| Description | Council meeting, 14 August 1802
[Sederunt given]
The Council approved the declaration by the magistrates of the Town's exclusive rights to the roads and stones from the quarries on the Lands of Rubislaw, made when the Lands of Rubislaw, including the quarries, were exposed to public roup by Mr Skene on 3 August 1802. The Council refused the proposal from Mr Henry Jardine, Writer to the Signet then in Aberdeen, who was charged with conducting the sale of the lands of Rubislaw, for an independent arbiter to decide the question of who owned the rights to the Rubislaw quarries. The Council remitted to a committee of the magistrates, the Dean of Guild and the Treasurer, Provost Dingwall and Provost Leys and Baillie Murray, or any three of them, to investigate the titles to the lands of Rubislaw and to the other Freedom lands, and to make a statement on the nature and extent of mosses or quarries reserved in the Town's favour. (91r - 92r)
The Treasurer reported that James Gibbon, shipmaster, had agreed to comply with the Act of the Council of 2 August 1802 terminating his lease of the piece of ground within the flood mark adjacent to his building yard at Footdee. (92r) |