Interlocutor book. Small debt cases. Includes newspaper cutting "Action Against Dundee Cycle Agent" [1897] George and Peter Barrie aerated water manufacturers against James Soutar Martin; cycle engineer. March 1909 - April 1932.
Opinions book Vols. 1-2. December 1933 - November 1945. Indexed. Some of these articles relate to the Marriage-Contract Trusts and Executries in MS 105/XX.
Dundee Royal Exchange Association, January, 1851. A Testing Clause to acquire a site for the purpose of constructing a Chamber of Commerce and Exchange on the north-east corner of Panmure Street, Dundee. Signatures of subscribers follow.
Broughty Ferry Gas Light Company, July, 1860. Testing Clause to dissolve the existing company and to reconstitute another (of the same name) to light homes, shops, manufactories and streets with inflammable gas. Signatures of subscribers follow. [Stored in map and plan Box 33.]
The Dundee New Gas Light Company, 1846. [3] Two copies of a Testing Clause regarding the regulation of the company with a view to apply for an Act of Incorporation from Parliament. [Both contracts are identical but with different sets of subscribers following the text.] One further contract for the Dundee New Gas Light Company to construct and maintain the works, machinery and apparatus necessary for making and supplying and lighting Dundee and its suburbs with gas. [Stored in map and plan box 32]
Documents concerning the estate of David Watterston, retired grocer, Forfar, who died intestate in 1885. Includes documents concerning agreement over division of the estate between his son and executor, Andrew Watterston of Wisconsin U.S.A.; his daughter Mrs Julius Wincell, and her husband; and the Tutors and Curators for the infant children of his late son Charles Watterston. These papers include inventories, other related financial transactions, and insurance policies of David and Maggie Watterston, children of Charles Watterston (with birth certificates, including a certificate for one James Watterston). The affairs of the children were overseen by W. Arnot Watterston of Shiell and Small, and include bank account book of W. Arnot Watterston for David Watterston, 1886-1896; and insurance policies of David and Maggie Watterston. 1879-1896. [W. Arnot Watterston was Secretary of University College, Dundee See also Recs A/727/4].Found with the Dundee Newtyle Railway records.
Letter from R.R. Stodart, Lord Lyon, to John Shiell, dated 21 December 1885, as to Royal Arms of Scotland and in particular to the dating of crests used in same. (This is of different provenance - it was found in a book presented to Dundee University Library. Was in Archives as MS 15/32)
Scrapbook containing newspaper cuttings relating to John Shiell, (d.1875) and David Small (d.1885), solicitors in Dundee and their families, c.1875-1905 and 1951; particularly obituary notices. Includes accounts of marriage of Edith Shiell to Alexander Macduff of Bonhard (1883). Also includes: articles on the garden and art collection of Mr R.H. Kinnear, Toorak, Victoria, Australia, 1882-1891; account of gifts of oil painting "Pieta" by Ludovico Carracci to Dundee Art Galleries, 1951. (This is of uncertain provenance - it was MS 15/49) FRAGILE- NOT TO BE PRODUCED
Single volumes and items, particularly letter books relating to affairs mainly of local businessmen (some unidentified). Clients include Edward C Baird; James Bell & Son, Rope and Sailmakers, Dundee; J C Buist; W Thomson Currie; James Davidson; J A Guthrie of Craigie (Dundee Harbour extension reports and correspondence 1854-1869); Meyer, Milne & Co; William Nicoll; Alexander Ramsay; Ross and Mitchell, Railway Contractors, Edinburgh; O J Rowland, Jute Merchant & Manufacturer; William Small, County Fire Office (1909-1964); Dundee and District Armaments Committee; Dundee New Gas Light Co; Dundee Working Men's Club; Dundee Water Works
