| Description | Council meeting, 16 December 1816
[Sederunt given]
The Council allocated the Poor's Funds for 1817. The following allocations and additions to pensions were made.
Robert Weir, hosier in Aberdeen - £6
Christian Smith, widow of Charles McCombie, coal broker - £4
Janet Ledingham, widow of George Ledingham - £4
Elizabeth Glennie, daughter of Gilbert Glennie, merchant - £4
Charles Copland, merchant - £6
Ann Davidson, widow of William Naughten, maltster - £5
Grace Black, widow of James Hervie, merchant - £5
Isabella Gibbon, widow of Alexander Gibbon senior - £8
Jess Dalrymple, widow of Alexander Thomson, shipmaster - £4, and a bursary of £4 to her son
Nancy Scott, widow of James Allan, merchant - £2, and a bursary of £4 to her son
May Robertson, daughter of Ann Cruden - £2 5 shillings
Alexander Walker, for the children of Donald Sutherland - £3
Robert Jack, merchant in Stonehaven, for one year - £5
Catharine Simpson, widow of Peter Simpson - an additional £1
Barbara Shand, widow of John Shand - an additional £1
Catharine Lawson - an additional £1
Mary Silver - an additional £1
The Council remitted to the magistrates to determine from which Funds the different sums were to be paid, and to continue the pensions payable by them. The Council also remitted to the magistrates to consider any other petitions who appear to have no claim on the Town's Public Funds. (82v - 83v)
The Council admitted one Burgess of Guild. [No name given.] (83v) |