| Description | COUNCIL REGISTER, VOLUME 71, FOLIOS 130r - 132v
Council meeting, 20 February 1826
[Sederunt given]
The Provost reported to the Council that a measure had been proposed by the Government to alter the Scottish banking system, by suppressing the issue and circulation of bank notes under the value of £5, to the perceived detriment of the agricultural and manufacturing trades. The Council therefore resolved to petition both Houses of Parliament against any alteration to the current banking system in Scotland, the said petition to be subscribed by the Provost and forwarded to the Marquis of Huntly and the Honourable Captain Gordon, Member for the County, to be presented respectively to the House of Lords and Commons. (130r - 130v)
The Council remitted to the Standing Committee to consider the propriety of purchasing the whole or part of a small property in the Green belonging to the late George Watson, barber, now to the Infirmary of Aberdeen, as being a desirable site for the extension of the building areas on the south side of Union Street. (130v - 131r)
The Provost reported the sale by public roup in way of feu of a piece of ground measuring forty-four feet along the south side of Union Street, west from Dee Street, to Alexander Copland, advocate in Aberdeen at the yearly feu duty of seven shillings six pence per foot of front. He also reported the sale by public roup of a small piece of ground on the west side of the turnpike road leading from Union Place towards the Bridge of Dee and extending back along the Howburn and the road leading to Nellfield to Robert Morrice, advocate in Aberdeen, for £60. (131r - 131v)
The Provost further reported that the sale by public roup in way of feu of the Lands of Easter Carnie belonging to the Dean of Guild and the Mill and Lands of Buxburn, the former entered at £400 and the latter at £160 yearly feu duty, had produced no offers. (131v - 132r)
The Council admitted the following to vacant bursaries at Marischal College upon the Faculty's recommendations; John Munro to Sir Thomas Crombie's bursary of £9 for two years in place of William Cook who has left the College; James Anderson to another of Sir Thomas Crombie's bursaries of £9 for two years in place of John Ogilvie who has also left the College; Alexander Paterson to Dr Liddell's bursary of £5 for two years in place of Alexander Allan who has left the College; Daniel Brown to another of Dr Liddell's £5 bursaries for one year in place of Andrew Milne, who has left the College; William Donald to one of Cruden's £5 bursaries for three years in place of Alexander Balfour who has left the College. (132r - 132v) |