City of Seattle Records

May 20th

To the hon. Mayor and to the honorable city council of Ballard Wash. We the following signatures do petition your hon orable body to give we people owning cows a chance to live, as well as those that do not own such. Knowing that unless we can get you to repeal the law lately passed, pushing the boundary of herd law back so far, many will be obligated to sell their cows which in many cases is over half of their living. We ask that they be allowed to herd any where above Brig street and West of Ferry as no grass amounting to any thing grows in the timber above