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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1844

1,052 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 53

Alderman Macdermott's Judgment of the Press

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 30 March 1844 · page 2

NOT having adverted to the report of Alderman Macdermott's speech in the Maitland Mercury, on giving "the Liberty of the Press," in time to notice it in…

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City Council. The Right Worshipful the Mayor in the chair. Clerk of the Hay Market

The Guardian · Saturday 30 March 1844 · page 19

Alderman MACDERMOTT complained of the unsatisfactory report of this committee. He had moved its appointment, for the sake of enquiry into the conduct of the clerk. His object in so doing was, in case the charge…

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City Council

The Dispatch · Saturday 30 March 1844 · page 2
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature

On Wednesday afternoon a meeting of the City Council was held at the chambers, the Mayor in the chair. Present--Aldermen Allen, Broughton, Flood, and Burdekin, and eighteen…

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Municipal Matters. No. V.—city Drainage. To the City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 March 1844 · page 3

[?],—I have been prevented for some weeks from addressing you, and am sorry that [?] should be compelled again to say that I con[?]der you are neglecting the most important…

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Sydney News. the City Council

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 30 March 1844 · page 3
Also in The Star and Working Man's Guardian

THIS body met on Wednesday last for the despatch of business. Mr. Agars gave the following as the substance of the interview which himself and the Right Worshipful the Mayor had had with the Governor,…

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The Governor and the City Council

The Australian · Saturday 30 March 1844 · page 2

In our review of the last Report of the Special General Committee of tho City Council on the Police of Sydney, we observed that, " we could scarcely venture to…

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Colonial Secretary's Office Sydney, 26th March, 1844. Legislative Council

The Australian · Saturday 30 March 1844 · page 3

His Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified for general information, that a writ has been returned to his Excellency, certifying the return of Joseph Phelps…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 April 1844 · page 2

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

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City Council. Monday, April 1

The Australian · Tuesday 2 April 1844 · page 3

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

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Domestic Intelligence. City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 April 1844 · page 3

[?] The Mayor, Aldermen Allen, Brough[?] Flood, and Macdermott; Councillors [?] Coyle, Browne, Neale, Jenkins, Little, [?]shaw, Thurlow, Smidmore, Driver,…

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Maitland District Council. (From the Maitland Mercury.) Tuesday, March 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 April 1844 · page 2

PRESENT—The Warden, Messrs. Wyndham, Lang, Innes, Gordon, and Hungerford. DISTRICT COLLECTOR. The first business brought before the Council…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 April 1844 · page 2

PRESENT: The Mayor, Aldermen Flood, Macldermott, Broughton, and Allen; Councillors Brown, Jenkins, Agars, Cowlishaw, Thurlow, Smidmore, Driver, Taylor, Holden, Hill, Coyle,…

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City Council. Thursday, April 4

The Australian · Friday 5 April 1844 · page 2

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

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Police Office.--thursday. Before the Right Worshipful the Mayor, Alderman Macdermott, and Colonel Shadforth. Elizabeth Bushelle v. Isaac Nathan

The Guardian · Saturday 6 April 1844 · page 29

This was an application to the Bench from Mrs. Bushelle, the songstress, who, it appeared from the information, complained that by an indenture of apprenticeship bearing date the 17th January, 1844, the…

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City Council

The Star and Working Man's Guardian · Saturday 6 April 1844 · page 2
Also in The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature

THE Council met on Monday. On the motion of Alderman Broughton the further consideration of the By-laws relative to the Market Regulations were proceeded with, and the whole of the clauses severally…

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Legislative Council

The Australian · Saturday 6 April 1844 · page 2

It will bo perceived by a Proclamation which we copy from the GOVERNMENT of yesterday, that his Excellency has further prorogued, the Legislative…

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