| Description | Council meeting, 28 August 1801
[Sederunt given]
The Council admitted nineteen Burgesses of Guild. [No names given]. (46v)
The Council remitted to a committee of the Provost and Baillies, the Dean of Guild and Treasurer, Provost More, Provost Leys, Mr Alexander Brebner, Mr Gavin Hadden, the two Trades councillors and the Clerks, the Act of the Guild Court recommending to the Council that the composition paid by Trades Burgesses to the Dean of Guild on entry to the Guildry should be increased. The committee was directed to examine the size of compositions paid then and for the previous 160 years. (46v - 47r)
The Council approved the report of the committee appointed to consider disposal of the feu duties, and resolved to sell the feu duties and casualties of Whitemyres, Gilcomston, South Kinmundy, North Kinmundy and Boddoms and the feu duties of lands held burgage [refers to the list of feu duties submitted to the Council on 1 August 1801]. (47r - 47v)
The Council remitted to the magistrates to dispose of the following lands by feu: a piece of ground near to Barkmill, used as a midden lair; uncultivated land called the Bonny muir, opposite Mrs Duthie's house of Burnside; and a piece of ground at the head of the Stocket, immediately west of the cross road leading to Cairncry. (47v - 48r)
The Council remitted to the magistrates the application from John Catto, merchant in Aberdeen, for a lease of ground east of the rope and sail work occupied by George Tower & Company, for the erection of a rope and sail factory. (48r)
The Council approved the report of the committee appointed to inspect the encroachments on the Town's loch and the water courses, and remitted to the magistrates to remove the following encroachments, as specified in the report:
a mill wheel on the mill burn opposite the dye house of Robert Machray, dyer in Gilcomston;
a mill wheel in the dye house of James Middleton, dyer at Steps of Gilcomston;
a pump for conveying water from the burn into the malt house of George Annand & Company;
a mill wheel opposite the factory house of Alexander Dingwall, merchant (granted by Act of Council);
pipes for conveying water from the loch into the factory houses of Alexander Ogston (granted by Act of Council), Charles Baird, Provost Dingwall, Francis Balfour, dyer, William Hector, skinner, and Messrs Gilbert More & Sons;
five pipes into the tanyard of George Adam & Company;
four pipes over the loch erected by Provost Dingwall, Charles Baird, James Staats Forbes and [no name given];
an ash house, office house and indigo mill over the Mill Burn - Charles Farquharson;
two small houses over the burn - Mr John Ross, organist;
an ash house, hen house and three office houses over the burn - Mr John Annand, merchant;
an office house over the burn - Baillie George Adam (granted by Act of Council);
a mill wheel - Mr James Davidson, manufacturer;
a place for holding ashes and a spout for conveying soap lees - Alexander Mearns, merchant;
a door to the burn - John Lamb, dyer;
office houses over the burn belonging to the Dyer Society, the Seceder Society, Provost Young, Strachan & Scott, Leys Masson & Co, Robert Birnie & Company and John Lamb, wright (John Lamb's house granted by Act of Council);
buildings belonging to different person on the grass bank on the west side of the loch.
The Council also remitted to the magistrates to take action over the pollution of the Denburn from the washing and scrubbing of sheep skins by Convener Mackie; and the pollution of the Town's loch by refuse of dye stuffs from factories belonging to Alexander Dingwall, Milne Cruden & Company and James McIntosh. (48r - 49r) |