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LYMAN E. KNAPP
A. H. FOOTE
GEO. E. KNAPP

Knapp, Foote & Knapp
LAWYERS

Offices 516, 517 and 518
Seattle National Bank Building

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON May 17, 1894

Hon. W. J. Scott, Corporation Counsel

Dear Sir:

Will you please lay before the City Council
the following facts and if it seems to you that
justice requires action on its part to give relief will
you put the matter in shape for their actions. I speak
for myself and Mrs. Caty M. Winchester, a non-resident who
own the lots in question jointly.

The facts are as follows, viz: Under Ordinance
No 1495 authorizing improvements upon Division Street from Madison
to Clarence Streets there was an account to pay expenses already
incurred upon, lots 5 to 14, including block 1}
Lots 5 to 9 inclusive block 2}
Lots 1 to 5 & 16 to 20 inclusive block 7} Young's addition to City of Seattle
Lots 1 to 5 & 16 to 20 inclusive block 8}
in all 35 lots amounting to the sum of $2226.47 which we paid
to the city Treasurer on the 24th day of January 1892.

Soon afterwards it was concluded that the said assessment
was illegal and void and further collections thereof were abandoned.

Recently, in order to defray the expenses of the improvements
referred to Ordinance No. 3200 and #3268 was passed by the Council providing
for an assessment upon property abutting upon the street to
the depth of one hundred and twenty feet, and an assessment
of $2107.72 was made upon a portion of the above mentioned
lots, to wit upon twenty-one lots, as follows:-

7 to 12 inclusive Block 1

(over)