City of Seattle Records

LYMAN E. KNAPP A. H. FOOTE GEO. E. KNAPP

Knapp, Foote & Knapp LAWYERS

Offices 516, 517 and 518 Seattle National Bank Building

SEATTLE, WASHINGTON May 17, 1894

Hon. W. J. Scott, Corporation Counsel

Dear Sir:

Will you please lay before the City Council the following facts and if it seems to you that justice requires action on its part to give relief will you put the matter in shape for their actions. I speak for myself and Mrs. Caty M. Winchester, a non-resident who own the lots in question jointly.

The facts are as follows, viz: Under Ordinance No 1495 authorizing improvements upon Division Street from Madison to Clarence Streets there was an account to pay expenses already incurred upon, lots 5 to 14, including block 1} Lots 5 to 9 inclusive block 2} Lots 1 to 5 & 16 to 20 inclusive block 7} Young's addition to City of Seattle Lots 1 to 5 & 16 to 20 inclusive block 8} in all 35 lots amounting to the sum of $2226.47 which we paid to the city Treasurer on the 24th day of January 1892.

Soon afterwards it was concluded that the said assessment was illegal and void and further collections thereof were abandoned.

Recently, in order to defray the expenses of the improvements referred to Ordinance No. 3200 and #3268 was passed by the Council providing for an assessment upon property abutting upon the street to the depth of one hundred and twenty feet, and an assessment of $2107.72 was made upon a portion of the above mentioned lots, to wit upon twenty-one lots, as follows:-

7 to 12 inclusive Block 1

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