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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 be-
lieving that the property of your petitioner would be greatly ben-
efitted by said improvement, and would be liable to said assess-
ment; 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.