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Seattle Dec 7th 1891
To the Honorable Mayor & City Council of the
City of Seattle
Your Petitioner respectfully
shows to your Honorable Body that on the
1st 1891 he was the owner thereof a
certain City warrant issued by said
City to Albro Gardner on Nov 10th 1891
and be him endorsed & sold to said
petitioner which said warrant was
for two hundred dollars not entered
from date payable to order of said Albro
Gardner number 04926 & by him sold to said petitioner
on December 12th 1891: That on the evening
of said Dec 1st 1891 said warrant was
with other property of your petitioner
destroyed by fire - the burning of
the Steamer "Eastern Oregon" at
Olympia. That your petitioner has
caused to be made a bond payable to
the city of Seatte to indemnify said
City from any loss or cost if said
warrant should even be presented
for payment, wherefore your petitioner
prays your Honorable Body to
Authorize & cause the proper
authorities to issue & deliver to
said petitioner a duplicate of said
warrant so destroyed as aforesaid