| Description | Council meeting, 12 October 1804
[Sederunt given]
The Council resolved that members absent from Council meetings should pay a fine of 1 shilling for each absence, and that members who were more than fifteen minutes late for meetings should pay a fine of 6 pence. (168r)
The Council appointed the following Acts of Council to be observed: the Act of 26 September 1791 against granting a prolongation of the tack or a feu of the Mill of Gilcomston to the Brewery Company; the Act of 25 June 1798 concerning the grant of money from the funds of the Bridge of Dee and the Bridge of Don, except for roads in the vicinity of the town; and the Act of 21 September 1801 concerning the administration of finances by the office bearers. The Council remitted to the magistrates to examine which tacks were close to expiry. (168r - 168v)
The Council fixed the Visitation of the Public Schools to be held on 24 October 1804, and the competition for bursaries at Marischal College to be held on 29 October 1804. The Council appointed the following to be Visitors of the Public Schools for the year 1804 to 1805: the Provost, the four Baillies, the Dean of Guild and the Treasurer, the Master of Mortifications, Provost Young, Provost More, Provost Hadden, Mr Brebner, Mr Alexander Fraser, the four Town's Ministers and the Professors of the College, and any other person called by the magistrates. The Council directed the magistrates to procure from the managers of the Trades, a list of vacant bursaries under their patronage, in accordance with the Act of Council of 31 October 1780. (168v)
The Council remitted to a committee of the Provost, the four Baillies, the Dean of Guild and the Treasurer, with the office bearers concerned, or any three of them, the following matters of public business:
First, the petition from the Convener Court concerning the compositions paid by entering craftsmen to the Dean of Guild, as fixed by the Act of Council of 21 September 1801.
Second, the report by Messrs David Morice and Colin Innes on the mosses and quarries on the Lands of Countesswells and Kingswells, which were reserved to the Town.
Third, the report and estimate for building a kiln at the Flour or Upper Mill, as commissioned by the Act of Council of 21 September 1804.
Fourth, the report of the committee on works to the harbour.
Fifth, the purchase of property at or near Footdee, within the limits set by the Act of Parliament, for the improvements to the harbour recommended by Messrs Rennie or Telford, engineers.
Sixth, disposal of the Treasurer's lease of the part of the Lands of Muchals.
Seventh, to make a plan of the boundaries between the Freedom Lands and the County Lands, and between the Royalty and the Freedom Lands, in accordance with former Acts of Council.
Eighth, the sale of remaining feu duties, in accordance with the Act of Council of 5 October 1803.
Ninth, settlement of terms with the committee of County gentlemen for making the new turnpike road from Love Lane to Don.
Tenth, the processes involving the Town before the Court of Session: the process with Mr Fraser of Fraserfield concerning the Shore Dues in the River Don; the process of declarator brought by the Clothiers concerning the Petty Customs on cloths; the processes between the Town and Mr Skene of Rubislaw concerning the Rubislaw quarries; and the process of suspension brought by Cuming Laing against John Ross, late Tacksman of the Bell and Petty Customs, concerning the levy of customs on meal sold at Justice Mills.
Eleventh, the application from Provost William Young requesting the return of ground at the Shorelands, given off by him for a road from the Quay to Garvock's Wynd.
Twelfth, the application from James Staats Forbes and the inhabitants of the Lochlands for permission to erect two bridges across the loch in the line of St Andrew's Street and John Street.
(168v - 170r)
The Council ratified the sales of feus of the following lots of the ground, in accordance with the Act of Council of 29 May 1804:
Purchase by Alexander James and William Christie of 250 feet along the north side of the intended street to be made between King Street and Park Road, from the back of building area in King Street, at £50 yearly feu duty.
Purchase by John Law, advocate, of sixty feet of ground on the south side of Frederick Street, from the back of building area in King Street, at 4 shillings per foot.
Purchase by George Walker, blacksmith, of forty feet of ground on the south side of Frederick Street, east of Mr Law's ground, at 4 shillings per foot.
Purchase by George Stott, weaver, of forty feet of ground on the south side of Frederick Street, at the back of the house in Shuttle Lane, at 4 shillings per foot.
Purchase by William Robertson, carter, of forty feet of ground at the eastern end on the south side of Frederick Street, fronting Park Road and Frederick Street, at 6 shillings per foot.
Purchase by John Watson, advocate, of the remainder of the ground on the south side of Frederick Street, at 4 shillings per foot.
Purchase by William Gordon, late vintner of the ground lying westward of the new Meal Market, at £13 yearly feuduty, plus 5 shillings for a small triangular piece of ground at the north west corner of the Market.
Purchase by Robert Brands, coachmaker, of sixty-five feet six inches of ground at the back of the houses in North Street, and on the south side of a street to be made between King Street and North Street in front of the Meal Market, at the feu duty of £22 18 shillings 6 pence.
The Council remitted to the magistrates, or any three of them, to make out Frederick Street and the street in front of the Meal Market, and to dispose of the remaining stances on the north side of Frederick Street. (170r - 171r)
The Council authorised the office bearers to issue tacks to the following persons for properties purchased by them at public roups:
Messrs James Gibbon & Company, and John Catto, for their roperies in the Links
George Henderson and his cautioners, for the Town's Common Mills
John Catto, for the piece of ground at Footdee, on which the cavalry stables had stood
William Davidson, merchant, for the Croft and Fishing of Poldown. (171r - 171v) |