| Description | Book of Memorials submitted by magistrates and members of Council of the Burgh of Aberdeen between 1726 and 1812 for answers by legal representatives and counsel. The volume includes information and particulars submitted in a number of cases as well as records of legal opinions received from Counsel to the Magistrates. Memorials were submitted and answers sought on a wide range of subjects including taxation, tack and feu of land, administration of mortifications, prosecution of rioters and "lewd women", quartering of military personnel in town, administration of the Harbour, and accidents and wrecks at sea. |