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Committee Report Mr. President : [ 990302 ]

Your Committee on Streets To whom was referred -- an. Ordinence to whome was referred to establish the grade of a portion of Banner Street beg leave to respectfully submit the following report : Your Committee would recommend the [passage?] of the Ordinence and that the same be acted upon at once in order to save a suit against the City for damages. All of which is most respectfully submitted

S.S. Miller Frank A. Pontius

Committee

Seattle June 27/91 To the board of Public Works We, the undersigned, property holders on Rainier Street respectfully petition your Honorable body for the improvement of Banner Street and Bradley that immediate action be taken towards [?] the construction of a sewer from the intersection of Rainier and Bradley Streets and Elliot Bay Stimson Mill Co M Burns L W Filkins S Baxter per H B John F Miller Geo Kinnear O J Carr E Calvert Geo B Adair A M Gilman L W Peirfunter C M Sheafer E J Denny by D L Denny Lots 5-6 B 15 N Seattle J A Park Lot 9 B 21 N Seattle Same Park Lot 10 B 21 N Seattle Charles Kakeldy A P Cassel J D Ryan W F Ehler John A Whalley John Dow Wm L Lindsley

990146 Seattle April 2 1892

To the honorable body

The Board of Public Works

City of Seattle

The undersigned, property holders of Seattle respectfully petition to have Banner Street lighted with the incandescent Electric Light, from the intersection of Banner Street and Harrison Streets to the waterfront. John R. Kinnear W F Epler John Dow J. A. Park Stimson Willa N. W Charles Julius Durhrsen A Zaar John A Whalley Geo H Park M J McElroy

113J Petition for Light on Banner Street

Killed Bya 5-2-92

Ordinanced

990529

Seattle, Wash., August 25, 1890

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

The petition of the undersigned, property owners along Depot street west from Front street and vicinity, respectfully represents:

That by resolution duly passed May 9, 1890, your Honorable body ordered Depot street west from Front street to Elliot Bay to be regrded so as to give access to the wharves at the foot of Depot street, and that the City Engineer has prepared a profile showing a grade of 33 feet above datum at the intersection of Depot and Banner streets That by ordinance passed August 15, 1890, no. 1447, your Honorable Body fixed the grade of Depot street at the intersection of Banner street at 40 feet above datum. That said grade of 40 feet at said intersection of Depot and Banner streets is such as to make it impossible to reach the wharves at the foot of Depot street; that from Depot street at a grade of 33 feet above datum an incline can be built to reach the wharves and can be used by loaded teams, but that access to said Wharves with loaded teams will be cut off if Depot street is allowed to remain at an elevation of 40 feet. Your petitioners further represent that no one will be injured if said Depot street be regarded at an elevation of 33 feet at the intersection with Banner street, but that said street will then make considerable property accessible which is otherwise inaccessible. Your petitioners therefore pray that your Honorable body will ordain that said Depot street regarded at an elevation of