SEACPM18831019_Page_2

383
COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEATTLE
Oct 19/83

From His Honor the Mayor returning an Ordinance entitled "An Ordi-
nance to amend Ordinance No. 410" without his approval and with
his objections in writing to such approval, which objections read as
follows, towit:

Office of the Mayor of the City of Seattle
Oct 19, 1883
To the Common Council of the City of Seattle
Gentlemen - I regret that I am unable to convince my-
self that Ordinance No - to amend Ordinance No. 410, ought to
be approved and I therefore return the same without approval.

The Ordinance proposes to change the course of Jackson Street, after
a contract has been let and is partly completed for the improvement
of Jackson Street as laid out by Ordinance No. 410 and after over
one thousand dollars in scrip has been issued for such improvement
and a large additional liability has been incurred for such Im-
provement.

The following is a brief recapitulation of facts necessary to a
full understanding of the situation:

On the 4th day of June 1883 the Council passed an Ordinance for
the extension of Jackson Street and the condemnation of real estate
necessary therefor. The first Section of that Ordinance provides
that said Street be extended easterly from the present eastern ter-
minus thereof at the eastern boundary of James McNaught's
First Addition to Seattle, to the West shore of Lake Washington. The
same Section also provided that a strip sixty-six feet in width
between said termini running east and west be appropriated
for the use of the public as a public Street to be called Jackson
Street. The other Sections of the Ordinance provided for the [------]
of appropriating the land, the assessment of damages and the
levy of a tax to pay the same.

On the 6th day of July 1883 Ordinance 410 was passed amending
the 1st Section of the original Ordinance by changing the eastern termi-
nus from the West shore of Lake Washington to the Western terminus of
Jackson Street in Burke's Second addition to Seattle. This amend-
ment involved a change in the direction of the Street by a deflection
from the direction [-------] adopted in the original Ordinance. Un-