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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1844

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Legislative Council. Thursday, July 4, 1844

The Australian · Saturday 6 July 1844 · page 3

The Speaker took the Chair at the usual hour. APPRENTICES. Mr. LOWE presented a Petition from Isaac…

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Local Intelligence. Legislative Council. Friday, June 28

The Star and Working Man's Guardian · Saturday 6 July 1844 · page 1

The Colonial Secretary laid upon the table the Blue Book of the year. The Colonial Secretary also laid upon the table a further return of the Address adopted on the motion of…

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Sir George Gipps and the Municipal Institutions of the Colony

The Dispatch · Saturday 6 July 1844 · page 1

HIS Excellency Sir George Gipps has received credit from the Colonists generally, as being the originator of the Municipal Institutions at present in force in the Colony. And as these Municipal…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 July 1844 · page 2

A MEETING of the City Council will be holden at the Town Hall, at three o'clock this afternoon. ORDERS OF THE DAY…

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Legislative Council. Friday, July 5, 1844. Sergeant at Arms

The Australian · Monday 8 July 1844 · page 3

The SPEAKER having read a Commission, appointing John Stirling, Esq. Sergeant at Arms to the Legislative Council, administered to him the usual oaths of allegiance, &c.; whereupon…

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Legislative Council. the Following Are the Notices of Motion and Orders of the Day on the Paper. Wednesday, July 10. Notices of Motion:—

The Australian · Monday 8 July 1844 · page 4

Dr. NICHOLSON to move, That an Address to His Excellency the Governor, requesting that there may be laid on the table of this House, a Return of the number of acres in each Electoral…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 July 1844 · page 2

PRESENT: The Mayor; Aldermen Flood, Macdermott, Broughton, and Allen,; Councillors Taylor, Agars, Ryan Driver, Coyle, Smidmore, Jenkins, Browne, Pawley, Chapman, Little…

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City Council. Monday, July 1

The Australian · Tuesday 9 July 1844 · page 3

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

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Country News. Windsor District Council, Thursday, July 4

The Australian · Tuesday 9 July 1844 · page 3

The District Council met in their Chambers, Macquarie street, pursuant to notice in the GOVERNMENT GAZETTE of a Special General Meeting, for the following purposes. viz. :—…

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Legislative Council. the Following Are the Notices of Motion and Orders of the Day on the Paper. Wednesday, July 10. Notices of Motion

The Australian · Tuesday 9 July 1844 · page 3

Dr. NICHOLSON to move, That an Address to His Excellency the Governor, requesting that there may be laid on the table of this House, a Return of the number of acres in each Electoral…

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Alderman Macdermott and Mr. Lowe

Morning Chronicle · Wednesday 10 July 1844 · page 2

WE publish the following letter as bearing directly on the question now at issue between two gentlemen of Sydney, Alerman Macdermott and Mr. Lowe, M.C…

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The Legislative Council and the Press.—their Relative Privileges

The Australian · Wednesday 10 July 1844 · page 3

NOT the least, among, the strange incongruities of which the late Privilege debate was redundant, may be cited Mr. Windeyer's very comfortable doctrine with regard to…

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Legislative Council. Notices of Motion and Orders of the Day. Wednesday, July 10. Notices of Motion

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

DR. NICHOLSON. to move, that an address be presented to his Excellency the Governor, requesting that there be laid on the table of this House, a return of the number of acres…

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Legislative Council

The Australian · Thursday 11 July 1844 · page 2

THE Colonial Secretary, yesterday, laid on the table, certain returns to an Address moved by Sir Thomas L. Mitchell, on the subject of the number of Whites and Blacks…

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Sydney District Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 July 1844 · page 2

THIS body met pursuant to adjournment, in their Chsmbers, George-street, at half-past three o'clock. There were present—the Warden, and…

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Domestic Intelligence. City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 July 1844 · page 2

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

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, July 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 July 1844 · page 2

THE Speaker took his seat at the usual hour. THE ABORIGINES. The COLONIAL SECRETARY laid upon the table certain returns moved for by Sir T…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, July 10, 1844. Government Printing Office

The Colonial Observer · Thursday 11 July 1844 · page 118

After the formal business had been transacted, Dr. BRAND begged to direct the attention of the House to the Petition presented on a former…

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Legislative Council. Thursday, July 4, 1844. PETITIONS. -- RETURNS, &c

The Colonial Observer · Thursday 11 July 1844 · page 120

Mr. LOWE presented a petition from Isaac Nathan, professor of music, praying that his own profession and others might be exempted from the operation of certain clauses of the…

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Report of the Wards Assessment Committee of the City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 July 1844 · page 2

REPORT of the Committee appointed by the City Council, on the 13th May last, for the purpose of preparing Rules and Regulations for the guidance of the Wards Assessment…

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