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Sec. 10 - This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force at the expiration of five days after the same shall have been published.

ORDINANCE NO. 201.

To repeal ordinance No. 194. Approved Oct. 22, 1879. (This ordinance simply repeals Ordinance No. 194.)[italics]

ORDINANCE NO. 202. An ordinance in relation to the improvement of streets, alleys and highways. Approved Nov. 15, 1879.

The City of Seattle does ordain as follows[italics]: Section 1. - That hereafter it shall not be lawful for any person to break up, dig up, cut, excavate or fill in any street, alley, or highway or contruct any sidewalk, crosswalk, plank gutter, plank roadway, or do any work in or upon any of the public streets, alleys or highways within the city limits, except as in this Ordinance provided.

Sec. 2. - That any person or persons wishing to grade, lay sidewalks, cross-walks, plank gutters, plank roadways, or make any kind of improvement in or upon any street, alley or highway within the city limits, shall before commencing the same, procure from the Chairman of the Street Committee a permit specifying the number of lots and blocks, in front of or through which the work is proposed to be perform

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ed, the name of the street, alley or highway, a particular description of the proposed improvement and the length of time allowed for the completion therof. And any such person procuring such permit and commencing the proposed improvement and failing to complete the same within the time allowed by such permit, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, to which may be added imprisonment not exceeding thirty day : Provided[italics] however[italics], that the Chairman of the Street Committee may extend the time for the completion of such improvement.

SEC 3. - That all work done under any such permit, shall be done under the supervision of the Chairman of the Street Committee, who after the completion thereof, shall grant a certificate to the person or persons making such improvement, that the work has been done in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance, if such is the tact, which shall be conclusive of the facts therein stated. SEC 4. - That all sidewalks hereafter laid, shall correspond to the provisions of this section, unless otherwise ordered by the Common Council; and no permit shall be granted for the construction of any other or different sidewalk than such as are provided for in this section, without express permission from the Common Council:

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(1st.) The width of all sidewalks hereafter constructed or re-laid upon the following named streets, to-wit: Commercial, Front, and all sidewalks running east and west or nearly so, on King, Main, Washington and Mill as far east as Third Street and on James, Cherry, Columbia, Marion and Madison, as far east as Second Street, shall be twelve feet in width. (2d.) The width of all other sidewalks hereafter constructed or re-laid, shall be eight feet in width. (3d.) The sills under all sidewalks shall be not less than sixteen feet in length and not less than four by six inches in thickness, resting on solid, safe and secure foundation with posts or other solid support not more than eight feet apart, and the planking of each sidewalk shall rest upon at least three sills in an eight foot sidewalk and four sills in a twelve foot sidewalk, running parallel with the line of the adjacent lot and parallel with each other and equal distances apart. And the outside sills on each side of the sidewalk shall not be more than two inches from the ends of the planking. (4th.) The covering shall be at least two inches thick, laid at right angles with the sills, and each and every plank shall be securely spiked to such sills by two thirty-penny nails to each sill. (5th.) The planking and timbers used in the construction of any sidewalk shall be sound and substantial, and no decayed or defective or unsound planks

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or timbers whatsoever shall be used in any sidewalk.

Sec. 5.-- That any person violating any of the provisions of this Ordinonce shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof, shall for each and every such offense be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, to which may be added imprisonment not exceeding thirty days. Sec. 6.--In no case shall the city pay or be held liable for any improvement whatsoever done under any permit granted in pursuance of this Ordinance nor shall any bill for any such improvement or work done thereon ever be allowed by the Common Council. Sec. 7.--This ordinance shall take effect and be in force at the expiration of five days after the same shall have been published.

ORDINANCE NO 203 To Repeal Ordinance No, 193 Approved Nov 15, 1879 (This ordinance simply repeals Ordinance No 193)[italics]

ORDINANCE NO 204 AnOrdinancein Relation Licenses Approved Dec 12, 1879 The City of Seattle Does ordain as follows:[italics] Section 1 - If any person shall sell or dispose of