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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1845

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Legislative Council

The Australian · Thursday 4 September 1845 · page 3

ON Tuesday four messages were transmitted from his Excellency to the Council. The first, enclosing the Bill for the amendment of the Tariff, with a view to the reduction…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday. the Speaker took the Chair at the usual hour. Assent to Acts of Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 September 1845 · page 2

The SPEAKER reported to the Council that His Excellency the Governor had been pleased, on behalf of Her Majesty, to assent to three Acts passed by that Council, viz.:—The Act…

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Local Intelligence. City Council. Monday, 1St September, 1845

The Australian · Thursday 4 September 1845 · page 4

Present—The Mayor, Aldermen Macdermott and Broughton; Councillors Brown Sillitoe, Driver, Henderson, Neale, Chapman, Agars, Coyle, Smidmore, Jenkins…

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News From the Interior. (From Correspondent.) Parramatta. the District Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 September 1845 · page 3

[?] begining of the quarterly meetin [?]ppstted under the provision of the [?] of Icorporation, the Council asem[?] at their Casmbers when the following…

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Municipal Elections

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 September 1845 · page 2

THE following Act, to amend the Corporation Act, passed at the closo of the last Session of Council, is reprinted for the information of the citizens. It will be perceived that the clause…

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The Sydney Morning Herald. Thursday, September 4, 1845. "Sworn to no master, of no sect am I." Government Officers and Legislative Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 September 1845 · page 2

WE have from the first objected to the. practice of electing Government [?] as members of the Legislative [?] Of this personal [?] have council…

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Legislative Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 September 1845 · page 2

THE SPEAKER took the chair at the usual-hour. STEAM COMMUNICATION. Mr. ROBINSON laid upon the table of the House, the draft of an Address to the Queen,…

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Legislative Council

The Australian · Saturday 6 September 1845 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Examiner, The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature

On Thursday the Council met at the usual hoar. Mr. Windeyer presented a Petition from the district of Patterson, praying for the…

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District Council

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 6 September 1845 · page 2

THIS Body held their quarterly meeting appointed by the Charter, on Tuesday. The members present were the Warden, Gilbert Eliott, Esq., P. M., and Councillors, Dr. Hili,…

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City Council

The Weekly Register of Politics, Facts and General Literature · Saturday 6 September 1845 · page 119

Alderman Macdermott presented a report from the Lighting Committee, recommending that one hundred and fifty gas lamps, and one hundred and twenty-two oil lamps,…

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Sydney. The City Council

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 6 September 1845 · page 3

MET on Monday. Mr. Driver wished to know what had become of a Petition presented from the inhabitants of Phillip-street, and referred to the Improvement Committee,…

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Legislative Council. Friday, August 29

Parramatta Chronicle and Cumberland General Advertiser · Saturday 6 September 1845 · page 1
Also in The Star and Working Man's Guardian

Mr. Cowper wished to know whether the Government had taken or intended to take any steps to put a stop to levying Quit Rents by distress, or to suspend the execution of such warrants as had been issued,…

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The City Council. MET on

The Star and Working Man's Guardian · Saturday 6 September 1845 · page 1

Mr. Driver wished to know what had become of a Petition presented from the inhabitants of Phillip-street, and referred to the Improvement Committee, six months since…

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Legislative Council. Tuesday, Sept. 4. Steam Communication

Morning Chronicle · Saturday 6 September 1845 · page 2

Mr. ROBINSON laid upon the table the draft of an address to the Queen, moved by him on Tuesday last, praying for an extension of steam communication to this Colony, upon the same terms as other…

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Original Poetry. Lays of the Council. No. 2

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 6 September 1845 · page 4

The Council were met in York-street Hall, And loudly for order the Mayor did bawl; The Councillors were all merry and gay, As if each was allowed a holiday;…

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Crown Nominees and Elected Members of the Legislative Council

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 6 September 1845 · page 2

THE meaning of the word ratting is, in the cant of Parliamentary phraseology (for all trades and professions, however learned, have their cant technicalities) is turning…

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