City of Seattle Records

--And affiant further makes oath that, if it is desired or deemed necessary by the said Mayor and Common Council that he can produce before them proof of the foregoing facts in more specific detail; that it is an act of injustice to affiant that said mortgages should have been arbitrarily assessed to him, nor is he liable to taxation for the year 1889 on account of them or any of them, further than disclosed by his said detail list. J. Furth ____________ Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence in the city of Seattle, this 17 day of August A.D. 1889. Harold Preston Notary Present for Washington Territory --Upon the foregoing additional showing, Jacob Furth demands that his assessment for the year 1889, be corrected in accordance with his former petition. J. Furth

329 COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEATTLE Nov 4 1887 to private property that such parties deposit with the City Clerk that sum of Twenty (20) dollars to be retained by the City until the sidewalk or street is replaced in as good condition as found & not to be refunded except on the written order of the Street Commissioner. Ordered that a tax of thirty eight (38) cents on each and every dollar of the assessed valuation of all the property included within the Assessment district created by Ordinance No 815, be and the same hereby is levied on said property for the purpose of paying for the property condemned by said ordinance No 815 and for condemnation proceedings. It having been suggested to the Council that the appraisers heretofore appointed to assess the damages and benefits accruing by reason of the Expansion of Natches and Republican Streets under Ordinance No 559 have failed to qualify, and that M R Maddocks, one of the appraisers had left the City for an indefinate period, on motion His Honor the Mayor appointed Harold Preston to act as such appraiser on behalf or the city, M R Galloway on behalf of the owners of property condemned and L B Andrews on behalf of the owners of property benefitted. On motion the plat of James Addition to the City of Seattle is rejected for the reason that the same is principally in patented land outside of the meander line. Also because the notary public before whom the asknowledgement was taken failed to offer his official seal, and the separate acknowledgement of the wife is not taken. On motion the plat of the D M Crane addition

To the Honorable

THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEATTLE:

We, the undersigned petitioners, residents of the City of Seattle, most respectfully petition your Honorable Body to establish street lights on Lincoln Street at the intersection of Gould Street and Johnson Avenue; on Aldine Street at the intersection of Johnson Avenue, Gould and Chicago Streets]]; on Drexel Avenue at the intersection of Gould and Chicago Streets, and on Carroll Street at the intersections of Johnson Avenue, Division Street and Highland Avenue; in all ten lamps; respectfully representing that the same are all on graded streets which are comparatively thickly settled, except the one at the intersection of Carroll Street and Highland Avenue, Carroll Street being on the line of the Madrone Park Street Cars, and that large numbers of passengers leave the cars at the points designated on said street after nightfall, the darkness engendering great discomfort and danger.

Seattle, December 4th, 1894.

H. S. Keene Will H. Thompson Ferd. S. Turchill C. W. Corliss Harold Preston Will H. Morris W. A. Keene R. J. Huston G. T. Smart J. H. Lay W. J. Beggs L. B. Keene H. L. Wilcox A. B. Knowlton Geo. [?] L. T. Turner F. C. Covel C. S. Preston Wm. Bailey Alex Duguid J. W. Robinson H. A. Snyder A. R. Bailey W. D. Field