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
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
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
In 1573 Elizabeth granted a charter creating Bideford a free borough corporate, with a common council consisting of a mayor, 5 aldermen and 7 chief burgesses, together with a recorder, town-clerk and 2 serjeants-at-mace.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
