{"id":748,"date":"2012-09-02T01:52:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T01:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/125books\/?p=748"},"modified":"2012-09-02T01:52:47","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T01:52:47","slug":"year-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/2012\/09\/02\/year-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>1907: <strong>Revised Charter of the City of Tacoma, Washington<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Author\/Editor: L. W. Roys<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/simon.ups.edu\/record=b1517370~S0\" target=\"_blank\">Find it in Collins Library!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_CityOfTacoma1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-749\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_CityOfTacoma1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_CityOfTacoma1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_CityOfTacoma1-624x420.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_CityOfTacoma1.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The  original charter of the City of Tacoma was framed and submitted in  1890.\u00a0 This revision was compiled by the City Council in 1907.\u00a0 It\u2019s a  fascinating political document about the early days of our fair city.\u00a0 A  time when the city was divided up into \u2018Wards,\u2019 and the focus of the  charter was primarily on land development and street improvement.\u00a0 It  also gives an early glimpse into city government, spelling out the roles  of the Mayor and the City Council.<\/p>\n<p>And in case you\u2019re interested, here\u2019s the current Tacoma City Charter:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eportal.cityoftacoma.org\/irj\/go\/km\/docs\/City_Documents\/CityCharter\/Charter.pdf\">Effective June 1, 1953; Amended November 2, 2004.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eportal.cityoftacoma.org\/irj\/go\/km\/docs\/City_Documents\/CityCharter\/Charter.pdf\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_CityOfTacoma2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-750 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_CityOfTacoma2-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_CityOfTacoma2-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_CityOfTacoma2-624x412.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_CityOfTacoma2.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1907: Revised Charter of the City of Tacoma, Washington Author\/Editor: L. W. Roys Find it in Collins Library! The original charter of the City of Tacoma was framed and submitted in 1890.\u00a0 This revision was compiled by the City Council in 1907.\u00a0 It\u2019s a fascinating political document about the early days of our fair city.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1898-1907"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}