Legislative Council. (Abridged from the Herald and Empire.) Tuesday, July 17, 1855
The SPEAKER took the chair. COUNCIL PAPERS AND BLUE BOOK. The COLONIAL SECRETARY laid on the table the report of the Commissioners of…
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Legislative Council. Wednesday, July 18, 1855. (Abridged from the Herald and Empire.)
The SPEAKER took the chair. PETITION. Mr. FLOOD presented a petition from certain inhabitants of Newcastle, praying the Council…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Council papers the Sydney and Hunter River Railways
The following is a statement of the cost of the two railways, as purchased by the Government, appended by the Colonial Treasurer to a detailed account of the negociations for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Supplement to the Maitland Mercury. Wednesday, July 25, 1855. Legislative Council. Thursday, July 19, 1855. (Abridged from the Herald and Empire.)
The SPEAKER took the chair. FINANCE. On the order of the day being called for resuming the debate on the Colonial…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Legislative Council. Tuesday, July 24, 1855. (Abridged from the Herald and Empire.)
The SPEAKER took the chair. ASSENT TO BILLS. The assent of the Governor General was announced to the Deceased Persons Estates…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Legislative Council. Wednesday, July 25, 1855. (Abridged from the Herald and Empire.)
The SPEAKER took the chair. MESSAGES. Messages from the Governor General were introduced, one transmitting a bill to construct a road to the Glebe…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Council Paper. a Bill for the Establishment and Maintenance of Primary and in Other Schools
A bill has just been introduced in the Legislative Council by the Government, for the establishment and maintenance of primary and other schools throughout the colony. The following is an abstract of its various…
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This body met on Monday—present, the Warden, Messrs. Borthwick, Gorrick, Evans, Kingsmill, and Walsh. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Council Paper. Abolition of the Stockade at Newcastle
Return to an address from the Legislative Council of New South Wales, dated 10th July, praying that his Excellency will be pleased to cause to be laid upon the table of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Supplement to the Maitland Mercury. Wednesday, August 1, 1855. Legislative Council. Thursday, July 26, 1855. (Abridged from the Herald and Empire.)
The SPEAKER took the chair. POSTPONEMENTS. Several motions were postponed, including the Hunter River Tonnage…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Legislative Council. Wednesday, August 1, 1855. (Abridged from the Herald and Empire.)
The SPEAKER took the chair. PETITIONS. Petitions were presented from a Presbyterian schoolmaster, praying alterations relative to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Council Paper a Bill to Amend and Consolidate the Laws Affecting the Solemnization of Marriage
Whereas it is expedient to amend and consolidate the laws relating to the solemnization of marriage in this colony: Be it enacted by his Excellency the Governor of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Legislative Council. (Abridged from the Herald and Empire.) Tuesday, July 31, 1855. The SPEAKER took the chair. Assent to Bills
The SPEAKER reported the Governor's assent to the Lien on Wool Act, and to the Census Act. COUNCIL PAPERS…
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Among the various papers recently laid on the table of the Council are a series of returns and documents relative to immigration. The first three of these are a series of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Legislative Council. (Abridged from the Herald and Empire.) Thursday, August 2, 1855
The SPEAKER took the chair. IMMIGRATION. The consideration of the Governor's message on this subject was postponed till…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Legislative Council. Wednesday, August 8. (Abridged from the Herald and Empire.)
The SPEAKER took the chair. PETITIONS. Mr. PARKES presented a petition praying the improvement of two streets in Sydney, and a petition…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Legislative Council. (Abridged from the Herald and Empire.) Tuesday, August 7, 1855
The SPEAKER took the chair. COUNCIL PAPERS. Report from the Commission of Inquiry into the State of Education in New South…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Supplement to the Maitland Mercury. Saturday, August 11, 1855. Council Papers. National Education. Report from the Commissioners of National Education in New South Wales, for the year 1854. To his Excellency Sir William Denison, Governor-General of all her Majesty's Australian Possessions, and Governor-in-Chief of the Territory of New South Wales and its Dependencies, &c., &c., &c. May it please your Excellency
We, the Commissioners of National Education in New South Wales, beg leave to submit to your Excellency this our seventh report…
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This body met on Monday, the 13th August. Present—the Warden, Messrs. Evans, Borthwick and Walsh. The minutes of the last meeting were read and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Legislative Council. (Abridged from the Herald and Empire.) Thursday, August 9
The SPEAKER took the chair. MESSAGES. A message from the Governer General was laid on the table, enclosing a…
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