| Description | Council meeting, 22 March 1817
[Sederunt given]
The Council postponed until 28 March 1817 consideration of a letter from Robert Harvey Esq of Braco, chairman of a committee of Burgesses rehearsing the resolutions of a meeting of Burgesses held on 13 March 1817. [Letter and resolutions engrossed.] The meeting of the Burgesses expressed their disappointment at the Provost's rejection of their request for access to the Index to the Council Registers; renewed the powers of their committee to gain information on the state and uses of the Guildry Funds; and affirmed their support of the magistrates' proposals to modify the sett of the Borough. Robert Harvey repeated the request for free access to the Index to the Council Registers, as the Index had been paid for from the public purse. (115r - 117v)
The Council granted an application from George Anderson junior, Master of the Trades Hospital, requesting permission to move the upright stones placed in the Bowl Road, near the canal bridge, to the east or to the corner of the dyke belonging to the Trades Hospital. The application was granted on condition that the work was completed to the satisfaction of Mr John Smith, the Town's Superintendent, and at the expence of the Trades Hospital. The Council also remitted to Mr John Smith inspection of the road from the Heading Hill to the new road laid out by Mr Corbet. (117v)
The Council empowered the Dean of Guild, the Master of Mortifications, the Master of the Guild Brethren's Hospital and the Master of Kirk and Bridge Works to subscribe the deed of accession to the trust disposition in favour of the trustees for the creditors of the Treasury. (117v - 118r)
The Council granted the application from Thomas Galloway, residing in Aberdeen, requesting to be admitted as a coal metter at the Shore, on condition that he found caution to the satisfaction of the magistrates. (118r)
The Council elected the following gentlemen to be Managers of the Poor's Hospital for the year ending Candlemas 1818: the Provost, magistrates and other members of the Town Council; Messrs Charles Walker and William Shepherd; Doctors Livingstone, Moir, Ogilvie and Dyce; Mr Niven; Mr Robert Garden; Messrs Thomas Bannerman, Thomas McCombie and William Smith, merchants; Rev Mr Dewar; Dr Dauney; Mr Carnegie; Messrs John Ross and John Knott, Teachers of Music and Convener Douglass. The Council resolved to pay [no sum given] to the Managers of the Poor's Hospital for the year ending Candlemas 1818. (118r - 118v) |