common council

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The common council set speed limits south of Grand and Vesey Streets: no faster than “a slow trot or pace, not exceeding at any time the rate of five miles per hour.”

From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2010

Curley was 25 when the Irish elected him to Boston's common council.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since most of the municipal jobs are appointive the campaign hinges on the mayoralty and the nine seats on the common council, which is elected at large.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now he champions the idea of a new world peace structure in which all nations, big & little, will have a voice at a common council.

From Time Magazine Archive

As early as 1534 or 1535 the citizens had deliberated in common council on the necessity of a new place of resort, and Leadenhall Street had been proposed.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter