City of Seattle Records

To the Mayor and City Council of the City of Seattle:

Gentlemen: your petitioners most respectfully represent unto your honorable body, that in our opinion the license fee of $400.00 required to be paid by auctioneers, is unreasonable high; and we most respectfully ask that said license fee be reduced to the sum of $100.00 - the amount previously required, or to some other reasonable and equitable amount.

Most Respectfully

Bickerton & Bell O W Lynch Conner Bros Standard Furn Co F J Monroe T H Dempsy J H McGraw D E Sander C R Frasch John Haley J E Chilberg Chester Clary J B Metcalfe John Leary H E Leary

To the Hon. the Mayor and Common council of the City of Seattle Gentlemen Youe Committee on License & Revenue to whom was referred a petitionof Bickerton & Bell asking that the license rate for Auctioneers be reduced from $400. to $100. beg to report: 1st, that the petitioners have up to this time been operating under a license taken out by them just previous to the last amendment of the Ordinance, and which cost them $100. 2nd, that the other Auctioneers now doing business in the city have each paid the sum of $400. for thier respective licenses. 3rd, that your Committee think it would be a lilttle less than just to the competition o f this firm, to reduce the rate to suit Messrs Bickerton & Bell while the others an all loaded down with high priced licenses. Decr. 10/89 D E Durie Chairman H T Phillips