The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-06-23
GOOD pRoaRK-- MADE.
special Attorneys Report on street
Grade Assessments Cases.


Grade Assessment Cases
The Epecsai attorney FOR The city IN stEset
grade assessment matters EnbEnlftel % tEe
city council last nigslt 3 report sno@lnS
the progress made ~ hslD IL pressing toe
various cases toward collection ana nnaI
settlement The Fepssgt - SIS foaows.
sEfs accordance with Tha suggestion o.
your 50 gsaasestlon COMMITTEES | have had
sl4e old asses snsnt rolls examined IA or
der 70 ascertain the financial condition or
the funds The figures are given ~ De-
faH The total snoNs that up 70 and IN
Guiding ordinance 40. J. Isl. the last Of
the old maN@ke nenss tnere i uncoi-
Eeefea s73M8s4 which together with
the cash and securities = the
treasury makes total or f6f.ssZss.
Against this there seems 10 be only 4@l,-
- n ii outstanding warrants. This dis
sragsagfey 1T - se - seems 90 BE- due -
payment Of warrants cut 81 the Judgment
fund. 10 sm excessive assessment II some
e4naa. ard to- possibly. payments out Of
the street or general fasd. have already
reported 10 you that the records are 50
neagsr that cannot ascertain how the
discrepancy arose altogether. tsee APP
Penalx -
II all the amounts we're collected there
would te a surplus Of 81 - =. But am
satisfied that this Is fictitious 20 some ex-
tent For instance. Il seems 20 have been
ordered bY the Old councils that RENTS
sgons should be made. The only entry on
the roll IL paid In fuh." although the fiE-
uFes stow thai IL vas not paid IN full
This leaEes an amount apparently uDcoi-
ieetsd. THE larger part. however. has
been already paid car - the Judgment
fund. / suggest that flls fact should be
made use Of 20 permit me 20 compromise
with ola aeiluqueuts where there are r.
regalarittea. but where Il would b. cheap
81 70 compromise than 70 have a reassess-
merit
n have closed up entirely the following
streets. Baker. Clara. John. IsakeFtew.
Marion. Main Mitchell. seneca. Tenth
and willow. Iain and Mitchell balance
exactly ON Clara. John. Marion. Main.
Mitchell seneca. Tenth and Willow every
CELLAR has hssen collected, bal on Baker
and f4skeyiew there Is a deficiency -
uhonu teiow On All the others there Is
q suFplus The clty wflt have go make
good tho defsteneg. b8t even taking these
streets. II wgf D. abfs 70 pas e. and siil
have o baiance Of sle,s4. esee appendix
III
II have written over tRo hundred let
tiers 10 property owners mostly nou-resi-
dents. warning them that she cases are
being pressed and advising them THAI
even II fhe assessment Is declared Invalid
their property viii he reasssssed until an
THE attorneys Tor The Oregon Mortgage
Compapy Scottish American Mortgage
cumpkny and German Savings ard Loan
Society have devoted considerable time
y sfh me Ia tho properties they represent.
: have already maize two settlements on
thls account, Judge Tangiey bas agreed
50 have a number 81 eases tried all at
once. setting apart The necessary time.
Ne are now ready for trial on eight
streets which I have picked ont as show
in8 weakness which may necessitate re-
as@asMFue EtN.
e snrgest that sou Instruct tire city en-
siResF 90 have the preliminary work done
toward TeansesHfnvnt on Jefferson street
Dexter street. fAkeview avenue. South
Eleventh sfrset and South Eighth street.
Tha arst 30 DC Ffs-lsees ssst--8f necessary
are South Eleventh aad Dexter streets
= ana peep8Fsaw drafts % two bills for
s4hfutHHtoa to fhe corporation counsel
pb4eh wlth hla approval : hope - have
pNe&ei rs the ueKE legislature one 10
extend the bnnot@E system 20 reassess-
fuent ard tbe nfher go provide IN certain
eases tte reassessrnsft SHAFT be ln accord
sncs wsth fhe lass at the time che work
MAS ordered Tfis seems Simple enough.
hut Ger past experience warns as 70 look
fnto The tsNa 80 other states and the
decisions 81 thetr courts before We put
new laws ~ that Kind oa cur statute
hoohn
~w-a have been successful ~ esntestlns.
every molten ard demurrer tlest against
az These arv tedloua Amd ttfae-~op~trr,-
tHE matters haf once we GET them deter
fuine8 by the courts fhe decisions cover
ST fatHFe cases 7 have selected t,r<a
90 aH controversies ana cleared thcu aH
oHf - the SEAS. We haFe now 20 prepare
fnr the answers
Fl raay mention as one Illustration -
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