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Seattle Municipal Archives at Jul 26, 2023 07:49 PM

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To his Excellency the Mayor
and the Honorable - the Common
Counsel of the City of Seattle.

Your Petitioner a citizen
of Seattle represents unto your
honorable body that prior to the
late fire on the morning of the ninth of February 1884 on Washington Street
between Second and Third Streets
that your petitioner was the
owner and in the possession
of a building on south Second
Street used by him as a
saddle and harness shop -
that its dimensions were
fourteen by twenty four feet -
that it was of the value
of three hundred dollars.

Your Petitioner says that
said building was not
insured - that he was unable
to insure the same on account
of its proximity to Chinese
quarters. Your petitioner
says that said building
was entirely torn down
by the agents and employees
of the City during said

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To his Excellency the Mayor
and the Honorable - the Common
Counsel of the City of Seattle.

Your Petitioner a citizen
of Seattle represents unto your
honorable body that prior to the
late fire on the morning of the fourth of February 1884 on Washington Street
between Second and Third Streets
that your petitioner was the
owner and in the possession
of a building on south Second
Street used by him as a
saddle and harness shop -
that its dimensions were
fourteen by twenty four feet -
that it was of the value
of three hundred dollars.

Your Petitioner says that
said building was not
insured - that he was unable
to insure the same on account
of its proximity to Chinese
quarters. Your petitioner
says that said building
was entirely torn down
by the agents and employees
of the City during said