| Description | Council meeting, 26 September 1809
[Sederunt given]
The Council approved the purchase of properties in Footdee in connection with the Harbour Improvements. Firstly, the purchase of two houses and a garden from William Yeats, boatbuilder, situated between the subjects purchased from George Simmers and the property of Robert Gibbon, merchant, at £1200, the payment of the principal sum postponed by Mr Yeats until Whitsunday 1816 upon the Shoremaster granting bond for £800, the interest payable to the said William Yeats and Margaret Massie, his spouse, in conjunct fee and liferent, and to George Yeats, advocate in Aberdeen, their son in fee. The sum of the heritable debt on the said subjects of £400, due to Alexander Yeats residing in London was also postponed until Whitsunday 1816. Secondly, the purchase of a house and piece of ground belonging to George Yeats, advocate, situated on the north side of the lane called Middle Third for the sum of £550. Thirdly, the purchase of the warehouse and ground belonging to Robert Gibbon, merchant, following a valuation by a jury impanelled by the Sheriff according to the Act of Parliament 37 GEO.III, for the sum of £1550. The Council therefore authorised the Shoremaster to grant bonds for the sum of £800 to William, Margaret and George Yeats, £400 to Alexander Yeats and £550 to George Yeats. (112r - 113r)
The Council approved the sale of a stance on the south side of Queen Street, west of the ground feued to Francis Clerihue, wright, part of the old Flesh Market, to Peter Nicoll, mason in Old Aberdeen, at 7 shillings per foot annual feu duty. (113r)
The Council approved the report from the committee on Harbour Improvements, relating the comments and works begun by John Gibb, Superintendent of the Harbour Operations. Likewise Mr Thomas Telford's report, plan and estimates for the construction of a tide lock and conversion of the area from opposite John McKenzie's house to the Fish Market, into a wet dock [report engrossed]. The recommendations concerning the Harbour Improvements, the application to Parliament for a new Harbour Act and a plan to convey water from the common sewer in the Shorelands were all remitted to the attention of the new Council. (113r - 116r)
The Council admitted nine Burgesses of Guild, four Tradesmen and three Infant Burgesses, namely John Galen, son of Baillie Alexander Galen, and William Hadden and James Hadden, sons of Mr Gavin Hadden, Dean of Guild. (116r) |