City of Seattle Records

8. That an assessment was levied on the property of your petitioner, amounting to $39.12, and your petitioner, believing that said grading and sidewalking would be carried through to said Charles Street, as provided by said Ordinance No. 1086, paid said sum of $39.12 into the City Treasury of the City of Seattle, and re ceived a receipt for the same on the 18th day of October, 1889, which receipt reads as follows:

Seattle, Oct. 28, 1889. Received from Hans Ahrenstedt Thirty Nine 12/100 dollars for Street Improvements on Lots 8 Block 6 Plummers Addition, So Ninth Street.

W.L. Ames, Treasurer, By Knoff.

7. That your petitioner paid sum sun believing that said south Ninth Street would be graded and improved from Yesler Avenue south to Charles Street, as provided by said Ordinance, and believing that the property of your petitioner would be greatly benefitted by said improvement, and would be liable to said assessment; whereas in fact said street has not been graded through to Charles Street, has not been improved in front of the property of your petitioner, and his property has not been benefitted by it:

WHEREFORE, your petitioners prays that said assessment of $39.12 may be refunded to him. And you petitioner will ever pray &c

Hans Ahrenstedt

J. E. Lilly, Attorney for petitioner.