Transcribed text:

At Dundee the twenty
sixth day of September
One thousand eight hundred
and sixteen years. At a
meeting of the Tailor In
=corporation within their
usual place of meeting

The Trade elected Mr James Gellatly
a member of the Hammerman
Trade to be Convener for the
ensuing year.

Deacon Low produced
to the meeting a protest pro
=posed to be taken this day by
Deacon Ivory of the Hammerman
Incorporation against the ^x^ Magis
=trates and Town Council.
To which protest the Trade
by a great majority agreed
that the Deacon should adhere
in name of the Incorporation

The Trade by a majority
made choice of Mr William Young
to be their Deacon for the
ensuing year
Thos Low

[Marginalia: x the election
of Bailie
Patrick Anderson
as Dean of
Guild &c
Thos Low]