| Description | COUNCIL REGISTER, VOLUME 71, FOLIOS 158v - 160r Council meeting, 30 June 1826 [Sederunt given] The Council elected Gavin Hadden Esq, Burgess of Guild and present Provost, to be Aberdeen's delegate at the election on 25 July 1826 of a Burgess to serve as the Member of Parliament for the District of the Burghs of Aberdeen, Montrose, Brechin, Aberbrothwick and Inverbervie, the Council members and William Carnegie, the Town Clerk, having qualified themselves by taking and swearing the necessary oaths. (158v - 160r) The Council elected Provost Gavin Hadden as Commissioner and Baillie John Young as his Assessor to the Convention of Royal Burghs in Edinburgh on 11 July 1826. (160r) |