| Description | Council meeting, 21 September 1804
[Sederunt given]
The Council agreed to receive £100, in addition to the money already sunk with the Dean of Guild, from Misses Helen and Marjory Cruden, in order to support their brother, Mr George Cruden, who was in unfortunate circumstances. The Council authorised the Dean of Guild, to issue a bond for payment of an annuity of £5 each to Helen Cruden and Marjory Cruden during their lives, and if George Cruden survive either or both of them, the annuity payable to one or both of them was to be paid to him during his life. (164r - 164v)
The Council remitted to a committee of the magistrates the petition from George Henderson, Tacksman of the Town's Mills, suggesting the erection of a kiln in the Upper or Flour Mill House for less than £30. The Council directed the committee to procure a plan and estimate of the cost of a kiln. (164v)
The Council approved the report of Mr Johnston, Treasurer, on the sums of money borrowed for public purposes, particularly for formation of Union Street and King Street, and his grant of bonds to the following, for payment at five per cent interest:
William Sangster at Inverugie - £290
John Cruickshank in Balhagarty - £150
William Kennedy, advocate - £200
[No name given] Middleton - £70
[No name given] Wiseman - £60
Alexander Galen, merchant, in addition to £1,400 already borrowed from him - £100
Alexander Bisset in Mill of Inveramsay, in addition to £600 already borrowed from him - £50
David Greig in Portsoy - £240
The Master of Kirk and Bridge Works - £1,200
The Master of Mortifications - [no sum given]
The Dean of Guild - £140
Mary Cruickshank, in addition to £150 already borrowed from her - £40 (165r)
The Council remitted to the magistrates a process brought by James Mitchell, mason in Aberdeen against James Harper, mason in Aberdeen, respecting a little house or office house erected by James Harper adjoining the property of James Mitchell. (165r - 165v)
The Council resolved to provide an elegant silk standard, bearing the Town's Arms and motto, for the Corps of Volunteers for the Defence of the Country, which had been formed by 480 principal Burgesses and respectable inhabitants of Aberdeen. The Council directed the Lord Provost, Lieutenant Colonel Commandant of the Corps, to present the standard to the Corps, and to indicate the Council's wish that the Corps be called "The City of Aberdeen Volunteers". (165v - 166r) |