| Description | Council meeting, 6 December 1804
[Sederunt given]
Provost Young and Mr Thomson, Treasurer qualified as members of Council by swearing the oaths appointed by law, and Mr Thomson swore his oath de fideli as Treasurer. (176v)
The Council remitted to a committee of the magistrates, the Dean of Guild and the Treasurer, or any three of them, the memorial from William Forbes Esq of Echt, concerning the purchase of the feu duties and casualties payable by him for his Lands of Springfield, Springhill and Ropework at Footdee. (176v)
The Council resolved not to proceed further in the legal case of the magistrates and Council against sundry clothiers of Aberdeen, following the Court of Session ruling against the magistrates and Council. The Council authorised the Clerk to inform the Town's Agent in Edinburgh of the Council's decision. (176v - 177r)
The Council appointed the following gentlemen to be Assessors to Gavin Hadden, Dean of Guild, until Michaelmas 1805: Baillie Charles Farquharson, Baillie Alexander Galen, Provost William Young, Provost George More, Provost James Hadden, Messrs Alexander Brebner, Alexnder More, John Young, Robert Tower, James Young junior, Alexander Fraser and George Hogarth junior, all merchants in Aberdeen. (177r)
The Council approved the Provost's report of his attendance at the General Meeting of the Convention of Royal Burghs on 21 November 1804, at which he negotiated a smaller increase in the proportion of Land Tax etc to be levied on Aberdeen. (177r - 177v)
The Council authorised the Shoremaster to grant a bond for £440, payable with interest on 20 June 1805, to Mrs Rachel Susan Farquhar or Gibbon, widow of Charles Gibbon, Shipmaster in Aberdeen, in liferent, and to Alexander Gibbon, her son, in fee. (177v)
The Council authorised [an unspecified office bearer] to grant a bond for £900, payable with interest on 30 November 1805, to the Trustees for Dr James Moir, physician in Aberdeen, and Mrs Janet Byres or Moir, his spouse, and to the Trustees for John Moir, landscape painter in Edinburgh, and Mrs Catherine Byres or Moir, his spouse. (177v - 178r) |