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SECTION I.— MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS.
MAGISTRATES AND TOWN COUNCIL.
Thomas Blaikie, Merchant, Lord Provost.
Baillies.
G. Watson, leather merchant. John Leslie, manufacturer.
Lewis Smith, bookseller. | Wm. Henderson, architect.
Office-hearers.
Alexander Nicol, merchant, Dean of Guild.
Geo. Elmsly, coach manufacturer. Treasurer.
Alexander Gibb, civil engineer, Master of Shore Works.
James Laing, ironmonger, Master of Kirk and Bridge Works.
Gftorge B. Botbwell, merchant, Master of Mortifications.
John Duncan, advocate, Master of Guild Brethren's Hospital.
Councillors.
James Berry, watchmaker.
John Webster, advocate.
David M'Hardy, blacksmith.
John Blaikie, advocate.
James Simpson, advocate, Asses-or.
John Angus, advocate, Town Clerk
Depute- Clerk.
Alexander Fraser, advocate, Chamberlain.
George Cadenhead, advocate, Procurator-Fiscal.
William Smith, architect, Superintendent of Works.
Alexander Mellis, Inspector of Weights amd Measures
Robert Williams, cooper.
Robert Ledingham, advocate.
Wm. Gordon, sharebroker.
H. C. Oswald, sharebroker.
City Rental —The estimated rental of heritage, within the bura;h and
freedom of the City, taxed for certain purposes by the Board of Taxers,
was, in 1821, £74,869 , in 1852, it was £136,707 ; thus showing an increase
of nearly double.
Corporation Funds.— The accounts of the Corporation for the year
ending 15th Oct., 1854, show a total revenue of £22,771 10s ; and the ex-
penditure, £21,112 7s. Id., leaving a surplus of £1659 8s. lid. The amount
of Treasury stock, as at the last noted date, was— Cr., £237,608 14s. lid. ;
Dr., £173,902 18s. 3d. ; balance, £63,705 16s. 8d. — this balance being, how-
ever, subject to the surplus expenditure, on the Kirk charge, which
amounts to between £1000 and £1100 yearly.
Population.— By the census of 1851, the population of Aberdeen
amounted to 71,973;— made up of the following items, viz. :— East Parish,
5,403 (inclusive of 221 military in barracks) ; West, 11,227 ; North, 6,167
South, 4,548; Greyfriars, 6,654; St. Clements, 7,466-total of six city
parishes, 41,465: Old Machar parish (part of), 30,503; Banchory-Deveni. k
(part of), 5— gross total as before, 71,973, of which number, 31,746 are
males, and 40,227 females. The returns state the number of inhabited houses
at 5,839, with 17,356 separate occupiers.
The population of the city and county, in the same year, was 214,658.
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SECTION I.— MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS.
MAGISTRATES AND TOWN COUNCIL.
Thomas Blaikie, Merchant, Lord Provost.
Baillies.
G. Watson, leather merchant. John Leslie, manufacturer.
Lewis Smith, bookseller. | Wm. Henderson, architect.
Office-hearers.
Alexander Nicol, merchant, Dean of Guild.
Geo. Elmsly, coach manufacturer. Treasurer.
Alexander Gibb, civil engineer, Master of Shore Works.
James Laing, ironmonger, Master of Kirk and Bridge Works.
Gftorge B. Botbwell, merchant, Master of Mortifications.
John Duncan, advocate, Master of Guild Brethren's Hospital.
Councillors.
James Berry, watchmaker.
John Webster, advocate.
David M'Hardy, blacksmith.
John Blaikie, advocate.
James Simpson, advocate, Asses-or.
John Angus, advocate, Town Clerk
Depute- Clerk.
Alexander Fraser, advocate, Chamberlain.
George Cadenhead, advocate, Procurator-Fiscal.
William Smith, architect, Superintendent of Works.
Alexander Mellis, Inspector of Weights amd Measures
Robert Williams, cooper.
Robert Ledingham, advocate.
Wm. Gordon, sharebroker.
H. C. Oswald, sharebroker.
City Rental —The estimated rental of heritage, within the bura;h and
freedom of the City, taxed for certain purposes by the Board of Taxers,
was, in 1821, £74,869 , in 1852, it was £136,707 ; thus showing an increase
of nearly double.
Corporation Funds.— The accounts of the Corporation for the year
ending 15th Oct., 1854, show a total revenue of £22,771 10s ; and the ex-
penditure, £21,112 7s. Id., leaving a surplus of £1659 8s. lid. The amount
of Treasury stock, as at the last noted date, was— Cr., £237,608 14s. lid. ;
Dr., £173,902 18s. 3d. ; balance, £63,705 16s. 8d. — this balance being, how-
ever, subject to the surplus expenditure, on the Kirk charge, which
amounts to between £1000 and £1100 yearly.
Population.— By the census of 1851, the population of Aberdeen
amounted to 71,973;— made up of the following items, viz. :— East Parish,
5,403 (inclusive of 221 military in barracks) ; West, 11,227 ; North, 6,167
South, 4,548; Greyfriars, 6,654; St. Clements, 7,466-total of six city
parishes, 41,465: Old Machar parish (part of), 30,503; Banchory-Deveni. k
(part of), 5— gross total as before, 71,973, of which number, 31,746 are
males, and 40,227 females. The returns state the number of inhabited houses
at 5,839, with 17,356 separate occupiers.
The population of the city and county, in the same year, was 214,658.
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