City of Seattle Records

383 COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEATTLE Oct 19/83

From His Honor the Mayor returning an Ordinance entitled "An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 410" without his approval and with his objections in writing to such approval, which objections read as follows, towit:

Office of the Mayor of the City of Seattle Oct 19, 1883 To the Common Council of the City of Seattle Gentlemen - I regret that I am unable to convince myself that Ordinance No - to amend Ordinance No. 410, ought to be approved and I therefore return the same without approval.

The Ordinance proposes to change the course of Jackson Street, after a contract has been let and is partly completed for the improvement of Jackson Street as laid out by Ordinance No. 410 and after over one thousand dollars in scrip has been issued for such improvement and a large additional liability has been incurred for such Improvement.

The following is a brief recapitulation of facts necessary to a full understanding of the situation:

On the 4th day of June 1883 the Council passed an Ordinance for the extension of Jackson Street and the condemnation of real estate necessary therefor. The first Section of that Ordinance provides that said Street be extended easterly from the present eastern terminus thereof at the eastern boundary of James McNaught's First Addition to Seattle, to the West shore of Lake Washington. The same Section also provided that a strip sixty-six feet in width between said termini running east and west be appropriated for the use of the public as a public Street to be called Jackson Street. The other Sections of the Ordinance provided for the [------] of appropriating the land, the assessment of damages and the levy of a tax to pay the same.

On the 6th day of July 1883 Ordinance 410 was passed amending the 1st Section of the original Ordinance by changing the eastern terminus from the West shore of Lake Washington to the Western terminus of Jackson Street in Burke's Second addition to Seattle. This amendment involved a change in the direction of the Street by a deflection from the direction [-------] adopted in the original Ordinance. Un-