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Council & local affairs, 1838

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The Council

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Saturday 27 October 1838 · page 2

After passing the Act relative to the free Importation of Flour, &c., Yesterday, the Council adjourned sine die. VICTORIA THEATRE -- This Theatre opens…

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The Council. Tuesday, October 23

The Australian · Saturday 27 October 1838 · page 3

On the opening of the Council, His Excellency said it would be in the recollection of the Council that they had been called together on the representation of one of the Judges, that the…

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Legislative Council. Friday, October 26, 1838

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 October 1838 · page 2

His Excellency the Governor in answer to a question which had been put to him by Sir John Jamison, on the subject of the appropriation of the Land Fund, stated that he had no objection to…

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Advance Australia Sydney Gazette. Saturday, October 27. 1838. The Proceedings of Council

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 October 1838 · page 2

His Excellency the Governor has brought under the consideration of the Council a Bill to exempt foreign grain, for a time, from the payment of the usual…

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Report of the progress the Committee of the Honorable the Legislative Council, on the Bill to regulate the Practice of Medicine

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 October 1838 · page 3

Your Committee have the honor to report to Your Excellency and the Honorable Council, that they have examined several Witnesses belonging to the Medical Profession; but from causes over which…

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Legislative Council

The Sydney Herald · Monday 29 October 1838 · page 2

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26.—On the opening of the Council, His Excellency the GOVERNOR said that, before proceeding with the order of the day, he had to lay before the Council a return of all…

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Correspondence. the Legislative Council (No. 2.) "If there's a hole in a your coats, I rede ye, tent it; A chiel's among yo taki' notes, An faithful he'll prent it" To the Editor of The Australian

The Australian · Tuesday 30 October 1838 · page 2

SIR—My last letter intimated an intention to devote an occasional hour to review the " sayings and doings" in our Legislative Council during the late session with the aim, chiefly, of bringing…

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Mem Rial From Colonel Snodgrass, C. B., of services rendered by him to the Colony of New South Wales, distinct from the duties of his military appointment as Brigade Major. To his Excellency, Sir Richard Bourke, K C B, Governor and Commander-in-Chief, & c., and the Members of the Legista ive Council. The H[?]le Memorial of [?]eate a[?] Colonel Snodgrass, Major of Brigade

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 30 October 1838 · page 3

RESPECTFULLY SHEWETH, That your Memorialist arrived in this Colony the latter end of the year [?], with a Commission to perform the [?]s of brigade Major, loge her with…

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The Council. Comments on its proceedings, by ASMODEOUS, a writer in a Contemporary

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Wednesday 7 November 1838 · page 2

"It is apparent, throughout the published proceedings, that His Excellency has ever been more anxious to draw out the sentiments of other members, than…

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Correspondence. the Legislative COUNCIL.—No. 3). "If there's a hole in a' your coats, I rede, ye, tent it; A chicel's amang ye takin' notes

The Australian · Thursday 15 November 1838 · page 2

SIR,—If it be true that "the perception of a fault is the first step in the progress towards its amendment," it is, unfortunately, no less fatal to such progressive improvement that the obstinacy engendered by ignorance…

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The Legislative COUNCIL.—(No. 4.)

The Australian · Thursday 29 November 1838 · page 2

"If there's a hole in a' your costs I rede ye. tent it; A chiel's amang ye takin no es, An' faith! he'll pent it."…

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To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & IRELAND The Petition of the Undersigned, Members of Council, Magistrates, Landholders Merchants, and other free Inhabitants of the Colony of New South Wales, in Public Meeting assembled

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Wednesday 5 December 1838 · page 1

MOST HUMBLY SHEWETH, That in the year 1831, His Majest's Government discontinued the practice of alineating the waste lands of the Colony…

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Correspondence. the Legislative COUNCIL.—(No. 5.)

The Australian · Thursday 6 December 1838 · page 2

"If there's a hole in a your coats, I rede ye, tent it; A chiel's a,mang ye takin notes, An faith! he'll prent it."…

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The Legislative COUNCIL.—(No.6.) "If there's a hole in a your coats, I rede ye, teat it; A chiel's among ye takin' notes. An faith! he'll prent it." the Estimates for 1839. (CONTINUED.) To the Editor of the Australian

The Australian · Saturday 15 December 1838 · page 2

SIR—Having shewn, in my last letter, the costliness of the Administration of Justice in the Colony, the efficiency of this expensive machinery for the purposes expected from it…

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Correspondence. the Legislative COUNCIL.—(No. 7.) "If there's a hole in a your coats, I rede ye, tent it; A chiel's among ye takin notes. An faith! he'll prent it." the Estimates for 1839. (CONTINUED.) To the Editor of The Australian

The Australian · Tuesday 18 December 1838 · page 2

SIR,—It would be as fruitless, as it would be an invidious task, to enquire into the causes of the mal-administration of justice which, confessedly on all hands for hundred yeas past has…

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English News. Irish Municipal Bill. London, July 28 1838

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Wednesday 26 December 1838 · page 2

My dear Barrett— I beg of you to apologise to my constituents for the non-appearance on Monday of my second letter on the subject of the alterations— falsely styled amendments— in the Municipal Reform…

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