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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1844

1,052 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 53

Legislative Council

The Australian · Thursday 29 February 1844 · page 3

OUR legislators will have further breathing time allowed them for considering the difficult questions in reference to the means of defraying the expences of Immigration…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 March 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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District Council

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 2 March 1844 · page 1

COUNCIL met on Saturday last, the 24th February, pursuant to adjournment. Present the following members: Gilbert Eliott, (Warden,) Patrick Hill, Matthew Anderson, Thomas Forster, Nelson Lawson, and…

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City Council

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 2 March 1844 · page 458

Alderman Flood in the chair. Mr. Agars presented a petition from certain citizens of Gipps Ward, resident in the neighbourhood of Harrington and…

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Original Correspondence. Municipal Matters. No. Iii.—public Nuisances. To the City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 March 1844 · page 2

GENTLEMEN.—Next to, and perhaps forming part of, the important subject of the drainage of the City, comes the removal of nuisances, and here again I am sorry to say that you have not…

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Legislative Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 March 1844 · page 2

THE extraordinary session of the Legislative Council will be opened this day. "His Excellency the GOVE UNO a will not be present on the occasion…

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City Council

The Australian · Tuesday 5 March 1844 · page 3

At a meeting of the Council yesterday, Alder­man Allen in the Chair, Councillor Coyle presented a petition from Thomas Smith,residing at Claremont, praving…

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City Council. Monday, March 4, 1841. (106th Meeting.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 March 1844 · page 2

PRESENT—Aldermen Allen (in the chair), Broughton, and Flood; Councillors Agars, Cowlishaw, Little, Driver, Jenkins, Neale, Ryan, Goyle, and Holden…

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Legislative Council

The Australian · Wednesday 6 March 1844 · page 2

Pursuant to his Excellency's Proclamation, convening an extraordinary Session of the Legislative Council, the House assembled yesterday at twelve o'clock, when the…

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Legislative Council Tuesday, March 5

Morning Chronicle · Wednesday 6 March 1844 · page 2

This having been the day appointed by his Excellency the governor for the extraordinary meeting of the Legislative Council, the members began to assemble a little before the appointed time of…

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Legislative Council. Tuesday March 5

The Australian · Wednesday 6 March 1844 · page 2

The Council assembled this day, pursuant to the proclamation of his Excellency the Governor. The Speaker took the Chair, a few minutes after twelve o'clock, and having briefly referred…

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Legislative Council. Tuesday, March 5, 1844

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 March 1844 · page 2

THE SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock. The members present were Mr Cowper, Dr. Nicholson, Mr. Ieely, Mr. Lowe, Captain Dumaresq, Mr. Lawson, the Colonial Treasurer,…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Wednesday, March 6, 1844. "Sworn to no master, of no sect am I." the Legislative Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 March 1844 · page 2

IT will be seen by the report of the proceedings of the Legislative Council yesterday, that the business was simply of a formal nature, requiring no comment…

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Legislative Council

The Australian · Thursday 7 March 1844 · page 2

The proceedings in Council yesterday, were prefaced' by the presentation by Mr. Foster, of a Petition from Mr. Robert Cooper, setting forth the expense he had…

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Municipal Matters. No. Iv.—public Nuisances. To the City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 March 1844 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—In the Sydney Morning Herald of yesterday, I was rather surprised to find the following given as part of a report of your proceedings on Monday:…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, March 6

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 March 1844 · page 2

THE SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before half-past three. MONEY PETITION. Mr. FOSTER presented a petition from J…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 March 1844 · page 2

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

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Legislative Council

The Australian · Friday 8 March 1844 · page 2

HAVING stood alone, among our cotemporaries in resisting the oppressive enactment which, the Attorney General has thought proper to introduce during the…

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The City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 March 1844 · page 2

THE citizens of Sydney have good reason to complain of the carelessness of their interests displayed by many of those who so eagerly courted their suffrages, and the…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, March 6

The Australian · Friday 8 March 1844 · page 4

The Speaker took the Chair at twenty minutes past three o'clock. J. B. SMITHSON'S CASE. Mr. Foster presented a Petition from…

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