the forsaid submission to their consideration fynes and ammerciats the said Taylour trade in twenty shilling scots for their contumacy anent Baillie Watts buriall and receives them again as members of the said Conveener Court in respect of the said submission and restores them to their former priviledges. I 148.

31 DECEMBER 1730.

The said day ther being a complaint given in to the Conveener and remanent members of the Conveener Court representing that severall members att severall tymes have pursued other tradesmen befor the magistrats of Old Aberdeen without previously applying to the Deacon of ther respective Trades or Conveener Court contarary to former acts made theranent Which being considered by the Conveener and remanent members of the Conveener Court They ratify homologate and approve of all former acts made theranent and they doe in further corroboration and fortification therof Statute enact and ordain that no freemen in any the Incorporations of this Citie shall att any tyme herafter pursue any affair belonging to ther respective trade befor the magistrats of Old Abd" or any other judge whatsomever without first applying to ther own Deacon and next to this Court under the faillie of six pound scots money for the first fault ten pound money forsaid for the second and deprivation for the third fault and appoints every on of the Incorporations to transcribe this act into ther books and to read it annually att every Electione. I 157.

29 MARCH 1733.

The Conveener made report that he was informed that some of the Masters of the College had complained to the Justices of Peace against him and some others of the Trades for alleaged assaulting and beating some of the students in the street without any provocation Which the Court deeming contrary to the information given them desyred the Conveener may try into the verity thereof and if any proof were to be made thereof to assist in discovering the naked truth thereof. I 164.

5 APRIL 1735.

The said day anent ane representation given in by the Conveener in Court that James McKallan present deacon of the Hammerman trade

and James Walker blacksmith and one of the members of the said Hammermen Trade being upon the third inst committed prisoners to the Tolbooth of Old Aberdeen by William Molyson one of the baillies of the said city for their scandolous and impertinent language given to the said baillie in ane fenced Court when he was sitting in judgement And the said Conveener being informed that some of the said Hammermen Trade were designed to uplift and expend some of their publick moneys in defence of the said James McKallan and James Walker and to imploy lawyers for that effect These are therefor impowering you James Michie to imploy ane notar to instrument any member or members discharging them from uplifting or intromitting with any of the moneys of the said Hammermen Trade for defending the said James McKallan and James Walker anent any prosecution that shall be intended or pursued against them. I 173.

25 SEPTEMBER 1742.

The said day the Conviner and hail members of Court do unanimously homologate ratifie and approve ane act made by the then Conviner and members of said Court anent the elections of the severall Corporations dated the fifth day of November Mvij and twenty six seing that Robert White present boxmaster to the Shoomaker Trade who lives in Spithill hes put the whole trades to unnecessary expences by prosecuting the Trades of this City before the Shirreff of Aberdeen upon frivolous grounds mentioned in a complaint at his instance w1 concourse of the fiscall of the Sherriff Court And that both Deacon Boxmaster and Masters shall live and reside in the Town and Libertys thereof under the penalty of fourty pounds Scots who agreed thereto by plurality of votes and that this act shall stand and continue in force in all time comeing the flesher trade excepted. I 210.

12 NOVEMBER 1743.

Wee Thomas Volum present Conveener of the trades of the said City of Old Aberdeen and remanent Deacons of the said trades In consequence of the submission entred into betwixt William King, Androw Smith William McKallan and Peter Mutch blacksmiths in Old Aberdeen, and John Mowat, Lachlan M bean and John Smith & black

smiths there anent the validity of the said John Mowat and his adherents their Election and anent their intromissions with the money belonging to their said Incorporation for two years preceeding the eight day of November instant And we having (in presence of the saids parties submitters in ane court holden within the Council house of this City, upon the tenth day of November inst.) inspected the said Election and their publick accotts forsaid two years bygane, Found the same just and fair, but since, and this day in presence of Court, the said John Mowat acknowledged and owned, that since the date of the said submission, he had caused transcribe the said accompts, and is suspected by the Court to have made alterations therein, Whereupon We the Conveener Present Deacons and haill other members of Court having taken the same to their consideration They putt it to a vote sustain or not sustain said Election and it carried by plurality not sustain Therfor the Conveener and haill members of Court Ordained the said Hammerman Trade, of new again instantly to elect Deacon Masters and other office bearers of their Incorporation for the ensuing year and that under the forsaid penaltie of five pound sterling. I 217.

20 DECEMBER 1745.

The said day Robert Leslie Conveener represented that Captain Creighton had stented the whole Trades of this City as also the Conveener Court, in the sum of Fourty seven pound ten shillings sterling money for the use of Charles Pretended prince of Wales, And that he had quartered severall men as partys on the rexive. Deacons and Box masters of the severall Incorporations As also upon the Conveener untill payment of the forsaid sum.

The generall meetting of the haill trades craved that the Conveener and his Boxmaster should lend upon bill to the Deacons and Boxmasters of the severall Corporations the sum of Four hundred and ten pound Scots out of the moneys lying in the Conveener box, As also that the Conveener and his Boxmaster should take out of said box the sum of One hundred and eighty pound Scots in order to pay the said Captain Creighton the said sum of Fourty seven pound ten shillings sterling stented by him as said is in order to releive the said parties Which the same was accordingly ordered to be granted by the forsaid haill meeting

And for security of the said Four hundred and ten pound scots the severall Deacons and Boxmasters of the Corporations have accepted bills therefor and for which this is warrand. I 232.

6 OCTOBER 1747.

The said day there was presented and given in to the members of the Conveener Court a letter from the Reverend Dr John Chalmers Prin" of the Kings College and Patron of the Trades adressed to the Conveener and importing that he having understood there appeared some mismanagement in setting Techmuirys house and land, he desired they might deferr the same untill he should be accquainted thereof, otherwyse he could not concurr in any deed they might agree to, And the said letter being seriously taken under their consideration, and that they had taken the most prudent and effectuall method in setting the said house and land for the use and behoof of the Trades of said City and that they were fully able to ansuer all objections that might be made agt the same and convince their said Patron of the contrary in every respect. . . . I 244.

21 NOVEMBER 1747.

The Conveener and members of Court having taken under their consideration the great charge they bring yearly upon the trade by meetings & and spendings thereat They agreed and resolved in time coming that there shall be nothing charged for the Election Dinner or to the Lads at the Election or for opening the Box and sighting the mortcloaths or at the Whitsundays Court or at private sighting and publick sighting of the Counts All which are abolished and taken away in all time comeing, as is all funds at Elections, and that nothing shall be charged to the publick on that account in time comeing, and they also diminish the office fee two shillings being only six pound scots, for ringing the Bell only one shilling sterling drawing out the Accounts to six pence sterl. yearly, and they appoint the forsaid Committee or any four of them to enquire into how the Hospitall wemen has been payed and charged and to report, and in time coming that all private meetings shall be in the Trades hall and the Courts in the Court house. I 252.

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18 JUNE 1757.

The said day the Conveener represented that when he ordered a warning to the respective trades to meet at the Cross to go to burialls yet after warning to come they willfully neglected themselves to attend which is a great loss to the trades in generall as people who call for the mortcloaths and expect the trades company, think they are slighted by them Therefor the Conveener and members of Court, enacted and hereby ordain and enact, That in all time comming every tradesman who does not attend Burialls when called by the officer thereto shall pay four shilling scots money for each transgression or be poinded for the value thereof, in case he cannot shew a lawfull reason for his not attendance, and also certifying each deacon who does not attend without a lawfull excuse as aforesaid shall pay for each transgression six shilling money forsaid or be poinded for the value as said is, and which fynes to be for the use of the poor. I 310.

15 DECEMBER 1759.

The Conveener Deacons and Members of Court having considered the great benifite, utility and advantage that the Infirmary at Aberdeen is off to all ranks and degrees of people, and more especially to the poorer sort, and that it is chiefly supported and maintained by the Bounty and good will of others. That it is the intention of this Court to give a small gratuity towards that good and usfull work Therefore the Court unanimously agreed that fourty shillings sterling shall be paid into the Theas' or Cashier of the Infirmary. I 322.

5 JUNE 1762.

Their being a complaint made by the Boxmaster anent the weavers haveing applyed to the Magistrates in a matter anent placeing a woman in the hospitall contrary to the acts of the Court Which difference being laid before the Patron was settled by him But in order to prevent abuses for the future The Court unanimously agree that for the future there shall be no person received into the hospitall without calling a court of the Conveener Boxmaster and Deacons of the rexive. trades, and whoever is by a majority of them agreed on to be fitt person to be received, such person and none else shall be received into the said hospitall and