| Description | Council meeting, 7 August 1805
[Sederunt given]
The Council considered a letter from John Collison, merchant, concerning the money owed by the Shoremaster to the Trustees of the deceased James Thomson junior, and authorised Mr Donald, Shoremaster, to grant two bonds for £700, one payable at Martinmas 1805 and the other at Whitsunday 1806, to the widow of James Thomson junior in liferent, and to his Trustees and executors in fee. (201v - 202r)
The Council remitted to a committee of the magistrates, the Dean of Guild and the Treasurer, or any three of them, the petition from the Union Whale Fishing Company requesting that the boundary be fixed between their property at Torrie and the land belonging to the Treasurer. (202r)
The Council admitted seven Burgesses of Guild and four Craftsmen. [No names given.] (202r)
The Council approved the Provost's report that the Treasurer had borrowed the following sums of money for public purposes, particularly for the formation of Union Street and King Street, and that he had granted bonds to the following, for payment with five per cent interest:
Andrew Brown in Atrochie - £500
Mr Carnegie, Town Clerk - £1,100
George Simmers, for W Copland, Jamaica - £607
Baillie Galen, in addition to £1,500 - £500
Sergeant Robert Young, in addition to £200 - £40
Andrew Keith, in addition to £100 - £30
Robert Low, in addition to £400 - £20
Managers of the Infirmary - £260
Ensign John Farquharson - £300
Alexander Ronald in Inveramsay - £200
William Hendry, painter - £236
Managers of the Infirmary - £540
Baillie Galen - £500
Trades Hospital - £300
William Strachan in Fingask - £100
George Symmers, for W Copland, Jamaica - £400
George Cruickshank in Leys of Lessendrum - £110
John Drummie at Blackhall - £80
James Davidson at Fintray, in addition to £160 - £80
Mrs Isabella Thain, in addition to £400 - £80
Charles Simmers, gardener - £100
(202r - 202v) |