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To the Honorable Mayor and Common Council
of the City of Seattle:

Your petitioners would respectfully represent that they are residents
it is of great importance to the interests of this city and of the state
that some final settlement and adjustment under the Constitution of the
State should be made in relation to the harbors of the cities on Puget
Sound; that the present unsettled condition is retarding and preventing
the establishment of industries along the water front of the City of Seat-
tle, and to that extent hampering and embarrassing the growth and develop-
ment of the city.

Your petitioners would further respectfully represent that in their
opinion House Bill. No. 378, introduced by Mr. Meany, would, if it should be-
come a law, greatly facilitate the settlement of the harbor front question
and relieve the cities on Puget Sound of their present embarrassment in
respect to the establishment of industries along the water fronts of the
respective cities.

We therefore earnestly petition your honorable body to give the
weight of your indorsement to House Bill No. 378 as the most likely bill
to become a law and the one which is best calculated to serve the interestes
of the cities on Puget Sound and of the whole state.

All of which is respectfully submitted.

N. H. Latimer Manager Dexter Horton Jr Co Bankers
M. G. Backen Cashier. Wash Natl' Bank
H Wuhulis Prst Commercial Natl Bank
Herman Chapin Pr Boston Nat'l Bk
W. D. Perkins Cashier The Puget Sound Savings Bank
Geo Higgins Cashier Washington Savings Bank
R. R. Spencer Cash National Bank of Commerce, Seattle, Wash.
L. Turner Cas First National Bank of Seattle
E. McManus Prest Seattle Natl Bank