| Description | Council meeting, 5 February 1802
[Sederunt given]
The Council presented the following to bursaries at Marischal College: John Kennedy to one of Dr Liddel's bursaries of £5 annually for two years, and John Morison to one of Sir Thomas Crombie's bursaries of £7 annually for one year, to replace George Fowler and James Leith who had left the College. (73v)
The Council remitted to a committee of the magistrates, the Dean of Guild and the Treasurer, or any three of them, the memoir from Alexander Crombie, advocate in Aberdeen, who had recently purchased the Craigwell Croft lying along the Denburn, requesting a settlement of the forty-year dispute between the Treasurer of Aberdeen and the proprietors of the croft, over the croft's boundaries. (73v - 74r)
The Council approved the report of the committee appointed to consider the lease to Andrew Jopp, advocate, of a piece of ground for a lime shed at the east end of the Shorelands, and directed the Treasurer to grant to him a lease for seven years of that piece of ground [measurements and description given] for the yearly rent of £6, on condition that the ground be vacated within six months notice, should it be required for harbour improvements, for formation of the Aberdeenshire canal or for any other public purpose. (74r - 74v)
The Council accepted the private offer from George More Esq of Raeden, merchant and late Provost of Aberdeen, for the feu of a piece of waste ground on the Town's Commonty lying at the top of the Stocket Brae, bounded by the Skene Road, the high road from Stocket Head to Cairncry and a road from the Middle Road and Forresterhill to Skene Road, for the yearly feu duty of £1 1 shilling, and a perpetual feu duty of 1 shilling annually to the Treasurer. (74v - 75r)
The Council agreed to the proposal from Hugh Hutcheon, advocate in Aberdeen, to construct a road at the Town's expense through the waste commonty lying immediately south of the Bark Mill, to connect with Mr Hutcheon's proposed road from the Gallowgate Head across his Lands of Broadford and Gilcomston to the highway leading from Skene's Square to the Bark Mill. (75r - 75v)
The Council ratified the report of the committee appointed to arrange the public roup of the Lands and Barony of Muchals, which stated that the lands had been bought for £20,000 by Alexander Crombie, advocate in Aberdeen, on behalf of George Silver Esq of Netherley. The Council directed John Young, Master of Mortifications, to grant a disposition of the lands to Alexander Crombie and George Silver. (75v - 76r)
The Council remitted to a committee of the magistrates, the Dean of Guild and the Treasurer, and Provost Dingwall, or any three of them, consideration of the petition from George Grub, hosier in Aberdeen, for permission to erect a wooden bridge across the common Loch to his ground and houses on the east side of George's Street. The Council also directed the committee to enforce the removal of encroachments on the loch, the aqueducts and the Mill Burn, identified in the committee report submitted to the Council on 28 August 1801, and to consider charging those who had erected bridges over the loch. (76r - 76v)
The Council remitted to the magistrates, the Dean of Guild and the Treasurer to arrange the roup of a three-year lease of the Shore and Weigh House dues, as the lease possessed by Robert Bruce was to expire in April 1802. (76v)
The Council agreed to defend the demand for customs on woollen cloth made by John Ross, Tacksman of the Petty Customs, in the case of William Raitt, merchant, and others, manufacturers of and dealers in cloth against the Council and John Ross. The Council directed Mr Innes, Town's Agent in Edinburgh, to employ Mr John Burnett, the Town's Ordinary Lawyer, and any other counsel he deemed necessary, to represent and defend the Council in the Court of Session. (76v - 77r)
The Council resolved to support James Farquhar Esq of Doctors Commons, Member of Parliament for the District of Burghs, as their candidate in the event of a General Election before the next annual election of the Council. [Letter of application engrossed]. The Council regretted that they could not support Keith Jopp Esq of London, who had also offered himself as a candidate for the District at the General Election. [Letter engrossed]. (77r - 78v) |