| Description | Council meeting, 7 October 1816
[Sederunt given]
The Council resolved that members absent from Council meetings should pay 1 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. (78r)
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; and 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. (78r - 78v)
The Council fixed the Visitation of the Public Schools to be held on 23 October 1816, and the competition for bursaries at Marischal College to be held on 28 October 1816. The Council appointed the following to be Visitors of the Public Schools for the year 1816 to 1817: the Provost, the four Baillies, the Dean of Guild, the Treasurer and the Master of Mortifications, 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. (78v)
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 James Hadden, with the office bearers concerned, or any three of them, to attend to the branches of public business. (78v - 79r)
The Council authorised the Standing Committee to co-operate with the gentlemen of the County to procure a new Act of Parliament to authorise an additional assessment of not more than £15,000 for the erection of a new jail, court house and other necessary accommodation, in accordance with a resolution of the general meeting of the Landholders and Commissioners of Supply of the County of 21 June 1816. At the meeting, the Provost had agreed to give the area necessary for the buildings free of charge. (79r)
The Council agreed to the sell to Mr Gammell of Countesswells the feu duty and compositions payable by successors to the Lands of Countesswells, for £750. (79r - 79v)
The Council authorised William Read Esq, present Dean of Guild, to execute a disposition in favour of Mr Thomas McCombie, merchant in Aberdeen, for the first and second lots of the Lands of Easter Skene, and to execute a feu charter of the Lands of Easter and Wester Carnie in favour of Mr William Copland, Town Clerk Depute, as trustee for the Dean of Guild, in order to complete Mr McCombie's title for a freehold qualification. (79v)
The Council empowered the Treasurer to borrow such sums of money as required for the public purposes of the community, and to grant bonds to the lenders. (79v) |