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

Security of the Property to enable me to be relieved from Ramsay’s Trustees at this time and
prevent the necessity of further legal proceedings on the part of Mr R’s Trustees.
(Signed) John Peter Senr.
On considering which the Meeting unanimously resolved to adhere to their former
resolution come to a Meeting held on 16 th December 1846 with the addition of Mr David Peter
his son as collateral security.
At Dundee the 18 th day of May 1848
At a Meeting of the General Committee held within Mr Rollo’s office at ½ past
seven o’clock in the evening
Convener Spankie in the Chair
The Convener stated to the Meeting that Mr John Peter had expressed verbally to
him his readiness to pay two hundred pounds towards liquidation of his Bond and to grant the
security of his son David as a Collateral Security, as arranged at last General Meeting; And
the Committee unanimously agreed to recommend such be accepted and that Mr David Peter
grant Bill for the Four hundred pounds payable one day after date, a Back Letter to be given
to him restricting the same as a security for the Balance of Principal in the Bond, and Interest
to arise thereon and on Mr Peter granting a Letter stating his readiness to pay and grant said
Security, the Meeting authorised the Clerk to send the requisite Papers to Ramsay’s Agents
to prepare the Discharge, and after being revised and adjusted, the same to be laid before a
General Meeting for approval and signature.
At Dundee the Ninth day of August Eighteen hundred and forty eight at a
Meeting of the Standing committee held this evening within Mr Rollo’s Office at Seven
o’clock
Convener Spankie in the chair
The Clerk stated that having received a Letter from Mr John Peter in terms of last
Minute he sent the requisite Papers to Messers Shaw, Reid & Mr McLauchlan Agents for
Ramsay’s Trustees in order to prepare the Discharge which was afterwards revised and now
returned on the Requisite stamp for signature and which was laid before the meeting; he
farther stated that he had given in the Assignation of Peters Bond by Mr Ogilvie to the
Trustees to be recoded in the Burgh Register of Sasines which was absolutely necessary to
complete the Trustees Title to the Bond or to enable them to Discharge the same and he
recommended that the Assignations to the other Bonds should likewise be recorded as there
was no real vested right to them till such was done.
The Clerk farther laid before the Meeting a Draft of the Bill or Promissory Note to be
taken from Mr David Peter and the relative Back Letter to be granted by him which being
considered by the Meeting were approved of; But as the discharge proceeds on the Narrative
that the parties in right of the Bond have been requested to grant the same by the Trustees
the Meeting resolved to call a General Meeting of the Trustees to lay the whole matter before
them and get their sanction to call upon the parties in right of the Bond to execute the
Discharge – and the Clerk was instructed to call a General Meeting for Monday first at one
o’clock.
At Dundee the Seventeenth day of August Eighteen hundred and forty eight at
a General Meeting of the Trustees on the late Mr James Pullar’s Mortification held this
evening within Mrs Hoods Hall St Clements Lane at one o’clock
Revd. James Thomson in the chair
The Minutes of last General Meeting being read also the Back Letter to be granted to
Mr David Peter and the Promissory Note to be taken from Him – were approved of.
The meeting unanimously agreed to call upon the Parties in right of the Bond and
Disposition by Mr John Peter to sign the Discharge to Mr John Ramsay’s Trustees – which
was read to the Meeting and approved of and the Clerk instructed accordingly and
empowered to grant the said letter and the meeting farther instruct the Clerk to get a valuation
of the Properties over which the Bonds held for behoof of the Trust extends – by Messers
James Samson & William Robertson Masons.
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