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Resolution No.
74
' By Corn Ar.er' VIKTJ,S
D enying the a- plication -'
of Cora Thompson for a rooming '
house keeper's license at 71 ��
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READ AND ADOPTED
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Chief o1 P.
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ROLL CALL
VOTING ,AYES NAY Salt Lake City, Utah, October 191__6
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I move that the resolution be adopted.
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Spearman . 1
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Mr.Chairman
Result RESOLUTION
In the matter of the application of Cora Thompson for a
rooming house license at 71 Commercial Street:
WHEREAS, Cora Thompson on the 20th day of September, 1916,
duly made application to the Assessor and Collector of License
Taxes for a license to conduct a rooming house at No. 71 Commercial
Street, Salt Lake City, which application was duly submitted to
the Board of Commissioners; and
WHEREAS, Said application was by the Board of Commissioners
duly and as required by Section 861 of the Revised Ordinances of
Salt Lake City of 1913, referred to the Chief of Police for
investigation and report, as directed in said ordinance; and
WHEREAS, Said Chief of Police having duly and on September
26, 1916, made his report to the Board of Commissioners thereon,
in and by which he stated that said applicant had on August 31,
1916, plead guilty to the charge of keeping a house of ill-fame at
said No. 71 Commercial Street, before the Criminal Division of the
City Court, and had been by said court fined in the sum of 425.00,
which she had paid; and that said applicant had also at the time
of making said report a United States Government license to sell
intoxicating liquors, and recommended to said Board of Commissioners
that said license be refused; and
WHEREAS, Upon the coming in of said report the Board of
Commissioners on September 27, 1916, duly passed a resolution
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setting October 3, 1916 at 2:30 o'clock P. ICI., for hearing the
matter of said application, and directed the City Reoorder to
serve upon said applicant a copy of said report of said Chief of
Police and a notice of the time and place of said hearing; and
WHEREAS, Copies of said resolution and said report were drily
served upon said applicant; and
WHEREAS, At the time mentioned in said resolution, and in the
Council Chamber of said Board of Commissioners, said applicant
appeared in person and by William Newton, Esq., her attorney, and
proceeded with the hearing; that after hearing the testimony taken
upon such hearing, and the argument of the attorney for the appli-
cant, the Board of Commissioners took under advisement the granti.:
of said application for license; and
WHEREAS, The Board of Commissioners after fully considering
the evidence aforesaid, finds the following facts:
1. That Cora Thompson the applicant above mentioned, did on
the 31st day of August, 1916, before the Criminal Division of the
City Court of Salt Lake City, plead guilty to the charge of keep
a house of ill-fame at 71 Commercial Street, Salt Lake City, as
made against her in a complaint filed in said court; and that said
Cora Thompson was then and there fined by said oourt the sum of
$25.00 for said offense, and that she then and there paid said
fine.
2. That said Cora Thompson at the time she made application
for said rooming house license, was the holder of a United States
Government license for a sale f intoxica ing l qu
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y From which factslthe Board of Commissioners concludes:
1. That said Cora Thompson is not a proper person to be
granted a license to conduct a rooming house.
2. That the application aforesaid by said Cora Thompson for
license to conduct a rooming house at 71 Commercial Street should
be denied, and the license refused:
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NON THEREFORE, Be it resolved by the Board of Commissioners
of Salt Lake City, that the application for the rooming house license
above mentioned, i$y Gera Thgmpson be, and the same is hereby denie' ,
and the license refused.
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Passed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, Utah,
October 10 , 1916.
Mayor ..
ty ecorder.
Cora Thompson Salt Lake City,Utah,October, 1916.
j hCSIVED from the City ?':ecorder letter notifying me of
the action of the feard of Commissioners in denying my application
for a. rooming house license et 71 Commercial street, end a copy of
resolution as adopted by the Board.
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