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

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

In Milwaukee, the public safety committee of the city's common council last week began meeting by candlelight.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 Disraeli, Isaac