| Description | COUNCIL REGISTER, VOLUME 71, FOLIOS 225v - 227r
Council meeting, 19 December 1827
[Sederunt given]
The Council allocated aid from the Poor's Fund to the following applicants:
Charles Walker, merchant in Aberdeen and late Baillie - £10
John Bisset, merchant - £6
Marianus Massie, merchant - £6
John Walker, merchant - £5
Charles Reid, merchant - £5
John Webster, mason - £4
Mrs Collison, widow of Baillie John Collison - £8
Agnes Gray, widow of George Gray - £4
Mrs McConnachie, widow of Alexander McConnachie, shoemaker - £3
Mrs Low, widow of David Low, auctioneer - £3 bursary for one of her children
Helen Wright, widow of John Elphinston, ropemaker - £4 bursary
Margaret Christie, widow of Robert Spark - £4
Ann Gill, widow of John Gill, merchant - £5
Widow Connon, daughter of Andrew Davidson, Burgess of Guild - £4 bursary for one of her children and £1 for herself
Jane Burnett, daughter of John Burnett, bookseller - £4
Janet Aitken, widow of William Duguid, manufacturer - £3 orphan's bursary for each of her children
Mrs Mearns, widow of Alexander Mearns, soap boiler - £5
The following pensioners were granted additional sums to their existing pensions from the Poor's Fund:
Mrs Kerr, widow of Dr Kerr and daughter of John Pirie, merchant - £1
Alexander Smith, mason - £1
Andrew Park, mason - £1
Mrs Allan, widow of James Allan - £3
John May, mason - £1
John Chrystall, late merchant - £1
Robert Spalding residing at Rubislaw - £5
Elizabeth Dunbar, widow of Peter Walker - £4
Valentine Downes, late leather merchant - £4
Mrs Ross, widow of James Ross - £4
The Council directed all other pensions from the Town's Funds to be continued unaltered.
(225v - 226v)
The Council authorised Andrew Duncan, the Treasurer, to receive from Mr William Mackie, the Master of Shoreworks, a renewed bill or promissory note for the principal sum due by the Harbour Trustees and to endorse and deposit the same with the cashier of the Aberdeen Banking Company in lieu of the former bill. (226v)
The Council authorised the Treasurer to borrow such sums of money as may be required at the ensuing term for paying off any of the Town's creditors. (227r) |