| Description | COUNCIL REGISTER, VOLUME 71, FOLIOS 220r - 222r
Council meeting, 4 October 1827
[Sederunt given]
The Council resolved to fine any Council member absent at a meeting the sum of 1 shilling and any member fifteen minutes late or more the sum of 6 pence. (220r - 220v)
The Clerk produced the record of the office bearers' tacks for inspection and the Council ordered the following Acts of Council to be observed; the Act of Council of 26 September 1791 against the prolongation of the tack or a feu of the Mill of Gilcomston to the Brewery Company; the Act of Council of 25 June 1798 prohibiting the granting of money from the Funds of the Bridges of Dee and Don except to roads in the vicinity of the Town. The Council remitted to the magistrates to examine which tacks were close to expiry. (220v)
The Council set 24 October 1827 for the Visitation of the Public Schools and 29 October 1827 for the competition for bursaries at Marischal College. Thereafter the Council elected the following gentlemen to be Visitors of the Schools: the Provost, four Baillies, Dean of Guild, Treasurer, Master of Mortifications, Messrs John Whyte, William Brown and William Mackie, the four Town's Ministers and the Professors of the College. The Council also recommended to the magistrates the Act of Council of 31 October 1780 to secure a list of the vacant bursaries from the Managers of the Trades that they might be competed for at the same time. (220v - 221r)
The Council appointed the Provost, four Baillies, Dean of Guild and Treasurer, Master of Shoreworks and Mr Gavin Hadden, along with the various office bearers concerned, or any five of them, (the Provost to be Convener) as a Standing Committee to attend to the various branches of the Town's business, in particular those items of business recommended for consideration by their predecessors in office:
First, the measures to be adopted to carry out the proposed construction of a dam or reservoir along the Denburn at the Commonty of Whitemyres.
Second, to follow up the steps proposed for claiming the Town's reserved rights of quarries within the Freedom Lands agreeable to the clauses contained in the vassals' charters.
Third, to prosecute before the Teind Court the division of the Town into different parishes and the erection of a new church according to the approved agreement.
Fourth, to consider as Harbour Trustees the propriety of applying for a renewal of the present Harbour Act of Parliament which is near expiry. (221r - 222r)
James Grant, advocate in Aberdeen, was appointed to the office of Collector of Assessed Taxes within the Burgh for the year 1827 to 1828. (222r)
The Council admitted two Craftsmen. (222r) |