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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1849

364 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 19

Legislative Council

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 19 May 1849 · page 3

THE NEW Council met for the first time on Tuesday, on which occasion the members were inaugurated, and a Speaker was chosen. His Excellency was not there, being engaged in the…

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City Council

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 19 May 1849 · page 5

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

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The City Council

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 19 May 1849 · page 3

THE sanatory condition of this city is a subject which has occupied the attention of some of our best and most enlightened citizens; it is one upon which we ourselves have thought and written much, and we must confess…

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Legislative Council. Opening of the Council. Tuesday, May 15

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 19 May 1849 · page 3

The COLONIAL SECRETARY proposed that the proclamation of his Excellency the Governor, summoning the Council to assemble on that day, and at that place, for the despatch of business, should he read…

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Opening of the Council

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 19 May 1849 · page 6

AT a most eventful period of Australian history, the second elected Legislative body of this colony has assembled, to enter upon its public functions. As nearly one half of the people's representatives are "sons of the…

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Legislative Council. Notices of Motion. Tuesday, May 22

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 May 1849 · page 2

MEMO.—The Council to meet at two o'clock, and proceed to Government House, there to present to the Governor their Address in reply to his Excellency's opening Speech, at…

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Analysis of the Report of the Special Committee of the City Council on the Financial State and Prospects of the Corporation of Sydney, As Drawn Up by Mr. Alderman Thurlow. To the Editor of the People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 19 May 1849 · page 9

SIR, -- Without commenting on the author of the Report, or on the officers who assisted the Committee in arriving at their conclusions and recommendations therein, I beg to hand you an analysis thereon, caused by an examination of the mathematical part of its…

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Legislative Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 May 1849 · page 2

THE SPEAKER took the chair at a quarter past three. INTRODUCTION OF MEMBERS. Colonel Snodgrass, member for the Counties…

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Legislative Council. Wrdnesday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 May 1849 · page 3

THE SPEAKER took the chair at hall-past three. MR. HAMILTON. Edward Hamilton, Esq., having been…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 May 1849 · page 2

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

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The Convict Council

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 26 May 1849 · page 2

PURSUANT to notice, Mr. Cowper moved on Tuesday last that an Address be presented to the Governor, praying him not not to allow those convicts destined for Port Phillip to come on to Sydney, and with regard…

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Legislative Council. Tuesday, May 22. The SPEAKER took the chair at a quarter past three o'clock. Introduction of Members

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 26 May 1849 · page 5

Colonel SNODGRASS (member for the counties of Gloucester, Macquarie, and Stanley) took the oaths and his seat. TERENCE AUBREY MURRAY, Esq. (member for the county of Murray) also took his seat in the Council, after subscribing to…

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The Committee of Municipal a Enquiry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 May 1849 · page 2

WHEN reviewing the proceedings of the late Legislative Council, we adverted to the anomalous fact that throughout the whole six years of its existence, nothing…

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Romestic Intelligence. City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 May 1849 · page 6

A MEETING of the City Council will be holden at the Town Hall, York-street, on Monday, (this day,) at three o'clock in the afternoon. NOTICES OF MOTION…

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Speech of Lieutenant-governor Eyre on Opening the Legislative Council of New Munster

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 May 1849 · page 6

Gentlemen of the Legislative Council,— It affords me much satisfaction to be enabled to call you together for the despatch of public business, and to have it in my power now for…

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THE [?] Morning [?]herald. Monday, May 28, 1849. " Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am 1." the Council's First Ster in the Transportation Movement

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 May 1849 · page 4

THE resolution moved on tuesday last by the honorable member for Cumberland, Mr. Cowper, to the effect that an address Should be presented to the GOVERNOR,…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 May 1849 · page 2

PRESENT, — the Mayor, Alderman Allen, Fisher, Thurlow, Broughton, Egan and Browne; Councillors M'Donald, Paton, Board, Moore, Hyndes, Smidmore, Driver, Lingard,…

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Legislative Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 May 1849 · page 2

THE SPEAKER took the chair at a quarter-past three. NEW MEMBER. Mr. MACKINNON, one of the…

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Legislative Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 May 1849 · page 2

THE SPEAKER took the chair at a quarter-past three. RAILWAY COMMUNICATION. The COLONIAL SECRETARY laid upon…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 June 1849 · page 3

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

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