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Council & local affairs, 1849

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Legislative Council

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 7 July 1849 · page 2

The Speaker took the chair at the usual hour. Daniel Cooper, Esq., Jun., took the oath and his seat as member for St. Vincent and Auckland. The Bill for Simplifying the Law of Real Property was read a…

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The Addresses of Confidence, Mr. Mayor Flood, and the Member for Camden

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 7 July 1849 · page 5

IN proportion to our admiration of steadfast adherence to principle in evil and good report, keeping its calm dignity amidst the glow of auspicious events, and rising into moral heroism before the shock of adverse circumstances ;--so is our quick and heartfelt scop of everything…

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Legislative Council. Notices of Motion and Orders of the Day. Tuesday, July 10. Notices of Motion

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 July 1849 · page 2

1. MR. MURRAY to move, that the Yass School Lands Bill be now read a first time. 2. Mr. NICHOLS to move for leave to bring in a Bill to facilitate the performance of the…

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Legislative Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 July 1849 · page 2

THE SPEAKER took the chair at twenty-five minutes past three. MARRIAGE SETTLEMENT OF THE HON. E.D. THOMSON…

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Legislative Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 July 1849 · page 2

THE SPEAKER took the Chair at twenty minutes past three. MR. JAMES MARTIN. The SPEAKER informed the House that…

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Original Correspondence, to the Select Committee of the Legislative Council on Waste Land and Emigration. (Per favour of the Sydney Morning Herald.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 July 1849 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—If we are to regard the speech of Mr. Lowe as a brilliant sketch of the report which you an expected to give to the public, it would have, I fear, more the character of a…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday. Report of the Law Commission

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 July 1849 · page 2

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY rose to move, "That this Council do now resolve itself into a Committee of the whole Council, for the purpose of taking into consideration the Report…

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Legislative Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 July 1849 · page 2
Also in The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator

THE SPEAKER took the chair at half-past three. QUIT RENTS. Mr. LOWE gave notice of his intention, on Tuesday next, to move that the despatch of Earl…

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Fuzboz's Legislative Council Reports, Wednesday, July 11. "Here's Mons. Martin Come Again.'

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 14 July 1849 · page 2

THE arrival of the hon. member for Cook and Westmoreland having been announced by the Sergeant-at-arms with a flourish of his Open hat, Mr. Martin entered the Council Chamber…

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Council Papers. Quit-rents

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 July 1849 · page 2

COPY of a Despatch from the Right Honorable Eral Grey to Governor Sir C. A. Fitz Roy. Downing-street, 12th January, 1849. Sir,—1. I have had the honour of receiving…

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Legislative Council. Notices of Motion and Orders of the Day. Tuesday, July 17. Notices of Motion

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 July 1849 · page 2

1. MR. OAKRS to move, that an Address be presented to his Excellency the Governor, praying that his Excellency will be pleased to place on the Estimates for the year 1850,…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 July 1849 · page 2

A MEETING of the City Council will be hold at the Town Hall, on Friday next, at 3 o'clock P.M. NOTICES OF MOTION…

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Legislative Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 July 1849 · page 2

THE SPEAKER took the chair at twenty minutes past three. FINANCE. The following Message, No. 35, was brought…

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Legislative Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 July 1849 · page 2

THE SPEAKER took the chair at twenty-five minutes past three. PUBLICANS' BILL, Mr. LOWE presented a petition from the…

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Legislative Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 July 1849 · page 2

THE SPEAKER took the chair at twenty-five minutes past three. CONVICT LABOUR IN SYDNEY. The COLONIAL SECRETARY laid upon…

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Council Paper. Para Grass

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 July 1849 · page 2

COPY of a despatch from the Right Honorable Earl Grey to Governor Sir Charles A. Fitz Roy. (No. 216.)…

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Legislative Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 July 1849 · page 2
Also in The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator

THE SPEAKER took the chair at a quarter past three. ASSENT TO BILLS. The SPEAKER informed the House that…

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City Council. Notices of Motion—yesterday

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 21 July 1849 · page 1

Mr. Alderman Allen.—"That in consequence of the unheard of and alarming state of Financial affairs for 1849, a committee be appointed to investigate the particular reasons of the…

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