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

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

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

But if to have rude Ætolians as co-equal members of a common council would have been too bitter a degradation for Athens, why not ally herself to the civilized and orderly Achæans?

From Problems in Greek history by Mahaffy, John Pentland