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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1845

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City Council. Monday, Dec. 30

The Australian · Wednesday 1 January 1845 · 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. Monday, December 30

Morning Chronicle · Wednesday 1 January 1845 · page 2

The SPEAKER took the chair a little before one o'clock, and announced that the Governor had assented on behalf of her Majesty to the Wharfage Act. It was announced by the Speaker that his…

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City Council. Monday, December 30, 1844

Morning Chronicle · Wednesday 1 January 1845 · page 2

Present—The Mayor ; Aldermen Macdermott, Broughton, Flood, and Wilshire ; Councillors, Little, Neale, Agars, Ryan, Iredale, Anderson, Chapman, Smidmore, Thurlow, Browne, Sillitoe,…

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Legislative Council. Monday, Dec. 23. The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour. the Privilege Prosecutions

Morning Chronicle · Wednesday 1 January 1845 · page 4

The SPEAKER reported that he had received an account from Mr. Unwin, the solicitor employed for conducting the prosecution against Alderman Macdermott and others. Since receiving this he…

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The Governor and the Legislative Council. "Seribimus indocti doctique—." HOR. To the Editor of the Australian Daily Journal

The Australian · Thursday 2 January 1845 · page 2

SIR—As I was present when His Excellency Sir George Gipps read his Address to the Legislative Council, on Monday, I cannot do less than state that I quite agree with…

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Legislative Council

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 4 January 1845 · page 5

The Speaker reported that the Royal assent had been given by His Excellency the Governor to the following Acts, namely--the Sydney Incorporation Amendment Act, the…

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City Council

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 4 January 1845 · page 4

Alderman Broughton brought up a report from the Finance Committee on the fiscal affairs of the Corporation, and the probable expenditure of the year 1845, which was…

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Original Correspondence. Legislative Council Doings

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 4 January 1845 · page 2

MR. EDITOR—The Legislative Council being [?] [?]oroged for a short period, a few words relative to some of its proceedings may not be altogether importance. As the colony's first…

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Legislative Council. Friday, Dec. 27

The Star and Working Man's Guardian · Saturday 4 January 1845 · page 1
Also in Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser

Mr. Robinson presented a petition from the Mayor and Council of Melbourne, praying assistance towards the erection of market sheds on the ground granted for that purpose. Petition received…

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The Morning Chronicle Saturday, January 4, 1845. the Legislative Council

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 4 January 1845 · page 2

WELL—another session has terminated. The mountain has certainly gone through mighty throes and heavings, and uttered in the labour of parturition doleful and…

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City Council Finance Committee

The Australian · Monday 6 January 1845 · page 3

The Right Worshipful the Mayor, Chairman; Alderman Broughton, Vieo-Cairman; Councillors Agars, Cowlishaw, Holt, Sillitoe…

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City Council. Report of the Finance Committee

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 January 1845 · page 2

REPORT of the Finance Committee (the Right Worshipful the Major, Chairman; Alderman Broughton, Vice Chairman; Councillors Agars, Cowlishaw, Holt, and Sillitoe); of the Council…

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Original Correspondence. the Governor and the Prorogation of the Legislative Council. To the Editor of the Australian Daily Journal

The Australian · Monday 6 January 1845 · page 3

SIR,—I should not have presumed so soon to trespass again on your indulgence wore it not to point out a gross error, which your temporary the HERALD has fallen into in…

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Council Paper. Wharfage Rates Act. No. 16. An Act to make further provisino for payment of Wharfage Rates, and to amend the Laws for the regulation of shipping in certain cases

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 January 1845 · page 4

WHEREAS by an Act passed by the Governor and Coucnil of New South Wales, in the seventh year of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled, "An Act further to amend…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 January 1845 · page 2

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

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Business of the Last Session of the Legislative Council of New South Wales

The Australian · Tuesday 7 January 1845 · page 4

WE subjoin, for the information of our readers, a list of the several Bills passed during the lute Session of the Legislative Council…

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1. To consider the letter of the City Surveyor, dated 10th ultimo, praying that the expenses of the action, "Baker versus Moir," might be paid by the Corporation: read to the Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 January 1845 · page 2

BUSINESS STANDING OVER…

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City Council. Report of the Finance Committee

The Sentinel · Wednesday 8 January 1845 · page 1

REPORT of the Finance Committee (the Right Worshipful the Mayor, Chairman; Alderman Broughton,. Vice Chairman ; Councillors Agars, Cowlishaw, Holt and Silli[?]ce) ; of the Council of the City of Sydney, on…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 January 1845 · page 2

PRESENT: The Mayor and twenty-four Councillors. REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. The Report of the Committee appointed to…

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