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Hunter Valley · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1849

104 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 6

Legislative Council. (Abridged from the Sydney Morning Herald.) Thursday, August 9, 1849. Committee of Supply

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 15 August 1849 · page 4

[Our correspondent's report, published in Saturday's Mercury, left the Council still sitting in committee on the Estimates; we make from the Herald's report the following abstract of the further proceedings on that…

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Legislative Council. (From the S. M. Herald.) Tuesday, August 14, 1849

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 18 August 1849 · page 4

The SPEAKER took the chair at twenty-five minutes past three. ROAD TO WOLLOMBI. Mr. DANGAR presented a petition from a…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, Aug. 15, 1849, (Abridged from the Sydney Morning Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 18 August 1849 · page 2

The SPEAKER took the chair at twenty-five minutes past three. DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOLS. Mr. DANGAR presented a petition from 88 Roman…

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Legislative Council. Friday, August 17, 1849. (Abridged from the Sydney Morning Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 22 August 1849 · page 1

The SPEAKER took the chair at half-past three. REPORTS. Mr. HAMILTON laid upon the table the…

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Legislative Council. Tuesday, August 21, 1849. (Abridged from the Sydney Morning Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 25 August 1849 · page 4

The SPEAKER took the chair at twenty minutes past three. GEOLOGICAL RESEARCHES. Mr. BEERY gave notice of his intention, on…

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Council Paper. Newcastle Breakwater. Report from the Select Committee on the Newcastle Breakwater

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 25 August 1849 · page 2

The Select Committee of the Legislative Council appointed on the 3rd July, 1849, "to enquire into the state of the Breakwater at Newcastle," have agreed to the following report…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, Aug. 22, 1849. (Abridged from the Sydney Morning Herald.) Denominational Education

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 25 August 1849 · page 2

Mr. DARVALLL presented a petition from 261 Roman Catholic inhabitants of Bathurst, praying for a more equitable distribution of the sums devoted to denominational education. Received…

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Council Paper. Sydney Railway Company. Supplementary Report from the Select Committee on the Sydney Railway Bill

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 25 August 1849 · page 4

The Select Committee of the Legislative Council reappointed on the 18th July, 1849, "with a view to refer for their consideration and report the despatch from the Right Honorable Earl Grey, dated the 8th February,…

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Legislative Council. Thursday, August 23, 1849

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 29 August 1849 · page 4

[?]n Saturday's Mercury we gave our correspondent's report of Thursday's Council, up to the moment at which he was obliged to leave to despatch his packet. The Council were then sitting in committee on the…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, Aug. 29, 1849. (Abridged from the Sydney Morning Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 1 September 1849 · page 2

The SPEAKER took the chair at twenty minutes past three. BOWLING-GREENS. Mr. NICHOLS presented a petition from Mr…

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Legislative Council. Tuesday, August 28, 1849. (Abridged from the Sydney Morning Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 1 September 1849 · page 4

The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour. PETITIONS. Mr. MARTIN presented a petition from the…

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Legislative Council. Thursday, Aug. 31, 1849

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 5 September 1849 · page 4

[In Saturday's Mercury we published our correspondent's report of Thursday's Council proceedings to the period when the house went into committee on the Estimates. We continue the report by the following…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, Seft, 5,1849. (Abridged from the Sydney Morning Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 8 September 1849 · page 2

The SPEAKER took the chair at twenty minutes past three. CASE OF J. MORING. Mr. COWPER gave notice of his intention, on Friday,…

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Legislative Council. Tuesday, Sept. 4, 1849. (Abridged from the Sydney Morning Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 8 September 1849 · page 4

The SPEAKER took the chair at twenty minutes past three. MEMBER FOR PORT PHILLIP. LACHLAN MACKINNON, Esq., member for Port…

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Council Paper. EDUCATION

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 12 September 1849 · page 2

SUMMARY of Return from the 1st January, to the 30th June, 1849, of the average attendance of children at each of the Denominational Schools…

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Legislative Council. Thursday, September 6, 1849. [We continue an abstract of Thursday's Council proceedings, from the Sydney Morning Herald, from the point up to which our correspondent's report extended, as published in Saturday's Mercury.] Foundatton of a University

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 12 September 1849 · page 4

On Mr. WENTWORTH'S motion—"That a select committee be appointed to inquire into the matters contained in the petition of the proprietors of the Sydney College, and to report upon the best means of…

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Legislative Council. Tuesday, September 10, 1849. (Abridged from the Sydney Morning Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 15 September 1849 · page 1

The SPEAKER took the chair at half-past three. MESSAGES. The following messages were brought in…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, Sept. 12, 1849. (Abridged from the Sydney Morning Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 15 September 1849 · page 2

The SPEAKER took the chair at twenty-five minutes past three. POSTAGE BILL. The COLONIAL SECRETARY, as Chairman of the…

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Council Paper. Insolvent Estates. Abstract of the Return in Insolvency Proceedings, ordered to be laid before the Legislative Council of New South Wales, and dated September 4, 1849

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 15 September 1849 · page 2

First.—As to the number of insolvent estates:- Estates. In 1842 were sequestrated...... 629 1843,,...... 539…

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Legislative Council. Thursday, Sept. 13, 1849

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 19 September 1849 · page 4

[When our correspondent left the Council on Thursday evening the house were in committee on the Estimates, and had just voted £1500 for increasing the native police beyond the boundaries. The remainder…

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