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HomeMy WebLinkAbout77 of 1916 - A resolution denying the application of Edna Black for a rooming house keeper’s license at 35 Commer REMARKS: Resolution No. 77• • ByCormnissimer FERRY Denying application of : Edna Black for a rooming house keeper's license at 3.5 CQnrnrcial street. READ AND ADOPTED OCT 1 0 1916 196"1/frA14.4-1,-- CITY RECORDER. VIJ), Me( PatIE • 1 \Ag 4.7 ROLL CALL VOTING AYE NAY Salt Lake City, Utah,___Oatober 191_.6 Green I move that the resolution be adopted. Scheid___ _ Shearman Wells �- Mr.Chairman Result RESOLUTION In the matter of the application of Edna Black for a rooming house license at 35 Commercial Street: WHEREAS, Edna Black 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 35 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 acid 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 25, 1916, plead guilty to the charge of keeping a house of ill-fame at said No. 35 Commercial Street, before the Criminal Division 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 -1- setting October 3, 1916, at 2:30 o'clock P. M.; for hearing the matter of said application, and directed the City Recorder to serve upon said applicant a copy of said report of said Chief of Polioe, 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 WEEREAS, 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 grantii;. of said application for license; and WHEREAS, The Board of Commissioners after fully considering the evidence aforesaid, finds the following facts: 1.. That Edna Black the applicant above mentioned, did on the . 25th day of August, 1916, before the Criminal Division of the City Court of Salt take City, plead guilty to the charge of keeping a house of ill-fame at 35 Commercial Street, Salt Lake City, as made against her in a complaint filed in said court; and that said Edna Blaok 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. 2. That said Edna Black at the time she made application for said rooming house license, was the holder of a United States Government lioenee fort a sale of intoxioat ng liqu r 44 Prom which fac a the Board of Commissioners cone udes: 1. That said Edna Black is not a proper person to be granted a license toaoondact4 rooming house. 2. That the application aforesaid' by said Edna Black for license to conduct a rooming house at 35 Commercial Street should be denied, and the license refused; -2- I NOR THEREFORE, Be it resolved by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, that the application for the rooming house lioenee above mentioned, by Edna Black, be, and the same is hereby denied, and the license refused. Passed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt hake City, Utah, October \ , 1916. a y o r ./ i y eoorder. Edna. ;;lack Salt Lake City,Utah, October 1916. Received from the City Recorder letter notifying me of the action of the 'Rood of Co:mi:;sioners in denying my application for roominC house license at 35 Co.-mercial street, and r. coy of resolution as adopted by the 3oard. Served by; -)Z �7v y V.,;..: r':r � � 1 . -a;. .