City of Seattle Records

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

The undersigned, your petitioners, respectfully represent:-

That they are all and each of them citizens of the City of Seattle, County of King and State of Washington

That the extension of the license limits beyond the limits established by the Common Council of the City of Seattle on the Fourth day of October 1889, would be of great and serious detriment to those parts of the City of Seattle which would be by such and extension included license limits.

That the limits proposed by the ordinance entitles "An Ordinence Establishing a Saloon Limit within the City of Seattle within which Limit Licenses for the sale of Intoxicating Liquors may be Granted Pursuant to the Charter of the City of Seattle" now pending before the Honorable House of Delegates to whom this petition is here with presented include upon Yesler and Third Street and other streets localities of said City of Seattle devoted to largely and in part wholly to uses for residence purposes and also includes several of the leading churches in said City of Seattle.

That the passage of said Ordinance by the City Council will be Detrimental to the good order and quiet of said Streets and a great injury to the residence upon said Streets and to the people of Seattle as a whole.

To The Honorable Mayor and City of Seattle:-

The undersigned, your petitioners respectfully represent:-

That they are all and each of them citizens of the City of Seattle, County of King and State of Washington.

That the extension of the license limits beyond the limits established by the Common Council of the City of Seattle in the Fourth Day of October, 1889, would be of great and serious detriment to those parts of the City of Seattle which would be by such extension included in the license limits. That the limits proposed by the ordinance entitled "An Ordinance Establishing a Saloon limit within the City of Seattle within which limit licensees for the Sale of Intoxicating Liquors may be Granted Pursuant to the Charter of the City of Seattle" now pending before the Honorable House of Delagates to whom this petition is herewith presented, include upon Yesler Avenue and Third Street and other streets Localities of said City of Seattle devoted largely and in part wholly to uses for residence purposes and also include several of the leading churches in said city of Seattle.

That the passage of said Ordinance by the City Council will be setrimental to the good order and quiet of said streets and a great injury to the residents upon said Streets and to the people

June 13 1890 18 Petition To Mayor and City Council of Seattle to Equalize Assessments for Street grade Taxe [sic] on Mill Street [?] Yesler Avenue Samuel French and others

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A. C. McClure & Co., Chicago, Ill. To His Excelency the Mayor; and the City Council of the City of Seattle in the County of King in the State of Washington; - Gentlemen;We the Subscribers Inhabitants and Resident Citizens of the City County and State aforesaid;Do most respectfully represent to your Hon Body - that we and each of us now are and for sometime past have been the owners and the holders of Real Property - within the Limits of your City; That we and each of us are now at this time owners and holders of Real Property upon Mill Street or Yesler Avenue between 12th and 16th Streets in the City of Seattle; That the Valuation of our Said Real Property was the Taxes Levied thereon by Virtue of Such Valuation for Street grade purposes; Are not by any means in [proportion?] to the Valuation or the taxes Levied on other Real Property for such purposes in our emediate [sic] vicinity; We farther respresent also - and we think that your Hon Body by a proper and a usefull examination into this matter will find that our Real Property Although far less in Amount - and Quantity - and also very inferior in Quality and Value - Is by virtue of Said Valuation and Assessment for Such purposes taxed more than 4 times over as high as Larger Quantitites And Supirior [sic] Quality of Real Property are Valued and Assessed in our emediate [sic] Vicinity; Wherefore we the undersigned your Petitioners do most Respectfully but Earnestly Ask and Pray that your Hon Body do emmediately [sic] proceed byordinance or in Some other proper And Appropriate Manner to examine into the conditions of this matter and to At Once [correct?] Such Errors As may be found there to exist-And to Equalize Such Valuation And Assesments as may be found to be exce[s?]sive

To the Honorable Mayor and Common Counsil of the City of Seattle.

Your petitioners respectfully represent that there are business men holding tent permits and occupying space on the extension of Second Street between Yesler Avenue and Washington Streets in the City of Seattle. That we have received notice to vacate said tents by the First of March next; that on account of the severe winter which we have had the rainy season setting in the business buildings now in course of erection being unfinished and therefore your petitioners cannot find places in which to occupy in their various business before the first of May next.

Therefore we feel that it is a matter of common justice to us for you to extend the time in which for us to vacate said tents until the First day of May next and if this request is complied with on your part we promise a cheerful compliance with an order to vacate at the time designated to-wit: May 1st, 1890. Your petitioner further state that the severity of the inter has been the cause of a bad business by many of us therefore we feel that under the circumstances surrounding us that we can reasonably hope for the releif prayed for herein. Names G M Godfry Geo W Ely M M Fredrick W D Highwarden Gus Brown M Madsen H Jones and Son Nathan & Streymthe C O Bargeron E W Booker J Berkman H Uhlfelder H Myers