| Description | Council meeting, 30 September 1819
[Sederunt given]
Baillie Robert Brown, James Lamond and John Whyte qualified as members of Council by swearing and signing the usual oaths, and Baillie Robert Brown took his oath de fideli administratione officii as one of the Baillies of the City. (212v)
The Council resolved that members absent from Council meetings should pay one shilling, and that members who were more than fifteen minutes late for meetings should pay six pence, to be applied at the direction of the Council. (212v - 213r)
The Council appointed the following Acts of Council to be observed: the Act of 26 September 1791 against granting a prolongation of the tack or a feu of the Mill of Gilcomston to the Brewery Company; the Act of 25 June 1798 prohibiting the grant of money from the funds of the Bridge of Dee and the Bridge of Don, except for roads in the vicinity of the Town. The Council remitted to the magistrates to examine which tacks were close to expiry. (213r)
The Council fixed the Visitation of the Public Schools to be held on 20 October 1819, and the competition for bursaries at Marischall College to be held on 25 October 1819. The Council appointed the following to be Visitors of the Public Schools for the year 1819 to 1820: the Provost, the four Baillies, the Dean of Guild and the Treasurer, the Master of Mortifications, the four Town's Ministers and the Professors of the College, and any other person called by the magistrates. The Council directed the magistrates to procure from the managers of the Trades, a list of vacant bursaries under their patronage, in accordance with the Act of Council of 31 October 1780, in order that they could be bestowed along with the Town's bursaries and the College's bursaries. (213r - 213v)
The Council appointed the Standing Committee of the Provost, the four Baillies, the Dean of Guild and the Treasurer, and Mr James Mackie, the Master of Shoreworks, with the office bearers concerned, or any five of them, to attend to the branches of public business. (213v)
The Council considered the Act of Council of 21 September 1819 concerning the two new roads leading to the Bridges of Dee and Don, and resolved to apply to the Michaelmas County Meeting on 5 October 1819 to insert clauses into the new Turnpike Act to divide the Ninth or Aberdeen District into portions, and to levy a toll on the Bridge of Dee road to keep it in repair. (213v - 214r)
The Council remitted to the Standing Committee consideration of the Act of Council of 21 September 1819 recommending the construction of a new bridge over the River Don using the Bridge of Don Funds. (214v)
The Council admitted one Burgess of Guild and three Tradesmen. [No names given.] (214v) |