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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

396 JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE Nov 9/83 [?] Oct 3, 1883 .Adopted From surveyor on Jackson Street Improvement #398 approved From Attorney on the protest of W C Hill against Jackson Street Improvement Assessment Roll #442. Approved Committee Reports From Judiciary Committee on the matter of charges against City Justice T H Cann. Adopted From Finance Committee recommending that Cisterns for Fire purposes be placed at corners of 5th & Washington, 4th & Madison, 3rd & University and Front & Bell Streets. Adopted From Street Committee recommending that $500.00 be allowed to Strong & Harkins on a/c change of grade in Madison Street. Report rejected. Licenses Granted Ordered that licenses be issued to the following named persons for the period of 3 months to wit: S A Scullin for Retail & 2 Billiard Tables from Nov 11/83 R Pritchard for Retail from Nov 16/83 Pritchard & Lester for Retail from Nov 17/83 Aug Wolff for grocery & 1 Pool & 1 Pigeon Hole Table from Nov 13/83 Smith & Farrar for Retail & 2 Billiard Tables from Nov 8/83 Cowles & Foster for Retail & 2 Billiard Tables from Nov 12/83 Aug Mattson for Retail from Nov 12/83 John Collins for Retail from Nov 8/83 Patrick O'Shea for Retail from Nov 13/83 Geo Peters for Retail from Nov 10/83 claims Paid The folowing claims having been duly audited by the Council are ordered paid by Warrants drawn on the funds in the amounts following , to wit: City Fund Western Union Telegraph Co Telegraph to Legislature $1.90 Herald Publishing Co Printing 4.50 Ebensold & Co Job Work 9. Wm Gash [?] [?] [?] [?] 75.