| Description | COUNCIL REGISTER, VOLUME 71, FOLIOS 95r - 98r
Council meeting, 16 December 1824
[Sederunt given]
The Council allocated aid from the Poor's Fund to the following applicants:
Ralph Gordon, shipmaster in Aberdeen and Burgess - £8
Alexander Forbes, late stabler - £4
William Bisset, merchant in Aberdeen - £4
William Troup senior, merchant - £6
Robert Birnie, farmer - £6
Barbara Johnston or Adams, widow of Samuel Adams, sometime seedsman in Aberdeen and Burgess - £4
Helen Byres, widow of the late John Byres, dentist - two of Jane Guild's orphan bursaries of £3 each to two of her children
Alexander Smith, merchant - £2 for himself and a bursary of £4 for one of his children
Each of Margaret Watt and Agnes Watt, daughters of the late John Watt, sometime hosier in Aberdeen - £3
William Henderson, soap manufacturer in Aberdeen - £6
George Aiken, gardener - £4
Margaret McLaren, widow of John Mitchell - a £4 bursary for one of her children
The following pensioners were granted additional sums to their existing pensions from the Poor's Fund:
David Farquhar - £2
Alexander Mearns - £3, in all £6
Mrs Mowat - £2, in all £7
Mrs Garden - £2
Christian and Ann Cruickshank - 20 shillings each
Mrs Knox - a bursary of £4 for one of her children
Janet Craig, widow of the late Thomas Craig - a bursary of £3 for one of her children
Margaret Milne, widow of John Milne - £1
Mary Gill - £3
Mrs Farquhar - £1
The Council directed all other pensions from the Town's Funds to be continued unaltered.
(95r - 96r)
The Provost delivered a statement to the Council concerning the plan proposed by Provost Brown for a reduction of the interest rate upon the debt due by the Treasurer. The Directors of the Banking Company in Aberdeen had agreed to an accomodation of between £40,000 and £50,000 upon the Treasurer depositing with them bills or vouchers for the debts due to him by the Harbour Trustees and Trustees on the Stonehaven Turnpike Road, the former amounting to £42,462 4 shillings 10 pence, and the latter to £11,271 1 shilling 8 pence. The interest on the accomodation to be at the rate of four percent (rising to five percent should the Bank raise its interest). Notices had been placed in the newspapers and as a result several creditors intimated they would take payment of the sums due them, however, many wished their money to remain at four percent and others expressed a willingness to invest still further. It remained for the Council to sanction the measure and authorise the Treasurer and Shoremaster to sign the necessary documents. All which having been deliberated, the Council ratified the proceedings and empowered the Master of Shoreworks to grant a bill for the principal sum due by the Harbour Trustees to the Treasurer, and the Treasurer to borrow at four percent such moneys as may be required to retire all bonds or bills now due by him, (providing that the whole sums borrowed should not exceed the present Treasury debt), a statement of the sums borrowed to be reported to the Council. The Council remitted to the Standing Committee to adjust the money transactions with the Banking Company. (96r - 98r) |