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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1845

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Legislative Council

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 23 August 1845 · page 92

A message was received from his Excellency the Governor, transmitting accounts in detail of the public expenditure in the year 1844. Also a message from his Excellency…

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City Council

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 23 August 1845 · page 91

The Mayor laid upon the table a return to a motion by Mr. Thurlow, of the number of houses in the City of Sydney assessed under £20…

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Legislative Council. Thursday, August 21

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 23 August 1845 · page 2

The SPEAKER took the chair at twenty five minutes past three. HARBOUR MASTER OF PORT PHILLIP. Mr. COWPER presented a petition from Charles…

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Legislative Council. Tuesday, August 19

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 23 August 1845 · page 4

The SPEAKER look the chair at twenty minutes past three o'clock. MESSAGES FROM THE GOVERNOR. The Sergeant at Arms announced a message from…

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Legislative Council. Tuesday, Aug. 19

The Star and Working Man's Guardian · Saturday 23 August 1845 · page 1
Also in Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser

Messages were brought down from the Governor, transmitting detailed accounts of the expenditure of the sums appropriated under the schedules of the Constitutional Act, and a reply to the address of the Council…

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Municipal Legislation.--the Hackney-coach Bill

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 23 August 1845 · page 85

THE newspapers of the city, and the records of the police office for months past, having demonstrated the necessity which existed for a law to regulate the drivers of hackney…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 August 1845 · page 3

PRESENT: The Mayor; Aldermen Wilshire, Hill, Mucdermott, Broughton; Councillors Little, Ryan, Driver, Jenkins, Smidmore, Coyle, Henderson, Sillitoe, Cowlishaw, Josephson,…

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The Legislative Council

The Australian · Tuesday 26 August 1845 · page 3

ON Tuesday, among other business, Mr. Lamb moved, that an Address be presented to the Governor, to direct the fees takon by Mr. Garter, in the Registrar's Office, to be…

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Council Papers. Upset Price of Crown Lands. Message From His Excellency the Governor, to the Legislative Council, communicating to the Council the Answer which His Excellency has received from her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies, to an Address from the Council, dated the 20th December, 1843

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 August 1845 · page 2

Gentlemen,—On the 20th December, 1843, an Address was presented to me from the Council, requesting that I would forward to the Right Honorable the Secretary of State…

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Upset Price of Crown Lands. Message from his Excellency the Governor, to the Legislative Council, communicating to the Council the answer which hit Excellency has received from her Majesty's Secretary

The Australian · Tuesday 26 August 1845 · page 4

GENTLEMENT—On the 20th December, 1813, an Address was presented to me from the Council, requesting that I would forward to the Right Honorable the Secretary of…

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Legislative Council. Notices of Motion and Orders of the Day. Tuesday, August 26. Notices of Motion

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 August 1845 · page 2

1. Dr. NICHOLSON to move, That the St. Kilda Petition, presented by him on the 31st ult., be printed, and referred to a Select Committee to report upon its prayer…

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Despatches From Home. on the Address to the Governor, (Dated 20Th December, 1843.) by the Legislative Council, Durning Its First Session, on the Sale and Price of Crown Lands

The Australian · Tuesday 26 August 1845 · page 3

ON the 14th Instant, we published an article on the price and Rale of Crown Lands, without any notice of the above despatches, a copy of one of which will be…

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Legislative Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 August 1845 · page 2

THE SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour. BRIDGE OVER THE NEPEAN. Mr. WENTWORTH presented a petition…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, August 20

The Sentinel · Wednesday 27 August 1845 · page 2

The Speaker took the chair shortly after three o'clock, where Mr. Private Secretary Parker was introduced, and delivered a message from the Governor in reply to an address from the Council of…

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Legislative Council. Friday, August 22

Morning Chronicle · Wednesday 27 August 1845 · page 4

The SPEAKER took the chair at twenty minutes past three. PUBLIC WORKS. Dr. LAND presented a petition from John Ray, of…

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City Council. Monday, August 25Th

Morning Chronicle · Wednesday 27 August 1845 · page 3

Present—The Right Worshipful the Mayor, Aldermen Wilshire, Hill, Macdermo't, and Broughton, Councillors Driver, Henderson Smidmore, Ryan, Jenkins, Sillitoe, Cowlishaw, Little, Josephson,…

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The Legislative Council

The Australian · Thursday 28 August 1845 · page 3

On Tuesday, the proceedings of this body wore of much interest and importance. Petitions were presented—by Mr. Wentworth, from William Russell, Esq., of Regentville…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday. the Speaker took the Chair at the usual hour. Judicial Establishment

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 August 1845 · page 2

Mr. ROBINSON gave notice of his intention on Friday, the 29th of August, to move that it be an instruction to the Select Committee to be appointed to enquire into the extent…

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Upset Price of Crow Lands. (Ordered by the Council to Be Printed, August 6, 1845.) Enclosures to the Governor's Menage, concluded from our fail publication. (No. 1103.) (2.) Colonial Land and Emigration Office, 30th September, 1844

The Australian · Thursday 28 August 1845 · page 3

SIR,—With reference to your teller of 30th July last, we have the honor to state, that we have perused and considered the contents of the Despatch therein transmitted…

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