Aberdeen Council Register: volume 71 - extract dated 29 January 1828 COUNCIL REGISTER, VOLUME 71, FOLIOS 246r - 247v Council meeting, 29 January 1828 [Sederunt given] The Council approved the sale by public roup in way of feu on 22 December 1827 of the Lands and Mill of Buxburn belonging to the Treasurer, to William Adam, advocate in Aberdeen, on behalf of Mr George Gordon, at present residing in Aberdeen, at £162 yearly feu duty and £20 yearly rent for the multures. (246r - 246v) The Council approved the sale by public roup in way of feu of the stance on the south side of Union Street, measuring forty-seven feet in front east from a line of eighty-two or three feet from the east side of the Cross Street leading past the property of Mr William Reid towards Bon Accord Street, to Mr John Smith, architect, on behalf of Mr Robert Morrice, advocate in Aberdeen, at 7 shillings 6 pence per foot of front. (246v - 247r) Baillie Milne reported that their Committee had received an offer for the corner stance on the south side of Union Street, opposite the property of Mr William Reid and towards Bon Accord Street, and that the same had been advertised for sale by public roup in way of feu on 9 February 1828 at the rate of 8 shillings 6 pence per foot of front yearly feu duty. (247r) The Council remitted to the Committee the sale by public roup of the leases of the following subjects belonging to the Treasurer; the lease for three years of the shipbuilding yards at Footdee, currently held by Messrs Alexander Hall & Company, Nicol Reid & Company, John Duffus & Company, James Adam or William Stephen & Sons, William Duthie and George Levie; the lease for three years of the wood yard and houses possessed by Mr Robert Duthie and Cummine Laing; the lease for three years of the ropeworks and buildings lately occupied by James Gibbon & Company; the lease for three years of the shops under the Town House possessed by Adam Singer, Mollison & Company and Alexander Martin; the lease for three years of the Cross occupied by the Union Coach Company; the lease for seven years of the piece of ground adjoining the Meal Market, situated between the same and the property of Mrs Vass. (247r - 247v) 1828