| Description | Council meeting, 23 November 1819
[Sederunt given]
Mr James Brebner qualified as a member of Council by swearing and signing the usual oaths, and gave his oath de fideli administratione officii as Treasurer of Aberdeen. (216v)
The Council resolved to present an address to the Prince Regent to express their loyalty to the King and constitution, and their abhorrence of the late blasphemous and seditious doctrines propogated by evil minded and disaffected men. [Address engrossed.] The Council directed the Provost to sign the address, and to transmit it to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, for him to present it to the Prince Regent. (216v - 217v)
The Council appointed the Taxers and Stent Masters: John Collison and Robert Brown, two of the present Baillies; Gavin Hadden, Dean of Guild, James Brebner, Treasurer, Alexander Brown, late Dean of Guild, Alexander Duthie junior, late Treasurer, William Johnston, George Thomson, James Milne, John Whyte, William Catto, Robert Walker, Robert Duthie, William Read, Alexander Duncan, Alexander Hadden, John Lumsden and Robert Catto, merchants; James Grant and James Blaikie, advocates; Deacon John Smith, glazier, and Deacon John Addie, wright, the two Trades councillors. The Council directed the Taxers and Stent Masters to raise the following sums: £526 10 shillings for the King's Subsidy for the year Martinmas 1818 to Martinmas 1819; plus £165 15 shillings 6 pence 10/12 overspend from the previous year's taxation, including Missive Dues to the Convention of Royal Burghs for the years 1817 to 1819, and the expenses incurred by the Commissioners to the Convention in July 1819. (217v - 218r)
The Council appointed the following as Assessors to Gavin Hadden, Dean of Guild, for the year ending Michaelmas 1820: Baillie Alexander Galen, Baillie John Young, Alexander Brown, Robert Garden, William Johnston, James Hadden, Alexander Fraser, James Milne, George Storey, Alexander Duncan, Alexander Low and Alexander Duthie junior, all merchants in Aberdeen. (218r - 218v)
The Council approved the plan proposed by the Police Commissioners and numerous respectable gentlemen that the building area of the west side of St Nicholas Street between Correction Wynd and Schoolhill should be purchased by subscription from the Trustees for the Treasury creditors, in order to preserve the ornamental view of the church from St Nicholas Street. The Council instructed the Clerk to intimate to the Police Commissioners their support for the plan, though they were unable to contribute a subscription from the Kirk funds. (218v)
The Council refused the application from Mr James Knowles, Kirkton of Skene, requesting to purchase or feu the muir and marsh formerly attached to Wester Kirktown in the Parish of Skene, and now disjointed from it, lying between the south boundary of that lot and the old Echt Road; and the muir hill called the Gask, for the purpose of planting. The application was refused as a similar application by Mr Skene of Skene had previously been refused. (218v - 219r) |