| Description | Council meeting, 8 February 1811
[Sederunt given]
The Clerk, Mr Carnegie, represented to the Council the need to appoint a successor to the late John Burnett Esq, advocate and Judge Admiral of Scotland, and for twenty years the Town's Counsel in Ordinary at the Court of Session in Edinburgh. An application for the nomination had been received from Andrew Skene Esq, advocate, and the Provost proposed Mr Hugh Lumsden, advocate. The vote carried Andrew Skene by eleven votes to seven and he was duly appointed to the office. (184r - 184v)
The Council ratified the regulations and rates of fare established for the Shore Porters by the Dean of Guild Court as proposed by Mr Hogarth, Dean of Guild, and ordered they be published [regulations and rates of fare per district of the City engrossed]. (184v - 188v)
Mr Copland, Clerk Depute, reported that the Treasurer had borrowed on 20 December 1810 £200 from the Treasurer of the Baker Mortification, and had granted bond for this and a further £300 already in his hands and that he had borrowed £320 from George Booth and had granted bond to him and his wife. The Treasurer had borrowed additional monies to pay off certain interests and principal sums in relation to the costs incurred in the building of the New Streets and other works. Bills and bonds for the relevant sums had been issued to the following persons, with interest payable on 20 December 1811:
John Milne, Corgarff - £25
Peter Duncan in Gilcomston - £1400
John Paterson in Glengarden - £120
Isabel Watt - £40
John Kiloh in Old Meldrum - £30
Mr McKinzie, Old Aberdeen - £170
Alexander Stevens in Millden, in addition to £150 - £200
Dr Cruden of Nigg - £140
Mr Paterson of Nigg, in addition to £150 - £50
Mrs Margaret Gall, residing in Aberdeen - £90
James Wishart in Tarbothill - £200
Samuel Duncan in Saphoc, in addition to £120 - £20
William Mitchell in Clola, in addition to £120 - £50
Elspet Roy, in addition to £80 - £20
Jean Durno in Newton of Kinmundy - £15
Thomas Duncan in Kinellar, in addition to £80 - £10
William Leonard, blacksmith in Cookston - £50
Alexander Harvey, Swellhead of New Machar, in addition to £50 - £20
John Duncan in Cairntradlen, in addition to £136 - £64
Andrew Keith, in addition to £220 - £20
Duncan Davidson, advocate - £1000
Duncan Davidson, advocate - £500
Duncan Davidson, advocate - £500
Mrs Margaret Bower, in addition to £74 - £19
Alexander Ronald in Inveramsay, in addition to £150 - £90
Alexander Argo, blacksmith at Foveran, in addition to £40 - £10
Mr Smith of Blackhills, in addition to £100 - £200
The Master of the Trades Hospital, in addition to £395 - £5
James Harvey in Kinellar - £10
David Sangster in Hillton - £40
William Sangster in Inverugie, in addition to £290 - £290
John Eddie, Aberdeenshire Regiment of the Militia - £70
James Milne in Buchanston, in addition to £130 - £100
(188v - 189v)
Mr Copland, Clerk Depute, reported that the Shoremaster had borrowed on 20 December 1810 £325 from the Rev Mr Shepherd of Daviot, and had granted bond for the same to [no name given] Shepherd, late of Canada, in liferent and to the said Rev Shepherd in fee. He had also borrowed £500 from the Rev George Forbes, Strathdon and granted bill for the same, payable on 20 June 1811, and had borrowed additional monies to pay off certain interests and principal sums in relation to the costs incurred by the Harbour Improvements. Bills and bonds for the relevant sums had been issued to the following persons, with interest payable on 20 December 1811:
Mrs Elizabeth Alexander, in addition to £3000 - £75
James Farquharson in Glenbucket - £210
Mr Anderson in Strichen - £200
Charles Mathew in Daviot - £50
Cove Society - £80
Elizabeth Wood in Torrie - £60
William Cossar in South Loirston - £28
George Keith in Torry - £70
John Leslie at Bridge of Don - £60
James Hutcheon in Tullos of Nigg - £100
James Sterling in Polmuir - £100
Mr Gordon of Newton - £1000
David Low, Aberdeenshire Militia - £30
Alexander Forbes, carpenter, Footdee - £20
Robert Robertson in South Loirston - £20
Francis Downie in Fetternier - £40
Miss Margaret Forbes, Old Aberdeen - £400
Miss Christian Bonniman - £450
Mrs Jean Leighton, Hardgate - £100
Duncan Davidson, advocate - £500
William Glenny in Newbigging - £300
Mrs Hunter in Dulax - £160
Mrs Archibald Moir - £150
James Catanach in Tillyjake - £100
Alexander Ritchie and Alexander Steven - £100
Mrs Magdalene Katon - £100
George Guyon in Newfish Town, in addition to £40 - £20
William Carnegie, Town Clerk - £1100
(189v - 190r) |