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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1844

1,052 stories in Sydney's papers · page 29 of 53

City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 August 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, August 2

The Australian · Monday 5 August 1844 · page 3

The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour. MR. JOHN GRAY'S CASE. Mr. WENTWORTH presented a Petition from…

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Legislative Council. the Following Are the Notices of Motion and Orders of the Day on the Paper. Wednesday, August 7

The Australian · Monday 5 August 1844 · page 4

1. Dr. NICHOLSON to move, That a humble Address be presented to her Majesty, praying that her Majesty may be graciously pleased to declare Geelong a free warehousing Port…

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Domestic Intelligence. City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 August 1844 · page 2

PRESENT: The Mayor, Aldermen Macdermott, Allen, and Flood; Councillors Coyle, Cowlishaw, Agars, Jenkins, Driver, and Little. POLICE CONTROL…

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City Council. Monday, Aug. 5

The Australian · Tuesday 6 August 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 business had commenced; A…

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Legislative Council

The Australian · Thursday 8 August 1844 · page 2

DR. NICHOLSON asked the Colonial Secretary, yesterday, if any regulations were in force which allowed the transmission of Petitions, postage free. The hon. member…

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Domestic Intelligence. Sydney District Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 August 1844 · page 4

PURSUANT to a notice dated the 18th July, 1844, and published in the Government Gazette, a special meeting of this body took place, in their Chamber, yesterday, at half-past three, P. M.,…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, August 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 August 1844 · page 2
Also in The Colonial Observer

THE Speaker took his seat at the usual hour; and he communicated to the house that the Governor had been pleased to assent on behalf of Her Majesty, to the Act to amend…

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Legislative Council. Thursday, Aug. 1. Courts of Requests at Bathurst, Maitland, and Berrima

The Colonial Observer · Thursday 8 August 1844 · page 149

MR. LORD moved for and obtained leave to bring in "A Bill to extend to the Courts of Requests for the Districts of Bathurst, Maitland, and Berrima, certain provisions of an Act…

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Legislative Council

The Australian · Friday 9 August 1844 · page 2

Mr. Robinson gave notice, that on Thursday, the 22nd instant, he should move an Address to his Excellency, praying that the following Returns he laid on the…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, August 7

The Australian · Friday 9 August 1844 · page 3

The Speaker took the Choir at the usual hour. LAW OF EVIDENCE BILL. The Speaker reported to the Council, that…

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Legislative Council. Thursday, August 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 August 1844 · page 2

THE SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour. POSTAL REGULATIONS. Dr. NICHOLSON, in pursuance of notice,…

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Municipal Revenue

The Australian · Friday 9 August 1844 · page 3

A. LETTER to W. C. WENTWORTH, Eaq., M. C, on the subject Municipal Revenue as prayed for by the Corporation of the City of Sydney.—By J. E. WILSHIRE, Esq…

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Legislative Council

The Australian · Saturday 10 August 1844 · page 2
Also in The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature

Mr. Cowper brought forward, yesterday, his promised motion for an Address to the Governor, on the subject of the District Council. The hon. Member briefly…

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City Council

The Guardian · Saturday 10 August 1844 · page 170
Also in The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature

Present: The Mayor, Aldermen Macdermott, Allen, and Flood; Councillors Coyle, Cowlishaw, Agars, Jenkins, Driver, and Little. POLICE CONTROL…

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Legislative Council. Friday, August 2

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 10 August 1844 · page 3
Also in The Dispatch

The Bill to amend an Act, intituled "an Act to declare the town of Sydney to be a City," &c. was read a first time. "A Bill for preventing of fraud in taking in goods…

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