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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1845

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City Council

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 30 August 1845 · page 102

A report was brought up from the Finance Committee recommending the payment, of accounts amounting to £88 15s. 10d. Mr. Cowlishaw presented a report on two…

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Legislative Council

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 30 August 1845 · page 103
Also in The Examiner

Mr. Went worth presented a petition from Mr. William Russell, praying for leave to erect a bridge over the Nepean. Dr. Nicholson presented a petition from…

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The Legislative Council

The Australian · Saturday 30 August 1845 · page 3

On Thursday, the Council assembled at the usual hour, and, there being no formal business, went at once into Committee on the Estimates…

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Legislative Council, Thursday, August 28

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 30 August 1845 · page 2

The SPEAKER took the chair at twentyfive minutes past three o'clock. LAND AND EMIGRATION COMMISSIONERS. The COLONIAL SECRETARY laid upon the table a…

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Legislative Council. Thursday, August 21

The Star and Working Man's Guardian · Saturday 30 August 1845 · page 3

The Blill Consolidating the laws relative to Coin was read a third time and passed. The Council went into a Committee of supply, and the following Estimates were passed…

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Legislative Council. Tuesday, August 26

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 30 August 1845 · page 4

The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour. BRIDGE OVER THE NEPEAN. Mr. WENTWORTH presented a petition from Mr. William Russell, praying for leave to elect a bridge…

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Legislative Council. Friday, August 22

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 30 August 1845 · page 1

Dr. Lang presented a petition from John Ray, a carpenter, of Sydney, complaining that evidence he gave before the Pubic Works Committee of last Session had been omitted in the printed Report, and praying…

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Legislative Council. Friday, August 29

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 August 1845 · page 2

THE SPEAKER took the chair at twenty-five minutes past three. LEAVE OF ABSENCE. One month's leave of absence was granted,…

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The City Council. MET on

The Star and Working Man's Guardian · Saturday 30 August 1845 · page 1

Mr. Ryan intimated to the Council that it the Argyle-street cut, was continued at its present width private property would be encroached on, and this cut direct on houses, would subject the Corporation to a cut…

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Original Poetry. Lays of the Council

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 30 August 1845 · page 4

I once lead a story I do forget where, Of an ass that made noble lions to stare At his countenance grave, as in council be sate, And listened attentively to their debate…

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The City Council Versus the Police Clerks

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 30 August 1845 · page 2

ON Wednesday last a petition was presented to the Legislative Council, by Mr. Lowe, from the Clerks employed at the Police office, in which was set forth the…

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Sydney. The City Council. MET on

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 30 August 1845 · page 1

Mr. Ryan intimated to the Council that if the Argyle-street cut, was continued at its present width private property would be encroached on, and this cut direct on houses, would subject the Corporation to a cut…

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Lord Durham. on Municipal Institutions in Colonies

The Australian · Saturday 30 August 1845 · page 4

If we wanted an argument to prove the utility of local institutions of this sort, and of the unfitness of the general legislature to deal with local interests, the proceedings of…

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Council Paper

Morning Chronicle · Wednesday 3 September 1845 · page 2

A return of the amount received by the Land and Emigration Commissioners in England in payment for land in the Colony of New South Wales; including Port Phillip; and of the appropriation of…

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Legislative Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 September 1845 · page 2

THE SPEAKER took the Chair at half-past three. A Messenger from His Excellency the Governor having been announced, the Private…

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Legislative Council. Friday, August 29

Morning Chronicle · Wednesday 3 September 1845 · page 4

The SPEAKER took the chair at twenty-five minutes past three. LEAVE OF ABSENCE. A month's leave of absence was, on the motion…

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City Council. Monday, 1St September, 1845

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 September 1845 · page 3

PRESENT—The Mayor; Aldermen Broughton, Macdermott; Councillors Smidmore, Coyle, Neale, Agars, Sdlitoe, Driver, Chapman, Henderson, Brown, Jenkins, Iredale, Ryan,…

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City Council. Monday, September 1, 1845

Morning Chronicle · Wednesday 3 September 1845 · page 2

Present—The Right Worshipful the Mayor, Aldermen Broughton and Macdermott; Councillors Sillitoe, Agars, Neale, Driver, Henderson, Jonkins, Coyle, Chapman, Browne, Smidmore, Iredale,…

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Police Office.—tuesday, Sept. 2. Before Alderman Broughton

The Australian · Thursday 4 September 1845 · page 3

There were 12 drunkards on the list this morning, 5 of whom were discharged, 2 paid tho fine of 11s., 1 was sent to the stocks, 2 to the mill for 12 hours, and 2 to the cells for 24 hours…

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