| Description | Council meeting, 26 February 1805
[Sederunt given]
Mr Brebner qualified as a member of Council by swearing the usual oaths. (183r)
The Council authorised Mr Hogarth, Master of Mortifications, on the advice of Mr Morice, to concur with the request from Mr Silver, purchaser of the Lands of Muchals, to issue a discharge of warrandice of rights granted over the Lands of Cowie, in security of the teinds of Muchals, to the representatives of Mr Foulerton, late of Galery. (183r - 183v)
The Council remitted to a committee of the Provost, the four Baillies, the Dean of Guild and the Treasurer, or any three of them, an application from Rev Mr Thomson, Minister of Footdee, requesting a feu of a rig or butt of land of part of the Glebe of Footdee lying between Garvock's Wynd and the houses belonging to William Wedderburn and others, in order to build a house and garden to accommodate his family. (183v - 184r)
The Council agreed to pay £70 out of several funds for the relief of the poor, to the Managers of the Poor's Hospital for the year ending Candlemas 1806. The Council elected Directors and Managers of the Poor's Hospital: the Provost, magistrates and other members of the Town Council; Baillies William Ritchie, Andrew Burnett, James Paull, William Shepherd, William Littlejohn, Peter Duguid and Robert Garden; Right Rev Bishop Skinner, Rev Mr John Bryce, Robert Doig, and James Shand; Sir Alexander Bannerman, Doctors Alexander Robertson, William Livingston, George French, William Robertson, William Dyce, James Moir, Charles Skene and Peter Grant, physicians; Mr William Fiddler; Mr Henderson of Caskieben; Mr Niven of Thornton; Mr Martin of Nellfield; Messrs Thomas Bannerman, James Davidson, Robert Lamb, Charles Walker and John Young, merchants; Mr Carnegie, Town Clerk; Mr Sheriff Morice; Convener Michie and Convener Leslie. (184r - 184v)
The Council accepted the resignation by Mr Robert Morice, advocate, as Agent for the Town before the Inferior Courts, as he was going abroad. The Council appointed Mr Duncan Davidson, advocate in Aberdeen, as Agent and Procurator for the Town before the Inferior Courts, in place of Robert Morice, for the annual salary of £40 Scots. (184v)
The Council remitted to a committee of the Provost, Baillies Farquharson and Galen, Mr Brebner, Mr Alexander Gibbon and Mr George Hogarth, or any three of them, the petition from certain proprietors of houses in the Shorelands requesting that the stagnated drain through their properties be removed, or that property owners be obliged to keep it clear. (184v - 185r)
The Council refused the petition from John Gordon of Murtle (on the advice of Mr David Morice) which requested that the charter to be granted to him for the Lands of the Milltown of Murtle and the salmon fishings of Murtle, contain absolute warrandice on the fishings, rather than by the terms of fact and deed only, under which he had bought the property in August 1797. (185r - 185v)
The Council remitted to a committee of the magistrates, Mr Brebner and the Shoremaster, or any three of them, the petition from certain owners of ships belonging to the Port of Aberdeen, requesting removal of the sand, mud and shingle which had collected in the harbour between the jetty nearly opposite to John McKenzie's and Marischal Street, thereby preventing vessels from reaching the Old Quay, except in high stream tides. (185v)
The Council recommended to the Shoremaster to repair part of the Quay opposite the Lime Sheds, before the start of the lime season. (185v)
The Council considered the petition of Provost William Young, concerning the boundary of the lot of ground in the Shorelands feued to him on 27 March 1793, which lay to the north of the new public road from the Town's Quay to Garvock's Wynd. The Council resolved that no buildings should be built on the ground between the new road and the Town's Quay, in order that Provost Young had free access to the Quay, in terms of his disposition. (186r) |