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To the Honorable the Mayor Council and Board of Alderman of th City of Seattle State of Washington.

We the undersigned Citizens and tax payers of Seattle respectfully represent,

That Ordinance No. 1522 of said City is oppressive exorbitant and unjust on allparties [sic] who wish to take out license for the first time and give entertainments in public places where intoxicating liquors are disposed of,

That the Ordinance is in the interest of one or two persons who have already paid their licenses for a year in advance and its effect is to give them a monopoly and shut competitors out,

We therefore respectfully pray for the repeal of said Ordinance and the passage of a just and equitable one effecting all parties equally in its place.

And as in duty bound your Petitioners will ever pray &c. James Nugent H H Leaned Gustave Peterson E E Beach O E Heffler A Wolfe Kaint Watkins Claussen Sweeney Bread Co John OLeary J R Wright Ivy V Behreus John Patterson F H Nadlugh McDonald & Miller A Portlong & Cos. P W Flaming Seattle Bar Supply Co F J Haught P Iskrmen H Hajemmoner R R Mitchell T S Brown M Nikels John Verbrugge C Dall J Ritchie F O Grant H F Hiller H H Wright

Adams, Briggs, Nelson & Co., Proprietors Gustave Peterson, Manager PEOPLE'S THEATRE 222 Washington Street, cor. Third. Address all Correspondence to the Manager

Seattle Wash. Dec 15 1890 to the Honorable Mayor Council and Board of Alderman We respectfully show that at a large expense we have opened a first class Family Threater at 222 Washington St cor 3rd we have a Saloon under the same management and give first-class respectiable entertainment not allowing any immoral of improper conduct. We have already employed and brought to this City a large number of first-class Artists and propose to conduct our business in a respectiable and orderly manner. That a License of $1000.00 is unjust and oppressive and a discrimination and gives an undue advantage to other parties who have heretofore paid for one year in advance before ordinance No 1522 came in force we must respectfully pray that said ordinance may be repealed and not more than $300.00 substituted or not more that $900.00 for saloon license and public entertainment together we respectfully pray that our petition herewith

Adams, Briggs, Nelson & Co., Proprietors Gustave Peterson, Manager PEOPLE'S THEATRE 222 Washington Street, cor. Third. Address all Correspondence to the Manager Seattle Wash.

sent into your honorable body may be granted we haveonly spent this day since noon in getting signers and we verily believe that with time we could get a majority of the voters and tax payers of this city. Adams, Briggs & Nelson per A P Briggs