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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1851

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 January 1851 · page 2

PRESENT: The Mayor;Aldermen Broughton, Brown, Allen, Fisher, and Egan; Councillors [?], Board, Simmons, Flood, Little, Moore, Thomas, Tierney, Jenkins, Weekes, Josephson,…

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City Council. Thursday,January 24

Empire · Friday 24 January 1851 · page 2

THE Council met exactly at three o'clock,the attendance both of visitors and members was very large in consequence no doubt of the contemplated renewal of the discussion on the mayoralty…

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City Council

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 25 January 1851 · page 3

The Council met by adjournment on Thursday at 3 o'clock. Previous to the signing of the minutes. Councillor Josephson remarked that there was no mention made of the protest which he had offered at the last meeting…

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City Council

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 25 January 1851 · page 6

A meeting took place at the Town Hall, York-street, on Monday, at three, P.M. After the minutes of the last meeting had been read, previous to the Mayor signing the book, Councillor Josephson protested…

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Dinner to the Right Worshipful the Mayor

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 25 January 1851 · page 4

A number of the citizens having determined to invite the Right Worshipful W. Thurlow, Esq., the Mayor of this city, to a dinner ; that event took [?] on Tuesday evening last, at Mr. Cankett's Custom House [?], Macquarie Place. Upwards of fifty…

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The (Mandamus) Mayor's Dinner. To the Editors of Bell's Life in Sydney

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 25 January 1851 · page 3

GENTLEMEN.—Tuesday, the 21st instant, will be memorable as long as our fine City continues to hold her position as Queen of Cities in the southern hemisphere—fortunately for the…

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An Hour with the City Council. Thursday, January 23. the Mayoralty

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 25 January 1851 · page 2

COUNCILLOR SIMMONS rose to move the resolution which stood in his name on the business paper. The Council must however permit him before entering on the motion, to express the…

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City Council. (Continued from last Friday's issue. the Mayoralty

Empire · Monday 27 January 1851 · page 3

Councillor Simmons, in addressing the Council upon the motion' which stood in his name, must be permitted to say that he rose with a very unenviable feeling. He felt bound to take blame…

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Freaks of the City Council

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 30 January 1851 · page 8

The mantle of the renowned knight of La Mancha must have fallen somewhere within the precincts of the Town Hall of Sydney, otherwise how to account for the erratic fits…

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Ecclesiastical Intelligence. the Synodical Address of the Fathers of the National Council of Thurles to Their Beloved Flock, the Catholics of Ireland. (Concluded from our last.) Oppressors of the Poor Censured

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 30 January 1851 · page 2

For our parts, did we omit, on this important occasion, admonishing and exhorting you, by all the motives which religion can supply, to succour your afflicted brethren, and to treat them with all…

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City Council

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 1 February 1851 · page 3

A meeting of the City Council will be held at the Town Hall on Monday, the 10th instant (being quarterly meeting). NOTICES OF MOTION. By Alderman Egan :--1. That the resolution of Council, of…

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Legislative Council. Proclamation

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 1 February 1851 · page 2

By His Excellency Sir Charles Augustus Fitz Roy, Knight, Companion of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of the Territory of New South Wales and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same,…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 February 1851 · page 5

Whereas the Legislative Council of New South Wales now stands prorogued to Tuesday, the 4th day of February next: Now, I, Sir Charles Augustus Fitz Roy. Knight…

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City Council. the Missing Papers.--minutes of Evidence. Friday, 20Th Dec., 1850. Councillor Thomas re-examined

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 1 February 1851 · page 3

By Mr. Egan-- You showed me the Notice which I sent to the Town Clerk on the day it appeared on the business paper, the day that the Council adjourned, 2nd September. You did not read it to me; you held it up to me; I knew before this that you had it,…

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Copy of a letter from Alderman Egan to the Town Clerk. Sydney, 17th January, 1851

Empire · Monday 3 February 1851 · page 3

SIR,- As I understand that the Mayor is one of a Sub-Committee appointed to prepare an additional Report on the further evidence taken at any suggestion relative to what are now generally…

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The Missing Documents. Report of the City Council on the Subject of the "Missing Documents."

Empire · Monday 3 February 1851 · page 3

On the 10th December last, the Council resolved that the Report of the Committee on " Missing Documents," (dated and received by the Council on,the 18th November last) be sent…

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The Empire. Monda Y, February 3, 1851. the First Duties of the LEGlSLATIVE COUNCIL

Empire · Monday 3 February 1851 · page 2

"ONE of the most important of the duties to which our new Legislature will have to address itself, is that of seeking, by all proper means, the enlargement of its own…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 February 1851 · page 2

A QUARTERLY Meeting of the City Council will be holden at the Town Hall, on Monday next, at twelve o'clock. NOTICES OF MOTION…

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City Council. the Missing Documents. Report of the Committee of the City Council on the subject of the "Missing Documents."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 February 1851 · page 2

On the 10th December last, the Council re solved that the Report of the Committee on "Missing Documents" (dated and received by the Council on the 18th November last) be…

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Selections From the Minutes of Evidence. Friday, December 20, 1850.—Present: Alderman Thurlow, Councillors Josephson, Peden, Ryan, Williams, Roberts. Councillor THOMAS re-examined

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 February 1851 · page 2

By Mr. Egan:—You showed me the Notice which I sent to the Town Clerk on the day it appeared on the business paper, the day that the Council adjourned, 2nd September. You…

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