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The PRESIDENT announced that leave of absence for twelve months had been granted to the Hon. Robert Towns. ADULTERATION OF FOOD. Dr. DOUGLASS laid on the table a bill, which on a previous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →By Alderman THORNTON [?] That the Report of the Finance Committee, received this day, recommending the payment of sundry accounts, be adopted. By Alderman THORNTON: That this Council do now take into…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The PRESIDENT took the chair at a quarter-past four o'clock. LEAVE OF ABSENCE. The PRESIDENT announced that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed, and reports were brought up and received from the Finance, Water, Lighting, and Improvement Committees…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A meeting of the Municipal Council was held yesterday, at the Town Hall. Present—The Mayor and thirteen Aldermen. MINUTES AND REPORTS,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Leave of absence for twelve months was granted to Mr. Towns, who is about to visit England. A bill, introduced by Mr. Douglass, "to prevent the sale, within the county of Cumberland, of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Registered Instruments' Preservation Bill; to be con[?]dered in committee. District Courts Bill; to be considered in committee. GENERAL BUSINESS—NOTICES OF MOTION…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The PRESIDENT took the chair at ten minutes past four o'olook. MEMBER SWORN. The Honorable Francis Lord took the caths ands…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. NORTON presented a petition from 350 of the inhabitants of the town and district of Berrima, praying that, in any new electoral arrangements which might be adopted, that district might be permitted to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MR. HOLDEN to move, That in tho opinion of this House, the assistance, in the framing of new laws, of Judges engaged in administering tho existing law, has been shown, not only by its own short experience, but by the example of both Houses of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR ALFRED STEPHEN to move for leave to introduce a Bill to amend and extend the Act passed for shortening Acts of the Legislature. Mr. DEAS THOMSON to move that the petition from the National…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The PRESIDENT took the chair at a quarter-past four o'clock. PETITION. Mr. PENNINGTON presented a petition from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sir ALFRED STEPHEN to move for leave to introduce a bill to amend and extend the Act passed for shortening Acts of the Legislature. Mr. DEAS THOMSON to move—That the petition…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. PENNINGTON presented a petition from George Kenyon Holden, John Woolley, Clerk in Holy Orders, and Nicholas Henry Eagar, respectively President, Senior Vice-President, and Treasurer, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Norton presented a petition from 350 of the inhabitants of the town and district of Berrima, praying that, in any new arrangements which might be adopted, that district might be…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The PRESIDENT took the chair at a quarter past four o'clock. MR. JUSTICE DICKINSON. The PRESIDENT reported to the House that he had…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. DOCKER presented a petition from certain German inhabitants and others, of the city of Sydney and its environs (bearing about sixty signatures), praying, "That the laws and regulations in force in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →His Excellency the Governor-General. The Honorable E. Deas Thomson, Esq., C.B., VicePresident of the Council. The Honorable H. W. Parker, Esq., Colonial…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A SPECIAL general meeting of the City Council was held at three p.m., yesterday, for the consideration of the progress report of the Finance Committee, in reference to the department of the late Building…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—It will be in the recollection of your Worship that, on the 7th of July, 1857, I received a summons to attend a special meeting of the Improvement Committee, which had been granted on the motion of Mr…
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