City of Seattle Records

A. C. McClure & Co., Chicago, Ill. To His Excelency the Mayor; and the City Council of the City of Seattle in the County of King in the State of Washington; - Gentlemen;We the Subscribers Inhabitants and Resident Citizens of the City County and State aforesaid;Do most respectfully represent to your Hon Body - that we and each of us now are and for sometime past have been the owners and the holders of Real Property - within the Limits of your City; That we and each of us are now at this time owners and holders of Real Property upon Mill Street or Yesler Avenue between 12th and 16th Streets in the City of Seattle; That the Valuation of our Said Real Property was the Taxes Levied thereon by Virtue of Such Valuation for Street grade purposes; Are not by any means in [proportion?] to the Valuation or the taxes Levied on other Real Property for such purposes in our emediate [sic] vicinity; We farther respresent also - and we think that your Hon Body by a proper and a usefull examination into this matter will find that our Real Property Although far less in Amount - and Quantity - and also very inferior in Quality and Value - Is by virtue of Said Valuation and Assessment for Such purposes taxed more than 4 times over as high as Larger Quantitites And Supirior [sic] Quality of Real Property are Valued and Assessed in our emediate [sic] Vicinity; Wherefore we the undersigned your Petitioners do most Respectfully but Earnestly Ask and Pray that your Hon Body do emmediately [sic] proceed byordinance or in Some other proper And Appropriate Manner to examine into the conditions of this matter and to At Once [correct?] Such Errors As may be found there to exist-And to Equalize Such Valuation And Assesments as may be found to be exce[s?]sive