common council

In regard to the governing body, there was to be one only—a mayor and common-council.

In all the rest of the boroughs it was proposed that the whole common-council should be elected for three years.

I went to a friend of mine who is a member of the Common Council, and with that friend I held the following conversation.

I bet you what you laike he went in for the Common Council simply in order to get even with old Pilgrim.

The movement proved so irresistible that the Common Council announced a ten-hour day for public servants.