| Description | Council meeting, 30 September 1813
[Sederunt given]
The Council resolved that members absent from Council meetings should pay 1 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. (9v)
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. (9v)
The Council agreed that the Act of Council of 21 September 1801 concerning the administration of the Town's public funds by the office bearers should not be read at the first meeting of Council as the office bearers' money transactions were being handled by the City Chamberlain. (9v - 10r)
The Council fixed the Visitation of the Public Schools to be held on 20 October 1813, and the competition for bursaries at Marischal College to be held on 25 October 1813. The Council appointed the following to be Visitors of the Public Schools for the year 1813 to 1814: the Provost, the four Baillies, the Dean of Guild, the Treasurer, Mr James Young and the Master of Mortifications; the Town's four 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. (10r - 10v)
The Council appointed a committee of the Provost, the four Baillies, the Dean of Guild and the Treasurer and Mr James Young, with the office bearers concerned, or any three of them, to consider the following matters of public business.
First, disposal of any feu duties belonging to the office bearers which had not been sold, in accordance with former Acts of Council.
Second, the processes before the Court of Session and the House of Lords: particularly, the appeal to the House of Lords by the Incorporation of Butchers relating to the weighing dues of tallow and rough fat, which had been remitted back to the Court of Session; and the appeal to the House of Lords by certain of the Incorporated Trades against the Court of Session's decision upholding the Town's right to increase the compositions paid by entering Craftsmen.
Third, disposal by public roup of the stances on either side of St Nicholas Street.
Fourth, consideration of whether to increase the compositions payable by entering Burgesses of Guild.
(10v - 11r)
The Council remitted to a committee of the Provost, Baillie Galen, the Dean of Guild, the Treasurer and Mr James Young, or any three of them, to meet with the committee appointed by the Commissioners of Supply in order to formulate a plan to obtain a new Court House and Jail. (11r)
The Council remitted to a committee of the Provost, Baillies Galen and Duncan, the Treasurer and Mr James Young, or any three of them, to meet with the committee appointed by the Commutation Trustees for Aberdeen District to discuss the unpaid interest on the funds advanced by the Town from the funds of the Bridges of Dee and Don to the Commutation Trustees. (11r - 11v) |