| Description | Council meeting, 25 July 1805
[Sederunt given]
The Council fixed 1 August 1805 for examining the Outer Marches between the Freedom Lands and the County Lands, as it was five years since the previous visitation. (200v)
The Council remitted to the magistrates and the Shoremaster, or any three of them, a petition from Alexander Fraser, merchant in Aberdeen, stating that he intended to convert part of the large warehouse at the Quay purchased from Alexander Aberdeen, cooper, into a counting house and dwelling house. Mr Fraser requested the Council's permission to extend the front of the building to align it with other buildings on the Quay, and to take down and re-build the east gable of the Tacksman of the Shore Dues' counting house, in order to build his own west gable in a straight line. (200v - 201r)
The Council remitted to a committee of the magistrates, the Dean of Guild and the Treasurer, or any three of them, a proposal from Rev Dr Skene Ogilvy, Minister of Old Aberdeen, to pay for that part of the Town's Commonty on the south side of the Denburn below the Chapel of Ease, on which two houses had been erected, which had been identified as an encroachment on the Town's property at the Perambulation of the Inner Marches. It was proposed that the sum be based, either on the rate paid by Alexander Crombie for a similar piece of ground, or on an independent valuation by arbiters chosen by the magistrates and the Kirk Session of Old Machar. (201r - 201v)
The Council admitted thirty-four Burgesses of Guild. [No names given.] (201v) |