| Description | COUNCIL REGISTER, VOLUME 71, FOLIOS 19r - 21r
Council meeting, 3 October 1822
[Sederunt given]
The Council resolved to fine any Council member absent at a meeting the sum of 1 shilling and any member fifteen minutes late or more the sum of 6 pence. (19r - 19v)
The Clerk produced the record of the office bearers' tacks for inspection and the Council ordered the following Acts of Council to be observed; the Act of Council of 26 September 1791 against the prolongation of the tack or a feu of the Mill of Gilcomston to the Brewery Company; the Act of Council of 25 June 1798 prohibiting the granting of money from the Funds of the Bridges of Dee and Don except to roads in the vicinity of the Town. The Council remitted to the magistrates to examine which tacks were close to expiry. (19v)
The Council set 23 October 1822 for the Visitation of the Public Schools and 28 October 1822 for the competition for bursaries at Marischal College. Thereafter the Council elected the following gentlemen to be Visitors of the Schools: the Provost, four Baillies, Dean of Guild, Treasurer, Master of Mortifications, the four Town's Ministers and the Professors of the College. The Council also recommended to the magistrates the Act of Council of 31 October 1780 to secure a list of the vacant bursaries from the Managers of the Trades that they might be competed for at the same time. (19v - 20r)
The Council appointed the Provost, four Baillies, Dean of Guild, Treasurer, Mr Gavin Hadden and the Master of Shoreworks along with the various office bearers concerned, or any five of them, (the Provost to be Convener) as a Standing Committee to attend to the various branches of the Town's business. (20r)
James Grant, advocate in Aberdeen, was appointed to the office of Collector of Assessed Taxes within the Burgh for the year 1822 to 1823. (20r)
The Provost reported that on 29 September 1822 the remains of the late John Forbes Esq of New, who had died sometime ago in London, were brought to the City on the way to the family burial place at Strathdon, accompanied by his nephews Charles Forbes Esq, Member of Parliament, and Michie Forbes Esq of Crimond. In order to testify to the high esteem in which he was held, particularly with regard to his benefactions to the Lunatic Asylum and the Infirmary, the body lay in state in the Town Hall until 2 October 1822. A reception was held for the family and around 300 gentlemen comprising the Principals and Professors of both Colleges, the Managers of the Lunatic Asylum and the Infirmary, along with many of the Burgesses and citizens of New and Old Aberdeen. From the Town House, the body was accompanied to the south end of Union Place, the Incorporations of the City joining the procession in Castle Street. Of which mark of respect the Council approved. (20r - 21r) |