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Council & local affairs, 1852

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The Empire. Thursday, November 25, 1852. Legislative Council. Wednesday, 24Th November

Empire · Thursday 25 November 1852 · page 2

The SPEAKER took the chair at half-past three o'clock. NOTICES OF MOTION. Mr. WENTWORTH gave notice that he would…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Thursday, November 25, 1852. "Sworn to no Master, of no Ssct am I." Legislative Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 November 1852 · page 2

THE Speaker took the chair at half-past three. MR. BUSBY'S CLAIM. Mr. WENTWORTH brought up the report of the select committee on this claim, and…

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Municipal Election

Empire · Thursday 25 November 1852 · page 2

The election of members to fill the six vacancies in the City Council, took place yesterday, at the various Polling Places. We never witneseed an occasion of the kind on which so much apathy…

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Legislative Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 November 1852 · page 2

THE SPEAKER took the chair at half-past three. COUNCIL PAPERS. The COLONIAL SECRETARY laid upon the table certain charts received from the…

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Legislative Council. Thursday, 25Th November

Empire · Friday 26 November 1852 · page 2

The SPEAKER took the chair at half-past three o'clock. COUNCIL PAPERS. The COLONIAL SECRETARY laid upon the…

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Precis of the Legislative Council Business for This Day. Notices of Motion

Empire · Friday 26 November 1852 · page 3

Mr. HOLROYD to move for a Select Committee to enquire into the Quarantine Laws. Mr. HOLROYD to move for leave to bring in a [?] to improve the condition of Seamen…

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Legislative Council

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 27 November 1852 · page 13
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

The Council met, pursuant to adjournment. The attendance of members was by no means full. About a dozen nominee and fourteen representative members were present. The Speaker took the chair at twenty minutes after three…

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Council Papers. Immigration

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 November 1852 · page 4

REPORT for the year 1851, from the Immigration Agent. Government Immigration Office, Sydney, 20th July, 1852…

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Acts of Council

Empire · Saturday 27 November 1852 · page 2

It is notified in this Government Gazette of yesterday that the Royal assent has been given to the under-mentioned Acts of the Legislative Council:…

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The Legislative Council

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 27 November 1852 · page 8

THE Legislative Council, assembled again on Tuesday last, but on that day no business of any importance was transacted. A message was read from his Excellency the Governor-General,…

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Legislative Council. Thursday 25Th November

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 27 November 1852 · page 2

The SPEAKER took the chair at half-past three o'clock. COUNCIL PAPERS. The COLONIAL SECRETARY laid upon the Table, four Charts of certain parts of the East Coast of Australia, surveyed by Captain Stokes, of Her…

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Legislative Council. Friday, 26Th November

Empire · Saturday 27 November 1852 · page 2

There being only fifteen members present, exclusive of the Speaker—namely, the Colonial Secretary, Captain King, the Chief Commissioner of Crown Lands, Mr. Parker, Mr. Lamb, Mr…

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Bell's Life in Sydney. Saturday, November 27, 1852. A Req[?] for the City Council

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 27 November 1852 · page 2

"It is a salf-evident trath, although somewhat lost night of, that the first thing requisite to make a good [?]n is ho[?]ty and intergrity of purpose, and a constant [?]diness to [?]crifice self-intercet…

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Municipal Election

Empire · Saturday 27 November 1852 · page 2

About 12 o'clock yesterday, some twenty or thirty persons attended at the Town Hall to hear the official declaration of the poll. The Mayor, in announcing the result from the balcony of the…

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The Root of the Root. or the History of the Discovery, Rise, and Progress of the Root of Evil; Compiled From Official Returns, Furnished to the Legislative Council of New South Wales. Chapter I.

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 27 November 1852 · page 4

Shewing how Mr. Thomson heard of it; and how cleverly he took care not to tell what passed between him and the discoverer privately. UPON the 3rd. of April 1851 Mr. Hargreves,--who had previously…

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The City Council

Empire · Wednesday 1 December 1852 · page 2

WE publish in another column an official list of the City Council as at present constituted, as the best exponent of the character and capacity of that disgraceful…

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Legislative Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 December 1852 · page 2

THE SPEAKER took the chair at half-past three. COUNCIL PAPERS. The COLONIAL SECRETARY laid upon…

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Council Papers. Immigration

Empire · Wednesday 1 December 1852 · page 2

The following papers were laid on the table of the Legislative Council by the Colonial Secretary on the 23rd of November:- Copy of a Despatch from the Right Hon. Sir…

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Council Paper. John Busby, Esquire

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 December 1852 · page 3

REPORT form the Select Committee on the Petition of John Busby, Esquire. The Select Committee of the Legislative Council, appointed on the 2nd of September…

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