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Council & local affairs, 1841

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Council Papers. Sale of Crown Lands

Free Press and Commercial Journal · Saturday 5 June 1841 · page 2

Despatch from the Right Honorable Lord John Russell to His Excellency Governor Sir George Gipps, transmitting letter from the Colonial Land and Emigration…

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English Intelligence. Are We to Have a Municipal Corporation?

Free Press and Commercial Journal · Saturday 5 June 1841 · page 2

FROM the subjoined article in the Colonial Gazette of the 21st December last, we are gratified to [?] that the views which we expounded and advocated at great length…

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Council Papers. EMIGRATION. Despatch from the Right Hon. Lord John Russell to his Excellency Governor Sir George Gipps, transmitting Report from the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners on the comparative advantages of the Government and Bounty Systems of Emigration. Downing-street, 7th October, 1840

Australasian Chronicle · Saturday 5 June 1841 · page 1

SIR—I have to acknowledge the receipt of your despatch of the 4th of December, 1839, inclosing the copy of the report made to the legislative council of New South Wales, by the committee…

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Legislative Council

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 7 June 1841 · page 2

We have been favoured with copies of a number of documents, which will form subject-matter for the consideration of His Excellency Sir George Gipps, and the members of the Legis…

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Legislative Council

The Sydney Herald · Tuesday 8 June 1841 · page 2

THE following Bill intended to be laid before the Council has been published:— A Bill to repeal so much of an Act intituled "An Act to a[?]olish the Transportation of…

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The Chronicle. Tuesday, June 8, 1841. the Legislative Council

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 8 June 1841 · page 2

THE Legislative Council—or, as the Colonial Land and Emigration Board styles them, "these representatives, as they may be called, of the colonists"—meet this day for the exercise of their…

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Council Papers. EMIGRATION. Despatch from the Right Hon. Lord John Russell to his Excellency Governor Sir George Gipps, transmitting Report from the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissioners on the comparative advantages of the Government and Bounty Systems of Emigration. (Continued from our last.)

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 8 June 1841 · page 1

There is another statement in Mr. Pinnock's evidence which we feel obliged to notice, especially as it led to an expression of censure on the officers at home, by the high authority before whom it was…

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Legislative Council

The Sydney Herald · Wednesday 9 June 1841 · page 2

TUESDAY, June 8, 1841.—Present, His Excellency Sir GEORGE GIPPS, Governor of the Colony; the Right Reverend William Grant Broughton, D.D., Lord Bishop of Australia;…

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Domestic Intelligence. the Opening of Council

Free Press and Commercial Journal · Wednesday 9 June 1841 · page 2

YESTERDAY the Legislative Council reassembled, and the Sesssion was opened with the usual formalities. The members are all to the fore except Mr. Plunkett, the…

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Council Papers. Sale of Crown Lands. Office of Colonial Lands and Emigration, 9, Park street, Westminster, August, 1840

Free Press and Commercial Journal · Wednesday 9 June 1841 · page 4

Regulations for free passages, granted in this country, to persons named by purchasers of land at Sydney, or Port Phillip. The following are the regulations on the…

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Sydney Monitor & Commercial Advertiser Wednesday Morning, June 9, 1841. Nothing extenuate, nor aught set down in [?] SHAKESPEARE. Legislative Council

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Wednesday 9 June 1841 · page 2

The Legislative Council assembled yesterday, when the Governor, after a lengthy, though able address, laid before the Council several Bills and Despatches as subjects for…

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The Sydney Herald, with Which Is Incorporated the Colonist. Wednesday, June 9, 1841, "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Legislative Council

The Sydney Herald · Wednesday 9 June 1841 · page 2

THE Annual Session of the Colonial Council commenced yesterday, and judging from the proceedings, we should imagine that the business transacted this…

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Legislative Council

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 10 June 1841 · page 2

THE last, we hope, Annual Sessions of this Honorable body, commenced on Tuesday last. We'have, in common willi our brethren of the gooss-quill and broad sheet, to return thanks to…

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The Legislative Council.—new Zealand

Australasian Chronicle · Thursday 10 June 1841 · page 2

We give, as usual, a full report of the proceedings of this body, to which we request the attention of our readers; also to the official documents just received from New Zealand, the three islands of…

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Legislative Council—tuesday, June 8

The Australian · Thursday 10 June 1841 · page 2

The opening of the Council by the Governor, and the received opinion very current in town, that his Excellency's speech would embrace points of much political importance, drew a great…

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Legislative Council. Tuesday, June 8, 1841

Australasian Chronicle · Thursday 10 June 1841 · page 2

On Tuesday, at twelve o'clock, the members of the legislative council assembled in the council room for the despatch of business. There were present his Excellency Sir George Gipps. Governor of the…

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Government Gazette. Tuesday, June 8, 1841. COUNCIL

Australasian Chronicle · Thursday 10 June 1841 · page 4

His Excellency the Governor is pleased to direct that the general objects of the following bill, about to be brought under consideration of the legislative council, be published for general information…

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Council Papers. a Statement of the Sums appropriated by the Legislative Council, for the Service of the Year 1840, and the previous Years, remaning, on the 31st December, 1840, to be expended and charged, as bring then still required, to meet the purposes for which they nero appropriated

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 10 June 1841 · page 4

To meet arrears in the department of the Surveyor General, £l,000; towards the support of the Australian Museum, £735 2s.; to meet the salary of the Colonial Agent…

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Legislative Council—tuesday, June 8. (Concluded from just publication.) DESPATCH

The Australian · Saturday 12 June 1841 · page 2

The GOVERNOR next said, that having received a despatch from the Secretary of State, it became his duty to lay it before the council. Honorable members would from it observe that they were…

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Council Papers. Colonial Land and Emigration Office, 9, Park-streek, Westminster, Sept. 14, 1840

Free Press and Commercial Journal · Saturday 12 June 1841 · page 2

SIR,--We have had the honour to receive your letter of the 17th July, enclosing a Despatch from Sir George Gipps, together with a report from the Committee of the Legislative Council…

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