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Council & local affairs, 1844

1,052 stories in Sydney's papers · page 4 of 53

District Council

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 17 February 1844 · page 2

WEDNESDAY. Present, the Warden, Matthew Anderson, Andrew Murray, and George Banks Suttor Esquires. The minutes of the last meeting were read by the…

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Legislative Council

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 17 February 1844 · page 439

THE Legislative Council, which stood prorouged till the 19th of March, has, in consequence of unforseen circumstances, been summoned by proclamation to meet on…

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Legislative Council. Proclamation

The Australian · Saturday 17 February 1844 · page 3

By his Excellency Sir George Gipps, Knight Captain-General, and Governor-in-Chief of the Territory of New South Wales and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of…

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Meeting of the Legislative Council

The Sydney Record · Saturday 17 February 1844 · page 156

We observe by Thursday's Government Gazette extraordinary, that the Legislative Council is summoned to meet on the fifth of next month for the consideration of…

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"By the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland--a Proclamation. "De Grey

The Dispatch · Saturday 17 February 1844 · page 4

"Whereas, it has been publicly announced, that a meeting is to take place at or near Clontarf, on Sunday, the 8th October, instant, for the alleged purpose of petitioning Parliament for…

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The Magistrates and Their Juris­diction__re-assemuling of the Legislative Council

The Australian · Saturday 17 February 1844 · page 2

OUR predictions of an immediate convening of the Legislative Council, in consequence of the recent decision of their Honors tho Judges in the case of the QUEEN v. MANN, have…

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Berrima District Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 19 February 1844 · page 2

THE Berrima District Council met this [?] (12th February); present, Charles [?] Esq., Warden, and Councillors [?] Comer, and Higgins…

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Legislative Council

The Australian · Tuesday 20 February 1844 · page 2

The increasingly critical position of the Local Government, with reference to the multiplication of weighty matters which are all pressing forward together, gives an…

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City Council

The Australian · Tuesday 20 February 1844 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

At a Meeting of the Council yesterday, the Right Worshipful the Mayor in the Chair, Alderman Macdermott presented a Petition from John Garrott, on behalf of the…

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Municipal Matters, No. I.—the City Sewerage. To the City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 February 1844 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—Having obtained leave to address you on various municipal matters, through the columns of The Sydney Morning Herald, I beg, at the commencement of this my first letter, to…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 February 1844 · page 3

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

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City Council

The Dispatch · Saturday 24 February 1844 · page 2
Also in The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature

On Monday the City Council met, when the Mayor, 5 Aldermen, and 10 Councillors were present A petition was presented by Alderman…

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Original Correspondence. Municipal Matters. No. Ii.—sewerage of the City. To the City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 February 1844 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—If this were not, what I firmly believe it to be, the finest climate in the world, Sydney would long [?] this have been visited by a pestilence. The effluvia in most parts of…

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Acts of Council. (From Friday's Government Gazette)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 February 1844 · page 2

HIS Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified, that the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies has intimated in a Despatch, dated the 30th September, 1843,…

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City Council

The Australian · Tuesday 27 February 1844 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

At a Mooting of the City Council yesterday, Alderman Flood in tho chair, a Petition was presented by Councillor Agars, from the inhabitants of Gipps Ward, praying…

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The Legislative Council

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

Various rumours are afloat as to the bills to be laid before the Legislative Council at its special meeting next week, the general opinion being, however, that some measure…

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[?] Right Worshipful the Mayor, Aldermen, [?] Councillors of the City of Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 February 1844 · page 3

[?]—I should not have pressed this [?]ication upon your notice had you re[?] your pledge given to the citizens last [?] in the numerous appeals against your…

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