Aberdeen Council Register: volume 71 - extract dated 9 October 1821 COUNCIL REGISTER, VOLUME 71, FOLIOS 2v - 4r Council meeting, 9 October 1821 [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. (2v) 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. (3r) The Council set 24 October 1821 for the Visitation of the Public Schools and 29 October 1821 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. (3r - 3v) The Council appointed the Provost, four Baillies, Dean of Guild, Treasurer, Master of Shoreworks and Mr Alexander Brebner 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. (3v) The Council remitted to Baillies Milne and Young, the Dean of Guild, Treasurer, Master of Kirk and Bridge Works and Deacon Smith, or any three of them, (the Dean of Guild to be Convener), as a Standing Committee to visit and inspect the watercourses and aqueducts leading to and from the Town's Mills and the Loch and to co-operate with the Treasury Trustees in the removal of all encroachments. (3v) The Council remitted to the Standing Committee and Master of Kirk and Bridge Works to consider the propriety of increasing the fees of ground lairs for burials in the Churchyard as well as the seat rents in the West and East Churches, particularly in comparison with seat rents in other towns. (3v - 4r) Mr George Forbes, son of the late William Forbes Esq of Echt, was admitted as a Burgess of Guild. (4r) 1821