City of Seattle Records

No. 379 RETAIL LICENSE. Seattle, W. Nov. 10. 1883 By authority of an ordinance of the Common Council of the City of Seattle, approved December 12th, 1879, George Peters having given the requisite bond, and having paid into the treasury of said city the sum of seventy-five dollars, is hereby licensed to sell spirituous, malt, and fermented liquors and wines, in less quantities than one gallon, for the period of 3 months, from the 10th day of November 1883 to the 10th day of February 1884 Witness my hand and the seal of said city, this 10th day of November 1883 E S Osborne Clerk City of Seattle NOTE -- This license is of no value unless kept at all times conspicuously posted up in the house where the above business is carried on.

To the Mayor & Common Council of the city of Seattle. Your petitioner would represent that on Nov 10th 1883 a license was granted to one Geo Peters for the period of three months for the sale of liquors etc.. That your petitioner furnished the money to obtain a license, to S. Baxter & Co he who paid it, to wit: $75.00 into the city treasury. That petitioner agent Robert Isaac went to the clerk & to the license committee and fraudulent took out said license in the fic- titous name of one George Peters, a person not in existence. That petitioner proceeded to sell under said license not having discovered that it was in a ficticious name until about the 27th of Nov 1883 when she was arrested for selling liquor without a license & fined therefor your petitioner has not sold under said license since said last date and now asks as a matter of equity that $50.00 of said $75.00 be returned to her and that on such return the license in the

name of George Peters be cancelled. Julia Carleton per White & Mundey her attys.