| Description | Council meeting, 24 March 1810
[Sederunt given]
The Provost reported to the Council that he had received a letter through Mr Farquhar, Member of Parliament for the District of Aberdeen, from Mr Charles Arbuthnot, Secretary to the Treasury, confirming the appointment of Mr James Lamond to the office of Surveyor of Taxes for the County of Aberdeen, in place of his uncle, the late Mr Charles Farquharson [Mr Arbuthnot's letter engrossed]. (138v - 139r)
The Council agreed a donation of £58 to the Managers of the Poor's Hospital and elected the following directors for the year ending Candlemas 1811; the Provost, magistrates and other members of the Town Council; Baillie Galen; Bishop Skinner; the Rev Mr Bryce, the Rev Mr Doig and the Rev Mr Cordiner; Sir Alexander Bannerman; Doctors Livingston, Dyce, Moir, Skene and Ogilvie; Mr John Donald, Mr Niven of Thornton, Mr Martin of Nellfield; Dr Dauney; Messrs Thomas Bannerman, James Davidson, Robert Lamb, Charles Walker and William Smith, all merchants; Mr Carnegie, Town Clerk and Convener David Reid, wright. (139r - 139v)
The Council agreed to accede to the final resolutions of the Proprietors of the Raik and Stell Fishings concerning the proposed Harbour Improvements, [resolutions detailed], and instructed the Harbour Committee to introduce these same into the Harbour Bill. It was also agreed to insert an indemnity clause into the Harbour Bill guaranteeing the Proprietors of the Upper Heritors of Salmon Fishings on the River Dee against damage. (139v - 142r)
The Council requested Provost Hadden to go to London to attend the progress of the Harbour Bill through Parliament, in particular through the forthcoming committee stage, and authorised him to agree to any amendments as may prove expedient. (142r - 142v)
The Council remitted to the Harbour Committee the consideration of the memorial received from Mr William Dingwall Fordyce, advocate, on behalf of George Mole & Company, owners of the Lands of Clayhills, representing that the proposed Harbour Improvements would restrict the passage of barges and lighters and requesting that a lock be built at the upper end of the Wet Dock to give access to their property. (142v) |