| Description | Council meeting, 3 October 1818
[Sederunt given]
Provost Brebner qualified as a member of Council by swearing and signing the usual oaths, and took his oath de fideli administratione officii as Provost. (173r)
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. (173r - 174r)
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. (174r)
The Council resolved to return an extract of the minutes of the election to the Privy Council to show that the Prince Regent's warrant had been executed. The Council directed the extract to be transmitted to Mr Mundell, the solicitor in London, for him to present it to the Council office. (174r - 174v)
The Council fixed the Visitation of the Public Schools to be held on 21 October 1818, and the competition for bursaries at Marischal College to be held on 26 October 1818. The Council appointed the following to be Visitors of the Public Schools for the year 1818 to 1819: the Provost, the four Baillies, the Dean of Guild, the Treasurer, the Master of Mortifications and Mr Alexander Fraser, 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. (174v)
The Council appointed the Standing Committee of the Provost, the four Baillies, the Dean of Guild, the Treasurer, Mr A Fraser and the Master of Shoreworks, with the office bearers concerned, or any five of them, to attend to the branches of public business. (174v - 175r) |