| Description | Council meeting, 17 December 1811
The whole members of Council
The Council elected and appointed the Rev Mr Robert Doig, Minister of the Gospel in Aberdeen, to be one of the Ministers of the City in place of the late Rev Dr George Gordon with the yearly stipend of £200 and appointed a formal presentation to be made out in his favour and engrossed in the Council Register [presentation engrossed]. Witnessed by William Carnegie Esq, Town Clerk, Alexander Cadenhead, advocate in Aberdeen, Provost James Young, Baillie Robert Garden, Baillie Alexander Galen, Baillie John Donald, Baillie Charles Walker, Baillie George Storey, John Forbes, Alexander Bannerman, William Read, Alexander Hadden, Alexander Pirie, D G H Gordon, Patrick Pirie, Joseph Hogarth, John Young, William Smith, George Stott, Alexander Low, Treasurer, James Hadden. (217r -218v)
The Council appointed as a committee the Provost, Baillies Galen and Donald and Provost Hadden, along with the Clerk, or any two of them, to intimate the foresaid Act of Election and Presentation to the Rev Mr Robert Doig and to present it to the Presbytery of Aberdeen in order that they may take the necessary legal steps to secure Rev Doig as one of the Town's Ministers. The Council recommended the committee inform the Presbytery that it wished to delay the settlement and admission of Rev Doig until Martinmas 1812 in order that Dr Gordon's widow and family could receive the benefit of a half year's vacant stipend. (218v)
The Council authorised the Treasurer to borrow monies for the public purposes of the community. Bills and bonds for the relevant sums had been issued to the following persons, with interest of five percent payable on 20 December 1812:
William Downie in Monykebbuck - £60
James Philp in Mains of Kendal - £100
Kirk Session of Old Machar - £250
Rev Dr Gerard - £600
Alexander Black, student of Divinity - £1000
Dr Cruden, Trustee on the estates of the late John Gray - £200
George Keith in Aberdeen - £35
Society of Advocates there - £600
Hugh Cremat, Ury - £60
William Cross there - £50
Friendly Society of the Roman Catholic Clergy - £220
Alexander Smith in Caskieben - £30
Mrs Runcy in Footdee - £50
Mrs Grant, widow of the late Robert Grant, Aberdeen - £400
Baillie Garden, Executor of the late Robert Grant, Aberdeen - £260
Mr Anderson in Strichen - £200
Mrs William Anderson in Strichen - £100
Peter Shewan, shipmaster - £300
William Johnstone, merchant in Banff - £400
Peter Tawse in Kinnellar - £20
Janet Wilson, Aberdeen - £30
George Neeper, Aberdeen - £40
William Urquhart in Fyvie - £50
Alexander Strachan in Mains of Pitcaple - £100
William Walker in Borrostown - £80
George Milne, shoemaker, in Pitgirsy - £60
Charles Copland, late of Jamaica - £400
Captain William Cruden - £250
John Skinner in Aberdeen - £60
James Dickie in Collieston - £50
The Treasurer of the Coal Fund - £100
Peter Cushnie in [no place-name given] - £50
Alexander Ronald in Inveramsay - £50 (in addition to monies previously lent)
Alexander Hervey in Swellhead - £10
Mr Mitchell at Clola - £10
James Davidson in Fintray - £200 (in addition to monies previously lent)
James Roust in Parkhill - £35 (in addition to monies previously lent)
William Roust in Todhill - £30 (in addition to monies previously lent)
Mrs Margaret Bower - £20 (in addition to monies previously lent)
John Tawse in Inverernan - £80 (in addition to monies previously lent)
Robert Glashan in Tomantaple - £20 (in addition to monies previously lent)
Mr Paterson at Nigg - £40 (in addition to monies previously lent)
Miss Wales, Aberdeen - £5 (in addition to monies previously lent)
John Duncan in Cairndradlen - £15 (in addition to monies previously lent)
William Leonard in Cookston - £30
James Hervie in Kirktown of Kinnellar - £15 (in addition to monies previously lent)
George Philp in Buckie - £55 (in addition to monies previously lent)
George Bannerman in Parkhill - £30 (in addition to monies previously lent)
James Davidson of Wester Kinmundy - £100 (in addition to monies previously lent)
The Infirmary - £694 2 shillings 8 pence
The Lunatic Hospital - £1715
(218v - 219v)
The Council authorised the Shoremaster to borrow monies for the purpose of carrying out the Harbour Improvements. Bills and bonds for the relevant sums had been issued to the following persons, with interest of five percent payable on 20 December 1812:
John Downie in Straits of New Machar - £140
William Moir in Kemnay - £35
Rev Dr Shirrefs, Aberdeen - £200
Alexander Stevens in Millden - £100
Francis Downie in Fetterneer - £45
James Downie in Fetterneer - £45
George Spark in Torry - £600
James Spark in Torry - £600
Andrew Spark in Westertown - £60
Andrew Law in Little Goval - £20
Alexander Spark in Belscavie - £40
James and Alexander Herds in Stocket - £500
Miss Jean Hay at Fyvie - £400
The Cove Society - £90
Kirk Session of Nigg - £70
George Keith in Torry - £30 (in addition to monies previously lent)
Mr Anderson in Strichen - £300 (in addition to monies previously lent)
Charles Mathew in Daviot - £20 (in addition to monies previously lent)
Elizabeth Wood in Torry - £20 (in addition to monies previously lent)
Mrs Margaret Katon in Aberdeen - £20 (in addition to monies previously lent)
Mrs Cruickshank there - £50 (in addition to monies previously lent)
George Guyan in New Fish Town - £20 (in addition to monies previously lent)
John Grant in Corrachree - £100
Thomas Elmslie of Fingask - £1800
Mr Stronach, late of the Customs, residing in Aberdeen - £1600
(219v - 220r) |