1815 - 1817 Scroll Book - Nine Incorporated Trades of Dundee

to the Council and Burgesses for their approbation and when approved of that a Petition by
the Council and all parties concerned shall be forthwith presented to the King in Council
praying his Majesty to sanction and confirm the alteration agreed upon.”
The motion was seconded by Deacon Mudie and unanimously agreed to by the Council.
The Council appoint the present Magistrates, Dean of Guild, Treasurer, Hospital Master and
Mr Small one of the Town Clerks to be the Committee of Council for meeting with the
Committee of the Burgesses for the above purpose, a majority of them to be a quorum. The
Senior Magistrate in Toun for the time being to be Convener.
The Council authorize the above Committee to make the necessary arrangements for
convening the Burgesses, and ascertaining previous to the Meeting who are Burgesses and to
give them Tickets of Admission it being declared that no person shall be allowed to attend the
Meeting without a Ticket of Admission signed by one of the Committee.
Thereafter Provost Riddoch moved that the Council shall authorize the said Committee to
meet with the Guildry or their Committee and make arrangements with them for delivering
over the funds, Books and papers of the Guildry to the Dean of Guild and to the Assessors who
were chosen by them at their Meeting on the eighth instant. This Motion was seconded by
Deacon Mudie and agreed to unanimously.
It was moved, seconded and agreed to that the thanks of the Council and Trades be given to
Provost Riddoch for the very clear and manly retrospect given by him of he proceedings of the
Council regarding the System or Set of the Burgh, the liberal and disinterested view he had
taken of the necessary alterations and the comprehensive plan of Reform on which this
motion is founded.
The Council repeated the Resolution of the last Meeting of Council to take the Petitions of the
Guildry and Burgesses into consideration that day four Weeks.”
Mr James Ivory thereupon moved the following Resolution.
1 st That the Guildry hail with feelings of unmingled satisfaction this new era in their history;
when after the lapse of so many years of disuse they are again enabled to stand forth as a
distinct and independent Corporation and to resume their ancient rights and privileges as
such.
2d That they feel still higher satisfaction in the new situation in which they are thus placed
because after a protracted and very painful and distressing contest with the Magistrates it
restores peace and harmony to the Toun – and because it has been brought about in strict
accordance with the unanimous voice of the whole Community.
3 rd That the Guildry own their best thanks to he Convener, Deacons, and Members of the Nine
Incorporated Trades for the spirited and increasing support which through the struggle now
so happily terminated they have received from that Body.
4 th That the Guildry vote their cordial thanks to the Provost, Magistrates and Toun Council for
having at length yielded to the decided and unanimous expression of the public sentiment in
favour of a reformation in the Borough Set thereby not only removing the existing cause of all
those differences and heartburnings which had already subsisted but too long, but likewise
restoring their own claims to public favour to a basis on which the claims of the Magistrates
should always rest – the gratitude and confidence of their Constituents.
5 th That these Resolutions be communicated in the proper manner to the Nine Incorporated
Trades, and Magistrates and Council, and that they also be published on the Dundee Perth
and Cupar Advertiser.
Mr David Blair Junior seconded the Resolutions which were unanimously carried.
It was stated that in consequence of Provost Riddoch’s letter the Committee of the Guildry
have unanimously resolved not to publish the Resolutions passed at the last General Meeting.
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