| Description | COUNCIL REGISTER, VOLUME 71, FOLIOS 174v - 177v
Council meeting, 3 October 1826
[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. (174v)
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. (174v - 175r)
The Council set 25 October 1826 for the Visitation of the Public Schools and 30 October 1826 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, 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. (175r)
The Council appointed the Provost, four Baillies, Dean of Guild and Treasurer, Master of Shoreworks and Messrs Gavin and James 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, to receive the estimates which had been advertised for the paving of Union Street, west of the Denburn Bridge
Second, to take into consideration the plan and specification made out by Mr Gibb for the construction of the proposed new bridge over the River Don, lately transmitted to Mr Thomas Telford, engineer, for his opinion and the raising of the necessary funds.
Third, to expose to public sale in way of feu any of the remaining stances along the new streets as may be desired.
Fourth, to receive the reports of the Sub-Committees appointed to examine the state of the Town's Loch and to revise the rates of fare and regulations proposed to be established for the coal carriers.
(175r - 176r)
There was laid before the Council several estimates lodged in response to advertisements for paving Union Street, west of the Denburn Bridge. Upon examination the Council accepted Neil McDonald's estimate [estimate given]. (176r)
Baillie Milne stated that the magistrates had recently received from Mr Telford, engineer, his Report and Opinion on Mr Gibb's plan and specification for the construction of a new bridge over the River Don. Both were laid before the Council and it would appear that some alterations had been made to the design. The Council approved the plan but, on account of the difficulty of funding, agreed to remit to the Standing Committee to meet with the County to discuss the same. It was further decided that an assurance be procured from the proprietors of the lands to the north of the Don of their advancing a sum of £10,000 in way of a loan upon the security of the Master of the Kirk and Bridge Works. The Council instructed the Committee to prepare the required plans and specifications and to advertise for contractors. (176r - 177v)
James Grant, advocate in Aberdeen, was appointed to the office of Collector of Assessed Taxes within the Burgh for the year 1826 to 1827. (177v) |