common council
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The common council will vote to codify the moratorium on Wednesday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Hannah Shvets, who serves on the common council in Ithaca, the home of Cornell, said she would like to see the university transfer all violent crime reporting to Ithaca’s police department.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
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
The Kingston, N.Y., common council called for bids to equip 15 acres of limestone caves, in which mushrooms are presently grown commercially, as atomic shelters.
From Time Magazine Archive
A protracted contest between the privy-council and the lord mayor in common council, with protests and petitions, rose 515 up; and long it seemed hopeless to patronise the players, who were not suffered to play.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
