NRS-16864 | Reports of the General Purposes Committee [Leichhardt Council]

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This series consists of reports from meetings of the General Purposes Committee of Leichhardt Municipal Council. The reports are contained within two volumes, arranged chronologically by date of meeting.

The reports list recommendations made to the Council. The subject matter of the recommendations include compensation cases, appointments of officers, receipt of correspondence, adoption of reports submitted by officers or other committees, street alignments, street lighting, land resumptions, garbage disposal and the drafting of building regulations. Some reports detail the Council meeting at which the reports were tabled. The reports also give the names of those who attended the meeting.

Section 109 of the Municipalities Act of 1867 (31 Vic. No.12), which was assented to on 23 December 1867, allowed municipal councils to appoint either standing committees or occasional (special) committees, composed of councillors, and to delegate to the committees 'any inquiry negotiation or arrangement or power to do any emergent act or to carry out any work which such Council may have ordered agreed to or directed'. However, Committees had to report to the council at the earliest opportunity. The Leichhardt Council minutes of 21 February 1872 state that the 'Council proceeded to elect Committees for the ensuing municipal year.' The motion was then carried that 'the Committees of Finance, Works, By Laws and General Purposes consist of the whole council.'