| Description | Council meeting, 14 October 1803
[Sederunt given]
The Council approved the "Plan of the Institution for the Innoculation of the Vaccine or Cow Pock", as commissioned by the Act of Council of 5 October 1803. The plan recommended that the medical gentlemen who formulated the plan should perform all medical tasks for free, with the help of a salaried young doctor; that the committee room of the Poor's Hospital be used for innoculation; that the fund under the management of the trustees of the late Mr John Burnett be applied for the use of the institution; and that subscribers of 10 guineas to the funds should be managers for life. The plan recommended the management of the institution should be vested in the following gentlemen: the Provost, to act as Governor; the four Baillies; the Dean of Guild; the Treasurer; the Clergy; the trustees of the late John Burnett Esq; the Convener of the Trades; the President of the Society of Advocates; the President of the Society of Shipmasters; Sir Alexander Bannerman, Doctors Alexander Robertson, William Livingston, George French, Peter Grant, William Robertson, James Moir, James Bannerman, Charles Skene and William Dyce, physicians in Aberdeen; and six gentlemen to be elected annually. (145r - 147r)
The Council appointed the Taxers and Stent Masters: Thomas McCombie and George Tower, two of the present Baillies; John Young, Dean of Guild, William Johnston, Treasurer, Alexander Brebner, late Dean of Guild, Alexander Fraser, late Treasurer, Baillie Alexander Galen, Baillie Peter Duguid, Baillie William Lumsden, Baillie Walter Sime, Messrs Gavin Hadden, James Mackie, James Young junior and George Thomson, all merchants in Aberdeen, Messrs William Kennedy and Robert Morice, advocates in Aberdeen, Convener John Leslie, goldsmith, and Deacon George Laurence, weaver, Trades councillors. The Council directed the Taxers and Stent Masters to raise the following sums: £487 6 shillings 4 pence for the King's Subsidy for the year Martinmas 1802 to Martinmas 1803; £152 17 shillings 5 pence 8/12 for the Town's Eque, Missive Dues and expenses incurred by the Commissioners to the Convention of Royal Burghs for the year ending July 1803, in terms of the Act of Council of 1 October 1800; minus the £3 1 shilling 9 pence 7/12 received as the balance from the previous year's taxation. (147r - 148r)
The Council remitted to a committee of the Provost, the four Baillies, the Dean of Guild, the Treasurer and the Shoremaster, with Mr Mackie, late Shoremaster, or any five of them, purchase of any houses and grounds adjacent to the harbour, and within the limits prescribed by the Act of Parliament 37 GEO. III, necessary for completing the works specified in the Act of Parliament. (148r)
The Council remitted to a committee of the magistrates, the Dean of Guild and the Treasurer, erection of a railing along the Town's Quay opposite the Shore Brae, as recommended by the Old Council. (148r - 148v)
The Council remitted to a committee of Baillies Shepherd and Lumsden and the Dean of Guild, inspection of the road from Lindsay's Folly on the south side of the Spittal Hill to the Gallow Hill, as it had been reported that tenants of neighbouring ground had encroached on the road. (148v)
The Council remitted to a committee of the magistrates, the Dean of Guild and the Treasurer, or any three of them, settlement of the legal process between the Dean of Guild and William Knowles, wright, concerning the new turnpike road passing though his lot of the Lands of Easter Skene towards Alford. (148v) |