| Description | Council meeting, 31 January 1821
[Sederunt given]
The Council approved the two proposals made by the magistrates to the committee appointed by the County Turnpike Trustees to frame a new Turnpike Act, regarding a grant from the Bridge of Don funds. The County committee had proposed including powers to erect a new bridge over the River Don at Balgownie, or at any point between the old bridge and the river mouth, in the new Turnpike Act; and proposed that the cost of building the bridge and access roads, estimated at £12,000 by Mr John Gibb, engineer, should be met from the Bridge of Don funds. In response, the magistrates recommended that an annual allowance of £300 should be granted from the Bridge of Don funds to the Trustees charged with erecting the bridge, together with an assignation of the £2,500 owed by the Commutation Road Trustees to the Master of Kirk and Bridge Works. The magistrates proposed two options for the use of the money.
The first option was to use the money to erect a new bridge and to improve the two principal roads leading to the Bridge of Dee and the Bridge of Don. Under this proposal, within two years of their first meeting after the passing of the Turnpike Act, the Bridge of Don Trustees would be bound to causeway King Street from Castle Street to the Bridge of Don, in a similar manner to the paving of Union Street between Shiprow and Union Bridge; to keep the street in good repair from the Canal to the new bridge; and to causeway the street to the Bridge of Dee from Union Bridge to the west end of Union Place.
If the money granted from the Bridge of Don funds was deemed insufficient by the Bridge of Don Trustees, the second option was to causeway the streets, as in the first option, and to construct new accesses to the old Bridge of Don, rather than to build a new bridge.
The Council recommended to the magistrates to attend to the progress of this matter. (246r - 249v)
The Council admitted nine Burgesses of Guild and two Craftsmen. [No names given.] (249v) |