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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1849

364 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 19

Water Police. Monday, February 20. Before the Mayor and Alderman Eoan

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 February 1849 · page 2

The Mayor and Alderman Egon took their scats on the bench at ten o'clock, and having called for the [?], [?]ded to commence the business of the Court Captain BROWNE stated…

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Water Police. Wednesday, February 22. Before the Mayor and Alderman EGAN

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 22 February 1849 · page 2

The Court was opened at 10 o'clock. ASSAULT ON THE HIGH SEA[?]. Alexander Taylor, chief officer of the immigrant ship Inchinnan, was charged with…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 February 1849 · page 2

A MEETING of the City Council will be holden at the Town Hall, on Monday next, at three O'clock. NOTICE OF MOTION…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 24 February 1849 · page 4
Also in The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator

REPORT of the Lighting Committee on the situation and number af Lamps required to bring the City under the operation of a General Lighting Rate…

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City Council. Wednesday, February 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 March 1849 · page 2

PRESENY: Alderman Thurlow, in the chan; Aldermen Biougblon, Allen, Fisher, Blown, [?]d Egan; Councillors Moir, Josephson, Driver, Neale, May, M'Donald, Ryan,…

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City Council. To the Right Worshipful the Mayor, &c., &c. Town Clerk's Office, Sydney, 23rd February, 1849

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 March 1849 · page 2

SIR,—In terms of a resolution passed by the City Council on the 12th instant, to the following effect, viz.:- That the [?] under which the men…

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The City Council

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 3 March 1849 · page 3

ANOTHER MEETING.—If our memory serve us rightly, one Thomas Moore, wrote a sweet little ballad, the opening lines of which were— "And doth not a meeting like this make amends…

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The City Council's Proceedings

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 3 March 1849 · page 7

To the Editor of the People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator SIR,--In discharge of the duties which custom has imposed upon the proprietary of newspapers, some gentleman, as I presume, attended from your office to report the proceedings of the City…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 March 1849 · page 2

PRESENT—The Right Worshipful the Mayor, in the chair; Aldermen Fisher, Egan, Brown, Broughton, Allen, and Thurlow; Councillors Moore, May, Board, Paton, Driver, Neale,…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 March 1849 · page 2

PRESENT—The Right Worshipful the Mayor, in the chair: Aldermen Allen, Brown, Broughton, Thurlow, Fisher, and Egan; Councillors M'Donald, Driver, May,…

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City Council

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 10 March 1849 · page 4

Present-- The Right Worshipful the Mayor; Aldermen Fisher, Egan, Brown, Broughton, Allen, and Thurlow; Councillors Moore, May, Board, Paton, Driver, Neale, Hill, Jenkins, Thornton, Smidmore, Lingard, Wilshire, M'Donald, Ryan, Little, Moir,…

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Parramatta. District Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 March 1849 · page 3

A quarterly meeting was held on Tuesday, the members present were the Warden (Dr. Hill), and Dr. Henderson, Messrs. Pye Howison, Edrop, and Shepherd…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 March 1849 · page 2

PRESENT—The Right Worshipful the Mayor, in the chair; Alderman—Broughton, Fisher, Brown, Allen, Thurlow, and Egan; Councillors- Driver, Ryan, Smidmore, Josephson,…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 March 1849 · page 2

PRESENT; The Right Worshipful the Mayor in the chair; Aldermen Allen, Broughton, Thurlow, Egan, Brown, and Fisher; Councillors Moore, Paton, Jenkins, Josephson,…

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City Council

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 17 March 1849 · page 4

Present--The Right Worshipful the Mayer, Aldermen Broughton Fisher, Brown, Allen, Thar low, and Egan ; Councillors Driver, Ryan, Smidmore, Josephson, Lingard. Jenkins, M'Donald, Thornton, Moore. Wilshire, Board, Paton. Hill, Moir, Titterton, May and…

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City Council. Monday. Special Meeting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 March 1849 · page 2

PRESENT—The Mayor, Aldeimcn Allen, Broughton, Egan, Thurlow, Fisher, and Brown; Councillors Macdonald, Board, Lingard, Moore, Smidmore, Driver, Wilshire,…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 March 1849 · page 2

WHEREAS by an Act of the Imperial Parlia ment of Gr[?]at Britain and Ireland, passed in the fifth and sixth years of Her Majesty's reign, [?], " An Act for the Government…

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Legislative Council. Proclamation

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 31 March 1849 · page 4

By his Excellency Sir Charles Augustus Fitz Roy, Knight Companion of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, Captain General and Governor-in-Chief in and over her Majesty's Territory of New South Wales and its dependencies, and…

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Dissolution of This Council

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 31 March 1849 · page 6

IT is stated that some gentlemen have it in contemplation to get up petitions to His Excellency the Governor to dissolve the Legislative Council, so that an appeal may be made to the country on the question…

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