| Description | Council meeting, 26 June 1819
[Sederunt given]
The Council elected Provost Brebner to be their Commissioner to the Convention of Royal Burghs to be held in Edinburgh on 13 July 1819, and elected Baillie Alexander Galen to be his Assessor. (202r)
The Council fixed 1 July 1819 to perambulate the Town's Inner or Royalty Marches. The Council also appointed the Outer Marches to be visited in July on a convenient day, and requested the Treasurer, Mr Collison, Mr Duguid, Mr Brown, Dean of Guild, Mr Smith, architect, and any other gentlemen, to visit the Marches. (202r)
The Council instructed the Clerk to request Messrs Forbes Low & Company to grant an obligation to remove the building in the Denburn, near their manufactory at Poynernook, when required to do so. (202r - 202v)
The Council appointed one copy of a brief in Chancery in the case Griffiths versus Grieve (involving the interests of the Provost and the Dean of Guild) to be laid before Mr Farquhar of Doctors Commons, London, who was expected shortly in Aberdeen; and the other to be taken to London by Mr Copland, Town Clerk Depute, who had been summoned to attend the committee of the House of Commons on Scots Burgh petitions, to be considered there. (202v)
The Council appointed William Rae, residing in Ellon, to be first drummer in the upper district of the Town; and appointed Adam Walker, at present drummer of Old Meldrum, to be second drummer, in the lower district of the Town. (The office of Town Drummer and Public Crier had been made vacant by the death of Walter Leith, and the Council resolved to appoint two drummers instead of one, because of the extended state of the Town.) The Council directed the drummers to act as constables when required, and to exact six pence for each advertisement made. (202v - 203r)
The Council authorised Mr Brown, Dean of Guild, to provide the drummers with the usual uniform of their office. (203r) |