Council Paper. Report From the Select Committee on Banking
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 25 September 1850 · page 2
The Select Committee of the Legislative Council, appointed on the 25th June, 1850, to inquire into the system of banking now prevailing in the colony; with an instruction more…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Council Papers. Notices of Motion and Orders of the Day. Friday, September 27, 1850. Order of the Day:—
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 25 September 1850 · page 4
1. Resumption of the adjourned debate on Mr. Lamb's motion against the resumption of transportation, namely:- 1. That an humble address be presented to her…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Legislative Council. Thursday, September 19, 1850. [Our Correspondent's report, published in Saturday's Mercury, brought down Thursday's Council proceedings to the discussion on the second reading of the Marriage Confirmation Bill. We now continue the report by abridgment from the S. M. Herald; and we also extract in full the discussion between Mr. Donaldson and Mr. Lamb on a point of order in connection with the Sydney anti-transportation meeting, as being of interest at this moment.] the Late Anti-transportation Meeting
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 25 September 1850 · page 4
Mr. DONALDSON drew attention, as a question of privilege, to certain remarks reported to have been made by Mr. Lamb i[?] his speech at the public meeting in the Ba[?]ack-square on Monday last. What he complained…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Legislative Council. Wednesday, September 25, 1850. (Abridged from the S. M. Herald.)
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 28 September 1850 · page 2
The SPEAKER took the chair at twenty minutes past three. OFFICIAL RETURNS. The COLONIAL SECRETARY laid upon the table a return…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Mercury. Saturday, September 28, 1850. the Council on Transportation.— Probable Result
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 28 September 1850 · page 2
A FEW days will probably elapse before the decision of the Council on Mr. Lamb's motion can be known here. In the meantime, however, we think…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Legislative Council. (Abridged from the Herald.) Tuesday, September 24, 1850. The SPEAKER took the chair at twenty past three. Notice of Motion
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 28 September 1850 · page 4
Mr. WENTWORTH gave notice of his intention, on Wednesday, to move for leave to bring in a bill declaratory of the right of licensed occupants of crown lands, to impound cattle and other animals…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Legislative Council. (From the S. M. Herald.) Saturday, September 28, 1850. TRANSPORTATION
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 2 October 1850 · page 2
Mr. MOOR presented a petition from Melbourne against the resumption of transportation. This petition had been prepared in duplicate, and a copy, with twelve hundred signatures, had been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Legislative Council. (Abridged from the S. M. Herald.) Thursday, September 26, 1850. [Our correspondent's report, published in Saturday's Mercury, brought down Thursday's Council proceedings to Mr. Wentworth's remarks on Dr. Lang's resolutions (on the third reading of the Sewerage Bill) proposing to endow the corporation of Sydney.] Sewerage Bill
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 2 October 1850 · page 4
On the motion for the third reading of this [?]ill, Dr. LANG moved the resolutions of which he had given notice, proposing an endowment of the corporation of Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Legislative Council. (From the S. M. Herald.) Wednesday, October 2, 1850
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 5 October 1850 · page 2
The SPEAKER took the chair at noon precisely. TRANSPORTATION. Mr. LAMB rose to move that the abstract of the petitions which had been presented to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Mercury. Saturday, October 5, 1850. Transportation.—decision of the Council
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 5 October 1850 · page 2
AFTER a debate which has not often been equalled for its length even in Parliament the Council have agreed, without a division, to Mr. Lamb's…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Legislative Council. (From the S. M. Herald.) Monday, September 30, 1850. [Our correspondent's report, published in Wednesday's Mercury, gave the Council proceedings on Monday up to the resumption of the transportation debate by Mr. Bowman. We now continue the report from the S. M. Herald. Mr. Donaldson's resolutions are given in the Herald, but as they were almost precisely the same as Mr. James Macarthur's first series of resolutions, already given in the Mercury, we need not insert them.] Transportation Debate
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 5 October 1850 · page 4
Mr. BOWMAN then resumed the debate. After commenting on the conduct of Mr. Wentworth's committee, in 1846, and the refusal of the house to print the antitransportation petitions, he expressed his opinion that…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Council Paper. Report of the Select Committee on Privileges of the House. The select committee of the Legislative Council appointed on the 7th June, 1850, "to inquire into and determine what are the privileges of this house (if any) with reference to contempts or breaches of the privileges of this house, committed in the face of the house as well as out of the house; and if the committee should be of opinion that no power of summary punishment for such contempts or breaches of the privileges of the house exists, that it be an instruction to the committee to frame and present a bill to confer on this house the same rights and privileges as belong to the Commons House of Parliament in England, or such other rights and privileges as the committee may suggest," have agreed, though not unanimously, to the following report
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 5 October 1850 · page 4
It is evident, from the 48th Standing Order of this Council, that the subject of contempts was under the consideration of the committee which framed the Standing Orders now in force,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Council Paper. Van Diemen's Land Convicts. Extract from a note from Sir William Denison
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 16 October 1850 · page 4
"In order to enable you to lay before the Council the real facts of the case with regard to the convicts in the colony, and their distribution, I forward you a return, which I shall be obliged…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Council Paper. Report From the Select Committee on Cape York. The select committee of the Legislative Council appointed on the 19th July, 1850, "to inquire into and report upon the expediency of forming a settlement at Cape York or its immediate neighbourhood," have agreed to the following report
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 19 October 1850 · page 1
Your committee have confined their enquiry to the expediency of measures being taken by the local government for the immediate formation of a settlement in the vicinity of Cape…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Government Gazette. Friday, November 15, 1850. Act of Council
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 20 November 1850 · page 4
His Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified, that the Right Honorable the Secretary of State for the Colonies has intimated, in his despatch of the 9th May last, No. 57, that her…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Government Gazette. Wednesday, November 27, 1850. Legislative Council
The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 4 December 1850 · page 4
Whereas a writ was issued for the election of a member to serve in the Legislative Council for the electoral district of the united northern counties of Gloucester, Macquarie, and Stanley,…
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