1815 - 1817 Scroll Book - Nine Incorporated Trades of Dundee

The Meeting thereupon at half an hour past seven o’clock unanimously elected Mr William
Lindsay to be Preses of the Meeting in the absence of the Dean, and that part of the Minute
which had been written after the Dean left the Chair was read to the Meeting and approved of
by them in presence of the Preses.
Mr Roberts moved that the Dean of Guild be severely censured not only for leaving the Chair
in the improper manner he had done; but also for the general opposition to the interests of the
Guildry Incorporation throughout the proceedings of this day.
Mr David Blair Junior seconded the motion which was carried unanimously.
Mr John Sturrock moved that the Dean of Guild shall order the Collector of the Guildry to
prepare the accounts of the Current year and to submit the same at Martinmas next to
Messers William Roberts, David Miln and David Blair Junior a committee hereby appointed
by the Guildry to examine these accounts, and that the said Committee be recommended to
see whether any attention has been paid to the remarks on the former accounts contained in
the following letter addressed by the Preses of a quarterly meeting of the Guildry
Incorporation to the late Dean of Guild Anderson:
Dundee April 1817
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; on which the
following observations were made:
1 st . That the balance brought from former accounts may of may not be correct; for the Meeting
had no documents before them to enable them to decide.
2. That charge of £35 paid to Messers Small and Henderson for opinion of Counsel on 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 their opinions; and the
other half ought to have been paid by the management of the Magistrates and Council.
3d. Credit is only given for four and a half per cent on the money lent to the Toun and Kirk
Session in place of five per cent. If the Toun Council cannot pay a higher rate of interest, the
money ought to be lent on other good security at five per cent the interest to be paid half
yearly.
4. The money deposited in the Bank at four per cent should be immediately lent out on good
security at fie per vent.
I am Your &c John Jobson Preses.
Mr Andrew Garland seconded the motion which was unanimously carried.
Mr David Blair Junior moved that a Preses of the Guildry be elected to sit in the Chair during
the following year, in the absence of the Dean of Guild and that a standing Committee be
appointed to attend to the General affairs of the Guildry; that John Jobson Esquire of
Rosemount shall be Preses and Messers Patrick Whitson, David Jobson, William Roberts,
John Croom, David Miln, John Sturrock, David Blair Junior, Thomas Mitchell. William
Bisset, Henry Blyth, John Peter, Thomas Ivory, Henry Bell, William Ellet, Archibald Crichton,
James Keiller, Thomas Neish Junior, James Duncan Junior, James Scoot, Wm. Lindsay,
Edward Baxter, William Cathro, Deacon of the Maltmen and James Saunders who shall also
be Clerk and Convener of the Committee, seven of the committee to be a quorum. That in the
event of there being no legal Assessors to the Dean of Guild or if these legal Assessors failing
to do their duty, the said Committee shall be Assessors to the Dean and shall exercise all the
functions of their office.
Mr Thomas Watt seconded the motion which was carried unanimously.
Mr David Blair then protested against the Dean of Guild acting without the advice of the
Assessors for the reason stated in the following protest:
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