| Description | COUNCIL REGISTER, VOLUME 71, FOLIOS 57r - 59v
Council meeting, 18 August 1824
[Sederunt given]
The Council met to appoint a successor to fill the vacant ministerial charge caused by the death of the late Rev Robert Doig. The Council duly elected the Rev Mr John Murray, Minister of the Trinity Chapel of Ease in Aberdeen, with an annual stipend of £200 and instructed the formal presentation to be engrossed in the Council Register for preservation [presentation engrossed]. Witnessed by William Carnegie, James Hardie, James Milne, Robert Brown, Alexander Duthie junior, James Brebner, Robert Duthie, John Whyte, James Lamond, Andrew Duncan, Alexander Duguid, Gavin Hadden, William Brown, William Smith and James Cobban. (57r - 58v)
The Council appointed Baillies Milne, Brown, Duthie and Brebner, Mr Robert Duthie, Dean of Guild, Mr Gavin Hadden, Mr Andrew Duncan, Master of Kirk and Bridge Works along with the Clerk, or any two of them, as a committee to intimate the Act of Election and Presentation to Mr John Murray for his acceptance, thereupon to present it to the Presbytery of Aberdeen and take the necessary legal steps to install Mr Murray. (58v - 59r)
The Council approved of the sale by public roup in way of feu of the Croft called the Nether Mill of Garlogie in the Parish of Skene belonging to the Dean of Guild to Thomas Black, druggist in Aberdeen and the current lessee, at the rate of £30 annual feu duty, exclusive of the £170 to be paid by Mr Black on 20 December 1824 as the value of what is conceived to be the interest to the Dean of Guild in the buildings on the ground. (59r - 59v)
The Council admitted three Burgesses of Guild and one Craftsman. (59v) |