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990014

Seattle, Washington, June 13th, 1892.

To the Board of Aldermen and the House of Delegates of the City
of Seattle:

the petition of Hans Ahrenstedt, a citizen of the city
of Seattle, respecfully shows unto your Honors:

1. that at all the times mentioned in this petition Hans
Ahrenstedt was and is now a resident of and a citizen of the City
of Seattle.

2. That at all the times hereinmentioned your petitioner
was and is now the owner of the following described property, to-
gether with the dwelling house located thereon: Lot number eight of
Block six of Plummer's Addition to the City of Seattle.

3. That on the 10th day of May, 1889, the Common Council
passed an Ordinance, Numbered 1086, which provided for the grading
and sidewalking of South Ninth Street in the City of Seattle from
Yesler Avenue South to Charles Street; which said ordinance was
on the 13th day of May, 1889, duly approved by the Mayor of Seattle
and became a law.

4. That the property belonging to your petitioner is situa-
ted between Charles Street and Yesler Avenue, and would front on
said South Ninth Street if said street was extended through to said
Charles Street.

5. That said South Ninth Street was not graded from Yesler
Avenue south entirely to Charles Street, but the grading and side-
walking of said South Ninth Street was stopped about sixty feet
from Charles Street, and before reaching the property of your pe-
titioner, and no grading or other improvements of said South Ninth
Street was done in front of the property of your petitioner.