| Description | Council meeting, 9 November 1802
[Sederunt given]
The Council appointed the Taxers and Stent Masters: Robert Garden and Alexander Galen, present Baillies; Alexander Brebner, Dean of Guild, Alexander Fraser, Treasurer, Alexander More, late Dean of Guild, Thomas McCombie, late Treasurer, Messrs James Gibbon, George Tower, Gavin Hadden, George Hogarth junior, William Ritchie, George Storry, Adam Wilson, George Mole, Alexander Rhind, George Thomson, John Catto and Andrew Simpson, merchants in Aberdeen, John Low, advocate in Aberdeen, Deacon William Cowie, saddler, and Deacon James Farquhar, weaver, Trades councillors. The Council directed the Taxers and Stent Masters to raise the following sums: £487 6 shillings 4 pence for the King's Subsidy for the year Martinmas 1801 to Martinmas 1802; £140 0 shillings 11 pence 2/3 for the Town's Eque, Missive Dues and expenses incurred by the Commissioners to the Convention of Royal Burghs, in terms of the Act of Council of 1 October 1800; and £11 13 shillings 2 pence overspend from the previous year's taxation. (98r - 99r)
The Council considered the report of the committee appointed to consider the memorial for Mr Foulerton, late of Gallery, concerning the real warrandice granted to the Master of Mortifications on his purchase of the Lands of Muchals. The Council remitted to the Consulter and Clerks to reach a settlement with Mr Foulerton's agents in Aberdeen, where they would pay to the Master of Mortifications the price of the teinds of the Lands of Muchals, as determined in the Decreet of Sale from the Court of Session, plus interest and the costs of obtaining the Court of Session Decreet. The Council directed the Master of Mortifications to issue a discharge of the warrandice on the Lands of Cowie in the County of Kincardine, belonging to John Innes Esq. (99r - 99v)
The Council remitted to a committee of the magistrates, the Dean of Guild and the Treasurer, the following matters.
First, arrangement of a public roup of the materials of the stables in the Links, previously occupied by cavalry horses, excepting the outer walls of the enclosure originally feued out to John Aiken, shipmaster. If the materials were not sold by themselves, they were to be offered with a lease for seven years of the ground on which they stood.
Second, arrangement of a roup of the lease for 1 year of the houses and sheds adjacent to the Pocra Pier, which had belonged to Francis Leys & Company and were used in the whale fishing trade.
Third, consideration of whether to shut the high road leading from Footdee to the Pocra along the west side of the dock yards, and to use only the new carriage road along the east side of the dock yards next to the Links.
(99v - 100r)
The Council considered the letter dated 8 September 1802 from Alexander Crombie, advocate, as Agent for George Silver Esq, purchaser of the Lands of Muchals concerning the obligation to erect 10,000 ells of dykes on that part of the Lands of Muchals leased to the Treasurer. The Council remitted to the magistrates to examine whether any of the dykes had been erected by the original tacksman, and to procure estimates from tradesmen for completing the dykes. (100r)
The Council remitted to the magistrates and the Treasurer, the petition from Charles Adamson of North Kirkhill proposing the erection of a march dyke between the Lands of North Kirkhill and the reserved Lands of Torrie, and requesting the Council to pay one half of the expense. (100r - 100v)
The Council agreed to grant to Mr Alexander Brebner a lease for seven years from 1 June 1802 of the yard lying to the south of the yards occupied by John Rae, for yearly rent of £10, in return for Mr Brebner's renunciation of his lease on the piece of ground at Footdee, adjoining the wood yards possessed by John Rae. The lease was granted on condition that the yard would be vacated on receiving compensation, if the land was required for improvements to the harbour; and that Mr Brebner would be paid for the saw pit and shed erected on the ground at Footdee, which he had returned to the Council. (100v)
The Council remitted to a committee of the Provost, Baillies Shepherd, Garden and Galen, with the Treasurer and Mr George Thomson, or any three of them, consideration of the memorial from Alexander Brebner Esq, merchant in Aberdeen, concerning the considerable loss he had made as Tacksman of the Weigh House dues on a lease granted in 1796, as the butchers and others refused to pay the weighing dues of tallow. (100v - 101r) |