| Description | Council meeting, 2 July 1821
[Sederunt given]
The Council approved the report of the committee who had met with the Commutation Road Trustees for the Ninth or Aberdeen District to settle the Town's claim for advances made by the magistrates and the Master of Kirk and Bridge Works for the two new roads leading towards the Bridge of Dee and the Bridge of Don. The committee had agreed to a plan for annual payments of the interest and part of the principal to the Master of Kirk and Bridge Works until the debt, calculated to be £2,100 17 shillings 9 pence on 20 June 1821, was discharged. The Commutation Road Trustees had also endorsed the plan at their meeting on 29 June 1821. [Report of Commutation Road Trustees committee engrossed, giving details of financial plan.] (255v - 257r)
The Council remitted to the Standing Committee and the Master of Mortifications to consider a petition from Messrs James Cromar, Rector, and Alexander Nicol and James Melvin, Masters of the Grammar School, requesting that the quarterly fees of seven shillings six pence paid by the scholars should be increased to ten shillings six pence, excepting those scholars unable to pay additional charges owing to their circumstances. (257r)
The Council approved of the plan proposed by the Treasury Trustees to the division of the commonty of Whitemyres by Mr Peter Farquharson, advocate in Aberdeen, as the arbiter named by the feuars. The Council recommended to the Trustees to prevent the diversion of the water which ran alongside the commonty, as such a diversion might impair the Town's Mills. (257r - 257v)
The Council gave their consent to the Town's Trustees to raise an action of declarator against the heir-at-law and disponees of the late Provost William Young to enforce entry to the salmon fishings in the River Dee, which had belonged to him. (257v - 258r)
The Council elected Provost Gavin Hadden to be their Commissioner to the Convention of Royal Burghs to be held in Edinburgh on 10 July 1821, and elected Baillie Alexander Brown to be his Assessor. (258r) |