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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1848

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 July 1848 · page 2

PRESENT—The Right Worshipful the Mayor, in the chair; Aldermen Broughton and Allen, Councillors Sillitoe, Driver, Moore, Moir, Paton, Henderson, Ryan, Jenkins, Boord,…

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Port Phillip. the Town Council and the Government

The Sydney Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 19 July 1848 · page 2

The Governor, alias the Colonial Secretary, has, in reply to two very reasonable requests from the Town Council, evidently grasped at an opportunity to snub the…

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City Council

The Australian · Thursday 20 July 1848 · page 3

An adjourned meeting of the City, Council was held on Thursday last. The Town Clerk laid on the Table a return of the fines due to the Corporation by members…

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Domestic Intelligence City Council

The Sentinel · Thursday 20 July 1848 · page 3

Present-- The Right Worshipful the, Mayor, in the chair; Aldermen Broughton and Allen, Councilors Si[?]itoe, Driver, Moore, Moir, Paton, Henderson Ryan, Jenkins, Board, Titterton, and May…

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Domestic Intelligence. City Council

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 22 July 1848 · page 1

Present—The Mayor, Aldermen Broughton and Allen. Councillors Sillitoe, Driver, Moore, Moor, Paton, Henderson, Ryan, Jenkins, Board, Titterton, and May. Leave of absence for the day was granted to Councillors Hyndos…

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Domestic Intelligence. City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 27 July 1848 · page 4

A SPECIAL meeting having been convened for the purpose of taking into consideration the report of the Lighting Committee, and all matters connected therewith, The following…

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Domestic Intelligence. City Council

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 29 July 1848 · page 2

A special meeting of the City Council was held on Monday last, at the Town Hall. York-street, pursuant to requisition, for the purpose of considering the report of the Lighting Committee, laid before the Council on the 1st June, and other business connected…

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Members Returned for the New Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 29 July 1848 · page 2

SYDNEY.—William Charles Wentworth and Robert Lowe, Esqrs. ARGYLE.—Charles Nicholson, Esq., M.D. CAMDEN.—James Macarthur, Esq…

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Ireland. a National Militia and a National Council

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 29 July 1848 · page 7

We believe a National Militia and a National Council have become essential to our very existence. War is imminent. If it come, England cannot hold back from it, whatever be her interests or her will. And here on this Irish…

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The Port Phillip Conspiracy to Strangle the Legislative Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 August 1848 · page 2

THE electors of the Port Phillip District having committed an act of political suicide, it has become doubtful whether the blow will not be fatal to the Middle…

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Subjects for Bills, Proposed to Be Introduced Into the New Legislative Council

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 5 August 1848 · page 2

"Equitable measurement, on the principle of three table-spoons full thrice a day," by the hon. member for Argyle. "The Invigorating Properties of Chops and…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 August 1848 · page 4

A QUARTERLY meeting of the City Council will he holden at the Town Hall, York-street, on Wednesday next, at 12 o'clock noon, for the transaction of gonerol business…

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Abstract of the Acts of the Legislative Council Passed in the Session of 1848

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 August 1848 · page 2

12TH VICTORIA, No. 40.—An Act to alter and amend the Laws relating to the Savings' Banks of New South Wales and Port Phillip, respectively.—The 1st clause enacts that so much of…

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City Council

The Sydney Daily Advertiser · Thursday 10 August 1848 · page 2
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

A quarterly meeting of this body took place at the town Hall, York street, yesterday, at 12 o'clock at noon, for the transaction of general business. The members present were the Right…

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Abstract of the Acts of the Legislative Council Passed in the Session of 1848. (Continued.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 August 1848 · page 2

Vior. 12, No. 48.—An Act to Incorporate the Board of Commissioners for National Education.—Clause 1 [?], that the board appointed by His [?]xcellency shall be one body…

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City Council

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 12 August 1848 · page 2

The Quarterly Meeting o[?] the above body was held on Wednesday last. Present—The Mayor; Aldermen Broughton, Fisher, Allen, Wilshire, Thurlow; Councilors Moir, Driver, May, Jenkins, Paton, Hyndes. Moore, Board, T[?]terton, Smidmore, Sillitoe, Hill, Egan,…

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Have We a Legislative Council?

The Sydney Daily Advertiser · Saturday 12 August 1848 · page 2

[The following observations have been forwarded to us by a friend, for whose judgement and opinions we entertain a very high respect. Although his reasoning is in some respects opposed to the…

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Legislative Council. (From Yesterday's Government Gazette.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 August 1848 · page 2

COLONIAL Secretary's Office, Sydney, 8th August, 1848. His Excellency the Governor directs it to be notified, for general information, that writs have been returned to His…

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Port Phillip. Has New South Walesa Legislative Council?

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 12 August 1848 · page 3

In looking over the "Const[?]tional Act" which regulates the Election, powers, &c., of the Lgislative Council of New South Wales, it strikes us that the refu[?] of the Port Phillippians to elect representatives renders the new Council incomplete, and…

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