| Description | Council meeting, 2 October 1812
[Sederunt given]
The Council resolved to fine any Council member absent at a meeting the sum of 1 shilling and any member fifteen minutes late or more the sum of 6 pence. (236r)
The Clerk produced the record of the office bearers' tacks for inspection and the Council ordered the following Acts of Council to be observed; the Act of Council of 26 September 1791 against the prolongation of the tack or a feu of the Mill of Gilcomston to the Brewery Company; the Act of Council of 25 June 1798 prohibiting the granting of money from the Funds of the Bridges of Dee and Don except to roads in the vicinity of the Town; the Act of Council of 21 September 1801 respecting the management of the Town's business and prevention of abuses in the expenditure of monies. The Council remitted to the magistrates to examine which tacks were close to expiry. (236r - 236v)
The Council set 21 October 1812 for the Visitation of the Public Schools and 26 October 1812 for the competition for bursaries at Marischal College. Thereafter the Council elected the following gentlemen to be Visitors of the Schools: the Provost, four Baillies, Dean of Guild, Treasurer, Mr James Hadden, Messrs William Lumsden and Thomas McCombie and the Master of Mortifications, the four Town's Ministers and the Professors of the College. The Council also recommended to the magistrates the Act of Council of 31 October 1780 to secure a list of the vacant bursaries from the Managers of the Trades that they might be competed for at the same time. (236v)
The Council appointed a committee comprising the Provost, the four Baillies, the Dean of Guild, the Treasurer and Mr James Hadden, along with the respective office bearers, or any three of them, (the Provost to act as Convener), to attend to the following branches of the Town's business:
First, the sale and disposal of those feu duties belonging to the various office bearers which had not been bought in terms of former resolutions.
Second, the various processes before the Court of Session concerning the Town; the action of reduction at the instance of the magistrates and Council of the lease of the Shore Dues and Pack House Dues taken by Alexander More, merchant in Aberdeen, in 1808 and for repayment by him and Mr George More of profits gained by them in connection with this lease; the appeal by the Incorporation of Fleshers before the House of Lords but remitted back to the Court of Session with instructions to revise their several interlocutors complained of between the Council and the said Incorporation respecting the Weighing Dues of Tallow and Rough Fat; the appeal before the House of Lords at the instance of certain of the Incorporated Trades against the decision of the Court of Session in favour of the Town Council with respect their powers to increase the compositions paid by entering Craftsmen.
Third, the consideration of the sale of the stances on either side of St Nicholas Street and the propriety of feuing out a stance on the west side, being the corner stance on the west side of Schoolhill and Upperkirkgate the sale of which having been previously postponed.
Fourth, to investigate the present situation of the Teinds of the Salmon Fishings on the Water of Dee, the leases being expired.
(236v - 237v)
The Council admitted two Craftsmen. (237v) |