Dundee Town Clerk's Letter Book
Petition to Dundee Magistrates and Town Council
March 1825 - March 1826

Signed by 12 proprietors and occupiers of properties at the foot of the Hilltown, this petition to the Dundee Magistrates and Town Council complains about a property at the foot of the Hilltown being used as a slaughterhouse and dung stance.

The petitioners complain that they are subjected to a 'nuisance almost intolerable arising from the smell and vermin which collect about the slaughterhouse and dung stance'. The Council ordered the occupier of the ground to be removed and instructed that care should be taken when letting it in future - to make sure it was never again used for those purposes.

ATC-MIS-112-1(c)