1815 - 1817 Scroll Book - Nine Incorporated Trades of Dundee

application to the Convention of Burghs for a change of the set of the Burgh to the extent
resolved upon by the Magistrates and Council on the 9 th August 1815
The Committee desired the Clerk to lay before the Annual Meeting a copy of the Dean of
Guilds accounts for the year 1816 to be read. The Committee are of opinion that the Meeting
should require the Magistrates to pay for the funds in their hands belonging to the Guildry
five per cent the interest payable twice a year – and also to lend out the money presently in the
Bank in the same terms.
The Committee are of opinion that the charge in these accounts of £(blank) for taking the
opinion of Counsel is improperly stated against the Guildry as the same ought to have been
paid from the public revenues of the Toun the Memorial being a joint one between the Toun
Council & Guildry, the latter of whom have paid their half from their own private funds.
The Committee directed the Clerk to get back the Guildry and Trades Petitions presented in
January 1816.
At a General Quarterly Meeting of the Guildry held within the Ancient Operative Mason
Lodge, on the 9h day of April 1817 at twelve o’clock noon – in consequence of previous notice
in the Dundee, Perth & Cupar Advertiser.
John Jobson Esquire of Rosemount in absence of the Dean of Guild, and of Robert Jobson
Esq. the Permanent Preses, was unanimously called to the Chair.
The Clerk read to the meeting a Minute of meeting of the Committee, held on the 7 th Current,
recommending a renewed application to the Magistrates and Council to commune with the
Guildry in presenting a petition to the Convention of Burghs in July next for a change in the
set of the Burgh.
Mr Lindsay moved that the recommendation of the Committee should be followed; and to that
effect proposed that the Guildry do adopt the following resolutions on the subject:
1 st That a Petition shall forthwith be drawn up and subscribed by the Members of the Guildry
praying that the Magistrates and Toun Council would be pleased to concur with the Guildry in
presenting an application to the next Convention of Burghs, for an alteration of the set of he
Burgh, to the extent resolved upon by the Magistrates and Toun Council and Nine Trades on
the 9 th day of August 1815.
2 nd That this Meeting do adjourn till Saturday sen’night at eleven o’clock forenoon; then to
meet in this place for the purpose of subscribing the said petition.
Mr Sturrock seconded Mr Lindsay’s motion which was unanimously carried.
A copy of the accounts of the Guildry’s funds for the preceding year was read to the Meeting;
and the following letter unanimously appointed to be transmitted by the Preses to the Dean of
Guild.
Sir
I am directed by the Guildry Incorporation, to intimate to you, that, at their Quarterly
Meeting, held this day, the Guildry accounts for the year 1816 were laid before them; in which
the following observations were made:
1 st That the balance brought from former accounts may or may not be correct; for the Meeting
had no documents before them to enable them to decide.
2d The charge of £136 paid to Messers Small and Henderson for opinion of Counsel in the
joint Memorial for the Toun Council and Guildry, ought not to have been stated against the
Guildry.
The Guildry have already paid their half of the expence of those opinions; and the other half
ought to have been paid from the public revenue of the Toun under the management of the
Magistrates & Council.
3d Credit is given for only four and a half per cent in the money lent to the Toun and Kirkfabric.
In place of five per cent. If the Town Council cannot pay a higher rate of interest, the
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