Aberdeen Council Register: volume 68 - extract dated 1 July 1805 Council meeting, 1 July 1805 [Sederunt given] The Council considered the report by the committee appointed to consider deepening and improving the Navigation Channel and Ship's Fairway from the harbour entry to the Town's Quay, which recommended that a cast iron railway be constructed to aid the removal of mud, sand and shingle dug out of the harbour. The Council remitted to the magistrates to procure estimates for laying stones near the Pocra Pier, on which a railway could be laid, and for constructing a cast iron railway. (199r - 199v) The Council elected Provost Leys to be their Commissioner to the Convention of Royal Burghs to be held in Edinburgh on 9 July 1805, and elected Baillie Farquharson to be his Assessor. (199v) The Clerk reported that Mr Henry Jardine, Writer to the Signet, and Agent for Mr Skene of Rubislaw, had agreed that Mr Skene would meet the Council's demand for £1,500, in return for the discharge of the process of declarator, and for the grant of a new charter which did not reserve the quarries to the Town, in accordance with the Act of Council of 11 June 1805. The Council authorised the Clerk to make out a new charter in favour of Mr Skene, his heirs and assigns, containing a new grant of the quarries and stones, and mosses, and road leading thereto. (199v - 200r) The Council granted the application from Mr Thomson, Treasurer, Tacksman of the College Church, requesting £20 to repair the pews in the College Church, on condition that he maintain the pews in good condition during his lease. (200r) 1 July 1805