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Council & local affairs, 1844

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Legislative Council Friday, August 23

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 August 1844 · page 2

THE Speaker took the Chair at the usual hour, and reported to the Council that the Governor had been pleased to assent on behalf of Her Majesty to the following Arts passed by…

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Legislative Council Tuesday, August 20, 1844. District Councils

The Guardian · Saturday 24 August 1844 · page 190

The following Message from the Governor was handed by his Excellency's Private Secretary to the Speaker. Message from his Excellency the Governor to the…

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The Despatches—police and Gaols—tone and Temper of the Legislative Council

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 24 August 1844 · page 89

ON the 16th instant the Colonial Secretary laid on the table of the Legislative Council extracts from some despatches of Sir George Gipps and Lord Stanley relative to the Police…

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Legislative Council. (Concluded from Saturday last.) Supplementary Estimate for 1844

The Australian · Monday 26 August 1844 · page 4

The COLONIAL SECRETARY, pursuant to notice, moved for leave to bring in a Bill for applying certain sums arising from the Revenue, receivable in New South Wales, to the…

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The Municipal Franchise

The Australian · Monday 26 August 1844 · page 2

We have repeatedly urged the citizens of sydney to remember that a Munioiput Constitution, to be efficacious securing the destined end, most be founded on the…

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Legislative Council

The Australian · Tuesday 27 August 1844 · page 3

THE FOLLOWING ARE THE NOTICES OF MOTION AND ORDERS OF THE DAY ON THE PAPER, FOR TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27 AND 28…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 August 1844 · page 2

PRESENT: The Mayor, Aldermen Broughton, Allen, Macdermott, and Flood; Councillors Cowlishaw, Pawley, Holden, Smidmore, Neale, Chapman, Agars, Thurlow, Brown, Jenkins,…

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City Council Monday, AUG. 26

The Australian · Tuesday 27 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…

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Legislative Council. Tuesday, August 27

The Australian · Wednesday 28 August 1844 · page 3
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The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour. LICENSED SQUATTERS. Mr. ROBINSON presented a Petition signed by…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, August 21

Morning Chronicle · Wednesday 28 August 1844 · page 4

The SPEAKER [?]ook the chair at the usual hour. DISTRESSED MECHANICS. Dr. BLAND presented a petition from certain mechanics and colonists of New South Wales,…

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The Mayor of Sydney's Grand Fancy Dress Ball

The Colonial Observer · Thursday 29 August 1844 · page 174

THE limited space of this journal will not allow such a perfect and characteristic description of this splendid affair as it richly deserves. Besides, other publications have already so…

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Legislative Council. Thursday, Aug. 22

The Colonial Observer · Thursday 29 August 1844 · page 173

The Speaker took the chair at the usual hour, but there not being sufficient members to form a House, no business was transacted. FRIDAY, Aug. 23…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, August 28

The Australian · Thursday 29 August 1844 · page 3

The Speaker took the Chair at the usual hour. MAITLANE: COURT OF REQUESTS. Mr. WINDEYER presented a Petition from…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 August 1844 · page 4

THE District Council met yesterday pursuant to adjournment. Present: G. Elliott, Esq., Warden; Councillors, Hill, Foster, Anderson, James Pye, James, Houison, Nichols, and…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, 28Th August. the Speaker took the chair at the usual hour. Court of Requests. (£30 JUEISDICTION.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 August 1844 · page 2

Mr. WINDEYER presented a petition from the inhabitants of Maitland in favour of the extension to their district, and also to Berrima and Bathurst, of the Thirty Pounds Courts of…

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Legislative Council. Thursday, August 29

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 August 1844 · page 2

THE SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hours. ESTIMATES FOR 1845. THE COLONIAL SECRETARY (in pursuance of the understanding that Wednesday…

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Legislative Council. Report From the Select Committee on the Security of Life and Property

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 August 1844 · page 4

THE Select Committee of the Legislative Council, appointed on the 6th June, 1944, "to enquire into and report upon the means of checking the ontrages against the public pence, and the security of life and property,…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, August 28. (Concluded from our last. Estimates of Expenditure for 1844. Registrar General of the Colony

The Australian · Friday 30 August 1844 · page 2

The COLONIAL TREASURER having moved that the sum of £650 be voted for the salary of the Registrar General for the year 1845, Mr. WINDEYER ASKED THE Colonial Secretary,…

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District Council

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 31 August 1844 · page 1

PRESENT, G. Eliott, Esq., Warden, and Councillors Hill, Anderson, Pye, Houison, Nichols and Lawson, Esqs. The Clerk read the minutes of the former meeting…

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