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
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
Curley was 25 when the Irish elected him to Boston's common council.
From Time Magazine Archive
Utica's nine-member common council has vowed not to let Hanna make the same move with other city ser vices.
From Time Magazine Archive
Under the second charter of 1690 the common council consisted of a mayor and eight aldermen and these with a recorder elected the free burgesses.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
