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the importance of making this department efficient, if continued at all, and also the employment of practical builders and mechanics to discharge the duties, trusting that in the laudable effort to prune away from the City machinery all that is mere surplussage you will not make this important office so inefficient as to entirely destroy its usefulness, and we further petition that personal or partizan feelings may not be allowed to control your final action and with a firm belief that you will fully and carefully examine in to the question and we therefore urge upon your carful consideration the forgoing believing that the subject matter lies close to the best interests of our prosperous City.

E.H. Fisher architect Saunders & Houghton architects W. A. Harrington Geo. F. Frye J C Redward Contractor H Stenjmann architect Charles R Brown architect W H Albright Contractor Fred E Sander H A Heuss Contractor H. B. Phelan Contractor C. W. Lawton

352 JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE Dec 9 1887 Licenses referred Johnson and Gottstein Seattle Hotel Co L Diller H M Peters John Brannon Oscar Johnson Swanson & Liljigren Bids for Building addition to City Hall Bid of D W Warner for preparing to furnish all materials for same and perform all labor for the sum of $273.00 Bid of Charles R Brown preparing to furnish materials for same and perform all labor for the sum of $680.00 On motion the bid of D Warner is accepted and the contract awarded ro him and the City Attorner directedt o draw contract. Ordered that the time for receiving bids for the completion of the grade on Madison Street be extended until Friday next. 885 An ordinance is submitted by the City Clerk entitled "A Special ordinance appropriating money to pay audited bills" Passed Bills Allowed The following bill having been duly audited is allowed and warrant ordered drawn upon the Fire Fund for sum W S Nott and Co #1151 $2765.00 Hook & Ladder Truck Supplemental Plat of Block 20 G Kinnear's addition is referred to City Surveyor Ordered that the council do now adjourn Approved Thomas T Minor mayor Attest Clerk

621 COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEATTLE Oct 5 1888 Communication from G W Hall notifying the Council that from and after Nov 1st the rent of the Bell Town Engine House will be $12.50 pr month. Read & Filed. Communication from Board of Park Commissioners reporting that it will cost the City $1495. to remove the bodies now buried in the City Park (Formerly Washelli Cemetary) and that this must be done before proceeding with improvement on the Park. Read and referred to Com on Public Buildings & Grounds. Communication from Board of County Commissioners in regard to Grant Street plank road extension. Read and referred to street Crew. Petition of Charles R Brown for permission to grade Cedar Street to Grant Street to Broadway at his own expense Read & referred to Street Com. Petition of Jno Graf & others for a change of the grade on 5th Street Read and referred to Street Com. in conjunction with city Surveyor and City Attorney. Petition of the Seattle Lumber and Com for a franchise for 25 years granting them the right to erect poles and stretch wires theron in and around their Mill property and vacinity for the purpose of furnishing electric lights Read & referred to Street Light Com. Petition of M Moore for a bulkhead onMill Street and So Second St Read and referred to Street Com.