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Ordinance No. 189.

An ordinance defining the duties of the officers of the city of Seattle.

Aproved Sept. 5, 1879.

The City of Seattle does ordain as follows, to-wit:

Section 1. - The City Attorney shall report in writing to the City Council at their first regular meeting in each and every month, the condition of any and all law suits in which the city may be a party, and all other matters that may come under his observation pertaining to the city; and he shall always be in attendance at the regular monthly meetings of the Council.

Sec. 2. - The Health Officer shall report in writing to the Council at their first regular meeting in each and every month, in relation to the health and sanitary condition of the city.

Sec. 3. - The Fire Warden shall report in writing to the Council at their first regular meeting in each and every month, in relation to the labor he may have performed in guarding against the destruction of property by fire, and in his first report after the qualification of the new officers of the city appointed by the Council, he shall render to the Council a list of all property belonging to the city in the possession of the Fire Department, and he shall in like manner report to the Council immediately after any fire all property of the city that may have been damaged or lost by such fire.

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Sec. 4 - The Harbor Master shall report in writing to the Council at their first regular meeting in each and every month, the labor he may have performed in connection with the duties of his office, and also all monies collected as ballast dues.

Sec. 5 - The Chief of Police shall at no time absent himself from the city without the consent of the Mayor, and he shall not be allowed to employ a substitute in any event without the like consent of the Mayor, and in case of a violation of any of the prosions of this section, he shall be fined in a sum not less than ten dollars nor more than twenty dollars on conviction thereof, and any citizen may make complaint before the Judicial Officer of the city or before the Council for any violation of the provisions of this section.

Sce. 6. - The Treasurer shall report in writing to the Council at their first regular meeting in each and every month, of the condition of the different funds, the amount of taxes collected and placed to the credit of each fund, and the amount of cash on hand in each fund.

Sec. 7. - That all Ordinances or parts or Ordinances in conflict with any of the provisions of this Ordinance, be and the same hereby are repealed.

Sec. 8. - This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after five days after the same shall have been published.

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

The petition of the undersigned respectfully represents:

That on the 26th day of May 1884 L. E. Ackley was arrested and fined by City Justice Cann in the sum of $15.75 having been charged with riding his horse on the side walk on Washington Street on the preceeding morning.

The facts as alleged by Mr. Ackley, and which he states can be conclusively shown, are as follows: On the morning of May 25th, Mr. Ackley was bringing his horse through Washington Street, (at about 6 o'clock) on his way to John Langston's Livery Stable intending to join two other horsemen who were to accompany him on a trip up White River. When he got to Second Street, he found that the excavations for the new sewer had rendered Washington Street, from Second to Commercial, utterly impassible. Being in a hurry to join his companions he slowly rode his horse on the sidewalk a distance of about 120 feet, doing no damage to the walk, and doing as many others had done about that time. Mr. Ackley claims that he had no intention of violating any city ordinance and was only convicted on a technicality, the justice holding that as long as a policeman had arrested him, he could not go behind the plain letter of the ordinance.

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

GENTLEMEN: Your committee on Judiciary to whom was referred Petition of E. A. Stetson and others beg to report that said petition be rejected.

Chas McDonald Chairman Dated June 6th 1884 B.H. Du [?] Rasin

Seattle, July 2nd 1890

To the Hon Mayor and Council of Seattle

We the undersigned property owners and residents of the city respectfully call Your immediate attention to the unhealthy condition of the sewerage along the Natural water-course beginning with Eight & Lenora following the course to Rollin & Depot and from John & Rollin following the course to Lake Union. This nuisance has already show it self in a increased number of cases of typhoid fever and other diseases and has been condemned by the Sanitary officer for the immediate abatement of this nuisance we most urgently pray.

I. M. Nist Charly [Shaeck?] Chas. [Prey ?] Chas. A Briggs C. C. Graham G. H. Craver A. H. Stark Fred Korapf J. S. Taylor Joe Davis William Jones John Lyles Jammon John Stephenson Andrew Johnson Chas M. Schwenk [Oscar?] Cornelius N. J. Milhall [?] Millar J. R. [Ban?] Alstine Mrs. W. F. Burt

Eliza Shield Mrs. Lucy Diamand Janie Latton William West Emma Jones S. A. Still Mrs. C. N. Amery W. Taylor John Laurence Mr. D. McLean Mrs M. Sotuck A. B. Carlegavve A. Hood Mrs. A. Foster Geo. F. Nist [Mrs?} Cashman G. Green Chas Green G. H. McPherson

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

The undersigned, former members of the Volunteer Fire Department of the City of Seattle, respectfully petition your Honorable body, to donate to them the old stand Fire Engine, formerly used by the Volunteer Fire Department. The said Engine has very little intrinsic value, but as your petitioners propose to keep up and continue their organization, they would value it, for its past associations, and would consider the gift as a graceful recognition of their past services to the City.

Josiah Collins Jr R. H. Culligan W. R. Forrest I. H. Woolery [?] McGraw James Th. Gough X. Muller [illegible] Wm Chisholm Matthew W. Hand James McIntyre J Hamilton Jewels Bailey Gatzert R.B.Albertson August Mehlhorn J. Fi McDonald E. Myer Wm Murphy C H Albertson Daniel Moore C. E. McElroy