City of Seattle Records

648 JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE Work paid for to D T Wheeler be & is hereby rejected Ordered that the motion to accomodate the claim of Harris & Greenus be & is hereby laid on the table And now the Council proceeds to an election to fill the vacancy caused by the resignatioin of B L Northup a Councilman from the Third Ward. Whereupon Walter Graham receiving a majority of all the votes of the members of said Common Council is duly declared elected to fill said vacancy for the term provided by law. And now the City Attorney gives an opinion as to the power of the City to appropriate moneys in aid of a 4th of July celebration The Attorney's opinion is that such an appropriation is illegal & that the council has no power to appropriate moneys for such a purpose, but that the City may appropriate moneys to clean the streets ordered that the clerk be & is hereby instructed to report such opinion to the citizens comtee for 4th of July Celebration Ordinances 2 Ordinances are submitted being entitled "a special ordinance appropriating money to pay audited bills" Adopted upon the following vote towit: In favor of adoption Frye, Harrington, Snyder, Sox, Yesler, Latimer & Rinehart. against adoption none. The atty submits an Ordinance entitles "An ordinance to vacate certain alleys in the City of Seattle" After due consideration said ordinance is adpoted upon the following vote towit: In favor of adoption Frye, Harrington, Snyder, Sox, Yesler, Latimer& Rinehart. against adoption none. Ordered that the Comtee on Public Buildings, Property & Grounds be & are hereby instructed to negotiate with the owners of certain pieces of real estate along the line of Rollin Street Extension for the purchase of same Ordered that the Council stand now adjourned Attest: E S Osborne clerk Approved John Leary mayor

406 JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE Mar 2 1888 Ordered that the Street Commissioner be instructed to extend the Battery Street Sewer to a connection with the Denny School House. Ordered that Jacob Cowen be granted permission to blast until the next regular meeting of the Council. Ordered that the City Attorney in connection with the Judiciary Committee be authorized to act upon the proposition of F. E. Sander for the payment of certain grade taxes. Councilman Furth submits the following resolution and moves its adoption: "Resolved, by the Common Council of the City of Seattle King County W. T., that the Mayor is hereby instructed to respectfully represent to the Honorable, the Post Master General, that owning to the increase of the business of the Post Office of the City of Seattle, that our mails are delayed in their distribution for many hours; the present clerical force being entirely insufficient to attend to the business, and the Post Office itself far too small to even accomodate the mails therefor, we respectfully ask that an increase in the appropriation for these purposes be made at the earliest possible moment as the business is rapidly growing and our in-convenience is added to from week to week." The motion for adoption being duly seconded, the resolution is adopted by an unanimous vote of the Council. Ordered that the matter of Rollin Street Extension be placed in the hands of the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee with power to incur necessary expenses in securing dedication of property, etc.