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To the Honorable Mayor and Common Council of the city of Seattle.

Gentlemen:--
Your petitioners respectfully represent to your Honorable Pody that on or about the 7th day of October 1890, the Common Council of the said city of Seattle, passed an Ordinance NO. 1513 and entitled, "An Ordinance to provide for the laying off, extending and establishing of Lake Avenue as a public highway in the city of Seattle, from the north end of Lake Avenue on the north marginal line of Bloomfield street north westerly to a point directly south of the south end of Yellow street and for the condemnation of real estate for such laying off, extending and establishing of said street, and for the levy and collection of assessments upon all property benefitted by the same sufficient to make compensation therefor, or damage thereby," that thereafter the Board of Aldermen and House of Delegates of the said city of Seattle, appointed G. C. Green an appraiser on behalf of the property owners benefitted by said extension of said Lake Avenue and T. E. Jones, an appraiser of this property owners damaged by said extension of said Lake Avenue and A. E. Edwards, an appraiser on behalf of the city for the damage caused by said extension of said Lake Avenue.
That said T. E. Jones duly qualified as said apprasier on the 27th day of December 1890, and said C. G. Green on the 16th day of January 1891, and the said A. E. Edwards on the 20th day of January 1891.
That said appraisers have never to the knowledge of your petitioners viewed said proposed extension of Lake Avenue, nor
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