At Aberdeen, and within the Hall of the University, the Tenth day of October, One Thousand Eight hundred and Sixty, being the day appointed by Ordinance of the Commissioners under the Act 21 and 22 Victoria, Chapter 83, dated ninth January, eighteen hundred and sixty years, and approved by Her Majesty in Council on the thirtieth of June, for the first meeting of the General Council of the University of Aberdeen. THE General Council of the University met, pursuant to said Ordinance and to public notice. The Chancellors being absent, and the office of Rector being vacant, the Principal took the chair. After Prayer, and the reading of the Ordinance of the Commissioners, dated the second day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty years, and approved by Her Majesty by Order in Council dated twenty-seventh August, eighteen hundred and sixty years, regulating the order of procedure in the General Councils of the Universities of Scotland, the General Council proceeded to the election of an Assessor to represent the Council in the University Court during the ensuing period of four years. 10 Thereupon the meeting agreed that the Registrar of the A University, the Rev. John Fyfe, A.M., should also act as ap Clerk to this meeting. B As Thereafter the Rev. William Paul, A.M., D.D., Minister The of Banchory-Devenick, proposed that the Rev. James Bisset, pro A.M., D.D., Minister of Bourtie, should be elected Assessor; which proposal was seconded by Hugh Fraser Leslie, Esq., of Powis. James Forbes, Esq., A.M., Kingsland House, Aberdeen, Dr. proposed that Alexander Kilgour, Esq., A.M., M.D., Aber- is deen, should be elected to that office; which proposal was seconded by Alexander Thomson, Esq., A.M., LL.D., of Banchory. |