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Council & local affairs, 1853

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City Council

Empire · Thursday 10 November 1853 · page 2
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

Yesterday the usual Quarterly Meeting of this body was held at the Town Hall, in York-street. It was more fully attended than usual, apparently from the belief that seemed to prevail among the…

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City Council. Notices of Motion

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 November 1853 · page 4

THE adjourned quarterly meeting of the City Council will take place this afternoon, at 3 o'clock. The following is the substance of the business paper:—1. By Councillor…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 November 1853 · page 4
Also in Empire

THE adjourned Quarterly Meeting of the City Council took place yesterday, at the Town Hall, York-street. Present: The Mayor; Alderman Ryan; Councillors Peden, M'Encroe,…

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Sydney Police Court.—thursday. (Before the Mayor, Police Magistrate, Major Christie, Dr. Do[?]glass, and J. Arkins, Esq.)

Empire · Saturday 12 November 1853 · page 4

BRKACH OF LICENSING ACT.—John J. Branch am] John Smith, licensed publicans, were severally charged with a breach of the above Act, in [?]ot having a light burning outside their houses…

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THE Sydney Morning Herald. Saturday, November 12, 1853. 'Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I.' Our New Municipal Government

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 November 1853 · page 4

THE appointment of the Board of Commissioners, who are, on the first of January 1854, to assume the Municipal Government of the city of Sydney, invests…

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Sydney Police Court.—monday. (Before the Mayor, Police Magistrate, E. H. Hargraves, and Ronald Donald, Esquires.)

Empire · Tuesday 15 November 1853 · page 2

DRUNKARDS LIST. — There were twenty-two persons brought into court this morning, charged with the crime of drunkenness. Of the number many were old offenders, well known to the Bench,…

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The Empire. Wednesday, November 16, 1853. Auts of Council of 1853

Empire · Wednesday 16 November 1853 · page 2

THE late session must not be estimated by the number of Acts which it passed, but by their quality. We have on our table no less than thirty-seven public…

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The Opening of the Provincial Council of Auckland. (From the New Zealander, October 22.)

Empire · Wednesday 16 November 1853 · page 2

The address of the Superintendent on opening the first session of the first Provincial Council of Auckland elected under the provisions of the New Constitution Act, was published in extenso in our…

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The Murder of the Mayor of Uzes

Empire · Friday 18 November 1853 · page 6

On the 30th of September last, at about four o'clock in the morning, as the Viscount de Dampmartin, a man of large property, mayor of the the town of Uzes, and one of the most zealous…

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Sydney Police Court.—thursday. (Before the Mayor, Police Magistrate, and C. H. Chambers, Esq.)

Empire · Friday 18 November 1853 · page 4

DRUNK AND DISORDERLY.—Elizabeth Wallace was charged with being drunk, and addressing improper language to the passengers in George-street, on Wednesday night last. The prisoner was found guilty and sentenced…

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Wentworth's Constitutional Myth Interpreted by a Parody on the Lines Quoted by Himself in the Legislative Council From His Own Prize Poem

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 19 November 1853 · page 8

And O, Britannia, shouldst thou cease to have One born Obstructionist one titled Knave; Should ere thy Treasury only Truth employ, Nor longer hire brute Hessians to destroy ;…

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Sydney Police Court.—monday. (Before the Mayor amt the Police Magistrate.)

Empire · Tuesday 22 November 1853 · page 2

The-business of the Court to day (Monday) chiefly consisted in disposing of the usual muster of the more refractory drunkards, whose presence, if not indispensable in Darlinghurst at the time,…

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City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 November 1853 · page 9

A MEETING of the City Council took place yesterday afternoon, at the Town Hall, Yorkstreet, in compliance with a requisition signed by nine of the members Present—The Right…

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The City Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 November 1853 · page 8

IN a matter of mere discretion or indiscretion, we should be inclined to leave a deliberative body so near its final dissolution as the City Council, to its…

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Meeting of the City Council

Empire · Wednesday 23 November 1853 · page 2

A meeting of this body was held yesterday, at the Town Hall in York Street, pursuant tola requisition addressed to the Mayor, of which the following is copy:—…

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City Council

The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator · Saturday 26 November 1853 · page 5

A Meeting of the City Council took place on Tuesday afternoon, at the Town Hall, York street, in compliance with a requisition signed by nine of the members. Present--The Right Worshipful the Mayor, Aldermen Wilshire, Ryan, and Thurlow: and…

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The City Council

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 26 November 1853 · page 9

IT would be a far more agreeable duty on the, part of the public Press, to announce, that our Corporation, like the Synagogue of old, was " buried with honour," than to have…

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Domestic Intelligence City Council

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 26 November 1853 · page 9

A meeting of the City Council took place on Tuesday afternoon at the Town Hall, York-street in compliance with a requisition signed, by nine of the members. Present—The Right Worshipful the…

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