The San Francisco Directory, 1874, Part 232

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Publication date: 1874
Publisher: San Francisco : Langley, Henry G.
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SEC. 2. The public buildings, lands, and property, all rights of property and rights of action, and all moneys, revenues, and income, belonging or appertaining either to the corporation of the City of San Francisco, or to the County of San Francisco, are hereby declared to be vested in, and to appertain to, the said City and County of San Francisco, and the moneys in the treasury of said city, and in the treasury of said County of San Francisco, and all the revenues and income from whatsoever source arising, including delinquent taxes upon persons and property appertaining to the said city or to the said county, shall be handed over, paid, and received into the treasury of the City and County of San Francisco as a part of the General Fund ; or where

* The Act of the Legislature, 1874, changes the westerly boundary of Alameda County so as to include therein the entire wharf of the Central Pacific Railroad Co., thereby placing the eastern boundary of San Francisco County about five hundred feet west of the old line.

t By the Act of the Legislature, April 25, 1850, the boundaries of Marin County have been extended so as to include the islands of Los Angeles, Dos Hermanos, and Marin.

PACIFIC COAST BUSINESS DIRECTORY, 1874-6, will be published September, 1874.

ATNA INSURANCE COMPANY, of HARTFORD, was established in 1819, and is the largest Fire Insurance Company in the country.

KENNEDY'S INSURANCE AGENCY, Fire, Marine, and Life, represents $12,000,000.

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the said moneys, revenues, and income, or any part thereof, have been heretofore and still remain set apart and dedicated by lawful authority to the use of a Special Fund, the necessity and objects of which still continue, the same shall continue to be received, held, and disbursed for the same use, unless it is otherwise provided in this or some other Act.

SEC. 3. The records, books, and papers in the custody of the said City Treasurer, shall be handed over to and received into the custody of the Treasurer of the said city and county, and all other books, records, and papers of the said corporations shall be delivered and received into the custody of the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of said city and county, and shall not be withheld under any claim of a lien thereon for arrears of salaries, fees, services, or advances, nor under any other pretense whatsoever. Suits and actions may be brought and maintained in the name of the City and County of San Francisco, for the recovery of any property, money, or thing belonging thereto, or the enforcement of any rights of, or contracts with, said city and county. And from any judgment* rendered against the said city and county in any Court, an appeal may be taken by the said city and county, where such appeal is allowed by law, without the giving of any appeal bond or undertaking, or complying with the other requisites prescribed by law.

SEC. 4. All the existing provisions of law, defining the powers and duties of county officers, excepting those relating to Supervisors and Boards of Supervisors, so far as the same are not repealed or altered by the provisions of this Act, shall be considered as applicable to officers of the said City and County of San Francisco acting or elected under this Act. Provision shall be made from the revenues of the said city and county for the payment of the legal indebtedness of the former city corporation and of the County of San Francisco. The taxes which may be levied and collected under the provisions of this Act shall be uniform throughout the said City and County of San Francisco ; but in case it should hereafter be found necessary, for the purpose of providing for the said city indebtedness, to increase taxation beyond the rate of the county tax levied upon property in said County of San Francisco, during the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, such increased taxation, over and above the rate aforesaid, shall be levied and assessed exclusively upon the real and personal property situated within the limitst defined in the second section of the Act entitled "An Act to Re-incorporate the City of San Francisco," passed May fifth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and not upon such property situated without those limits.

SEC 5. Immediately after the passage of this Act, the present City Attorney, Surveyor- General, and C. K. Garrison, shall proceed to lay off the said city and county into twelve convenient districts, equal in population as near as conveniently may be, giving a distinct name to each district, the boundaries of which they shall accurately define by reference to public streets, roads, or other permanent monuments, and shall cause a map to be made representing the said districts, with their names and boundaries so fixed. The act of said officers establishing said districts, signed by them, or a majority of them, shall be recorded in the office of the County Recorder of said city and county, and the original deposited in the office of the County Clerk, and the map shall be deposited with the said County Surveyor. Each of said districts shall constitute an Election Precinct .;

SEC. 6. The provisions of this section referring to the election and terms of city and county officers have been superceded by Act of April 2, 1866, and the amendments thereto .- [See Sup- plemental Act I, page 843.] To Justices of the Peace and Constables, by Acts of March 26, and the amendments thereto, February 10, 1870 .- [See Supplemental Act XXIX.] And to the election of Inspectors and Judges of the Election, by the Political Code, Part III, Secs. 1127- 1144.

Vacancies in the office of Supervisor or School Director [Act April 29, 1857], where the term of office will not expire at the next ensuing general election, shall be then filled by an election in the proper district, for the unexpired term and for the interval between the happening of any such vacancy and the general election next ensuing ; any vacancy in the office of the Supervisor shall be filled by appointment by the President of the Board of Supervisors, by and with the advice and consent of a majority of the Supervisors then in office; and any vacancy in the office of School Director [Re-enacted. See Article III, Sec. 13, page 856] shall be filled by appointment by the Superintendent of Common Schools, by and with the advice and consent of a majority of the School Directors then in office; and such appointees shall hold office respectively until the general election next ensuing and the election and qualification of their successors in office. But no such appointment shall be valid unless the appointee be, at the time of his appointment, an elector of the district wherein the vacancy occurred. [Amended. See Supplemental Act I, Sec. 4, page 843.]

SEC. 7. By the term "qualification of officers," as used in this Act, is to be understood their having taken the oath of office, given the official bond, where it is required by law, and

* The Act of April 13, 1858, authorizes the payment from the General Fund of any final judgment against the City and County of San Francisco.

t See Note (t), page 852.

Į Districts changed to Wards .- [ Act April 2, 1866.] The Board of Supervisors of each county must establish a convenient number of election precincts, and may from time to time change boundaries of, create new, or consolidate and establish, precincts .- [Political Code, Part III, Secs. 1127-1129.]

ATLAS INS. CO. OF HARTFORD; Assets $325,000; Farnsworth & Clark, Agents.

EDWARD BOSQUI & CO., Bookbinders and Job Printers, corner of Leidesdorff and Clay Streets.

C. P. VAN SCHAACK & CO., 708, 712, 714, and 716 Kearny Street, Paper and Envelopes.

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complied with all the requisites prescribed by the statutes of this State, to entitle and qualify them to exercise the functions of their offices.

SEC. 8. The Sheriff, County Clerk,* County Recorder, Treasurer, District Attorney, Au- ditor, Tax Collector, Superintendent of Public Streets and Highways, Surveyor, Harbor Mas- ter, and Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of said city and county shall keep public offices, which shall be kept open for the transaction of business every day in the year except Sundays. Christmas, New Year's, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, the Twenty-second of February, and on any days during which a general election shall be held, between the hours of nine o'clock A.M. and four o'clock P.M .- [Amendment May 14, 1861.]

SEC. 9. Whenever vacancies occur in any elective office of the said city and county, and provision is not otherwise made in this or some other Act for filling the same until the next election, the Board of Supervisors shall appoint a person to discharge the duties of such office until the next election, when the vacancy shall be filled by election for the term. All persons so appointed shall, before entering upon their duties, take the oath of office, and give bond as required by law. But in an action or proceeding where the Sheriff of said city and county is a party, or is interested, or otherwise incapacitated to execute the orders or process therein, the same shall be executed by a suitable person residing in said city and county, to be appointed by the Court, and denominated an " Elisor," who shall give such security as the Court, in its discretion, may require, and shall execute the process and orders in the same manner as the Sheriff is required to execute similar process and orders in other cases.t

SEcs. 10 and 11. [Act May 17, 1861; amended April 18, 1857, and by subsequent Acts -the date of each will be found affixed to the office to which it refers.] Salaries shall be al- lowed and paid to the following officers ; of the City and County of San Francisco, as in this Act provided, and not otherwise, and shall be in full compensation for all official services required of them by law:

County Judge, five thousand dollars per annum .- [Amendment April 18, 1857.]

Probate Judge, five thousand dollars per annum .- [Amendment April 27, 1863.] Municipal Criminal Court Judge, five thousand dollars per annum .- [Act March 31, 1870.] Police Judge, four thousand dollars per annum .- [Amendment May 17, 1861.]

City and County Attorney and Counselor, five thousand dollars per annum, who shall per- form such duties as may be prescribed, from time to time, by the Board of Supervisors .- [Act March 25, 1862.] Assistant [office abolished Act April 1, 1872, Sec. 25] Clerk, one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month .- [Amendment April 4, 1863.]

District Attorney, five thousand dollars per annum .- [Amendment April 4, 1863.] Assist- ant, three hundred dollars per month .- [Act March 30, 1870.] Clerk, one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month. An additional Clerk [Act March 11, 1874], one hundred and fifty dollars per month.

Clerk of the Police Court, two hundred dollars per month. - [Act May 17, 1861.] Prosecuting Attorney for the Police Court, two hundred and fifty dollars per month, to be appointed by the Board of Supervisors .- [Act April 23, 1858 ; amended April 26, 1862.]

Interpreters and Translators of foreign languages (three), to be appointed by the County Judge, Police Judge, and President of the Board of Supervisors, if they deem them necessary, one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month each, subject, however, to be reduced by an order of the Board of Supervisors, if, in their opinion, such reduction is proper .- [Amend- ments April 27, 1863, and April 4, 1864.]

County Clerk, four thousand dollars per annum. Deputies: For the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District-one Register Clerk, who shall receive a salary of one hundred and seventy-five dollars per month ; one Court Room Clerk, one hundred and seventy-five dollars per month, and two Assistant Register Clerks, one hundred and fifty dollars per month each. Twelfth Judicial District-one Register Clerk, one hundred and seventy-five dollars per month ; one Court Room Clerk, one hundred and seventy-five dollars per month, and two Assistant Register Clerks, one hundred and fifty dollars per month each. Fifteenth Judicial District- one Register Clerk, one hundred and seventy-five dollars per month ; one Court Room Clerk, one hundred and seventy-five dollars per month, and two Assistant Register Clerks, one hun- dred and fifty dollars per month each. Probate Court 2-one Court Room Clerk, one hun- dred and seventy-five dollars per month ; one Register Clerk and two Record Clerks, one hun- dred and fifty dollars per month each. County Court-one Court Room Clerk, one hundred and seventy-five dollars per month ; one Register Clerk and one Assistant Register Clerk, one hundred and fifty dollars per month each. Municipal Court-one Court Room Clerk, one hundred and seventy-five dollars per month ; one Register Clerk, one hundred and

* The Act of February 1, 1872, authorizes the County Clerk to close his office also on the day on which the judicial election is held.

The Coroner is authorized to act as an " Elisor."-[ See Supplemental Act III, Sec. 25, page 849.]

I See Article V, for additional offices created by the different Acts of the Legislature, and the salaries attached to each.

¿ The Act of February 10, 1864, provides that "Any Deputy of the County Clerk of said city and county. no matter for what Court, duty, or business he may be particularly deputized or assigned, may act as his Deputy in the Probate Court.

PACIFIC COAST BUSINESS DIRECTORY circulates throughout the Pacific Coast.

ETNA INSURANCE COMPANY, OF HARTFORD, lost over $3,000,000 in the CHICAGO FIRE, and paid in full, Dollar for Dollar.

EDWARD BOSQUI & CO., Stationers, Printers, and Bookbinders, corner of Clay and Leidesdorff Streets.

L. W. KENNEDY, General Insurance Agent, Fire, Marine, and Life, 411 California St.'

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fifty dollars per month: provided, that the Deputies appointed by virtue of this Act shall be in lieu of all those heretofore authorized to be appointed by said County Clerk; and all Acts or parts of Acts conflicting with this Act, or providing for the appointment of other Deputies not named in this Act, are hereby repealed .- [Section 1, Act February 5, 1872.] The salaries provided for in this Act shall be audited and paid in the same manner as the salaries of Deputy Clerks in said City and County of San Francisco have been audited and paid heretofore .- [Sec. 2, Act February 5, 1872.] The County Clerk of said city and county is hereby author- ized to employ as many copyists (not to exceed three in number) as may be necessary to per- form the duties of his office, who shall severally be paid such reasonable compensation as their services may be worth, not to exceed six cents a folio of one hundred words, for the matter copied or recorded by them respectively : provided, the amount paid to such Copyists in any one month shall not exceed three hundred dollars .- [Sec. 3, Act February 6, 1872.] The County Clerk shall certify, monthly, on the demands of said Copyists, the number of folios copied by each one of said Copyists, and such certificate of said Clerk shall be conclusive and sufficient evidence to authorize and require the Auditor of said city and county to audit, sever- ally, the accounts of said Copyists, monthly, and the payment of such demands by the County Treasurer, out of the Special Fee Fund, as is provided for the payment of other officers of said city and county .- [Sec. 4, Act February 5, 1872. ]

Sheriff, eight thousand dollars per annum .* Deputies [see Acts May 17, 1861, March 20, 1860, April, 4, 1864, March 20, 26, and 31, 1866, March 9 and 31, and April 4, 1870]: One Under Sheriff, two hundred dollars per month ; twelve Deputies-nine, one hundred and fifty dollars, and three, one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month each, respectively ; six Jail Keepers [two additional allowed, Act April 1, 1872], one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month each ; one Bookkeeper, two hundred and fifty dollars per month; one Assistant Book- keeper, one hundred dollars per month ; one Matron and Assistant Matron, for County Jail, one hundred dollars per month ; two Court Room Porters, seventy-five dollars per month each, and one driver for Jail Wagon, seventy-five dollars per month. An allowance of twelve hun- dred dollars per annum is allowed for the expenses of the Sheriff for counsel and attorney's fees.

Coroner, four thousand dollars per annum .- [For salaries of Deputy, Messenger, etc., see Supplemental Act III, Secs. 28-30, page 849.]

Mayor, three thousand dollars per annum. Clerk, one hundred and fifty dollars per month .- [Amendment April 4, 1864.]

Health Officers, two hundred dollars per month .- [Re-enacted, Act April 4, 1870.]

City and County Surveyor, five hundred dollars per annum, which shall be in lieu of all fees or other charges for official services, which would otherwise be a city and county charge, and he shall charge and collect, for services rendered individuals, such fees as may be prescribed and allowed by the Board of Supervisors.

Assessor, four thousand dollars per annum, which salary shall be in full for all services required of him and for all contingent expenses of his office, except necessary books ; and he shall devote his whole time, during office hours, to the business of his office, and shall keep his office open to the public during the same hours provided by law for the City and County Auditor. To assist him in making the assessment, he shall be allowed the following Deputies for the office: one Chief Deputy, two hundred dollars per month, and seven Deputies, one hundred and fifty dollars per month each, four of whom shall be employed and paid only from the first of February (of each year) until the assessment roll is finally completed and handed over to the Auditor ; one Head Draftsman, two hundred dollars per month, and one Assistant Draftsman, one hundred and fifty dollars per month ; for the Field, one Chief Deputy, two hundred dollars per month, and eighteen Under Deputies, whose term for payment shall not exceed an average of three months each, one hundred and fifty dollars per months each. t-[Amendment January 25, 1870.]

Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, two hundred and fifty dollars per month .- [Amendment March 30, 1872.] He shall be entitled to receive from the parties at whose instance the service may be performed (the city and county excepted) twenty-five cents for administering an oath, twenty-five cents per folio of one hundred words for writing out affidavits, and sixteen cents per folio for certified copies of any records, papers, or documents in his custody .¿ He has authority [Act February 14, 1866] to appoint a Deputy or Assistant Clerk, to be approved by said Board, whose salary shall be fixed by the said Board at a sum not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars per month [Act March 30, 1872], payable out of the General Fund ; said Deputy, when required by the Board, to act as Sergeant-at-Arms at its meetings, without additional com- pensation therefor.

* The Act of March 30, 1872, authorizes the Sheriff to charge three dollars per day for keeper's fees on all property in his charge seized on attachment or on execution ; and in case no keeper is required, then such sums of money as he shall reasonably and necessarily incur and disburse in taking and preserving the same. The Sheriff is also allowed to charge twenty-five cents per mile, as mileage to cover the traveling expenses of himself and Deputies for services on all process issued from any Court or any officer in a crim- inal action.

t The Act of March 30, 1872, authorizes the Assessor, Tax Collector, and Auditor to employ additional Clerks when absolutely necessary.

# Payable into the Special Fee Fund .- [Act May 17, 1861, Sec. 2.]

Fire Insurance at Tariff Rates; Losses promptly paid by FARNSWORTH & CLARK.

O P. VAN SCHAACK & CO., 708, 712, 714, and 716 Kearny St., Importers and Jobbers

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Porters (three *), not to exceed seventy-five dollars per month each .- [Act April 4, 1864.] Janitor of the City Hall, seventy-five dollars per month .- [Act March 19, 1870.] Auditor, four thousand dollars per annum; Clerk, two hundred and fifty dollars per month.t -[Amendments April 2, 1866, and March 4, 1870.]

Tax Collector, four thousand dollars per annum. Deputies +: One Chief Deputy and one Cash Deputy, two hundred dollars per month ; three General Deputies, one hundred and fifty dollars per month each ; also, extra Clerks, one hundred and fifty dollars per month each for the time actually employed : provided, said Tax Collector shall not be allowed exceeding twelve thousand dollars for salaries of all such Deputies and Clerks during any one fiscal year. The Clerks herein provided for shall not have power to receipt for moneys, or administer oaths in matters appertaining to said office .- [Act March 25, 1868.] He shall also be allowed one Auctioneer to conduct tax sales, whose compensation for sales of real estate delinquent for taxes, in any one year shall not exceed the sum of two hundred dollars. All fees, commissions, per- centages, and other compensation, of whatever nature or kind, heretofore allowed by law, or which may hereafter be allowed by law, as the compensation of the Tax Collector of said city and county, for the collection of State and county taxes, shall be paid into the Special Fee Fund .- [Amendment April 10, 1862.] The Act of April 4, 1870, authorizes an additional Clerk to attend to collections for street assessments, at a salary of one hundred and fifty dollars per month.

. Treasurer, four thousand dollars per annum. Deputies : Chief Deputy, two hundred and fifty dollars per month .- [Amendments April 4, 1863, and March 4, 1870.] Additional Deputy, one hundred and seventy-five dollars per month .- [Amendments April 4, 1863, and March 4, 1870.] Clerk to attend to Street Assessment Funds, one hundred and fifty dollars per month .- [Act April 4, 1870.] Two License Servers (office License Collector), eighty-five dollars per month .- [Act March 14, 1868.]

County Recorder, four thousand dollars per annum. Deputies : Chief Deputy, two hundred and fifty dollars per month .- [Amendments April 26, 1862, and April 4, 1870.] Two additional Deputies, one hundred and fifty dollars per month each .- [Amendments April 4, 1863, and March 26, 1868.] Porter, seventy-five dollars per month. The Recorder may also employ as many Deputy Clerks as he may deem necessary to duly perform the duties of his office, and they shall be paid at the rate of twelve cents per folio of one hundred words for all matters either registered or copied by them respectively. The Recorder or his Chief Deputy, when any papers are presented for registration or to be copied, shall write on the margin of each paper so pre- sented the number of folios paid for ; and shall in his monthly return to the Treasurer, certify under oath the number of folios copied or registered by each one of said Deputy Clerks ; and such certificate of the Recorder or his Chief Deputy shall be conclusive evidence to authorize the Auditor to audit such certified accounts of such Deputy Clerks, monthly.

Harbor Master, three thousand dollars per annum.}

The provisions relative to the salaries of the officers of the Fire Department have been super- seded by the Act of March 2, 1866, and the amendments thereto, March 4, 1870, April 1, 1872, and March 30, 1874 .- [See Supplemental Acts II and III, pages 844 and 845.]

Superintendent of Common Schools,¿ four thousand dollars per annum. Clerk, who shall act as Secretary of the Board of Education, two hundred dollars per month .- [Act April 27, 1863 ; Amendment April 2, 1870.]

Superintendent of Streets and Highways, four thousand dollars per annum. Deputies eleven: three, two hundred dollars per month each ; four, one hundred and fifty dollars per month each, and four, one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month each .- [Act April 4, 1870.]

Chief of Police, four thousand dollars per annum. Captains of Police-four, one hundred and fifty dollars per month each. Policemen, not exceeding one hundred and fifty-the num- ber to be determined from time to time by order of the Board of Supervisors-one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month each [Act March 23, 1872]: provided, that one of the same detailed to act as Property Clerk in the office of Chief of Police, to be appointed by him, shall receive one hundred and fifty dollars per month. The Chief of Police may detail a regular Police Officer to act as his Clerk, who shall receive the same salary as the Property Clerk. The Captain of the Harbor Police shall receive the same salary as is now or may hereafter be paid to Police Captains .- [See Supplemental Act VIII, page 853.]

Resident Physicians of the City and County Hospital, two hundred dollars per month, in full compensation for all duties as such, and also for his attendance on the Small-pox Hospital, County Jail, and City Prison .- [Act May 17, 1861.]

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The San Francisco Directory, 1874, Part 232

Author: Publication date: 1874 Publisher: San Francisco : Langley, Henry G. Number of Pages: 1128

Author:
Publication date: 1874
Publisher: San Francisco : Langley, Henry G.
Number of Pages: 1128