| Description | COUNCIL REGISTER, VOLUME 71, FOLIOS 21r - 22v
Council meeting, 28 October 1822
[Sederunt given]
Following the report of the Examinators of Competitors for Bursaries, the Council admitted the following to bursaries of four years duration at Marischal College; Thomas Monro, son of Charles Monro, writer in Stonehaven, George McKnight, son of William McKnight, farmer at Monymusk, and Nathaniel McKenzie, son of the late James McKenzie, land surveyor at Strathdon, each to one of Sir Thomas Crombie's bursaries of £9; John Galen, son of Baillie Alexander Galen, merchant in Aberdeen, to one of Mr James Cargill's bursaries of £9; Charles Still, son of Patrick Still, brewer in Hardgate and John Smith, son of Walter Smith, farmer at Lochaden, Banffshire, each to one of Katherine Rolland's bursaries of £9; Andrew Liddel, son of the Rev Francis Liddel residing in Aberdeen, to one of Dr Duncan Liddel's bursaries of £5; David Ker, son of William Ker at Glenbervie, to Mr James Milne's bursary of £5; James Innes, son of the deceased George innes, sometime shipmaster in Aberdeen, to Mr William Lorimer's bursary of £5. (21r - 21v)
The Council heard an application from Agnes Allan, relict of James Allan, sometime merchant in Aberdeen, representing that her present destitute state was as a result of educating her family and requesting that one of her sons be admitted to the vacant George Cruickshank bursary at the Grammar School. The Council granted her petition and admitted her son George Allan to the elementarian class at the Grammar School for the ordinary period of five years in place of Alexander Allan, another of her sons who had formerly enjoyed the same. The Master of Mortifications was instructed to deliver £5 yearly with the ordinary payment of £20 upon the expiry of the said space in terms of the mortification. (21v - 22r)
The Provost laid before the Council a letter from Joseph Hume, Member of Parliament for this District of Burghs, offering his services to the magistrates and Council. (22r)
The Council approved the magistrates' appointment of Robert Downie, journeyman shoemaker in Aberdeen, to the office of first Town Drummer in the upper district in place of William Rae who had left to be one of the four quarter Town Sergeants. (22r - 22v) |