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Board of Public Works' Jesse F Cochrane, chairman W V Rinehart G H Heilborn F W Wald secretary Seattle Washington Jan 10 1891 to Chairman St Committee House of Delegates sir: Will you kindly ask concurrance, in action of this Brand in planking So 8th St and oblige Board of Pub Works F W D Holbrook secy

207 COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEATTLE Jun 13 1887 Street is read & Referred to Street Committee. Petitionof Thomas Burke et al to grade Madison Street from the line between Section 28 & 33 to the line between Section 22 & 27 and build a sidewalk on the northerly side of said street, read & Referred to Street Com. Petition of Nicholas George for permission to erect a fish stand at the foot of Columbia Steet is read and referred to Street Committee. Remonstrance of Jame Morrison against opening alley in Block 12 Edes & Knight's Addition referred to Street Com. Petition of Robert Abrams for permission to build a carriage shed to connect his stable on Lot 6 Block 8 Maynard's Plat with South 3rd Street is read and on motion granted. A communication is received from the Mayor and Chamber of Commerce of Tacoma on behalf of the citizens of Tacoma inviting the Mayor & City Officials to unite with them in celebrating the completion of the Northern Pacific Railway and the Fourth of July at Tacoma is read and on motion of Councilman Furth the clerk is directed to acknowledge the receipt of the same with thanks and regrets that other engagements will prevent the Council from accepting the same. Committee Reports Receided. FromStreet Committee on petition of F W Wald and others to widen Second Street from Mill to Depot Street to a width of 90 feet and to extend Second Street to a union with Grant Street making Second Street 90 feet wide throughout. Recommending that the petition be granted. Report Adopted. The Street Committee returns without report or action the

298 JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE Sep 16 1887 Petition of J B Metcalfe & others for grading and laying sidewalk on South Eleventh Street from Mill Street to Jackson Street read & Granted. Petitionof C H Kittinger Toklas & Singerman & others to convert the Cemetary known as Washelli Cemetary into a Public Park. Read and Granted and the City Attorney instructed to draw and submit the necessary ordinance. Petition of F W Wald & others for appointment of Z T Holden a policeman, read & referred to the Committee on Health & Police. Committee Retportsetc. Report of Justice N Soderberg for month of Aug. referred to Finance Committee. Report of City Clerk submitting Alphabetical list of names of All Streets in the City Referred to Street Committee. Committe Reports Recd From Finance committee on report of City Justice H F Jones & Jailor's reports as follows "we beg to report the additions on the reports are correct. In this connection we wish to state that in future your committee will be in a position to examine the reports and compare them with the police records properly, noting the time all arrests are made as well as the time when prisoners are discharged", adopted. From Street Committee granting the petition of F W Wald & others for opening the alley in Block 30 Maynard's Plat so as to make it passable for teams. Adopted.

306 JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE Oct 7 1887 From Committee on Sewers and Drainage rejecting a petitionof F W Wald & others for a sewen in the alley in Block 39 of Maynard's Plat adopted Applications for Licenses Referred Henry Thompson Oliver Bernard Licenses Granted Alex Meister retail Intox from Sept 3rd for 6 mos Duffy & Bagley retail Intox from Sept 17th for 6 mos The vote upon issuing said licenses is as follows: In favor of same, [Furth]], Frink, Green, Lake, Moran, Niesz, Russell & Reitze.Against none. Bills Allowed The following claims against the City having been duly audited and allowed by the council aare ordered paid by warrants drawn on the several funds ad follows, viz: Nme Warrant# Fund Amount Services W R Forrest 2519 City 125.00 Salary City Clerk C W Ferris 2520 City 78.00 Salary City Deputy Clerk L C Gilman 2521 City 100.00 Salary City Atty E A Turner 2522 City 100.00 Salary City Treasur Laurence Cummings 2523 City 98.00 Salary Street Comn'r James Bogart 2524 City 60.00 Salary City Jailor James Bogart 2524 City 155.80 Board of prisoners Wm Murphy 2525 City 100.80 Salary Chief of Police A H Manning 2526 City 85.00 Salary Captn of Police J L McClellan 2527 City 65.00 Salary Police Officer Geo Van Dyke 2528 City 65.00 Salary Police Officer W L Bowers 2529 City 65.00 Salary Police Officer Chas Robinson 2530 City 65.00 Salary Police Officer W M Jones 2531 City 65.00 Salary Police Officer F A Fay 2532 City 65.00 Salary Police Officer D Phillips 2533 City 65.00 Salary Police Officer O D Butterfield 2534 City 65.00 Salary Police Officer H A Bigelow 2535 City 30.33 Salary Police Officer D R Huntoon 2536 City 30.33 Salary Police Officer [total]1477.41

452 JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE May 4 1888 Petition of Sarah J Plummer et al for an iron stone sewer in James Street from Elliott's Bay to 12th Street. Read and referred to Com on Sewers Petition of F W Sparling et al for the grading of Spring Street between 7th and 9th Streets Read and referred to Street Committee. Petition of A W Engle et al for the grading of and constructing sidewalks on both sides of 10th Street from Broadway to Judiciary Committee. Petition of F A Shroll asking for renumeration on account of smallpox Cor S 2nd & Jackson Sts. Read and referred to Judiciary Committee. Petition of F H Woodman et al for having Cherry Street at Fifth Street graded according to established grade. Read and referred to Street Committee. Petition of F W Wald et al for extending the grading and widing of Second Street from Battery to Blanchard Street. read and referred to Street Com. Petition of Geo Heilbron to use powder blasting in Block"B" Phinney's Addn. Granted Petition of Tom Rhodes to sell ice cream on the streets. Read and referred to License Com. Petition of W E Lockard et al for permission to place posts on outside of sidewalk on Mill street near Coleman Block for the purpose pf erecting sign. Read and granted subject to approval of theStreet Commissioner.