Parliament of New South Wales. Legislative Council. Friday, March 13
THE PRESIDENT took the chair at twenty minutes past four o'clock. MEETINGS OF THE HOUSE. Mr. DEAS THOMSON, moved, That this Council, on its rising,…
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Council & local affairs, 1857
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Parliamentary Intelligence. Legislative Council. Monday, March 16Th, 1857
The PRESIDENT took the chair at a quarter past eleven o'clock. MANAGEMENT OF THE RAILWAYS. Mr. WANT enquiredâWhother the government…
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THE PRESIDENT took the chair at five minutes past eleven a.m. MANAGEMENT OF THE RAILWAY. Mr. WANT, in pursuance of notice, asked the hon…
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The PRESIDENT took the chair ten minutes past four o clock. TOLL DUTIKS ACT AMENDMENT BILL. On the motion of Mr. KNOX,'this hill was road a third time and…
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THE PRESIDENT took the chair at ten minutes past four o'clock. TOLL DUTIES ACT AMENDMENT BILL. On motion of Mr. KNOX, this bill was read a third…
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The PRESIDENT of the Legislative Council took the Chair at five minutes past three o'clock. The following Hon. members were in attendance:â The Honorables Edward De a Thomson, Esq., C.B.;…
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The PRESIDENT took the chair at three minutes past three o'clock, when there were present the following members of the Council:—Edward Deas Thomson, Esq., C.B.; Captain Lethbridge; A. M. A'Beckett,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Honorable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council, and Gentlemen of the Legislative Assembly.—
1. After an unusually protracted and laborious Session, I am happy to be enabled to release you from further attendance. 2. It was not to be expected that the…
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ALTHOUGH the Act for the incorporation of the city of Sydney as passed by the Legislature, in its complete state, is not yet issued from the Government Printing Office, we feel it to be our duty to call the attention of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Act to Re-establish a Municipal Council in the City of Sydney. [Assented To, 18Th March, 1857.] Preamble
WHEREAS it is expedient that the citizens of the City of Sydney should be again incorporated and that a Municipal Council should be re-established in the said City instead of "The Commissioners for the City of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Empire. Friday, March 27, 1857. the Municipal Elections
WE think it is matter of regret that no feeling of public anxiety is yet manifested to make good the municipal rights recently conferred on the citizens of Sydney by Act of Parliament…
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WE are glad to see that the citizens are awakening to a sense of their duty in the matter of the pending elections for the City Council. Meetings are to be held this evening…
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A public meeting was held at the Star Hotel, Macquarie-place, yesterday evening, for the purpose of nominating fit and proper persons [?] represent Bourke Ward, under the new Municipal Corporation Act. There…
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A MEETING of the citizens convened by public advertisement, was held yesterday evening, at the Clare Tavern, Cumberland-street, for the purpose of nominating two fit and proper persons to fill the office of…
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Last evening a meeting took place at the Clare Tavern, Cumberland-street, for the purpose of nominating two fit and proper persons to represent Gipps' Ward in the Municipal Council…
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SOME misapprehension exists as to who are voters under the New Corporation Act. A limitation is made as to persons qualified to vote. The 5th clause of the Act declares who are electors; and the 6th who…
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MACQUARIE WARD.—A meeting called by public advertisement, to select fit and proper candidates to be nominated as Aldermen for the Ward, was held last evening at the London Tavern. The…
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A public meeting of the electors of Cook and Fitz Roy Wards was advertised to be held last evening, st Mr. Thomas Taylor's, Happy Vale Inn, South Head-road; owing, however, to some misunderstanding, the meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bell's Life in Sydney Saturday, April 4, 1857. Our Municipal Rights
AMONGST the various topics so energetically mooted at the late General Election, none was put forward mor prominently than the "restoration of Municipal rights",…
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A meeting of the oleotors of those wards was held last evening, at the Stirling Castle Hotel, Chippendale. The attendance was very small owing to the inclemency of the weather…
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