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To the Honorable Mayor and Common
Council of the City of Seattle
Gentlemen
At a regular meeting of Fire Company No
4 held January 8th 1885 in North Seattle
We the officers of said Company were
instructed to represent to your honorable
body that we are and have been since
May 5 1884 a regular Organized Company
and have been so recognized by the City
Council as such as the Fire Department
That we have never been furnished
with any Fire Apparatus whatever.
The property interests in Buildings
both Public and Private in this part of
the City are of such characted as
to demand protection.
We therefore petition your honorable
Body to furnish us a Fire Engine
with appurtenances at an early date
W G Sahmet president
Thos H Stagg foreman
G A Hill 1st Asst Foreman
Charles Baker Sec