| Description | In two parts.
1. A Letter to the Trustees of Aberdeen Harbour: "Gentlemen, I beg to address you in the character of a petitioner and have respectfully to request that you will grant a free discharge of the harbour dues due by the Dorothy steam tug on the 1st April last- your petitioner presents this request on the grounds that, in expectation of entering upon the entire towage of the port at that date according to an agreement, he left Aberdeen on the 12th March to procure a suitable boat and on returning, after incurring considerable expense, to fulfill his agreement with boats and men every way suitable for the purpose, he found himself deprived of part of the revenue which he considered justly due to him by the Trustees' boat continuing to ply after the time specified. Your petitioner ventures to hope that on considering the nature of this request and the grounds on which it rests you will deem it most reasonable and will think proper to grant it. I am Gentlemen, your most obedient humble servant, James Robinson."
2. A letter to the owners of the "Dorothy" dated 1st April 1842: "To the Shore Master, to amount of accounts for harbour dues to 70 voyages from 22nd February to 31st March, £9,,6,,8." |