City of Seattle Records

22 JOURNAL OF TEH PROCEEDINGS OF THE Ordered that the Clerk be & he is hereby instructed to communicate with the owners of property interested that that Common purpose ordering the Construction of a certain sidewalk to connect with the 6th sidewalk Ordered that the Fifth Street be improved under the supervision of the Street Committee in accordance with a plan to be approved by the Surveryor Ordered that that Council stand now adjourned Attest: E S Osborne, Clerk Approved L.P. Smith, Mayor Be it remembered that on this the 6th day of January 1882 the Common Council of the City of Seattle meets in its Council Chambers pursuant to law The following Officers are present to wit: Councilmen Thos Clancy, John Collins, M Demsmore, Wm A Jennings, John Keenan Moses Keezer and Charles McDonald Thereupon the following proceedings are had By reason of the absence of His Honor the Mayor L P Smith by sickness and his consequent inability to perform the dutues of his office of, Councilman Wm A Jennings is by the Council elected to the office of Acting Mayor during such temporary inability A petition is received from W Burnit & others praying for the removal of certain obstructions at the foot of 3rd Street Thereupon the same is referred to the Street Committee A petition is received from F W Wusthoff praying for the remitting of a Road Poll Tax, thereupon same is referred to the Finance Committee A petition is received from Benj Murphy praying for the remitting of a road poll tax; thereupon the prayer of the petition