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Council & local affairs, 1851

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City Council

Empire · Friday 2 May 1851 · page 3

A quarterly Meeting of the City Council will be held at the Town Hall, York-street, on Friday, (this day), at 12 o'clock noon. The following is the business paper:—…

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Legislative Council. Wednesday, 30Th April

Empire · Friday 2 May 1851 · page 2

The SPEAKER took the chair at half-past three o'clock. MESSAGE. The following message from his Excellency the…

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The Election of the Council of the League

Empire · Friday 2 May 1851 · page 2

WE beg to call attention to the Election of the first League Council, which comes off in the Saloon of the Royal Hotel, this day, between eleven and four o'clock…

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Legislative Council. Thursday. the Speaker took the chair at half-past three. Convict Immigration From Van Diemen's Land

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 2 May 1851 · page 2

Mr. MOOR said, that a batch of convicts had, it was stated, been sent to Port Phillip from Van Diemen's Land, with pardons granted by the local Government of the latter colony…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 May 1851 · page 6

A QUARTERLY meeting of the City Council will be held on Friday next, when the following business will be brought forward:— BY ALDERMAN BROUGHTON:…

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Legislative Council

Empire · Saturday 3 May 1851 · page 4
Also in The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator, The Sydney Morning Herald

THURSDAY, 1ST MAY. The SPEAKER took, the chair at half-past three o'clock. CONVICTS IN PORT PHILLIP…

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The Legislative Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 May 1851 · page 4

AFTER an experiment of nearly eight years, the first representative Legislature of New South Wales has now virtually ceased to exist. And we are not afraid…

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Council of the League

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 3 May 1851 · page 5

YESTERDAY the members of the Sydney Branch of the Australasian Anti-Transportation League elected their first Council. Messrs. West and Weston, Delegates from Tasmania,…

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Legislative Council. Tuesday, April 29

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 3 May 1851 · page 4

The SPEAKER took the chair at half past three o'clock. Mr. Moor presented a petition from the inhabitants of Belfast praying for vote by ballot. Dr. DICKSON presented a petition, praying for certain…

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Legislative Council, (Continued from Page 393,)

Empire · Saturday 3 May 1851 · page 8

timely concessions to the people, (Cheers,) The continuance of the present system would infallibly bring on an insurrection among the people it was hopeless for them (the elective members)…

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Police Office.— Saturday. Before the Police Magistrate and Alderman Egan

Empire · Monday 5 May 1851 · page 3

The business at the Police Office was very limited this morning— the only caso, of publie interest being the conviction of two boys named Alfred Sanders, and Isaac Bolton, for letting off…

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The Empire. Sydney, Monday, May 5, 1851. Tue Council Of the League

Empire · Monday 5 May 1851 · page 2

LAST Friday was an eventful day in our colonial annals. Whilst our first elective Legislature was making its exit, a new body, which is'destined to have no…

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Police Office.— Monday. Before the Police Magistrate, Alderman' Egan, and Edward Flood, Esq

Empire · Tuesday 6 May 1851 · page 3

DRUNKARDS.— No less than twenty-four drunkards were brought before the Police Magistrate this morning, and dealt with according to their several degrees of delinquency…

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Legislative Council. Thursday. Adjourned Debate on the Constitutional Act

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 May 1851 · page 1

MR. DARVALL could hardly imagine that on a subject by far the most important which had been touched upon this session, that honorable members should consent to be altogether…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Wednesday, May 7, 1851. "Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I." the Declaration and Remonstrance of the Legislative Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 May 1851 · page 2

NEARLY the last measure adopted by the Legislative Council, now virtually defunct, was one upon which the members of that body may look back with the…

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Legislative Council

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 8 May 1851 · page 9

The Speaker took the chair at half-past three o'clock. IMMIGRATION RETURNS. A message was brought in from His Excellency the Governor, transmitting certain returns with…

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Police Office.—wednesday. Before Messrs, Dowling, and Alderman Egan, MILTON v. CUTHILL

Empire · Thursday 8 May 1851 · page 3

This case arose out of the results of an inquisition held at Ashfield by the Coroner, on view of the body of William Lewis, (who had died suddenly, after having been attended professionally…

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City Council

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 10 May 1851 · page 2

THE quarterly meeting of the City Council was held at the Town Hall, York-street, at noon. In the absence of the Mayor, from indisposition, the chair was taken by Alderman Egan. REPORT…

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