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Seattle, Washington, January 29th, 1891
To the hon. Mayor and City Council
Of the City of Seattle
Gentlemen:-
The Commission intrusted by you with the
examination of the City Charter and the suggestion of the amendments
thereto, fully appreciated the magnitude and importance of the task,
as well as the honor individually paid to its members in their
selection to revise the work of the fifteen freeholders who have
been truthfully declared the most able and distinguished body of
citizens ever assembled in Seattle. Unsought as was this honor, and
though shrinking somewhat from the trust, the members of the Commiss-
ion undertook the work in good faith. Several meetings were held,
officers elected, Committees appointed and the work appropriately
assigned. It was the opinion of allthat there should be no haste,
that there was time enough to do all that was desired, and that two
or three months would perhaps be consumed in the undertaking. It was
also the common idea that the Council wished to submit the amendments
that might be offered to the people at a special election to be called
for the purpose during the latter part of the coming Spring or the
early part of summer. It was supposedthat this would be done in