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Seattle May 19 1898
To the Honorable the Mayor
and Council of the City
of Seattle
Your petitioners the un-
dersigned repectfully rep-
resent to your honorable
body, that in the passage
of ordinance No 1356 relating
to the keeping of intelligence
offices what they believe to be
a great injustice has been
done to the ladies who have
but recently engaged in that
calling. It is a well known
fact that employers and em-
ployees among the ladies do
not get but one tenth of those
among men. To place that
license fees at the same fig-
ures for both classes of agencies
is practicaley to drive the
ladies from the business and
place it entirely in the hand
of men against whom only
have complaints of unfiar
dealing been made and who
are the only class that need
of call for the regula