City of Seattle Records

To the Honorable Mayor and Common Council of the City of Seattle Gentlemen: Your committee on Harbor Wharves to whom was referred the petition of the Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad Co. relative to Discharging ballast in the harbor. beg to report that they have examined the matter referred to in said petition, and hereby recommend that the prayer thereof be granted, and that the Council make in order fixing the amount to be collected, where ballast is dumped on private wharves with the consent of the owners, at nothing.

W A Harrington, Chairman Dated Seattle Nov.6th, 1885 J J Post T W Lake