| Description | Letters received by clerk to Old Town Council of Stonehaven (separate to the Police Commissioners).
Many have pencil notes with directions to the council’s clerk. Letters 1879-1889 in sub-bundle.
Includes:
Letters re nomination of bailies by Lady Lansdowne (Dowager Marchioness and the feudal superior, granddaughter of George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith).
Request for uniform for Town’s Officer.
Offers and correspondence re. paving work.
Offers for pasture on Bervie Braes.
Interest payments from Harbour Treasurer.
Complaints from Chief Constable re. state of Bervie Braes.
Offers for removal of dung.
Water supply (including Bogwell), repair of streets, sewers.
Payment for curing stance from William Mather, St Monan’s Fife, and fishing stations from various.
Application from J.C. Watt to borrow historic records.
Notice from local authority of Dunnottar re. dung stance being a public nuisance, sewerage arrangements for Dunnottar school.
Letter from Sir G. Balfour re. Burgh Police Bill & potential to reform the town’s governance.
Letter from clerk to School Board re. Bogwell footpath & Dunnottar school.
Resignation of the keeper of the Burgh Clock & application from William Anderson (on headed paper).
Letter from agent to the Convention of Royal Burghs re. reform of Land Tax and historic arrangements for taxation in burghs of barony.
Application to boil oil at quarry from Alexander Stewart.
Reply from Home Secretary with Queen Victoria’s response to the town’s address on the fiftieth year of her reign.
Use of stone from Cowie estate for repair of roads.
Notice under the Public Health act re. nuisance in the High Street.
Letter from George Dalgarno’s oil factory.
Letter of resignation & application for street cleaner/scavenger.
Request for meeting from New Town Council re. proposed harbour of refuge.
Letter from Alexander Morgan complaining at being represented as an imposter rather than a feuar. |