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To the Honorable Mayor and Common Council of the City of Seattle: We, the undersigned business men, residents and tax payers of said City, understanding that there is in circulation a petition remonstrating against the contrast of the City letting the lighting thereof to the Rainier Power Railway Company and the Seattle Gas and Electric Light Company, which said petition is being circulated in the interests of the Union Electric Company, beg to urge on your Honorable body the full appreciation we have, and are confident you have, for the necessity of an economical administration of the affairs of the City, and a lessening of the pres ent burden borne by the tax payers. We are further of the opinion that the awarding of this contract to the lowest bidder would effect a large saving to the City and meet with public approval. Hammond Smitz A Cohn A J Prager & Sons A N Wales of Delmonico Rest. G O Guy Boardman Wall Paper Co Inc by F M Boardeman Yakima Market Charles Wents Rookery Restr M A Cox & Co James Ford A A Seagrave M K Ford R Sartori&

Petition to Extend City Limits of Seattle To the Honorable, the City Council, the Legislative Body of the said city of Seattle, hereby respectfully petition that the boundaries of the City of Seattle be altered and extended so as to include the new territory hereinafter described within the said City of Seattle after proceedings had as required by law, and that you submit to the electors of said city and to the electors residing in the said territory hereinafter described, the question whether said territory shall be annexed to said City of Seattle and become a part thereof. The said new territory proposed to be annexed to the City of Seattle is particularly described as follows to-wit: Beginning at the point in the center of Lake Washington, which is the Northeast corner of the present limits of the City of Seattle; thence Northerly along the center of Lake Washington to an intersection with the south line of Section Sixteen, in Township Twenty-five, Range Four West, W.M., produced eastwardly; thence West in the waters of Lake Washington and Union Bay along said east line produced to the intersection with the east line of said Section Sixteen, produced southerly; thence North in the waters of Union Bay along said east line produced to the shore of said Union Bay, and thence North along the east line of said Section Sixteen and of Section No Nine in said Township and Range to the quarter-section on the east line of said Section Nine; thence West along the center line of said Section Nine to the quarter-section corner in the west line thereof; thence North along the east line lines of Sections Eight and Five in said Township and Range to the north line of said Township Twenty-five North; thence West along said Township line to the quarter-section corner in the north line of Section One, in Township Twenty-five North, Range Three East, which latter point is the Northeast corner of the present corporate limits of the town (now city) of Ballard; thence South along the center line of said Section One, and Sections Twelve and Thirteen in said township Twenty-five North, Range Three East to the Southeast corner of Government Lot 2, in said Section thirteen, said last-named line being the Easterly boundry of said City of Ballard; thence West along the South boundary of said City of Ballard to the center of Salmon Bay; thence Northwesterly following the present corporate limits of the City of Ballard along the center line of Salmon Bay to deep water in Puget Sound of Admiralty Inlet; thence West to the main channel of Puget Sound or Admiralty Inlet; thence southerly along said main to a junction with the main channel from Elliott Bay; thence Easterly and Southeasterly along the main channel of Elliott Bay to the point in the center of Elliott Bay, which is the Northwest corner of the present limits of the City of Seattle; thence Northeastwardly along the present Northwestern boundry of the City of Seattle to the intersection between the shore of said Elliott Bay and the west line of Section Twenty-four, in Township Twenty-five North, Range Three East; thence North, following the present boundary of the City of Seattle along said west line of said Section twenty-four to the quarter section corner in the west line of said Section Twenty-four; thence East, following the present boundary of the City of Seattle along the center line of said Section Twenty-four, and of Sections Nineteen and Twenty in Township Twenty-five North, Range Four East to the east line of said Section twenty; thence South following the present boundary of the City of Seattle, along the east line of said Section Twenty to the Southeast corner thereof; thence East following the present boundry of the City Seattle along the North line of Sections Twenty-eight and Twenty-seven in Township Twenty-five North, Range Four East, to the shore of Lake Washington; and thence Easterly in the waters of Lake Washington following the present boundary of the City of Seattle to the present Northeast corner of the limits of the City of Seattle and place of beginning, including all waters embraced within the boundaries above described. 1 C E Chapin 2 C H Knapp 3 W W Radcliffe 4 F M Jordan 5 N A Sanborn 6 A B Buck 7 L A Buck 8 Arthur H Lee 9 W G Gilgen 10 Ferdinand Schmit 11 F H Kindall 12 A Kline 13 Geo M O'Brien 14 H S Baker 15 Wm Colneit Jr 16 C H Hadley 17 J H Calvert & Co 18 A Stoersuraff 19 G D Snow 20 A L Hall 21 H D Purch 22 Chas C Clark 23 Geo E Elwell 24 Wm F Ridgway 25 M B Gage 26 G O Guy 27 H M Wheldon 28 V Hugo Smith 29 Herman Smith 30 G H Munson 31 Will R While 32 Albert Pontius 33 C Sapp 34 W J Cartwright 35 W E Williams 36 H E Merkel MD 37 W J Lawrence 38 P A Oversbagh 39 Walter Culin MD 40 G W Fischer 41 A J Gisken 42 Robt Baptu 43 Danl Steevens 44 E T Stuart 45 A B Kibbe 46 C A Salyer 47 L K Rightumi 48 L J Stevens 49 S H Clememt 50 F E Adams

Claim of A M Kent for $100.73/100 Granted by B of A 11/23/1891 Approved Henry White chairman G O Guy A H Manning Police Commissioiner Referred back to the Police Com by H of D 12/21/91 for action

Seattle Jan 7th 1891 To the Honorable The Board of Police Commissioners Gentlemen:- We, your Committee appointed to secure some legal light upon the bill presented to your honorable body by ex-police officer A M Kent, beg leave to report that they placed all the papers in the case in the hands of Corporation Counsel, the Hon Orange Jacobs and beg leave to submit here with (together with the other papers) his written opinion, for your consideration. We further recommend that your honorable body adopt the recommendations and suggestion therein made. Respectfully submitted S L Crawford G O Guy

Committee on Finance. Where it remained two weeks and was then endorsed and recommended to be paid. After which it passed the Honorable Board of Aldermen unanimously One week later it came before the House of Delegates and was referred to the committee on Claims. Before the bill had been pesented to the Auditing Committee I had spoken toDr. G O Guy he told me that he was not present when I was dropped from the force but that he would do what he could to assist me in getting my pay. I told Dr. Guy when the Committee on Claims was to meet, he said he would try and go before them, but when the hour arrived he was busy and said you get the bill and I will sign it. When I got the bill I found that the Mayor's signature wasnot onit. I took it to Mayor White who said I signed a wrapper that was around the bill that had been taken off I will now signit where they can't tear it off. He then signed on the back of the bill Ithen presented it to Dr G O Guy He read the statements placed upon it by the Chief of Police. I said you see the Chief of Police is opposing it. He replied what has the Chief