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Council & local affairs, 1850

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Legislative Council. Thursday. the Speaker took the chair at a quarter past three. Notices of Motion

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 August 1850 · page 2

Mr LAMB gave notice of his intention, on Friday, this day, to move that an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, respectfully setting forth, with reference to the Despatch…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Friday, August 30, 1850. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Shall the Order in Council Be Revoked or Not?

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 August 1850 · page 2

LET us take a clear view of the position in which the Transportation Question stands at the present time. On the 1st June, 1849, the Legislative…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 August 1850 · page 2

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

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The Council in Alarm

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 31 August 1850 · page 8

SYDNEY will be a second Paris, if we are not careful, said the great Australian, Mr. Wentworth, on Tuesday last, when delivering himself of his heavy and impotent speech, on a subject which of yore was…

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Legislative Council. Tuesday, August 20

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 31 August 1850 · page 2

The Colonial Secretary brought up the report of the Select Committee on police, which was ordered to be printed. Mr. Wentworth presented a petition from Mr. Fisher, of the Glenmore distillery, relative to duties on foreign spirits. Mr…

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The Mayor's Fancy Ball. The H-illiad; an Epic Poem. [By Home after HOMER.]

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 31 August 1850 · page 2

Muse most divine! ah! teach me how to write The wondrous doings of one Festal Night: With ruby nib new tip my grey goose quill…

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Responsible Governments. -- Can Any Confidence Be Placed in the Present Council?

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 31 August 1850 · page 8

WE feel satisfied that when our readers reflect upon the true meaning of the words "Responsible Government," and when they turn to the debates which have recently taken place in the Legislative…

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The Fancy Ball. a few random rhymes about going to, and being at, the Mayor's Fancy Ball, on the 22nd instant

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 August 1850 · page 6

I SEEM'D as I pass'd through the streets to hear, In the moon bright luminous atmosphere, The sound of [?]bais silvery light, And the revels of fays in the glorious night;…

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Legislative Council. Friday. the Speaker took the chair at twenty minutes past three. Hyde Park Bill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 31 August 1850 · page 4

Mr. WENTWORTH presented the Report of the Select Committee appointed to consider the Bill for the enclosure of Hyde Park. Ordered to be printed…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Monday, September 2, 1850. "Bworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Legislative Council. Notices of Motion and Orders of the Day. Tuesday, September 3. Notices of Motion

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 September 1850 · page 2

1. MR. DARVALL to move, That the Petition presented by him on the 20th ultimo, from members of the Church of England and Ireland be printed…

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Domestic Intelligence. City Council. Monday. PRESENT—The Mayor; Aldermen Allen, Broughton, Thurlow, Egan, and Brown; Councillors Moore, Driver, Little, Thomas, Peden, Paton, Morfitt, Board, Roberts, Neale, Jenkins, Macdonald, Lingard, Flood, Ryan, Josephson, and May. Negociation with Mr. Norton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 September 1850 · page 2

The MAYOR stated that the negociation with Mr. Norton, referred to at the quarterly meeting, had terminated by a loan to the Corporation of £1600…

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Legislative Council. Tuesday. the Speaker took the chair at half-past three. Official Returns

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 September 1850 · page 2

The COLONIAL SECRETARY, by command of His Excellency the Governor, laid upon the Table the return to the Address relating to Dr. Douglass, adopted on motion of…

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Legislative Council. Notices of Motion

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 5 September 1850 · page 6

Mr. Lamb to move that an address be presented to her Majesty, praying that she will be graciously pleased to revoke the Order in Council by which this colony has again been made a place to which offenders may be…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Thursday, September 5, 1850. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." Legislative Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 September 1850 · page 2

THE SPEAKER took the chair at twentyeight minutes to four. NOTICES OF MOTION. Mr. WENTWORTH gave notice of his…

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Legislative Council Mems

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 7 September 1850 · page 2

ENDOWMENT OF SYDNEY—Mr. Wentworth's motion for leave to bring in a bill to confer certain endowments on the Corporation o[?] the City of Sydney, was, after a long and hopeless…

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City Council

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 7 September 1850 · page 12

The Mayor, stated that a negociation with Mr. Norton, had terminated in a loan to the Corporation of 1,600. Alderman Thurlow informed the Council, that the greater portion of the alterations made in the Corporation Bill, now before the…

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Legislative Council. Friday. the Speaker took the chair at twentyeight minutes past three. Appropriation Bill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 September 1850 · page 2

The COLONIAL TREASURER gave notice of his intention, on Wednesday next, to move for leave to introduce the Appropriation Bill for 1850—1…

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Legislative Council

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 12 September 1850 · page 6

The Colonial Secretary laid upon the table new Rules of the Court, promulgated by the Judges. Mr. Darvall presented a petition from His Grace the Archbishop of Sydney, and the clergy against the University Bill,…

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Council Paper. Report on Steam Communication with Europe

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 September 1850 · page 3

THE Select Committee of the Legislative Council, appointed on the 19th July, 1850, "to inquire into and report upon the probability or otherwise of this colony obtaining…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday. the Speaker took the chair at half-past three. Appropriation Bill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 September 1850 · page 4

The COLONIAL SECRETARY moved, on the part of the Colonial Treasurer, who was absent from indisposition, for leave to introduce n Bill for applying certain sums arising…

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