| Description | COUNCIL REGISTER, VOLUME 71, FOLIOS 53r - 56r
Council meeting, 2 July 1824
[Sederunt given]
The Provost laid before the Council a memorial by Mr Alexander Galen, merchant in Aberdeen, in the name of the Trustees of the deceased John Burnett Esq of Dens, sometime merchant in Aberdeen, offering funds for the following charitable purposes; the promotion of innoculation among the poor, the support of pauper lunatics, as well as continued financial assistance towards the cost of a chaplain to Aberdeen Prison, (Mr Thom being the current chaplain), and the Vaccine Institution [memorial engrossed]. The Council agreed to accept the charitable funds mentioned in the memorial and to place them under the charge of the Master of Mortifications. Mr Galen and the other Trustees were thanked by the Council for the mark of confidence they had shown in the administration and the care and attention shown to the funds. (53r - 54v)
The council remitted to the Standing Committee the sale by public roup in way of feu of the Croft of Nether Mill of Garlogie, situated in the Parish of Skene and belonging to the Dean of Guild, at £30 annual feu duty, upon condition that the purchaser pay £166 as the present value of what is conceived to be the interest of the Dean of Guild in the buildings now on the ground under the current lease. This sale was prompted by an application from Mr Thomas Black, druggist in Aberdeen, for a feu of a piece of the Croft with the waterfall currently held by him under a lease which expires in 1839. (55r)
The Council granted an application for a feu of two pieces of ground measuring about to acres, adjacent to the Church of Footdee, as laid out in a plan by Colin Innes, land surveyor, being part of the riggs or butts of land destined for the maintenance of the preacher at Footdee. The Council remitted to the Standing Committee the sale of the same at the rate of £32 per acre of annual feu duty. (55r - 55v)
Upon the motion of the Lord Provost the Council unanimously agreed to confer the Freedom of the Town upon Mr John Gibb, engineer, residing in Aberdeen, in consideration of his services to the magistrates, community and, most notably, the Harbour Trustees. Thereafter Mr Gibb was called into the Council and admitted as a Burgess of Guild with all the usual privileges. (55v - 56r)
The Council elected Provost Alexander Brown as Commissioner and Baillie James Milne as his Assessor to the Convention of Royal Burghs in Edinburgh on 13 July 1824. (56r)
The Council admitted four Burgesses of Guild. (56r) |