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
In Milwaukee, the public safety committee of the city's common council last week began meeting by candlelight.
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
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
He wrote letters to all the planters and old Buccaneers in Hispaniola, and desired their attendance at a common council.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter
