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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1844

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New From the Interior. (From our various correspondents.) Parramatta District Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 January 1844 · page 2

THE District Council met on Wednesday, by adjournment; all the members, with the exception of Mr. Murray and Mr. Rutledge, attended. The minutes of last meeting were…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 January 1844 · page 2

A MEETING of the City Councial will be holden st the Town Hall, To-morrow, at three o'clock in the afternoon. ORDERS OF THE DAY…

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The [?] Morning [?]. Tuesday, January 2, 1844. "Sworn to no master, of no seet am I." City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 January 1844 · page 2

THE City Council have adopted a very bad practice: they discuss and decide upon the Reports of Select Committee, before they have been published. This has been…

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Yass District Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 January 1844 · page 2

DECEMBER 18.—A meeting of the Yass District Council was held to-day at the Police Office, the Worden, and Councillors O'Brien, Middleton, and Moses, present…

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City Council

The Australian · Thursday 4 January 1844 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

At a Meeting of the Council yesterday, his Worship the Mayor in the chair, Councilor Little presented a petition from Mr. John White, superintendent of the Water…

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News From the Interior. (From our various correspondents.) Goulburn District Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 January 1844 · page 2

DECEMBER 28.—An adjourned meeting of the District Council was held this day, to consider "addresses to the Governor and Legislative Council" expressing the thanks of the…

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City Council

The Dispatch · Saturday 6 January 1844 · page 2
Also in The Sydney Record, The Australian, The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature

On Wednesday last, a meeting of the City Council was held at the City hall, when the; Mayor, 4 Aldermen, and 11 Councillors were present…

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Legislative Council

The Australian · Saturday 6 January 1844 · page 2

The following are tho Notices of Motion and Orders of the Day for the next Session Notices of Motion.—(1.) Mr. Windeyer to move in tho first week of the next Session…

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Parramatta District Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 January 1844 · page 2

OUR District Council met on Saturday the 30th ultimo, when, as usual, a [?] the members attended. As it was impossible for the Council to…

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District Council. Saturday, 30Th Ultimo

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 6 January 1844 · page 1

PRESENT--The Warden, Messrs. G. B. Suttor, Byrnes, Nelson Lawson, and Doctors Foster, Anderson, and Hill. The Clerk read the proceedings of the former…

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The Schedule C-- the Legislative Council-- the Governor and the Church Act

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 6 January 1844 · page 359

THE Act of Parliament by which the present government of this Colony is constituted has reserved to her Majesty, among other items, the sum of £30,000 annually…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Saturday, January 6, 1844. "Sworn to no master, of no sect am I." City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 January 1844 · page 2

WE noticed, a few days since, the objectionable practice pursued by the City Council of bringing up reports from committees, and immediately adopting them:…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1844 · page 2

A MEETING of the City Council will be holden at the Town Hall, on Friday next, at three o'clock in the afternoon: ORDERS OF THE DAY…

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City Council. Wednesday, January 3, 1844

Morning Chronicle · Wednesday 10 January 1844 · page 4

Present—Tile Mayor, Aldermen Allen, Macdermott, Broughton, and Flood; Councillors Jenkins, Driver, Coyle, Agars, Neale, Little, Cowlishaw, D. Jones. Taylor, Holden, and Smidmore…

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