| Description | Council meeting, 2 September 1813
[Sederunt given]
The Council approved the report of the committee appointed to conduct the process of reduction and damages against Messrs George and Alexander More, merchants in Aberdeen, then pending in the Court of Session. The committee agreed to the proposal that Messrs More should give up their claim for expenses, if the Council relinquished the process and allowed the deposition of Mr Alexander Ritchie, merchant in Aberdeen, to be printed. The proposal had the approval of Mr Andrew Skene, advocate, the Council's counsel at Edinburgh, and of Dr Dauney, City Assessor. The Council resolved not to proceed farther in the action against the Messrs More.
The Council authorised the Master of Shoreworks to execute a prorogation of the submission to Mr James Calder, merchant in Aberdeen, made between the Shoremaster and Alexander More, Tacksman of the Shore Dues, on 9 June 1810, regarding the profits of the last year of Alexander More's lease of the Shore Dues, as the submission had expired without a decision.
The Council resolved to enter into a submission with Alexander More to the Sheriff Depute of Aberdeenshire, or to any other agreed by Alexander More and the Harbour Committee, as sole arbiter to retrieve the balance of the two first years rents of the Shore Dues.
(5r - 6r)
The Council approved the disposition, granted by the President and Governors of Robert Gordon's Hospital in favour of the Treasurer of Aberdeen, of a piece of ground in Robert Gordon's Hospital garden to be used to extend the public Grammar School. The Governors had agreed not to erect a building within twelve feet of the ground, if the Treasurer paid an additional annual feu duty of three firlots of bear. (6r - 6v)
The Council admitted three Craftsmen. [No names given.] (6v) |