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Sydney · Council & local affairs

Council & local affairs, 1858

489 stories in Sydney's papers · page 25 of 25

Municipal Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 December 1858 · page 4

THE City Connell met yesterday at 3 o'clock p.m. Present: The Right Worshipful the Mayor and fourteen Aldermen. ALDERMAN BROUGHTON. Alderman Broughton having proceeded to take his seat as a…

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Municipality of Concord

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 December 1858 · page 4

PURSUANT to advertisement, a meeting was held on Saturday evening, the 18th instant, at Mr. Scales', the New Inn, Liverpool Road, for the purpose, of furthering the above object, Mr. GARLAND, on being called, to the chair, in opening the…

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Legislative Council. Business Proceedings This Day. Government Business—order of the Day

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 December 1858 · page 5

District Courts Act Amendment Bill; second reading. GENERAL BUSINESS—NOTICES OF MOTION. Mr. Johnson to move for leave to introduce a bill to amend the law of evidence in prosecutions for bigamy…

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Parli[?] of New South Wales. Legislative Council. Wednesday, 22Nd December

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 December 1858 · page 4

THE Council met at quarter-past four o'clock. POSTAL STEAM COMMUNICATION. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL laid upon the table of the House the following copy of a dispatch from the…

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Legislative Council. Business Proceedings This Day. Notices of Motion and Orders of the Day. Thursday, December [?]. Questions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 December 1858 · page 5

MR. WANT to ask the Honorable the Attorney-General,—Whether it is the intention of the Government, either during the present or ensuing session, to introduce any measure to remedy the defect in the present Act for Registration of Deeds?…

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Parliament of New South Wales. Legislative Council. Thursday. 23Rd December

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 December 1858 · page 4

THE PRESIDENT took the chair at twenty-three minutes past four o'clock p.m. MEMBER SWORN. The Hon. J. L. MONTEFIORE, Esq., having taken…

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The Crown Law Officers and the Executive Council. To William Forster, Esq., M.L.A. (Per favour of the Sydney Morning Herald.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 December 1858 · page 3

SIR,—I have read with great interest the debate upon your motion, that the House of Assembly should resolve that the Attorney and Solicitor Generals should not necessarily be members of the Cabinet…

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Parliament of New South Walks. Legislative Council. Wednesday, December 22nd

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 December 1858 · page 2

The Council sat about half in hour. The District Courts Act Amendment Bill, and the Supreme Court Additional' Judge Appointment Bill, and the Graduates of British Universities Bill,…

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Municipal Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 December 1858 · page 4

A MEETING of the Municipal Council will be held at the Town Hall, King-street, this day, at three o'clock in the afternoon, for considering the following notices of motion:- By Alderman SPEER: That the resolution of Council, of date 6th…

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Municipal Council

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 December 1858 · page 4

THE City Council met yesterday afternoon, at 3 p.m. Present the right worshipful the Mayor (John Williams, Esq.), and fourteen aldermen. MINUTES AND REPORTS…

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