City of Seattle Records

Seattle Nov 12th 1894 To the Hon Alderman and House of Delegates of the City of Seattle Gentlemen You have recently seen fit to order Some grade tax on South Fourteenth Street ($104.17) refunded to me and a warrant was drawn for the principle which was paid almost four years ago. I presented the warrant to the City Treasurer, and although there is about Twelve Hundred Dollars on hand in that Street fund I was informed that is could not be paid for the reason that the Treasurer has no Authority to pay my warrant in preference to others which were outstanding on that fund. Now in as much as my money was paid in in accordance to a published notice in the paper by authority of the proper officers of the City of Seattle and not as a speculation but as a duty in obediance to said pubished notice and as it seems to me