| Description | Council meeting, 6 October 1814
[Sederunt given]
Baillie Garden and Mr Robert Walker qualified as members of Council by swearing and signing the usual oaths, and Baillie Garden took his oath de fideli administratione officii as one of the Baillies of the City. (40v)
The Council resolved that members absent from Council meetings should pay one shilling, and that members who were more than fifteen minutes late for meetings should pay six pence, to be applied at the direction of the Council. (40v)
The Council appointed the following Acts of Council to be observed: the Act of 26 September 1791 against granting a prolongation of the tack or a feu of the Mill of Gilcomston to the Brewery Company; the Act of 25 June 1798 prohibiting the grant of money from the funds of the Bridge of Dee and the Bridge of Don, except for roads in the vicinity of the Town. The Council remitted to the magistrates to examine which tacks were close to expiry, and which subjects should be exposed to roup. (40v - 41r)
The Council fixed the Visitation of the Public Schools to be held on 26 October 1814, and the competition for bursaries at Marischal College to be held on 31 October 1814. The Council appointed the following to be Visitors of the Public Schools for the year 1814 to 1815: the Provost, the four Baillies, the Dean of Guild and the Treasurer, the Master of Mortifications, Mr William Lumsden and Mr George Storey; the four Town's Ministers and the Professors of the College, and any other person called by the magistrates. The Council directed the magistrates to procure from the managers of the Trades, a list of vacant bursaries under their patronage, in accordance with the Act of Council of 31 October 1780, in order that they could be bestowed along with the Town's bursaries and the College's bursaries. (41r)
The Council appointed the Standing Committee of the Provost, the four Baillies, the Dean of Guild and the Treasurer, the Master of Shoreworks and Mr George Storey, with the office bearers concerned, or any three of them, to consider the following matters of public business:
First, the processes involving the Town before the Court of Session; particularly, the appeal to the House of Lords by the Incorporation of Butchers relating to the weighing dues of tallow and rough fat, which had been remitted back to the Court of Session.
Second, disposal of the feu duties and casualties belonging to the Town to the feuars of those properties, or to any other person willing to purchase the feu duties.
(41r - 41v)
The Council approved of the plan to enclose the small strip of ground on the east side of the Denburn and the bank on the west side of the Denburn, in accordance with the sketch produced by Mr John Smith, the Town's Superintendent. (The west bank had been enclosed and planted at the expense of the Town, but had fallen into disorder since the opening of Union Terrace.) The Council agreed to grant to the proprietors of houses on the west side of Belmont Street a servitude allowing them to use the area as a pleasure ground, along with the feuars of Union Terrace, under certain specified conditions for maintaining it. [Conditions specified.] (41v - 42r) |