| Description | COUNCIL REGISTER, VOLUME 71, FOLIOS 22v - 25v
Council meeting, 6 November 1822
[Sederunt given]
The Provost laid before the Council an application from Mr Carnegie, Secretary of the Water Committee, for a sum of money to enable the surveys and estimates of the plan embraced in the report of the Committee to be effected. The Council, along with the Board of Police, approved and agreed to advance to the said Water Committee such monies as may be required to carry out the surveys and plans, but not exceeding the sum of £200 and upon the condition that it be repaid with interest out of the funds which would be raised under any Act of Parliament that might in the future be obtained. (22v - 23r)
Mr Hardie, the Chamberlain, laid before the Council certain correspondence between himself, Mr Wilson, the Solicitor of Taxes in Edinburgh and Mr John Ewing, advocate, the agent for the representatives of the late Mr William Copland, sometime Collector of Taxes in this City, regarding an arrear of Land Tax due for Aberdeen for the year ending 25 March 1821 amounting to £526 10 shillings. An immediate remittance to the Receiver General was requested, or Mr Wilson would resort to the Court of Exchequer to recover the debt owed the Crown. The Council decided to empower the Chamberlain to advance and remit the said arrear of Land Tax upon condition that the Town's office bearers, from whose funds the same may be advanced, shall rank upon the Treasury funds for an equal amount in place of Mr Copland's representatives to whom a much larger sum is understood to be due on account of taxes advanced by Mr Copland when Collector prior to 1817. (23r - 24r)
There was a further representation by the Chamberlain respecting a sum of money advanced by Dallas & Innes, Writers to the Signet, on account of the Dean of Guild and his dealings in July 1816 with John Low Esq of Hilton and the lease of Millbowies, part of the Lands of Skene purchased from Andrew Davidson, advocate in Aberdeen [details of case given]. Upon consideration of the facts the Council empowered the Dean of Guild to settle the account due Dallas & Innes to the extent of £300, with interest from the time of the advance. (24r - 24v)
The Council appointed the Dean of Guild's Assessors for the year Michaelmas 1822 to Michaelmas 1823: Baillie John Young, Baillie Robert Brown, Messrs James Brebner, late Dean of Guild, Gavin Hadden, Alexander Galen, Robert Garden, Alexander Hadden, George Thomson, John Whyte, Robert Catto, James Milne and William Davidson, all merchants in Aberdeen. (24v)
The Council appointed the Taxers and Stent Masters for the year Martinmas 1822 to Martinmas 1823: Alexander Stewart and Alexander Duthie junior, two of the present Baillies; William Johnston, Dean of Guild; George Thomson, Treasurer; Messrs Robert Walker, James Brebner, Robert Duthie, Alexander Duncan junior, William Leslie, Robert Catto, William Mackie, John Maitland, William Pirie, John Lumsden, William Catto and Alexander Dalgarno, all merchants; David Hutcheon and Robert Morice, advocates; Deacons Thomas Baird, coppersmith and George Michie, cooper, the two Trades councillors.
The Council directed the Taxers and Stent Masters to raise the following sums: £526 10 shillings for the King's Subsidy; £151 13 shillings 2 pence for the Missive Dues and expenses incurred by the Commissioners to the Convention of Royal Burghs. (24v - 25v) |