City of Seattle Records

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

30 8/9 -89 Petition of Amos Brown to move frame building Your Committee recommend that the Petition be referred to the Building Inspector D E Durie Chairman

Filed Aug 7 1889

To the Hon. the Mayor and Common Council of Seattle Gentlemen Your Committee on Fire and Water to whom was referred a petition from Adam Orth & others praying that a fire hydrant be placed at the Corner of Main and South Sixth Streets, beg respectfully to recommend that, as the City has at present no hydrants in stock, the petition be placed on file. Respectfully submitted D E Durie Chairman T E Jones Sept 6/89

To the Hon Mayor & Common Council of the City of Seattle Gentlemen Your Committee on License & Revenue to whom was referred the petition of Geo K Beede, asking permission to run two bars under one license. beg to report that there is nothing different in the condition of Mr Beede's case than there is in other petitions for the same privilege which the Council had rejected and your Committee therefore recommends that this petition be rejected. D E Durie Chairman F A Twitchell April 7th 1890

License & Revenue D E Durie F J Burns T O Brien Harbor & Wharves F J Burns J H Wallingford T E Jones Sewage & Drainage T O Brien U R Niesy H White