| Description | Council meeting, 4 July 1808
[Sederunt given]
The Council elected Provost More as Commissioner and Baillie Farquharson as his Assessor to the Convention of Royal Burghs in Edinburgh on 12 July 1808. (69v)
The Council accepted the application from Charles Bannerman, advocate on behalf of Miss Elizabeth Peacock, daughter of the late Mr Francis Peacock, Teacher of Dancing, to sink £600 with the Treasurer on his bond for an annuity of ten percent during her life. The Council also passed a letter from Isabel Anderson, residing in Aberdeen, offering £30 upon the same terms. Payment to commence 20 December 1808. (69v - 70r)
The Council accepted the petition for assistance from Robert Smith, merchant, and granted £5 as an interim supply. (70r)
The Council remitted to a committee of the Provost, four Baillies, Dean of Guild and Treasurer, or any three of them, the sale by public roup of the tacks on lots of waste ground reserved at the feuing of the Lands and Barony of Torrie, situated along the Girdleness and Bay of Nigg, formerly let in tack to David Morice, advocate. (70r - 70v)
The Council authorised the sale by public roup of the feu of the triangular piece of ground near Cairncry, adjacent to that part of the Lands of Forresterhill owned by George Still Esq, along with ground on the south side of the Lands of Barkmill. (70v)
The Council approved the sale by public roup of the feu of thirty acres of the Town's Commonty, situated south of the Skene Turnpike Road, to William Mitchell, shoemaker in Aberdeen. The first lot of ten acres at 7 shillings per acre, the second lot of twenty acres at 10 shillings per acre. Upon payment of the balance of the purchase money, the Council authorised a charter to be executed in favour of William Mitchell. (70v - 71r) |