and George Tower, two of the present Baillies; Alexander Fraser, Dean of Guild, John Donald junior, Treasurer, Alexander More, late Dean of Guild, James Young junior, late Treasurer; Baillie William Lumsden, Baillie Alexander Galen; Messrs William Duthie, George Thomson, Charles Walker, John Collison, George Storey, George Burnett, Robert Tower, John Symon and William Milne, merchants; William Kennedy and Duncan Davidson, advocates; Convener Alexander Thomson, cooper, and Deacon Nathaniel Gillet, goldsmith, 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 1805 to Martinmas 1806; £163 19 shillings 5 pence 8/12 for the Town's Eque, Missive Dues and expenses incurred by the Commissioners to the Convention of Royal Burghs for the year ending July 1806; plus the £18 7 shillings 1 pence 5/12 overspend by the Treasurer in the previous year. (257v - 258v)
The Council remitted to the magistrates, or any three of them, the application from John McHardy at Auchmull, requesting a feu of a small piece of barren ground, lying between Mr Still's lots of Forresterhill and the Lands of Hillton, which had not been taken at a public roup some years before. (258v - 259r) |