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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1848

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Domestic Intelligence. City Council

Sydney Chronicle · Tuesday 2 May 1848 · page 2

An adjourned meeting of the City Council was held at the Town Hall yesterday. Present: the Mayor; Aldermen Little, Thurlow, Allen, and Fisher; Councillors Titterton, Egan, May, Moore,…

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Legislative Council. Notices of Motion and Orders of the Day. Tuesday, May 2. Notices of Motion

Sydney Chronicle · Tuesday 2 May 1848 · page 2

MR. LAME to move, That the petition in reference to slaughter-houses, presented by Dr. Bland on the 11th, and that on the same subject presented by Mr. Lowe on the 18th instant. be reterred to…

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Privy Council. Whitehall, 13th December, 1847. BEFORE Lord BROUGHAM, Lord CAMPBELL, Lord LANGDALE, Sir S. LUSHINGTON, and The Honorable T. Pemberton Leigh. Bank of Australasia...... Appellants, v. Bank of Australia and Ors... Respondents. (Continued.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 May 1848 · page 2

Sir F. KELLY—We have this more pointed evidence—first, Mr. Sparke says, in page 18, at the top of the page, "I knew very little of the body of shareholders, but I know there…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 May 1848 · page 3

PRESENT: The Right Worshipful the Mayor, in the chair; Aldermen Allen, Little, Thurlow and Fisher; Councillors Moir, Driver, Henderson, Smidmore, Hyndes, Moore, Board,…

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Legislative Council. Tuesday, May 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 May 1848 · page 2

The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour. ANDREW WHITE. Mr. DANGAR presented a petition from a commuted pensioner named Andrew White,…

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Privy Council. Whitehall, 13th December, 1847

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 May 1848 · page 2

BEFORE Lord BROUGGHAM, Lord CAMPBELL, Lord LANODALE, Sir S. LUSHINGTON, and The Honorable T. PEMBERTON LEIGH, BANK OF AUSTRALASIA......APPELLANTS,…

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Legislative Council. Tuesday, May 2

Sydney Chronicle · Thursday 4 May 1848 · page 2

The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour. ANDREW WHITE. Mr. H. DANGAR presented a petition from one Andrew White, who had formerly been a private…

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Law Intelligence. Privy Council. Whitehall, 14th December, 1847

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 May 1848 · page 2

BEFORE LORD BROUGHAM, Lord CAMPBELL, Lord LANGDALE, Sir S. LUSHINGTON, and The Honorable T. PEMBERTON LEIGH. BANK OF AUSTRALASIA.......APPELLANTS…

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Legislative Council. Tuesday, May 2. the New Constitution

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 May 1848 · page 1

Mr. WENTWORTH, in moving the resolutions placed upon the table, would beg the patience of the House whilst he addressed a few observations in support of them. The…

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Legislative Council. Financial Minute. Charles A. Fitz Roy, Governor

Sydney Chronicle · Thursday 4 May 1848 · page 4

The Council will perceive by the Abstracts of Revenue and Expenditure for the year 1847, which were laid upon the table on the 18th instant, that, whilst the Revenue considerably exceeded the…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Thursday, May 4, 1848. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Legislature Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 May 1848 · page 2

[?] on Mr. WENTWORTH'S resolu[?] to the proposed changes in [?]on, terminated last nihgt at [?] after a long and powerful…

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Legislative Council

The Australian · Friday 5 May 1848 · page 2
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

On Friday last, the 28th Ultimo, the SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour. Mr. LAME gave notice that, on the following Tuesday, he should move that the petitions, which…

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(From Tuesday's (May 2) Gazette.) Executive Council Chamber, Sydney, 10th April, 1848

The Australian · Friday 5 May 1848 · page 4

His Excellency the Governor and the Executive Council, in pursuance of the Act of the Governor and Legislative Council, 9 Victoris, No. 9, are pleased to direct that in lieu of an oath, solomn…

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Law Intelligence. Privy Council. Whitehall, 14th December, 1847. BEFORE Lord BROUGILAM, Lord CAMPBELL, Lord LANEDALE, Sir S. LUSINGTON, and The Honorable T. Pemberton L[?]. Bank of Australasia......appellants. V. Bank of Australia and [?]...Respondents. (Continued.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 May 1848 · page 2

Mr. BETHELL — My Lords, I cannot help congratulating your Lordships, and I may take the liberty of saying, of congratulating myself, that we have now arrived at the last stage of…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 May 1848 · page 4

PRESENT—The Mayor; Aldermen Allen, Little, Fisher, and Wilshire; Councillors Hyndes, Moore, Paton, Ryan, Jenkins, Sillitoe, Titterton, Board, Brown, Moir, Neale,…

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Legislative Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 May 1848 · page 2

AFTER some preliminary business, Mr. COWPER moved that the Council resolve itself into a Committee of the whole for the consideration and adoption of an…

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Legislative Council. Thursday, May 4

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 6 May 1848 · page 2

The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour. EXILES. The COLONIAL SECRETARY laid on the table a return of the number of exiles arrived in the colony…

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Legislative Council. Proposed Constitution. Mr. Wentworth's Reply

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 May 1848 · page 3

MR. WENTWORTH was afraid that the amendment moved by the honorable and learned member for Auckland would have a most mischievous effect in taking off the…

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Law Intelligence Privy Council. Whitehall, 14th December, 1847

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 May 1848 · page 2

BEFORE Lord BROUGHAM, Lord CAMPHELL, Lord LANODALR, Sir S. LUSHINGTON, and The Honorable T. PEM[?]RTON LEIGH, BANK OF AUSTRALASIA.......APPELLANTS,…

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