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Hunter Valley · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1851

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, November 5, 1851. (Abridgedfrom the Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 8 November 1851 · page 2

The SPEAKER took the chair at twenty minutes past three. PETITIONS. Mr. HOLROYD presented a petition from 235…

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Legislative Council. Tuesday, November 4, 1851. (Abridged from the Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 8 November 1851 · page 1

The SPEAKER took the chair at twenty-five minutes past three. SHALL DEBTS. A message was presented from his Excellency…

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Council Papers. National Schools. Third Report of the Board of National Education in New South Wales

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 8 November 1851 · page 1

The Board of National Education have agreed to the following report:- 1. In submitting our third annual report, we beg permission, in the first place to refer to the…

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Legislative Council. Friday, November 7, 1851

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 12 November 1851 · page 2

In our fourth page we give an abridged report from the Herald of the proceedings in Council, on Friday, on Mr. Donaldson's immigration resolutions, which were carried without division; and…

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Legislative Council. (Abridged from the Herald.) Friday, 7Th November, 1851. the Northern Districts

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 12 November 1851 · page 4

Mr. JONES moved for a variety of returns relative to Brisbane, and to the districts of Clarence River, Moreton Bay, Darling Downs, Burnett, Wide Bay, and Maranoa, for the period from…

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Council Papers. Retired Officers and Commuted Pensioners. No. 2. Copy of a Despatch from the Secretary at War to Major-General Wynyard. (No. 36546-1254.) War Office, 17th June, 1851

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 12 November 1851 · page 1

SIR—Your letter of the 31st October last, referring to a petition from commuted pen[?] which had been forwarded by Sir Charles Secretary of State for the Colonies, I now…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, November 12, 1851. (Abridged from the Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 15 November 1851 · page 2

The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour. NEW MEMBER. William Bradley, Esq., non-official nominee,…

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Legislative Council. Tuesday, November 11, 1851. (Abridged from the Herald.) the Speaker took the chair at the usual hour. PETITIONS

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 15 November 1851 · page 4

Petitions were presented— By Mr. Cowper, from trustees under the Parish Roads Act, praying leave to introduce a bill to amend that act Received, and notice…

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Largislative Council. Friday, November 14, 1851. (From the S. M. Berald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 19 November 1851 · page 1

The Speaker took the chair at half-past three, but as there was not a sufficient number of members present to constitute a quorum, the Council was adjourned until Tuesday. The…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, November 19, 1851. (Abridged from the Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 22 November 1851 · page 2

The SPEAKER took the chair at twenty minutes past three. PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. The COLONIAL SECRETARY laid on the table…

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Council Paper. Proposed Expenditure in 1852, Under Schedule A. (PART 2)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 22 November 1851 · page 4

STATEMENT of the amount intended to be appropriated in the year 1852, for the services and purposes named in Schedule A, part 2, annexed to the Act 13 and 14 Victoria, cap. 59, presented…

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Legislative Council. "Tuesday, November 18, 1851. (Abridged from the Herald and Empire.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 22 November 1851 · page 4

The SPEAKER took the chair at twenty minutes past three. PRIVATE BILLS. Mr. COWPER brought up the report of the…

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Legislative Council. Friday, November 21, 1851. (Abridged from the Empire.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 26 November 1851 · page 4

The SPEAKER took the chair at half-past three. RETURN. The COLONIAL SECRETARY laid on the table a…

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Council Paper. Gold Districts Returns

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 29 November 1851 · page 4

A Return shewing the number of licenses issued since the discovery of the gold at Summer Hill, in May last. Total…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, November 26, 1851. (Abridged from the Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 29 November 1851 · page 2

The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour. RETURNS. The COLONIAL SECRETARY laid on the table…

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Legislative Council. Friday, November 21, 1851. [The Sydney papers of Saturday not having given the debate on Dr. Douglass's motion to introduce a bill to regulate immigration from China, we were unable to introduce it in its proper place in Friday's proceedings, in the Mercury of Wednesday. We now abridge the Herald's report of the debate.] Chinese Immigration

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 29 November 1851 · page 1

Dr. DOUGLASS moved for leave to introduce a bill to regulate immigration from China. He did so in conformity with a pledge given to his constituents that he would oppose any such…

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Legislative Council. Thursday, November 27, 1851. [We resume by abridgment from the Herald, the report of Thursday's proceedings from the point at which our Sydney correspondent's report left, as given in Saturday's Mercury.] Estimates for 1852

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Wednesday 3 December 1851 · page 2

The house having gone into committee on the Estimates, The sum of £8350 wa sproposed, in support of the denominational schools of the eolony…

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Legislative Council. (Abridged from the Herald.) Tuesday, December 2. 1851

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 6 December 1851 · page 4

The SPEAKER took the chair at half-past three. PETITIONS. Mr. CAMPBELL presented a petition from…

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Council Paper. Report From the Select Committee on General Grievances

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 6 December 1851 · page 4

The select committee of the Legislative Council appointed, on the 31st October last, "to prepare petitions to her Majesty and both Houses of Parliament, setting forth all the…

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Maitland Mercury. Saturday, December 6, 1851. the Council and the Mining Interests

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 6 December 1851 · page 2

THE miners assembled on the Turon have appealed to the Legislative Council against what they conceive to be the objectionable features of the present…

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