Aberdeen Council Register: volume 71 - extract dated 2 October 1823 COUNCIL REGISTER, VOLUME 71, FOLIOS 37r - 38r Council meeting, 2 October 1823 [Sederunt given] Messrs William Lumsden and Alexander Hadden qualified themselves as members of Council by swearing and signing the usual oaths. (37r) 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. (37r) 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. (37r) The Council set 22 October 1823 for the Visitation of the Public Schools and 27 October 1823 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. (37r - 37v) The Council appointed the Provost, four Baillies, Dean of Guild, Treasurer, Master of Shoreworks and Mr Gavin Hadden, 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. (37v) The Council remitted to the Standing Committee the recommendation detailed in the Act and Resolution of 23 September 1823 regarding the feuing out of the Lands of Wester Cairney in the Parish of Skene belonging to the Dean of Guild and authorised it to execute the sale. (37v - 38r) The Council postponed the sale of the piece of ground wanted by George Innes, watchmaker, lying on the south side of Skene Street and adjacent to the Upper Bridge across the Denburn, considering that claims had been entered by Mr Crombie, advocate and also by the Dyer Society. (38r) James Grant, advocate in Aberdeen, was appointed to the office of Collector of Assessed Taxes within the Burgh for the year 1823 to 1824. (38r) The Council admitted William McConnachie, tailor, as a Craftsman. (38r) 1823