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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

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

Here Lafayette was received by the Mayor of Leesburg, Dr. John H. McCabe and the common council.

From Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck by Williams, Harrison




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