Reports of assessed valuations and tax rates for cities, towns, and special taxing districts in King County; and certificates of assessed valuations for the City of Seattle.

Administrative records of Georgetown filed with the City Clerk. Includes bids and proposals, specifications, correspondence, city officials' reports, franchises, petitions, and oaths of office. The bulk of records relate to local improvements, extension of city services, and franchise administration.

Record of 1892 city taxes collected between October 1892 and March 1893. Includes date collected, name of individual, and amount of city tax and grade tax.

Roll of delinquent 1892 taxes for the City of Ballard. Includes name, property description, total valuation of real property, total delinquent tax, and if applicable, sewer fund tax, interest due, penalty for delinquency, and cost of advertising delinquency notice. Also includes date of payment. All outstanding delinquent taxes were forgiven in 1923 by Ordinance 45744.

Lists of delinquent City taxes turned over to the King County Treasurer for collection. Once collected, proceeds were returned to the City Clerk. Includes name of delinquent individual or business, description of property, assessed valuation, and taxes owed. One volume (1876-1877) includes a list of collections returned to the City.

Record of delinquent taxes on real property for the years 1873-1884 and 1889-1890. Includes owner's name, legal description, year assessed, original tax, total tax collected, and sales information when property was sold to satisfy delinquent taxes.

An Ordinance to provide revenue and to tax and license certain vocations, to fix the amount of such tax and provide for the collection thereof, and to make it penal to carry on any of the vocations or to keep any of the animals herein mentioned, without first paying such tax or obtaining such license, and providing for the prosecution of all violations of the ordinance.

An ordinance levying a tax of seven mills on the taxable property in the limits of Southeast Seattle for the year 1906.

An ordinance providing for the assessment, levy, and collecting of taxes, and otherwise relating to the manner of raising revenue for the town.

An ordinance providing the method of assessing and collecting taxes in the Town of South Park.

An ordinance providing for the giving of receipts and tax receipts upon the payment of money to the officer of the town.

An ordinance authorizing and empowering Henry J. Miller, his associates, assigns, successors and executors, to erect and maintain gas works and gas plant, and to lay down and use pipe and other accessories for the supply and distribution of gas in the City of Columbia, State of Washington.

An Ordinance to license tax and regulate auctioneers hawkers and peddlers.

An ordinance relating to road poll taxes and the collection thereof.

An ordinance levying and apportioning the property tax of the Town of South Park for the year of 1903.

An Ordinance providing the method for assessing and collecting taxes for the City of Georgetown.

An Ordinance imposing a street poll tax and providing for the collection thereof.

An ordinance providing for the assessment and collection of municipal taxes in the City of Columbia.

An ordinance levying a municipal tax for the year 1906 in the City of Columbia.

An ordinance providing for tax levy for the Town of Columbia for the years 1893 and 1894.

An Ordinance providing for the assessment levy and collection of Town taxes.

An Ordinance to prescribe the mode in which the costs and expenses of all public improvements are to be provided for and paid by special assessment upon property, and how they shall be divided, apportioned, assessed, levied and collected.

An Ordinance providing for the assessment and collection of all taxes levied for municipal purposes by the Town of West Seattle.

An ordinance relating to and providing for the General Fund and Water Fund of the town.

An ordinance levying and apportioning the property tax of the Town of South Park for the year 1904.

An ordinance providing for the tax levy for the Town of Columbia for the years 1894 and 1895.

An ordinance providing for and fixing the tax levy for the Town of Columbia for the years 1895 and 1896, fiscal years.

An Ordinance providing for assessing and levying taxes for municipal purposes for the year A. D. 1905.

An Ordinance repealing Ordinance No. 30 entitled "An Ordinance imposing a street poll tax and providing for the collection thereof."

An Ordinance providing for the assessment and levying of taxes for the year 1891 for general municipal purposes of the City of Ballard upon all taxable property, real and personal, within said city.

An Ordinance providing for the assessment and collection of a street poll tax from every male inhabitant of the City of Ballard between the ages of twenty-one and fifty years.

An ordinance providing for the tax levy for the Town of Columbia, for the year 1897.

An ordinance levying and apportioning the property tax of the Town of South Park, Washington, for the year 1905.

An ordinance making the tax levy for the year 1898, in the Town of Columbia.

An ordinance making the tax levy for the year 1899 in the Town of Columbia.

An Ordinance providing for the assessing and levying of taxes for the year 1892 for general municipal purposes of the City of Ballard upon all taxable property, real and personal, within said city.

An ordinance levying and apportioning the property tax of the Town of South Park for the year 1906.

An ordinance making the tax levy for the year 1903 in the Town of Columbia.

An Ordinance providing for the assessing and levying of taxes for the year 1893 for general municipal purposes of the City of Ballard, upon all taxable property, both real and personal.

An Ordinance levying a tax for the year 1905 for the City of Georgetown.

An Ordinance repealing Ordinance No. 36, the City Council of the City of Ballard, ordinance as follows.

An ordinance amending Section1 of Ordinance No. 17 of the Town of Columbia, entitled "An ordinance relating to road toll taxes and the collection thereof", passed by the Council February 10, 1893, signed and approved February 13, 1893.

An Ordinance providing for the levying of a property tax for municipal purposes for the year 1894 upon all taxable property, both real and personal, in said City of Ballard.

An ordinance providing for the assessing and levying taxes for the year 1895 for general municipal purposes of the City of Ballard upon all taxable property, both real and personal within Said City.

An Ordinance levying a tax for the year 1906 for Municipal purposes in The City of Georgetown.

An ordinance providing for the assessing and levying of taxes for general municipal purposes for the year 1897 upon all taxable real and personal property within the city of Ballard.

An Ordinance providing for assessing and levying taxes for general municipal purposes for the year A.D. 1898.

An Ordinance levying a tax for municipal purposes in the City of Georgetown, for the year 1907.

An ordinance providing for assessing and levying taxes for general municipal purposes for the year 1899.

An Ordinance levying a tax for municipal purposes in the City of Georgetown for the year 1908.

An Ordinance relating to the Taxes and Funds of the City of Ballard, and to make said funds to conform to an Act of the Legislature entitled "An Act relating to taxes and funds of Municipal Corporations having less than Twenty Thousand inhabitants and repealing all ordinances in conflict therewith."

An Ordinance levying a special tax for municipal purposes in the City of Georgetown for the year 1908, and authorizing and legal proceeding or action necessary to cause the same to be collected by the County Treasurer of King County.

An Ordinance levying a tax for municipal purposes in the City of Georgetown for the year 1910.

An Ordinance providing for assessing and levying taxes for general and municipal purposes for the year 1902.

An Ordinance providing for the grading, grubbing, guttering, paving, repairing, repaving, planking, replanking of streets or other improvements thereof authorized by law within the City of Ballard, and providing for the levying and collection of special assessments therefor, upon the property benefitted thereby, and the issuance of bonds in payment thereof, payable in installments as provided by law, and repealing Ordinance No. 193.

An Ordinance prohibiting the expenditure of money in excess of the amount levied for any particular purpose.

Records include correspondence, memoranda, reports, studies, and briefing materials to and from City agencies regarding the full range of municipal government activities during Rice's terms as mayor. Topics include municipal facilities, arts and culture, planning, budget and financial issues, and schools and education, among others. Records are arranged chronologically and then by major departments within City government. Constituent correspondence is included in this record series.

Correspondence, reports, and other records related to the issues, programs, and organizations that were part of the work of the Mayor's Office during Royer's tenure. Major topics covered include downtown issues, housing, the arts, community councils, transportation, KidsPlace, environmental issues, sports, Interstate 90, Metro, gay and minority issues, Pioneer Square, schools, and boards and commissions. Arranged alphabetically by subject for each year.

The records include correspondence, petitions, proposals, constituent letters, and draft legislation related to economic development, City-wide technology issues, comprehensive planning, labor relations, open space, public safety, sexual minorities, housing, and zoning issues. Specific topics include the Sand Point neighborhood, off-leash areas, cable communications, the Added Activities Ordinance, the Seattle Commons, landslides, Bradner Park, and sports stadiums.

Rolls of taxes levied by the City of Seattle on its residents, 1874-1876.