Aberdeen Council Register: volume 71 - extract dated 26 February 1822 COUNCIL REGISTER, VOLUME 71, FOLIOS 27v - 28v Council meeting, 26 February 1823 [Sederunt given] The Council heard the application of 22 January 1823 from Mr James Lamond, merchant in Aberdeen, submitting his proposal to build a range of shops on his feu in St Nicholas Street and to leave an entry to the Town's Churches in the centre, agreeable to the plan provided by Mr John Smith. Upon consideration of the correspondence between the Committee and Mr Lamond, the Council approved the plan and empowered the Master of the Kirk and Bridge Works to pay Mr Lamond £15 of annual feu duty upon his giving off an entry through the centre of his feu, commencing the payment of the first years feu duty at Whitsunday 1824, and with the condition that the gavels of the houses adjoining be plastered with Roman cement and lined as ashler, similar to that of Mr John Garioch's house in Union Street. (27v - 28r) The Council resolved to present a memorial and petition to the Lord Lieutenant of the County to transmit to the Lords of the Treasury for a repeal of the ad valorem duty on stones carried coastwise following a representation from Messrs Alexander Low and John Gibb on behalf of themselves and the other stone merchants of the City. (28r - 28v) The Council admitted the following to vacant bursaries at Marischal College upon the Faculty's recommendations of 20 December 1822; Robert Smith, student in the magistrand class, to Mr James Cargill's bursary of £8 for one year in place of John Beattie who has left the College, James Robertson, likewise a student in the magistrand class, to Ross's bursary of £6 for one year in place of James Cruden who has left the College and William Beattie, student in the tertian class, to Cruden's bursary of £5 for two years in place of Thomas Torry who has left the College. (28v) The Council fixed 21 March 1823 to elect a Commissioner to attend the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland on 22 May 1823. (28v) 1823