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Seattle Dec 11th 1893
To the Honorable board of Alderman.
Gentlemen Please allow me to State
to you for you consideration and correction
what I deem to be an erroneous construction by
the Supt of the Water Works upon a section
clause in the City ordinance regulating the
use of City water etc. Among other things
the ordinance says for family use. Eight
persons or less. (Meaning of course in the same
house and using water from the same service)
One dollar per month and for each person
over eight ten cents. At the time this ordinance
was passed there was another clause in the
same ordinance requiring each person who
owned more than one house to put in separate
services for each house. and having two small
two storey houses both on the same lot and both
supplied by one water service. I was obliged to put
in separate services to each house at a cost of about
$40.00, and with the express understanding
that I would not be charged only for the number
of persons using water from the same service
I went to work and put water upstairs in both