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To the Honorable Mayor and City Council of Fort Worth,

Your petitioner, Mary Saunders represents
that she owns lot 2 in ASaunders addition to the city of Fort as a home
and has so owned it ever since the city was incorporated and ling before
and that she is a feme sole with only her labor for support and has no
other means for support or place of shelter. That since the year 1877 she
has been assessed by the city for taxes and every year the assessment has
been so excessive that she in her dependent condition with two children
of a deceased brother to rear that she has been unable to pay these tax
es and that she has frequently been before the board of equalization by
her agents to reduce the assessment to something like equality as to
valuation without avail.

That the valuation during these years ranges
from $1400. to $7970.00 and that at present while the property is assed
at $3750. she could not cash the same for $3000. That the aggragate taxes
now due on same for the above years is $775.90 and that the city has br
brought suit on same and the case is now set for trial in the 17th dist
court in case NO 14924 styled City of Fort Worth v Mary Saunders, and will be called for trial
on wednesday February 8th 1899-That petitioner has no defense and when
case is called judgment will be rendered against her and as there is no
time for redemption by a recent decision of the supreme court as has
heretofore been givin a judgment for $1551.00 will be given against her
besides the costs.

That she has asked the city attorney by her counsel
to post pone the case inasmuch she is seeking to sell a part of her home
to raise money to pay said taxes. That he can not do so without an order
from this body. Petitioner avers that she desires sixty days time in ord
er to get time to sell a part of the said property and save her home -
She therfore asks that this body instruct the city attorney to pass
said case without prejudice to the rights of the city for sixty days
from February 8th 1899-

Respectfully

Mary Saunders
By C.C Cummings Atty.

On next page see statement of Taxes
and values

CC Cummings