| Description | Council meeting, 16 November 1809
[Sederunt given]
The Council approved the sale by public roup of the lease of a plot of ground at the Shorelands, lately held by Thomson & Company, lime merchants, for five years from 1 June 1810 to James Hardie, advocate, at £9 annual rent and the lease of the dockyard at Footdee, presently under tack to Alexander Gibbon, shipmaster, for three years from 1 June 1810 to Hall & Company, shipbuilders, at £9 12 shillings annual rent. (123v)
The Council appointed the Taxers and Stent Masters for the year Martinmas 1809 to Martinmas 1810: Thomas McCombie and George Tower, two of the present Baillies; Alexander Pirie, Dean of Guild; George Storey, Treasurer; Charles Farquharson and Alexander Galen, two of the late Baillies; George Hogarth, late Treasurer; John Forbes, William Gibbon junior, John Donald, John Collison, Charles Walker, William Duthie, James Gibbon, John Young, James Gordon, John Symon and John Smith youngest, all merchants; William Kennedy and John Low, advocates; Thomas Roger, coppersmith and William Walker, baker, the two Trades councillors.
The Council directed the Taxers and Stent Masters to raise the following sums: £526 10 shillings for the King's Subsidy; £182 7 shillings for the Town's Eque, Missive Dues and expenses incurred by the Commissioners to the Convention of Royal Burghs; and £19 2 shillings 5 pence and 10/12 overspend from the previous year's taxation. (123v - 124v)
The Council appointed the Dean of Guild's Assessors for the year Michaelmas 1809 to Michaelmas 1810: William Shepherd and Robert Garden, two of the present Baillies, Gavin Hadden, late Dean of Guild, Provost William Young, Provost George More, Provost Alexander Brebner, James Young junior, George Hogarth, Alexander Fraser, John Young, Alexander Gibbon junior and George Storey, all merchants in Aberdeen. (124v)
The Council set 12 December 1809 to administer the Poor's Fund. (124v) |