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
In Milwaukee, the public safety committee of the city's common council last week began meeting by candlelight.
From Time Magazine Archive
Three days afterwards, he took possession of that old fortress, being attended by a deputation from the common council, who complimented him in the highest terms, and invited him and his principal officers to dinner.
From London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. by Unknown
