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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1847

553 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 28

Legislative Council

The Australian · Thursday 22 July 1847 · page 2

On Tuesday, the Speaker having taken the Chair, The Colonial Secretary, laid on the table o[?]ftain returns relative to the Australian Agrid…

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City-council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 July 1847 · page 3

A MEETING of the City Council will be held at the Town Hall on Monday next, at three o'clock in the afternoon. NOTICES OF MOTION…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Thursday, July 22, 1847. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Legslative Council. Wednesday, July 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 July 1847 · page 2

THE SPEAKER took the chair at half-past three. SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT. The COLONIAL SECRETARY laid upon…

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Council Paper. Mr. Sheriff Young

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 July 1847 · page 2

DESPATCH from Lord Stanley to Governor Sir George Gipps. Downing-street, 6th June, 1842. Sir,—I have received your despatch No. 211,…

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Legislative Council. Thursday, July 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 July 1847 · page 2

THE SPEAKER took the chair at half-past three o'clock. COLONIAL ARCHITECT. The COLONIAL SECRETARY laid upon…

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Legislative Council

The Australian · Saturday 24 July 1847 · page 2
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

The Speaker took the Chair on Thursday at the usual hour. The Colonial Secretary laid on the table, for information of the Council, a letter from the…

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City Council

The Australian · Saturday 24 July 1847 · page 3

A meeting of the City Council will be holden at the Town Hall on Monday next, the 26th justant, at three o'clock in the afternoon. NOTICES OF MOTIONS…

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Domestic Intelligence. City Council

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 24 July 1847 · page 3

A meeting of the City Council will be held at the Town Hall on Monday next, at three o'clock in the afternoon. NOTICES OF MOTION…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, July 21

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 24 July 1847 · page 2

The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour. SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT The COL. SECRETARY laid upon the table a return to an address moved for on the 9th instant…

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Council Paper. Tuesday, July 27. Notices of Motion

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 26 July 1847 · page 2

1. Mr. COWPER to move that an Address be presented to His Excellency the Governor, requesting that His Excellency will be pleased to cause to be laid upon the table of…

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Legislative Council

The Australian · Tuesday 27 July 1847 · page 3

On Friday the Speaker took the Chair at the usual hour. The Colonial Secretary laid on the table a return moved for on the 20th Ultimo, by the…

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Legislative Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 July 1847 · page 2

THE SPEAKER took the chair at half-past three o'clock. CUSTOMS. Mr. FOSTER, on behalf of the…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 July 1847 · page 3

[?] The Mayor; Aldermen Allen, Macdermott, Thurlow, Hill, Fisher and Wilshire; Councillors Owen, Neale, Driver, Henderson, Jenkins, Sillitoe, Josephson, Hyndes, Egan,…

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Legislative Council. Tuesday, July 27

Sydney Chronicle · Wednesday 28 July 1847 · page 2

The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour. CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT. Mr. COWPER'S motion for certain returns relative to the above department, was postponed until…

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Council Papers Australian Agricultural Company's Coal Mines

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 July 1847 · page 2

Return to Address; Mr. Murray, dated 8th Juue, 1847, calling for:— "Copies of all Letters addressed to the Secretary of State, relative to the Coal Mines at Nowcastle,'and…

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Legislative Council

The Australian · Thursday 29 July 1847 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

The Speaker took the Chair on Tuesday at the usual hour. Mr. Foster, in the absence of Mr. Cowper, postponed, till Friday next, the motion of which…

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Buying and Selling. (Being the Journal of Alderman Callipash, during a week's Irish experience.) To Mr. Punch

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 July 1847 · page 3

SIR,—My attention having been called to an assertion by Sir H. Barron, that " a cry has been raised against the Irish landlords by the moneyed men of the City of London, in order…

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The Debate in Council on the Presentation of the Petition Against the Bill

The Australian · Thursday 29 July 1847 · page 3

Mr. BLAND said, he had to present a petition from a highly respectable body, and which was most numerously signed, having eight hundred and thirty-nine signatures, many of them those…

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