City of Seattle Records

To the Hon Mayor and Common Council of the City of the Seattle Gentlemen: The undersigned, your petitioners, being either residents on or near, or property holders on or near the South Boundry Line of your City would respectfully represent. That there is now no one able to tell within some two hundred feet of where The South Boundry Line of your City passes. On this account it has been impossible for the assessors to determine what lots should be assessed to the City or what should be omitted from the City assessment. As an illustration of the vaience made by assessors we would state that Mr Dibble paid tax on Eighteen lots in 1884, but pays on but ten lots this year, though owning the same property. Inasmuch Therefore, as we understand that the City Surveyor had been instructed to set stone monument of Government Corners, we would ask that while engaged in the work he be instructed to properly mark out the South Boundary line of the City. And your Petitioners woul ever humbly pray etc. over.