| Description | Council meeting, 28 March 1821
[Sederunt given]
The Council directed the office bearers to attend the meeting of the creditors of the Treasury on 30 March 1821, which had been called to decide whether to continue the Trust for a further period, and empowered them to concur in the measures proposed. The Council also empowered Baillie Alexander Brown to represent the Master of Kirk and Bridge Works, who was in London. (250v)
The Council appointed Hugh Lumsden Esq of Pitcaple, advocate, Ruling Elder, to be their Commissioner to the next General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, to be held in Edinburgh on 17 May 1821, being satisfied of his qualifications for the commission. (250v - 251r)
The Council elected the following gentlemen to be Managers of the Poor's Hospital for the year ending Candlemas 1822: the Provost, magistrates and other members of the Town Council; Messrs Alexander Galen and Robert Walker; Doctors Davidson, Ogilvie, Moir and Dyce; Mr John Niven; Mr Robert Garden; Mr Thomas McCombie and Mr William Smith, merchants; Mr David Chalmers; Rev Mr Tawse; Mr Carnegie, Town Clerk; Mr Hardie, Town Clerk Depute; Mr John Ross, organist, and Mr George Anderson, tailor. The Council agreed to pay [no sum stated] out of several funds for the relief of the poor, to the Managers of the Poor's Hospital for the year ending Candlemas 1822. (251r - 251v)
The Council approved the sale by public roup of a three-year lease of the room below the Townhouse, which was formerly used as a taxation office and was to be converted into a shop, for £66 yearly rent to Alexander Webster, advocate in Aberdeen, on behalf of Mr Charles Jamieson, watchmaker in London. William Jamieson, goldsmith in Aberdeen, brother of Mr Charles Jamieson, had accepted the purchase of the lease on his brother's behalf. (251v - 252r)
The Council awarded William Hodghston, student in the semi class, one of Catharine Rolland's bursaries of £8 for two years, on the recommendation of the Faculty of Marischal College, in place of James Gibb, who had left the College. (252r)
The Council admitted John Smith and Thomas McLean as Burgesses of Guild. (252r) |