| Description | Council meeting, 27 September 1803
[Sederunt given]
The Council considered the report of the committee appointed to arrange the disposal of the lease of the part of the Lands of Muchals, as recommended by the Act of Council of 30 August 1803. Following valuation of the land by Baillies Shepherd and Galen, Mr David Morice, advocate, and Mr John Innes, surveyor, the committee recommended that the land be divided into six lots, as marked on Mr Innes' plan. Also that the meeting house or chapel, called the Slate Barn in Mr Troup's lease, should be let to its Managers, in order that the neighbourhood was not deprived of its place of worship. The Council recommended that the new Council should dispose of the lease, as planned, on 19 November 1803. (135v - 137r)
The Council considered the report of the committee appointed to discuss the application from Mr George Still for a piece of the Town's Commonty adjacent to his part of the Lands of Forresterhill, lying between the Lands of Hillton and the Lands of Forresterhill and immediately below that part of the Town's Commonty feued out to Sir William Johnston. The land included the road from Clerkseat to Middlefield, and the public road from Aberdeen via Kettybrowster to Starchfield, Cairncry and Newhills. The Council recommended that the new Council should sell the land by public roup, along with the piece of ground on the south side of the Bark Mill, which was previously used as dung lairs. (136r - 137r)
The Council ratified the report of the magistrates who were directed by the Act of Council of 19 March 1803 to consider the Dean of Guild Court's recommendation that the slaughter of cattle by butchers should be forbidden. The Council enacted that no butcher should be allowed to slaughter cattle in Aberdeen after 1 June 1804 in any place belonging to the Dean of Guild or to any office bearer, and butchers were warned to vacate their slaughter shops by 1 June 1804. (137r - 137v)
The Council recommended to the new Council to build a railing along the edge of the Town's Quay, eastward of the east end of Messrs William Forbes & Company's boat houses and opposite the Shorebrae and the houses possessed by Mr George Hogarth and Mr James Forbes, in order to prevent further loss of life from people falling off the pier during the night. (137v - 138r)
The Council approved the report of the committee appointed on 28 April 1803 to submit the Council's proposals for a new road from Love Lane to the River Don, and for a bridge over the River Don in the line laid down by Mr Abercrombie, engineer. The committee reported that the Annual General Meeting of the Aberdeenshire Turnpike Trustees had appointed a committee to liaise with the Council to present a Bill to Parliament to achieve their aims; that proprietors of land along the route had agreed to give up land without claim to value; and that application had been made to Parliament to present a bill in the ensuing session. The Council recommended to the new Council to promote the matter, in order to open access to King Street. (138r - 139r)
The Council directed the Clerk to proceed against the Town's vassals against whom decreets of non-entry had been raised, but who had still not taken out their entries. (139r)
The Council admitted three Burgesses of Guild and one Craftsman. [No names given.] (139r) |