| Description | Council meeting, 4 October 1806
[Sederunt given]
The Council resolved that members absent from Council meetings should pay a fine of 1 shilling for each absence, and that members who were more than fifteen minutes late for meetings should pay a fine of 6 pence, to be applied at the direction of the Council. (250v)
The Council appointed the following Acts of Council to be observed: the Act of 26 September 1791 against granting a prolongation of the tack or a feu of the Mill of Gilcomston to the Brewery Company; the Act of 25 June 1798 prohibiting the grant of money from the funds of the Bridge of Dee and the Bridge of Don, except for roads in the vicinity of the Town; and the Act of 21 September 1801 concerning the administration of the Town's public funds by the office bearers. The Council remitted to the magistrates to examine which tacks were close to expiry. (250v - 251r)
The Council fixed the Visitation of the Public Schools to be held on 22 October 1806, and the competition for bursaries at Marischal College to be held on 27 October 1806. The Council appointed the following to be Visitors of the Public Schools for the year 1806 to 1807: the Provost, the four Baillies, the Dean of Guild, the Treasurer and the Master of Mortifications; Provosts Young, More, Leys and Hadden; the four Town's Ministers and the Professors of the College, and any other person called by the magistrates. The Council directed the magistrates to procure from the managers of the Trades, a list of vacant bursaries under their patronage, in accordance with the Act of Council of 31 October 1780, in order that they could be allocated along with the Town's bursaries and the College's bursaries. (251r - 251v)
The Council remitted to a committee of the Provost, the four Baillies, the Dean of Guild, the Treasurer and Provost More, with the office bearers concerned, or any three of them, the following matters of public business:
First, the report by Mr Colin Innes, land surveyor, and the late Mr David Morice, advocate, concerning the mosses and quarries on the Freedom Lands, which were reserved to the Town.
Second, the state of the Harbour and the Piers, particularly the best method of deepening the Navigation Channel or Burn.
Third, the purchase of houses in and near the village of Footdee, situated within the bounds of the harbour improvements, and included in the Act of Parliament 37 GEO. III.
Fourth, completion of the survey by Mr Fletcher of the marches between the Freedom Lands and the County Lands; and commission of a survey of the marches between the Royalty and the Freedom Lands.
Fifth, disposal of any feu duties belonging to the office bearers which had not been sold, in accordance with former Acts of Council, particularly the Act of Council of 5 October 1803.
Sixth, the processes involving the Town before the Court of Session, particularly the following processes: the process with Fraserfield concerning the Shore Dues in the Don; the process of declarator of non- entry against Mr Burnett of Countesswells; the action brought by Robert Caie and other concerning the wood cast ashore at Stonehaven in December 1805; the process of declarator brought by the Incorporated Trades concerning the compositions payable by entering craftsmen; and the processes brought by Harrison & Company and Garden & Farquharson & Company against the Shoremaster and John Rae, concerning the damage sustained in the Harbour by the Henry of Sunderland.
Seventh, the application from James Staats Forbes and others for permission to erect two bridges across the Town's Loch in the line of St Andrew's Street and John Street.
Eighth, the application from certain pilots in Footdee requesting provision of houses near the North Pier.
Ninth, measures for ascertaining the Council's right over the ground advertised for feu by Mr Menzies of Pitfodels.
Tenth, planting and enclosing the Hill of Gask in the Parish of Skene, belonging to the Dean of Guild.
Eleventh, investigation into whether any quarries, which were reserved to the Town, had been opened on the Freedom Lands, particularly on the Lands of Northfield belonging to Mr Forbes of Seaton, in terms of the Act of Council of 18 June 1806.
Twelfth, the recommendation by the old Council to apply to the Police Commissioners to obtain a valuation under the Police Act of certain properties in the line of the new street between Union Street and Tannerie Street.
(251v - 252v)
The Council authorised the Dean of Guild, the Treasurer, the Master of Kirk and Bridge Works and the Master of Mortifications to enter into submissions with the New Streets Trustees to ascertain the value of their properties in the line of the new streets. (252v - 253r)
The Council fixed 14 October 1806 for the usual half-yearly visitation of the Harbour and the Piers. (253r)
The Council remitted to a committee of the magistrates, the Dean of Guild, the Treasurer and Provost More, or any three of them, the memoir from Alexander Raitt, son and heir of the late William Raitt, concerning the composition for an entry to the Lands of Barkmill, and for the purchase of a piece of the Town's Commonty adjacent to the Lands of Barkmill. (253r)
The Council admitted four Burgesses of Guild. [No names given.] (253r) |