City of Seattle Records

To the Honorable MAYOR and COMMON COUNCIL of the City of Seattle Gentlemen:-- The undersigned petitioners respectfully 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 decision 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

Yesler Ave petition C W Lawton et al for sewer 10 Yakima St pet for improvement 52-58 Yakima St grading of 188 Yesler H L settlement 277-351-363-672 Young M H pet 444-525