Pullar Mortification 1811-1859 Minute Book - Nine Trades of Dundee

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I hope to hear from you in the course of a few days. Meantime I remain &c (Signed) Jas. Ogilvie Mr Ogilvie also laid before the Meeting Mr Peddie’s answer of which the following is a Copy: Bankhead 11 th Nov 1831 Dear Sir I received yours of the 28h Ulto. and 8 th instant: in regard to Mr Pullars Trust, if the other Trustees are satisfied as to the security I am of opinion it is quite satisfactory. I have to apologise for not answering your letter earlier. And I am &c (Signed) A. Peddie. The Meeting having considered the foregoing correspondence they agree to lend Mr Peter six hundred pounds on the proposed security for five years from Marts. last. They approved a search of the Register of Sasines from the time that Mr Peter acquired the right to the property from his brother James, which was in 1816, but in consequence of Mr John Peter & Mrs Ramsay’s circumstances they consider ant other search unnecessary. They also agree to renew Mr Ducat’s Note as proposed being satisfied with him & the other obligants without Mr Steele. Dundee 26 February 1840 …Mr Ogilvie stated that Mr Ducats Note along with others to the Trustees for Five hundred pounds Stg. was to be paid up on Friday next. That the Dundee Sugar Refining Company had intimated that were to pay up their Note to the Trustees ay Whitsunday next per One thousand Pounds & they offered to pay it sooner if convenient for the Trustees. Mr Ogilvie proposed to lend both sums per £1,500 to the Dundee & Arbroath Railway Co. on a Statutory assignment at the rate of four & a half per Cent Interest. The meeting having considered the proposal agreed thereto & authorised the Factors to lend the money accordingly as soon as the assignment could be got ready. Dundee 14 October 1845 The Kirk Session met &c. &c. The Session unanimously nominated and appointed the following Members to be Trustees on Pullar’s Mortification on the part of the Session and that for one year from this date Viz: Revd. James Thomson Do I. J. Adamson Do John Tulloch Messers John Bell, Stamp Office John William Thomson, Writer Thomas Bell, Merchant John McKay Junr., Merchant Peter Thoms, Merchant John Hodgson Anderson, Merchant Thomas Smith, Merchant William Reid, Writer William Young, Key Street John Jack, Harbour Master William Morris, High Street Henry Smith, Manufacturer William Thoms, Manufacturer John Young, High Street John Symers, Baxter William Beharrie, Manufacturer 12
Alexr. Keay, Session Clerk Extracted per (Signed) Alexr. Keay, J.Clk. And that he had sent Circulars calling the present meeting to each of these Gentlemen, as well as to the Convener of the Nine Trades of Dundee, the Nine Deacons as at present in Office and the nine former Deacons, all Trustees appointed under the foresaid Deed of Settlement for the purpose of declaring their Acceptance of the Trust, and making arrangements for its future management. – thereafter the Trust Deed of the Intater having been read to the Meeting the parties present declared their acceptance of Office, and before proceeding farther appointed the following Gentlemen as a Committee viz: The Revd. Jas. Thomson The Revd. Dr Adie Messers J. W. Thomson, Writer William Reid, Writer Wm. Morris, Police Treasurer Jas. Spankie, Deacon of the Bonnetmakers For the purpose of examining the Books and Documents of the Trust & to report thereon to another General Meeting. 22 nd October 1845 The Committee having considered the terms of the Trust Deed gave it as their opinion that the designation Deacons of the preceding year must be held to apply strictly, and that where the Deacon if an Incorporation for the present year, had also been Deacon of the preceding year he must be held to represent his incorporation in both Capacities. Copy Assignation by James Ogilvie, Writer in Dundee in favour of the Kirk Session of Dundee and General fund of the Nine Trades, thereto for behoof of the Trustees on Pullars Mortifications Of Bond by William Sime & Others in favour of the said Trustees I, James Ogilvie, Writer in Dundee sole surviving original Trustee nominate & appointed by the deceased James Pullar formerly Baker in Dundee conform to Trust, disposition and Deed of Settlement executed by the said James Pullar with consent of Mrs Elizabeth Crawfurd or Pullar his Spouse dated the fifteenth day of November Eighteen hundred and four and recorded in the Books of Council and Session the sixteenth day of October Eighteen hundred and Eleven. Considering that the said decs. James Pullar 1 did by his said Trust Disposition and Deed of Settlement Made and Granted as aforesaid but under the Conditions , Reservations and Provisions therein inserted give and grant and dispone to and in favour of James Gray, Walter Newall and Andrew Peddie Junior all then Merchants in Dundee now deceased and to me the said James Ogilvie and to the Survivors or Survivor as Trustees for the uses and purposes therein mentioned and to the assignees or disponees of the said Trustees his whole Estate heritable and moveable of every description in Trust always for the uses and purposes and under the conditions and reservations therein mentioned as the said Trust Disposition & Deed of Settlement made and granted by the said deceased James Pullar, it was inter alia declared, that upon the death or non acceptance of any of the before named Trustees, the whole property thereby conveyed should rest in the survivor who should be obliged to denude of the Trust and account for his intromissions with the Trust Estate, pay over whatever balance may be then remaining in his hands, and at the same time redispone the lands vested and recover whatever grounds of debt may be then standing in the person to and in favour of the minister of the Overgate District in the Parish of Dundee for the time being and his successors in Office, Twenty members of the Kirk Session of Dundee elected by that Body, the Convener and Deacons of the Nine Incorporated Trades of Dundee then in Office and to nine Deacons of the preceding year, and their successors in Office as Trustees & Patrons for the uses ends and purposes and with the several powers and privileges thereby conferred on the Trustees therein named. Declaring that twenty of the said new Trustees assembled should Constitute a Meeting, and the Majority of the Meeting a 1 “A” 13
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