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8. That an assessment was levied on the property of your petitioner, amounting to $39.12, and your petitioner, believing that said grading and sidewalking would be carried through to said Charles Street, as provided by said Ordinance No. 1086, paid said sum of $39.12 into the City Treasury of the City of Seattle, and re ceived a receipt for the same on the 18th day of October, 1889, which receipt reads as follows:

Seattle, Oct. 28, 1889. Received from Hans Ahrenstedt Thirty Nine 12/100 dollars for Street Improvements on Lots 8 Block 6 Plummers Addition, So Ninth Street.

W.L. Ames, Treasurer, By Knoff.

7. That your petitioner paid sum sun believing that said south Ninth Street would be graded and improved from Yesler Avenue south to Charles Street, as provided by said Ordinance, and believing that the property of your petitioner would be greatly benefitted by said improvement, and would be liable to said assessment; whereas in fact said street has not been graded through to Charles Street, has not been improved in front of the property of your petitioner, and his property has not been benefitted by it:

WHEREFORE, your petitioners prays that said assessment of $39.12 may be refunded to him. And you petitioner will ever pray &c

Hans Ahrenstedt

J. E. Lilly, Attorney for petitioner.

To the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Seattle:- Your petitioner, S L Bowman, a resident of the city of Seattle, respectfully petitions your honorable body to enact an ordinance granting to your petitioner and his assigns a franchise to build and operate a line of street railway in the city of Seattle, beginning at or near the corner of Yesler Avenue and South Second Street, thence southand east along south Second, Jackson, South Third and Weller Streets to the east line of the Syndicate Addition, thence southeasterly to the south boundry line of the city, which proposed route is more particularly designated in a draft herewith submitted of such an ordinance to that end as will be satisfactory to your petitioner; subject to such alterations of said proposed ordinance and ot the route therein designated, if any, as may appear suitable to your honorable body and as may be agreed upon between your honorable body and the undersigned. All which is respectfully submitted. Dated, June 27, 1890 S L Bowman

To the Hon Mayor and City Council of the City of Seattle

Your petitioners respectfully represent that they are the owners of that certain small wooden building situated on property belonging to the City of Seattle at the corner of Yesler Ave. + 3rd Street

Said buiding is occupied by your petitioners as a Real Estate and Brokerage Office. The said City of Seattle through its proper officers has notified your petitioners to remove the building off from its grounds without delay. Your petitioners have rented ground in the block of land on the west side of 3rd Street between Yesler Avenue and Jefferson Street known as the Yesler Triangle. Said ground so rented is within the fire limits but isolated and so far removed from other buildings that a wooden structure treated thereon will not in any manner increase the insurance rates or fire hazzard of any other building

Wherefore your petitionsers pray that a special permit be granted them to remove their said building from its presenst location on Lot 4 Blk 38 [Borens?] Add. to the Yesler triangle facing 3rd Street+ Yesler streets Aug 3. 1891

Crawford + Hannon

990445

PRIVATE BRANDS. FINE GOODS. EARL YOUNG Cigar Manufacturer, 108 Seneca Street

Seattle, Washington, Sept 9 1890

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

We the undersigned persons most respectfully petition your Honorable body to cause a side walk to be laid in front of the vacant lots on the east side of Comercial St. between Yesler Avenue and Main St

48 Comercial St P V. Duyen & Bros 220-222 Commercial St A. J. Prager & Sons M.P. 212 Commercial St Ronnfeld Smith Co 210 " Washington Rubber Co 208 " H. Wilcox Grocer 214 " Earl Young 202 " F. Isaacs 118 " J. M. Whiton 116 " Clark Harris Co 116 " A. F. Schlumpf & Co 114 " Wm R. Bentley

I move to amend by inserting after the word "beginning" in the 2nd line of the 4th page of the ordinance the following words: also in all of west space bounded and described as follows: commencing in the center of Yesler avenue where the center line of South Fifth Street intersects the same. Thence East along the center line of Yesler Avenue to the center line of south Sixth Street Thence south along center line of South Sixth Street to the center line of Jackson Street. Thence west on the center line of Jackson street to The center line of South Fifth Street. Running north on the center line of South Fifth Street to the place of beginning."