| Description | Council meeting, 22 July 1800
[Sederunt given]
The Council approved the report by members of the Council, sundry Burgesses and other gentlemen on the Perambulation of the Outer Marches, between the Freedom Lands and County Lands, which made the following observations:
First, George Auldjo, proprietor of the Lands of Clayhills, had made encroachments on the river opposite his property by throwing rubbish from his brickworks, by building a house and by erecting a gate on the road along the Burn of Ferryhill to the Hardgate. James Thomson, Treasurer of Aberdeen, took Instruments of Interruption in the hands of William Carnegie, conjunct Town Clerk and Notary Public, and before witnesses, Thomas McCombie, merchant, John Law, advocate and Robert Cantley, Town Sergeant, all in Aberdeen.
Second, measures should be taken to clear the enclosures which have encroached on the march road along the Estate of Cults.
Third, alterations should be made to the numbered march stones, as follows: stone twenty-eight should be erected in place of stone twenty-nine, which should be moved; stones forty-nine to fifty-three should be erected; stone fifty-four should be numbered; and stones fifty-five to sixty-four should be erected. [The report includes a detailed description of the positions of the march stones twenty-eight to forty-three and forty-nine to sixty-four.]
The Council directed the magistrates to employ a person to make a plan of the marches. (7v - 10r) |