| Description | Council meeting, 6 October 1820
[Sederunt given]
Alexander Duncan, William Duguid and George Davidson qualified as members of Council by swearing and signing the usual oaths, and George Davidson took his oath de fideli administratione officii as Master of the Guild Brethren's Hospital of the Burgh. (232r)
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. (232r - 232v)
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. (232v)
The Council fixed the Visitation of the Public Schools to be held on 25 October 1820, and the competition for bursaries at Marischal College to be held on 30 October 1820. The Council appointed the following to be Visitors of the Public Schools for the year 1820 to 1821: the Provost, the four Baillies, the Dean of Guild, 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. (232v - 233r)
The Council appointed the Standing Committee of the Provost, the four Baillies, the Dean of Guild and the Treasurer, the Master of Shoreworks and Mr Alexander Brebner, with the office bearers concerned, or any five of them, to attend to the branches of public business. (233r)
The Council appointed William Copland, advocate in Aberdeen, as Collector of the duties on houses, windows or lights, and other assessed taxes in the Burgh of Aberdeen from 24 May 1820 to 25 May 1821. (233r)
The Council remitted to a committee of Baillie Milne, the Dean of Guild and the Treasurer, Messrs William Duguid and James Hadden junior and Deacon Milne, or any three of them, to inspect the Town's Loch and the watercourses and aqueducts leading to and from the Town's Mills and to have any encroachments removed. (233r)
The Council remitted to the Standing Committee to advertise the sale of lairs in the churchyard's new ground on the north side of Union Street, purchased on behalf of the Master of Kirk and Bridge Work, in accordance with the plan drawn up by Mr Smith. (233v)
The Council admitted one Trades Burgess. [No name given.] (233v) |