| Description | Council meeting, 15 October 1810
[Sederunt given]
The Council appointed the Taxers and Stent Masters for the year Martinmas 1810 to Martinmas 1811: George Tower and John Donald, two of the present Baillies; George Hogarth junior, Dean of Guild; Alexander Gibbon, Treasurer; Baillie Robert Garden; George Storey, late Treasurer; Alexander Duncan junior, John Forbes, William Gibbon junior, John Collison, Charles Walker, James Gibbon, John Young, Joseph Hogarth, James Gordon and John Smith youngest, all merchants; William Kennedy and David Hutcheon, advocates; John Webster, weaver, and John Barron, watchmaker, 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; £237 18 shillings 7 pence for the Town's Eque, Missive Dues and expenses incurred by the Commissioners to the Convention of Royal Burghs; and £13 7 shillings 5 pence overspend from the previous year's taxation. (177r - 177v)
The Council remitted to a committee of magistrates, Dean of Guild, Treasurer and Provost Brebner, or any three of them, the petition by John Rae, merchant in Aberdeen and Tacksman of the Town's Mills, in respect of the poor state of repair of the Malt Mill. He proposed that in return for the Council advancing the money for the said repairs he would pay seven and a half percent extra rent per annum. (178r - 178v)
The Council empowered the Provost to subscribe for ten copies, at 5 guineas each, of a new map of the Counties of Aberdeen and Banff proposed to be constructed from a survey to be made by Mr James Robertson, author of maps of Jamaica. (178v)
The Council admitted twelve Craftsmen. (178v) |