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Resolution No. 76
By Commissioner newly
Denying the application
of Ethel Mathews for a rooming
house keepert a license at
30-fr Commercial street
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'I READ AND ADOPTED
OCT 1 0 1916
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ROLL CALL
VOTING AYE Salt Lake City, Utah,___October 191_6
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I move that the resolution be adopted.
Scheid__
Shearman
Wells
Mr.Chairman
Result RESOLUTION
In the matter of the application of Ethel Mathews for a rooming
house license at 302 Commercial Street:
WHEREAS, Ethel Mathews on the llth day of September, 1916, duly
made application to the Assessor and Collector of License Taxes for
a license to conduct a rooming house at 30- 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 orC.inance; 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 22, 1916, plead
guilty to the charge of keeping a house of ill-fame at said No. 30i
Commercial Street, before the Criminal Livision of the City Court,
and had been-by said court fined in the sum of 25.00, 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. M., for hearing the
matter of said application, and directed the City Recorder to sere
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 duly
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 tearing the testimony taken
upon such hearing, and the argument of the attorney for the appli-
cant, the Board of Commissioners took under advisement the grantin:
of said application forRlicense; and
WHEREAS, The Board of Commissioners after fully considering
the evidence aforesaid, finds the following facts:
1. That Ethel Mathews, the applicant above mentioned, did on
ithe EErid day of Aug:tat, 1916, before the Criminal Division of the
:City Court of Salt Lake City, plead guilty to the charge of keepi,;.
a house of ill-fame at 30i Commercial Street, Salt Lake City, as
made against her in a complaint filed in said court; and that said
Ethel Mathews was then and there fined by said court in the sum of
$25.00 for said offense, and that she then and there paid said
fine.
E. That said Ethel Mathews at the time she made application
( for said rooming house license, was the holder of a United States
Government license f r e sale q intoaica ng iq ors. i
Prom which facts,he Board of Commissioners cone odes: .
1. That said Ethel Mathews is not a proper person to be
granted a license to conduct a rooming house. '
2. That the application aforesaid by said Ethel Mathews for
license to conduct a rooming house at 30i Commercial Street should
be denied, and the license refused:
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HCA THERETO E, Be it resolved, ' y,the Board of Commissioners
of Salt Lake City, that the application for the rooming hone
license above mentioned, by Ethel Mathews, be, and the same is
hereby denied, and the license refused.
Passeeby the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, Utah,
October '— , 1916.
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Ethel ;<::thews Salt Lake City,Utan,October 1916.
RECEIVED from the City.hecorder letter notifying ;ne of
t.te action of the Eoard of Commissioners in denying my application
for a ruomin ; house lice:u3e ,;.t Cor�aercial street, and a co_;;; of
resolution as adoted uy the Z,oarl.
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