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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1844

1,052 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 53

City Council. Monday, May 13, 1844

The Guardian · Saturday 18 May 1844 · page 75

Present: The Mayor, Aldermen Allen, Broughton, and Flood, Councillors Cowlishaw, Coyle, Agars, Holden, Jenkins, Neale and Thurlow. BYE-LAWS…

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Country News. Mudgee District Council

The Australian · Monday 20 May 1844 · page 4

On Tuesday, May 7th a Meeting of the above Council was held agreeable to the advertisement which appeared in GOVERNMENT GAZETTE of April 2nd.— At…

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News From the Interior. (From our various Correspondent.) Parramatta. District Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 May 1844 · page 2

ON Monday, the District Council met, when two of the newly elected members, Messrs. Pye and Honison, took then seats, the other member, Mr. G. R. Nichols, did not attend owing, it is said,…

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Legislative Council

The Australian · Tuesday 21 May 1844 · page 2

The files of English papers for January, which we have recently received, are filled with speculative essays on the prospects of the Parliamentary Session which was about…

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Domestic Intelligence City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 May 1844 · page 2

PRESENT—The Mayor; Aldermen Allen, Broughton, Macdermott, and Flood; Councillors Hill, Ryan, Brown, Driver, Jenkins, Smidmore, Cowlishaw, Thurlow, and Little…

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City Council. Monday, May 20

The Australian · Tuesday 21 May 1844 · page 3

The members to whose names is prefixed, were present at the opening of the Council; a denotes those members who took their seats after the business had commenced…

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Legislative Council

The Australian · Friday 24 May 1844 · page 2

WE this day week had a paragraph in type, announcing that Sir Maurice O'Connell had resigned his seat in tho Legislative Council, and that the Governor had…

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Mudgee. District Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 May 1844 · page 3

THE Councillors of the above district met on Friday, May 10th, agreeable to the adjournment of the preceding Tuesday. Present—The Warden, George Cox, Esq.,…

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Sydney District Council

The Australian · Friday 24 May 1844 · page 3

THURSDAY, MAY 23.—Present: The Warden, Aldermon Allen, Flood, Macdermost; and Councillors Wilson, Cape, Bourne, Jones, Kettle, and Carr…

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Country News. Mudgee District Council, May 10

The Australian · Friday 24 May 1844 · page 3

Present.—The Warden, George Cox, Esq., J. P., Henry Cox, Esq., J. P., N. P, Bayley, Esq., J. P., C. G. F. Chauvet, Esq., J. P., and Edwin Rouse, Esq., Councillors…

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The Legislative Council

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 25 May 1844 · page 607

THE resignation of his seat in the Legislative Council by the Commander of the Forces, will, it is generally apprehended, cause a dissolution of the Council. By the 19th clause…

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Yass.—district Council

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 25 May 1844 · page 3

Tuesday last being the day appointed for the nomination of Councillors in place of Messrs. in Clayton and, Moses, who retired in accordance with the act, a meeting was held in the Court House,…

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City Council

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 25 May 1844 · page 604

THE Mayor reported that a deputation from the Council had waited on the Governor, on the 16th instant, to request that he would point out a site for a City Hall, and issue a…

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Sydney News. City Council.--Monday

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 25 May 1844 · page 3

BUSINESS commenced by the Mayor reporting that a deputation from the Council had waited upon the Governor, on the 16th instant, to request that he would point out a site for the City Hall, and issue a grant…

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City Council. Monday, May 20Th, 1844

The Guardian · Saturday 25 May 1844 · page 86

Present:--the Mayor; Aldermen Allen, Broughton, Flood, and Macdermott; Councillors Hill, Ryan, Brown, Driver, Jenkins, Smidmore, Thurlow, and Little…

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City Council. Monday, May 25Th, 1844

The Dispatch · Saturday 25 May 1844 · page 2

On Monday the Council met at the City Hall, in York-street, when there were present, the Mayor, Alderman Allen, Broughton, Macdermott and Flood -- Councillors Hill, Ryan, Brown,…

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Sydney District Council. Thursday, May 23

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 25 May 1844 · page 604

The following committees were appointed, in lieu of those existing previous to the election of new members to supply the places of those who retired by rotation on the 1st…

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Local Intelligence. Sydney News. City Council.--MONDAY

The Star and Working Man's Guardian · Saturday 25 May 1844 · page 2

BUSINESS commenced by the Mayor reporting that a deputation from the Council, had waited upon the Governor, on the 16th instant, to request that he would point out a site for the City Hall, and issue a grant…

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Legislative Council

The Australian · Tuesday 28 May 1844 · page 3

THE Governor opens the Council to-day, in porson, and apart from the interest with which the re-assembling of the House is regarded on account of the important…

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Domestic Intelligence. City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 May 1844 · page 2

PRESENT—The Mayor; Aldermen Macdermott, Broughton, Flood, Allen; Councillors Coyle, Agars, D. Jones, Smidmore, Browne, Jenkins, Ryan, Driver, and Little…

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