Excerpt from The Charter of the City of Seattle: Adopted at the General Election March 3, 1896, as Amended in 1900, 1902, 1904, 1906, 1908, 1910, 1911 and 1912 Section 1. Municipality; Name, General Powers: The municipal corporation, now existing and known as the City of Seattle, shall remain and continue a body politic and corporate in name and in fact, by the name of The City of Seattle, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, may sue and defend in all courts and places, and in all mat ters and proceedings whatever, and may have and use a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure, and may purchase, receive, hold and enjoy real and personal property within and without the corporate limits of the City of Seattle, and may sell, convey, mortgage and dispose of the same for the common benefit, and may receive bequests, devises, gifts and donations of all kinds of property within and without the city for its own use and benefit, or in trust 'for charitable or other public purposes, and do all acts necessary to carry out the purposes of such gifts, bequests, devises and donations, with power to manage, sell, lease or otherwise dispose of the same in accordance with the terms of the gift, bequest, devise or trust. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.