| Description | Council meeting, 25 September 1810
[Sederunt given]
The Council approved the report of the Perambulation of the Outer Marches, between the County Lands and the Freedom Lands, by Provost Hadden; Baillies Shepherd and Garden; Mr Storey, Treasurer; Mr Low, Shoremaster; Mr John Forbes, Mr Joseph Hogarth and Deacon Walker of the Council; Mr Carnegie, Town Clerk; Robert Morice and James Hardie, advocates; Andrew Shepherd and John Kynoch, writers; Alexander Duthie Esq of Ruthrieston, William Brebner Esq younger of Learney, James Forbes Esq of Housedale, William and Patrick Pirie, Gilbert Shepherd, William Black, Alexander and James Hadden, James Gibbon and William Read, all merchants in Aberdeen; Alexander Gildawie, mason and John Smith, architect. [Report engrossed.] The report made the following remarks:
First, the Visitors recommended that George Mole & Company should open a door in the brick wall they had erected along the road from Clayhills to Ferryhill, to allow the Marches to be visited and that should they fail to comply, as they had following the Perambulation of 1805, that the Council take such steps as deemed necessary.
Second, that the upright stone number five had fallen over.
Third, that stone number eighteen was broken.
Fourth, that stone number forty-eight was turned round and that number fifty-two had been removed from its former position. Mr Gildawie was directed to put these right.
(170v - 171v)
The Council approved the application from William Gibbon, shipmaster and Berthmaster in Aberdeen, to be appointed to the additional office of Superintendent of the Metters, in place of the late James Singer, metter, in order to supplement his salary at no further expense to the Town, at the annual salary of £105. (171v - 172r)
The Provost laid before Council a letter from Mr Farquhar, Member of Parliament for the City, acknowledging the receipt of the Provost's letter thanking him for his service in assisting the passage of the Harbour Improvements Bill through Parliament [letter engrossed]. (172r - 172v)
The Council admitted four Craftsmen. (172v) |