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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1844

1,052 stories in Sydney's papers · page 19 of 53

Legislative Council. Thursday, June 20

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 June 1844 · page 2

THE Council met at the usual hour. PASTORAL REGULATIONS. Major WENTWORTH presented a petition, signed by graziers and stockholders resident in…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, June 19

The Australian · Friday 21 June 1844 · page 3

The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour. NEW MEMBER. JOHN HUBERT PLUNKETT, Esq. Attorney…

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Legislative Council

The Australian · Saturday 22 June 1844 · page 2
Also in The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature, The Guardian

YESTERDAY, pursuant to notice, Mr. Wentworth brought forward his motion for the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into, and report upon all grievances…

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City Council

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 22 June 1844 · page 649

Alderman Macdermott presented the report of the Assessment Committee, containing the following recommendations:--1. That every building in the city, of…

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City Council.--MONDAY

The Star and Working Man's Guardian · Saturday 22 June 1844 · page 2

AMONG the Reports brought up was one by Alderman Flood, of the Committee, appointed by the Council, for the purpose of framing a Petition to the Legislative Council for the reduction of the Municiple Franchise…

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Sydney District Council

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 22 June 1844 · page 648

THE Warden presented a report of the petition committee, containing the draft of a petition to the Legislative Council, and setting forth a great number of points in the present…

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Local Intelligence. District Council

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 22 June 1844 · page 2

ON Wednesday, pursuant to adjournment, the Council met at the Lumber Yard, where a neat and commodious room has been fitted up for their use. The members present were Gilbert Eliott, Esq., the Warden,…

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Legislative Council. Thursday, June 20

The Australian · Saturday 22 June 1844 · page 4
Also in Morning Chronicle

The Speaker took the Chair at the usual hour. SQUATTING LICENCES. Major WENTWORTH presented a Petition from…

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Sydney News. City Council.--MONDAY

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 22 June 1844 · page 3

AMONG the Reports brought up was one by Alderman Flood, of the Committee, appointed by the Council, for the purpose of framing a Petition to the Legislative Council for the reduction of the Municiple Franchise…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, June 12

The Dispatch · Saturday 22 June 1844 · page 1

Mr. Cowper presented petitions from the districts of Kissing Point and Windsor, against the Squatting Regulations. They were read, ordered to be printed, and to be referred to the Land…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, June 19

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 22 June 1844 · page 4

The Council met at the usual hour. The SPEAKER having read the commission appointing the Attorney General a member of council, the latter gentleman took the usual oath…

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Legislative Council. Friday, June 14

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 22 June 1844 · page 3

Dr. Lang moved for leave to bring in "A Bill to remove doubts as to the validity of certain marriages to be had a solemnized within the colony of New South Wales, by Ministers of the Australian Methodist…

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Legislative Council. Friday, June 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 June 1844 · page 2

THE Speaker took the chair at the usual hour, end there was an unusually large attendance of members, thirty having been counted as present…

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Country News. Parramatta the District Council

The Australian · Saturday 22 June 1844 · page 3

Pursuant to adjournment, this body corporate met at their new Chambers, at thier Lumber Yard, in an apartment which has been fitted up for their use which as it saves rent—a matter…

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City Council. Monday, June 17Th 1844

The Guardian · Saturday 22 June 1844 · page 114

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

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The present Session of the Legislative Council

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 22 June 1844 · page 1
Also in The Star and Working Man's Guardian

GREAT was the degree of importance attached to the "sayings and doings" of the last session of the Legislative Council, yet it falls far short of the interest attendant on the present sittings. Last year much was said…

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