| Description | COUNCIL REGISTER, VOLUME 71, FOLIOS 43v - 46v
Council meeting, 1 April 1824
[Sederunt given]
Hugh Lumsden Esq of Pitcaple, advocate and Ruling Elder, was elected to represent the City of Aberdeen as its Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in Edinburgh on 20 May 1824. (43v - 44r)
The Council agreed a donation of [no sum given] to the Managers of the Poor's Hospital and elected the following directors for the year ending Candlemas 1825; the Provost, magistrates and other members of the Town Council; Messrs Charles Walker, Alexander Stewart, William Davidson, William Stratton, David Chalmers, the Rev Mr Tawse, Mr Carnegie, Town Clerk, Mr Hardie, Town Clerk Depute, Drs Dyce and Davidson and Mr George Anderson, tailor and Master of the Trades Hospital. (44r - 44v)
The Provost reported that the Standing Committee charged with feuing out of the Lands of Wester Cairney in the Parish of Skene belonging to the Dean of Guild had advertised them, including the Hill of Gask, for sale by public roup in different lots of various sizes. The Council approved this and also the proposed annual feu duty of £260 and victual feu duty of £90, excluding the victual stipend due the Minister of Skene [details given]. (44v - 45r)
Miss Jane Hogg's resignation from the office of Sewing Mistress and Teacher of Needlework in this City was presented to the Council leaving the post and Lady Rothiemay's mortification vacant. In her place the Council appointed Miss Jane Gibbon, residenter in Aberdeen and daughter of the late Mr William Gibbon junior, sometime shipmaster, who had applied for the post on account of her having been a teacher of a seminary for eleven years and being a native of Aberdeen. (45r - 45v)
The Council granted the application from Mr James Johnston, banker, as convener of a committee of subscribers for erecting a monument to the memory of the late Professor William Duncan, requesting permission to erect a marble tablet on the inside wall of the West Church free of any sum in name of compensation. (45v - 46r)
The Provost laid before the Council an application from George Hogarth junior as Chairman of the Directors of the Aberdeen Gas Light Company requesting permission (already given by the Board of Police) to open various public streets, squares, lanes and courts for the purpose of laying and repairing mains and branch pipes where required. The Council granted the said application on condition that the Gas Company be responsible for returning the streets to the same state of repair they find them in, that the pipes do not damage the sewers and that the operations be subject to inspection by the Superintendent of the Town's Public Works. (46r - 46v)
The Council admitted Mr Gavin Hadden junior and seven other Burgesses of Guild. (46v) |