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To The Honorable Mayor and Common Council of the City of Seattle
GENTLEMEN: Your Committee on License & Revenue to whom was referred the petition of Walter Dufour for a license to retail intoxicating liquors on the North West corner of 4th & Pike Streets, beg to report that The petition be rejected, for the reason that it has been the policy of the Council not to have Saloons encrach to [sic] near to the dwelling portion of the City, & believe that this ask'd for is too near the dwelling portion of the City.
August 23rd 1889
Chairman.
[H. J?] Burns D. E. Durie Committee.