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Your Hon. Body will be aware from an inspection of
your records and papers on file in the Office of your Clerk, that
this subject was fully canvassed at that time and decided by
gentlemen whose impartial judgment in that matter, cannot be
questioned upon any ground of antagonism to the liquor interest
or disposition to restrict business enterprises.

Upon the occasion referred to, to wit: at the meeting
of this Council on June 6th, 1884, there was a full attendance
of the members and 5 out of the 9 present voted for the rejec-
tion of the application of Mr. Pritchard for a license at the
place referred to, to wit: For the rejection of the
application Messrs Charles McDonald, Geo. W. Harris, Otto
Ranke, B. F. Day, and B. L. Northup.

We would further represent that at this time the
prospect of any general business in that vicinity is even more
remote than at the time when the former application was made and
that the said applicant can have no expectation of making the
business of the sale of liquor at said point profitable unless
his premises shall be a resort and retreat for such persons
as have been referred to.

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We would represent that it is the intention of a
religious and benevolent institution to establish and erect, [illeg.]
the present [illeg.], in the vicinity of the [premises?] of the said
Pritchard and on the same street, a hospital to be known as the
"Grace Hospital" which will be visited some of the most
refined people of our City, and have selected this location
and purchased the site for the exercise of their [benevolence?]
in order to be free from all such disturbances as are now proposed.
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We would further represent that it is the intention of