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To the Honorable Mayor and Common Council
of the City of Seattle,

GENTLEMEN: Your Committee on Streets and Street improvement
to whom was referred the petition of John S. Anderson
praying for the grading of Fifth Street from
James to Jefferson

beg to report that the improvement prayed for would
be very expensive, requiring extensive crib
work, and a fill of about feet;

That the petition represents only one fourth
of the property abutting; That the contractors
on the James Street improvement can legally
and reasonably refuse, and do refuse, to
waste the earth from James Street, where
so long a haul is required. We therefore
recomend [sic] that the prayer of the petitioner
be not granted.

Alfred Snyder Chairman.
Dated Sept 5th 1884