| Description | Minutes of general and weekly committee meetings of the partners of Aberdeen Leith and Clyde Shipping Company, including reports of annual general meetings from the Committee of Management to the Shareholders, recording the Company's affairs for the past year. Minutes detail decisions made on the movement of vessels; on new appointments to the Company in Aberdeen and mentions the proposed advertisement and sale of the Dee, Don, Aberdeen packet and Liverpool packet. Minutes of 4, 9 and 13 December 1851, record the proposal made by the local railway companies that the Aberdeen Leith and Clyde Shipping Company stop its South trade, be confined to the North and have a steam boat work with the railways on the route between Aberdeen and the Northern ports. Minutes of 16, 18 December 1851, 6, 28 January and 3 February 1852, detail correspondence made between the directors of the Aberdeen Leith and Clyde Shipping Company and the directors of the Aberdeen, the Scottish Central and Scottish Midland Junction, Railway Companies, in which the above proposal was rejected. Also includes minutes of a Special General meeting, dated 5 April 1852, held at the Lemon Tree Tavern to discuss changes to the Company's 'Contract'. Manuscript and signed by president or vice-president. |