| Description | Council meeting, 23 September 1800
[Sederunt given]
The Council accepted the resignation of Mr David Morice, advocate in Aberdeen, as Procurator and Agent for the Town of Aberdeen, as he felt it inconsistent with his other posts of Assessor to the Council and Sheriff Substitute of the County. The Council elected Robert Morice, advocate in Aberdeen, son of Mr David Morice to the post of Procurator and Agent for the Town. (12r - 12v)
The Council refused the application by Mr Thomas Bannerman and Mr Alexander Young, merchants in Aberdeen, requesting liberty to delay further the erection of houses on the third and fourth stances on the east side of Marischal Street, as the Council had already granted them several more years in which to complete their houses, and as the houses on the opposite side of the street, below the bridge, were nearing completion. The Council ordered Mr Bannerman and Mr Young to complete their houses before Martinmas 1801. (12v)
The Council recommended to their successors to take action to remove the encroachments made by Provost George Auldjo of Clayhills identified in the report on the perambulation of the Outer Marches: the house and rubbish from his brick and tile works which encroached on the high road passing along the Back burn of the River Dee, and the gate erected at the Bridge of Ferryhill. Also to make enquiries on the actions which had been taken many years before against the heritors of Countesswells and Kingswells for enclosing part of the Freedom Mosses. (12v - 13r)
The Council recommended to their successors the following matters of public business.
First, to enquire into the boundaries of the salmon fishings in the sea to the south of the mouth of the River Dee, and to examine how much of the fishings had been feued to the heritors of the Rake and Stell salmon fishings.
Second, to enquire into changes to the harbour caused by the enlarged Raik and Mid Chingle dykes not allowing floods to scour the channel from the Town's Pier to the harbour mouth.
Third, to erect new march stones along the Outer Marches.
Fourth, to instruct the Board of Taxes to join the assessments of the Town's Eque with the Missive Dues and the expenses incurred by the Commissioners to the General Convention of Royal Burghs.
(13r - 13v) |