| Description | Council meeting, 12 June 1812
[Sederunt given]
The Provost reported to the Council the recommendations of the committee appointed to consider a more proper method of keeping the office bearers' accounts. Baillie Galen laid before the Council the prospectus of a plan for a new system. The Provost further recommended the appointment of a suitable person to manage the accounts and nominated Mr James Hardie, advocate in Aberdeen, to hold the office of City Chamberlain with an annual salary of £100 upon receiving security to the extent of £1000. Upon consideration, the Council approved the new scheme and appointed Mr Hardie to the new post at the aforementioned salary. (227r - 228r)
The Provost reported that a committee of the Council had, on 30 May 1812, made its annual Perambulation of the Inner Marches. In accordance with a previous Act and Resolution of Council, the line of the boundary of the said Inner Marches was more particularly examined than hitherto to establish whether it conformed to the description contained in the Council record of 20 May 1809, as delineated upon Mr Fletcher's Plan of the Outer Marches. The committee recommended several alterations to be made by Mr John Smith to the line of the boundary:
It was reported that part of the committee proceeded agreeable to the old description from the Town House to the Gallowgatehead where they divided. One half continuing along the Highway as far as the house built by Robert Duguid, customer, now owned by James Donald, farmer, from thence along the Highway, meeting the other half at the foot of the road at Alexander Tosh's barn, now owned by James Hay in Sheethin, there to the Nook-Well where they again divided. One party kept the way to Thieves Briggs and from there kept the stank east to the Footdee Myre. The other half proceedeed down Bowlroad, met with the other party in the Links and passed the heads of the crofts between the first hole in Garvock's Wynd where they once more divided. One half kept the heads of the crofts next the sea towards the Block House, while the other went by Garvock's Wynd, south-east to the back of Footdee, and north from there to a march stone at the east end of the corn rigg called Lyon's Rigg, thence along the shore and up Marischal Street to the Town House.
This party observed that the Executioner had not yet shut up a door which he had opened into the Links from his stable on the east end of the Glebe of Footdee and recommended the Procurator Fiscal look into the process pending on this subject.
The other part of the committee proceeded from the Town House by the Shiprow and Trinities to the Floodmark, along to the Burn of Ferryhill and to the east boundary of Damhead. It then turned up by the Justice Mill Dam, crossed the Skene Turnpike Road, along the east boundary of the Lands of Rubislaw to the branch of the Turnpike Road which leads from the Schoolhill. From there, it passed along the road on the east side of the houses belonging to John Jamieson, crossed the Denburn, on through Robert Mackie's property to Jack's Brae (the march here including the Lands of Cherryvale, Hardweird and grounds of Mr Mackie's). From Jack's Brae, the party turned down as far as the houses belonging to James Reid, gardener. From thence the march passes along the boundary of the Lands of Gilcomston to the Burn or Lead of Mill of Gilcomston as far east as the Burn of Broadford and then east, along the said boundaries and the boundaries of Calsie Croft, Magdalen Croft and Tolquhon's Croft to the road leading to the Spittal and Old Aberdeen as far as March Stone 62, where the Inner and Outer Marches meet each other. From here the line of both Marches is the same, comprehending the Queen's Links and the Sea Coast, to the Harbour Mouth and extending over the whole of the Harbour and Floodmark.
The committee recommended that Mr Smith erect a march stone on the north side of the Skene Road, opposite Justice Mill Dam and one on the east side of the property owned by the Gilcomston Brewery Company. It also requested estimates for the supply of upright march stones to be placed adjacent to the old march saucer stones, to be marked on the top and numbered progressively in the same manner as the the march stones of the Freedom Lands.
The which report was ratified by Council and the recommendations of the committee approved. (228r - 229r)
The Provost laid before Council the report by Messrs Smith and Gibb on the state of the Bridge of Dee and the Bridge of Don. It was observed that some small joints at the bottom of the piers of the Bridge of Dee required pointing, that the parapet stones which had been put off their beds should be re-laid and that the pointing of the Bridge in general should be deferred for a year or so and then thoroughly done. The Bridge of Don was in a good state of repair except for a little harling required on one of the buttresses. The Council authorised the Master of the Kirk and Bridge Works to effect the necessary repairs. (229v)
The Council granted the applications from George Turner and [no name given], residenters in Aberdeen, to be admitted as lime metters at the Shore there having arisen vacancies. (229v) |