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To the Honorable MAYOR and COMMON COUNCIL
of the City of Seattle
Gentlemen:--
The undersigned petitioners respect-
fully represent and show that several months ago the City of
Seattle, by Ordinance duly passed, laid out and established Main
Street from Market Street to Yakima St and condemned certain
property therefor; that in pursuance of said ordinance appraisers
were duly appointed, which said appraisers duly examined the line
of said improvements and filed their report thereof; that said
report was satisfactory to all the residents living along the
line of said street and owning the improvements so condemned with
two exceptions; that the said two parties excepted duly filed with
the Superior Court and said cause was docketed for trial when said
cause was called for trail the Corporation Counsel, acting upon the
advise and under the instructions of the City Council, as your
petitioners, are informed, dismissed said cause; that we are informed
by said Corporation Counsel that the Council of the City of Seattle
waived the rights of the City in said premises and abandoned the
intentions of said City to open said street as aforesaid upon the
ground that the City is in debt.
Your petitioners learned with unfeigned astonishment of this decis-
ion of your honorable body. We most emphatically declare that
such action is a great injustice and a grevious wrong to a large
portion of citizens and residents and tax-payers living between
Jackson Street and Yesler Avenue and east of Market
For many years we have paid our taxes and unmurmuringly and without
complaint. We have now no means of getting to or from the cable