| Description | COUNCIL REGISTER, VOLUME 71, FOLIOS 78r - 80r
Council meeting, 29 September 1824
[Sederunt given]
Mr John Maitland qualified himself as a member of Council by swearing and signing the usual oaths. (78r)
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. (78r)
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. (78r - 78v)
The Council set 20 October 1824 for the Visitation of the Public Schools and 25 October 1824 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, Messrs Alexander Brown and Alexander Simpson, 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. (78v)
The Council appointed the Provost, four Baillies, Dean of Guild, Treasurer, Master of Shoreworks and Mr Alexander Brown, 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, in particular those items of business recommended for consideration by their predecessors in office:
First, to take all proper steps for removing the encroachments detailed in the report of the Perambulation of the Town's Inner marches by the Council on 30 August 1824.
Second, to carry into effect the plan to divide the Parish of St Nicholas into five separate parishes and for uncollegiating the East and West Churches under the sanction of the Court of Teinds.
Third, to revise the common indenture between the Guildry and Incorporations in 1587 and to procure a due observance by entering Craftsmen of the order therein contained.
Fourth, to endeavour with the Commission of the County to effect a change to the proposed site of a new jail from the Bridewell to behind the new Court House as well as to procure an addition to the Rogue Money Fund.
Fifth, to consider the application from the members of St John's Lodge of Aberdeen for the removal of a restriction contained in their charter, granted by the Town in 1757, respecting the front part of the Lodge.
(78v - 79v)
As a result of a recommendation from their predecessors in office, and having read a letter from Dr Brown, Principal of Marischal College respecting the insufficiency of the present College buildings, the Council resolved to support the application by the Professors for governmental aid to rebuild the College. (79v)
The Council approved of the proceedings on the part of the magistrates for effecting a reduction of the rate of interest payable on the Treasury debt. (79v - 80r)
James Grant, advocate in Aberdeen, was appointed to the office of Collector of Assessed Taxes within the Burgh for the year 1824 to 1825. (80r)
The Council admitted Charles Gordon, cooper, as a Craftsman. (80r) |