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120.4 City Councils
Journal of Select Council, 1835-1854.
120.5 City Councils
Journal of Select Council, 1854-1920.
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at this time120.51 City Councils
Digests of Ordinances and Acts of Assembly,1812, 1822, 1828, 1834, 1841, 1843, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1854, 1860, 1863, 1864, 1868, 1881, 1887, 1905, 1910. Ordinances of City Council and Acts of the Pennsylvania General Assembly which relate to the City of Philadelphia.
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at this time120.55 City Councils
Financial Program, 1917-1952. Compilation of appropriation ordinances for each volume year; added variously are ordinances fixing tax rate, sewer rental budget , and capital budget, and recapitulations of total appropriations for each department.
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at this time120.59 City Councils
Manuals of Council, 1866-1951.
Entries list members of Councils, composition of all committees, Councils’ rules, heads and members of all City and County agencies. Beginning with 1880 there is also added same information for Federal and State offices in Philadelphia and a great range of miscellaneous information.
120.6 City Councils
Journal of Common Council, 1854-1920.
120.64 City Councils
Scrapbooks, 1872-1877, 1912-1914, 1923-1932, 1942-1946, 1951-1953.
Clippings from Philadelphia newspapers, of published copies of ordinances and resolutions, political articles and cartoons.
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at this time120.7 City Councils
Journal of City Council, 1920-date.
The Journals of Councils, Select and Common Councils. and of City Council include the full proceedings of both houses of City Council bound together till 1854, bound separately between 1854 and 1920 and of Council as a unicameral body after 1920. Appendices to the Journals are very important because they include copies of ordinances and resolutions which were introduced , City Solicitor’s opinions, messages and petitions, reports of special committees and of standing committees on the normal operations of City departments, and of other City agencies. Until 1854 the standing committees controlled City departments and their annual reports are found in these volumes.
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