The San Francisco Directory, 1874, Part 233

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* To the principal Porter, ninety dollars per month .- [Aet April 4, 1864.]

+ For additional Deputies or Clerks, see note (+), page 840.

An appropriation of seventy-five dollars per month is allowed for boat hire and office rent .- [Act April 2, 1866.]

¿ The California School Law, Act April 4, 1870, authorizes the appointment of a Deputy, by the Superin- tendent of Common Schools, at a salary to be regulated by the Board of Education. Also a Clerk at a sal- ary to be fixed by said Board .- [See Article III, Sec. 10, page 855.]

PACIFIC COAST BUSINESS DIRECTORY, 1874-6, H. G. Langley, Pub'r, S. F. Price $5.

ETNA INSURANCE COMPANY, of HARTFORD, is a Fire Insurance Company, not a Fire and Life Company combined.

KENNEDY'S INSURANCE AGENCY, Fire, Marine, and Life, 411 California St.

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SAN FRANCISCO DIRECTORY.

Visiting Physician and Surgeon to the County Hospital, one hundred dollars per month each .-- [Act April 27, 1860.]

Supervisors, one hundred dollars per month each .- [Act March 30, 1868. See Supple- mental Act XXV.]

The District Attorney, not being relieved from the obligation to attend per- sonally in said Court (Police) whenever business of importance shall require his assistance. No compensation shall be allowed to School Directors ; and no fees or compensation, to be paid out of the City and County Treasury, other than those expressly allowed in this Act, shall be allowed or received by any officer of said city and county, or of any district ; nor shall any allowance or provision be made for them, or any of them, at the public expense, beyond the fixed compensation aforesaid, under the name of office rent,* fuel, light, stationery, contingencies, or otherwise, except that the necessary and proper books, stationery, and official blanks may, at the discretion of the Board of Supervisors, be purchased and supplied for the Police Court, Court of Sessions [abolished. See Amendment State Constitution, 1862, Art. VI], Grand Juries, and offices of the County Clerk, County Recorder, Auditor, Treasurer, Assessor, Superintendent of Streets and Highways, and the Board of Supervisors ; the expense whereof, when the amount in each particular case shall have been previously authorized and fixed by the Board of Supervisors, may be paid out of the General Fund, upon demands upon the treasury, duly audited as provided in this Act: provided, that the total amount of ex- penditures for all of the aforesaid books, stationery, and official blanks, shall not exceed the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars in any one year.

EDWARD BOSQUI & CO., Paper Rulers, Leidesdorff Street, corner of Clay.

The several officers named in this Act, who are entitled to charge and collect, or receive any fees, commission, percentages, or other compensation, of whatever nature or kind allowed by law for services rendered by them or their Deputies, in their several official capacities, or for the performance of duties appertaining to said offices, shall collect and safely keep the same, and on each Monday they shall pay the total amount by them received to the Treasurer of said city and county, who shall set apart the same as a Special Fee Fund for the payment of the respective salaries of the several officers entitled to charge and collect fees, commissions, or other compensation. And the salaries of all other officers shall be paid out of the General Fund: provided, that the Assessor, so far as relates to the collection of poll tax, and the City and County Surveyor, shall be exempt from the provisions of this section. It shall be, and is hereby made, the duty of all such officers who are entitled to charge and collect or receive fees, commissions, or other compensation for their official services, to keep a book or books, in which shall be entered by items the amount received for all official services performed by them or their Deputies, showing the date and nature of such services, and the amount received there- for, which book or books shall, at all office hours, be open to the inspection of the Board of Supervisors or any citizen ; and each of said officers shall, at the expiration of each month, make out and verify by oath, and file with the Auditor, a full and accurate transcript from his said book or books, of the entries for the preceding month .- [Act May 17, 1861, Sec. 2.] It shall be the duty of the Treasurer of the said city and county to receive, receipt for, and safely keep all moneys paid over to him under the provisions of this Act, and to make up, on the first day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and quarterly thereafter, an accurate statement of said Special Fee Fund, showing the actual condition of the same up to such time, when, if any balance remain in said fund after satisfying all demands payable out of the same, the Treasurer shall transfer such balance to the General Fund ; but should such Special Fee Fund be insufficient to satisfy all the demands payable therefrom, then the Treasurer shall, at the request of the holder, register such unpaid demands against, and pay the same in their order of registration out of, the General Fund, as in other cases .- [Act May 17, 1861, Sec. 3.] All demands upon the treasury, allowed by this Act, shall, before they are authorized to be paid, be duly audited, as in other cases of demands lawfully paid out of the treasury. The several salaries named shall be payable monthly by the Treasurer upon the audit of the County Auditor, who is hereby directed to audit the salaries herein provided for .- [Act May 17, 1861, Sec. 4.] The Board of Supervisors may, from time to time, authorize the appointment of such additional Deputies for any of the various city and county officers, and for such period of time as in their judgment may be necessary for the proper and faithful discharge of the duties of such office. Deputies appointed under the provisions of this section shall receive not to exceed one hundred and fifty dollars per month each ; but in no case shall the aggregate pay of such Deputies exceed three thousand dollars per annum.t-[Act May 17, 1861, Sec. 5.] The fees receivable by the several officers named in this Act shall be payable in advance .- [Act May 17, 1861, Sec. 6.] For a willful neglect or refusing to comply with any of the provisions of this Act, by any officer or officers herein named, he or they shall be deemed guilty of felony, and on conviction thereof in the Court of Sessions,t be subject to a fine not to exceed

# The Act of January 30, 1864, provides that, after June 1, 1864, no funds shall be paid from the treas- ury of the city and county for office rent.

t The Act of March 30, 1872, authorizes the payment out of the General Fund of such sums as may be deemed absolutely necessary for extra assistance in the offices of the Assessor, Tax Collector, and Auditor. # Abolished; Municipal Court substituted .- [Act March 31, 1870, see Supplemental Act XXXI.]

MERIDEN FIRE INS. CO. OF CONN .; Assets over $300,000; Farnsworth & Clark, Agts.

C. P. VAN SCHAACK & CO., 708, 712, 714, and 716 Kearny Street, Fancy Goods.

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five thousand dollars, and a forfeiture of office or to imprisonment in the State Prison not less than one nor more than three years, or to both such fine and imprisonment: provided, that nothing herein shall be held to release such officer from the obligation to give the official bond required by law, or from any civil responsibility arising from his official duties .- [Act May 17, 1861, Sec. 8.] All requisitions for books, blanks, and stationery for any of the officers named in this Act, shall be made by such officers, respectively, upon the Board of Supervisors, stating the amount and description thereof, and that the same are essential and necessary for the use of such office, which statement shall be verified by the oath of such officer, and, upon their approval thereof, the said Board shall order the cost of the same paid out of the Special Fee Fund .- [Act May 17, 1861, Sec. 9.]

SEC. 12. Neither the Board of Supervisors, the Board of Education, or any officer of the said city and county, or of any district, shall have any power to contract any debt or liability, in any form whatsoever, against the said city and county ; nor shall the people or tax payers, or any property therein, ever be liable to be assessed for or on account of any debt or liability hereafter contracted, or supposed or attempted to be contracted, in contravention of this sec- tion.

SEC. 13. [Obsolete.]

SEC. 14. All officers of the said city and county must, before they can enter upon their official duties, give bond as required by law. The bonds and sureties of such officers must be approved by the County Judge, Auditor, and President of the Board of Supervisors. Where the amount of such official bond is not fixed by law, it shall be fixed by the Board of Super- visors. No banker residing or doing business in said city or county, nor any such banker's partner, clerk, employé, agent, attorney, father, son, or brother, shall be received as surety for the Treasurer, President of the Board of Supervisors, Sheriff, Auditor, or any officer hav- ing the collection, custody, or disbursement of money. No person shall be admitted as surety on any such bond, unless he be worth, in fixed property, including mortgages situated in said city and county, the amount of his undertaking, over and above all sums for which he is already liable, or in any manner bound, whether as principal, indorser, or security, and whether such prior obligation or liability be conditional or absolute, liquidated or unliquidated, certain or contingent, due or to become due. All persons offered as sureties on official bonds may be examined on oath touching their qualifications. The official bond of the Auditor shall be filed and kept in the office of the Clerk of said city and county. All other official bonds shall be filed and kept in the office of the Auditor.

SUPPLEMENTAL I .- An Act to Change the Time for holding Municipal Elections in the City and County of San Francisco, and to define the Official Terms of Certain Officers therein mentioned .- Approved April 2. 1866.

SECTION 1. There shall be elected hereafter for the City and County of San Francisco, by the qualified electors thereof, at the times hereinafter mentioned, and in the manner prescribed by law for the election of State and county officers, one Mayor, who shall be ex officio President of the Board of Supervisors ; a County Judge," Police Judge an Attorney and Counselor, Probate Judge, Municipal Criminal Court Judge [Act March 31, 1870], District Attorney, Sheriff, County Clerk, Recorder, Treasurer, Auditor, Tax Collector, Assessor, Coroner, Public Administrator, Surveyor, and Superintendent of Common Schools, Super- intendent of Public Streets, Highways, and Squares, Chief of Police, Harbor Master, and State Harbor Commissioner. There shall be elected in each of the twelve present election districts of said city and county, which shall hereafter constitute municipal districts, and be designated and known in law as wards, by the qualified electors thereof, one Supervisor and one School Director .- [Amended. See Sec. 4.]

SEC. 2. The County Judge, Probate Judge, Police Judge, and Municipal Court Judge [see Supplemental Act XXXI] shall be elected at the special judicial election, and shall hold their offices as provided by law.

SEC. 3. All elections for city and county officers, except as provided in section two of this Act, shall be held in said city and county on the days prescribed by law for holding the gen- eral elections throughout the State, except in the years when no general election is provided for by law, when elections for city and county officers shall be held on the first Wednesday of September of said years.t

SEC. 4. At the general election to be held in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and at the general election to be held every second year thereafter, there shall be elected an Attorney and Counselor for said city and county, an Auditor, a Tax Collector, a Public Ad- ministrator, a Superintendent of Public Streets, Highways and Squares, a Chief of Police, a

* The terms of the County Judge [see State Constitution, Art. VI, Sec. 7], Probate Judge [see Act of Legislature, April 20, 1813, Sec. 43], and Municipal Court Judge [see Act of the Legislature, March 31, 1870], are four years each, commencing on the first day of January next succeeding their election. The terms of the present incumbents expire January, 1876. The term of the Police Judge [see Act of Legis- lature, April 20, 1863, Sec. 57] is two years, commencing on the first day of January next succeeding his election. The term of the present incumbent expires January, 1876.

f Except in the year when the Presidential election occurs. When it takes place on the same day, see General Election Law.

PACIFIC COAST BUSINESS DIRECTORY contains Addresses of over 50,000 Merchants.

ATNA INSURANCE COMPANY, OF HARTFORD, has been established over 52 years, and has paid over $32,000,000 Losses.

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, Glassware and Toys.

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Superintendent of Common Schools, and one Fire Commissioner,* and for each of the First, Third, Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, and Eleventh wards, one Supervisor and one School Director, who shall, respectively, hold their offices for the term of two years from and after the first Mon- day of December next subsequent to their election, and until their successors are elected and qualified ; and the present incumbents of the respective offices named in this Act shall hold their offices until their successors are elected and qualified .- [Section 1, Amendatory March 30, 1872.] On or before the first Monday of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, the officers whose terms of office are hereby extended or continued, shall, respectively, execute and file, in accordance with the statutes regulating the same, their several official bonds for the faithful performance of the duties of their respective offices from the first Monday in Decem- ber, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and until their respective successors are elected and qualified, pursuant to the provisions of this Act .- [Sec. 2, Amendatory March 30, 1872.] The Supervisors of each ward shall be a resident and qualified elector thereof, and shall be des- ignated as the Supervisor of the ward from which he is elected. The School Directors may be elected from the resident and qualified electors of the city and county without reference to the location of their residence. The Supervisors and School Directors shall be elected by a plu- rality of all the votes cast at said elections in the City and County of San Francisco .- [Sec. 3, Amendatory March 30, 1872.]

SEC. 5. At the second election held under this Act, on the day of the general election held in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and at the election held every second year there- after, there shall be elected a Mayor, who shall be ex officio President of the Board of Super- visors, a District Attorney, a Sheriff, a County Clerk, a Recorder, a Treasurer, an Assessor, t a Coroner, a Surveyor, a Harbor Master, and in each of the Second, Fourth, Sixth, Eighth, Tenth, and Twelfth wards one Supervisor and one School Director, who shall hold their offices for the term of two years from and after the first Monday of December subsequent to their election, and until their successors are elected and qualified .- {Repealed by Section. 1.]

SEC. 6. In and for the city and county at large, at the general election in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and at the general election every two years thereafter, there shall be chosen by the qualified electors of said city and county, five Justices of the Peace, to hold office for the term now prescribed by law ; and all laws are repealed which require or authorize Jus- tices to be elected at a special judicial election.

SEC. 7. At the election held under this Act in eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and at the election held every fourth year thereafter, there shall be elected a State Harbor Commissionert as provided by law, who shall hold his office for the term of four years from and after the first Monday of December subsequent to his election, and until his successor is elected and qualified.

SEC. 8. All of the present city and county offices as designated in sections four, five, and six of this Act, and the State Harbor Commissioner as designated in section seven, shall con- tinue in office during the entire term for which they were elected, and until their successors are elected and qualified, as provided for in this Act : provided, that any officer elected or ap- pointed to fill a vacancy which may in any manner occur, shall serve only during the unex- pired term of his predecessor, and until his successor is elected and qualified.

SEC. 9. It is hereby made the duty of the Mayor to issue his proclamation by publication, in not less than three daily newspapers published in said city and county, at least ten days pre- vious to the day in each year on which the election is to be held under this Act, calling upon the qualified voters in said city and county to meet in their respective districts for the purpose of electing such officers as are provided for in this Act, reciting in such proclamation the different officers to be elected at such election.

SEC. 10. Each and every officer whose term is extended by the provisions of this Act, and who is now required by law to give an official bond, shall, prior to entering upon or performing any duties of his office for said extended term, enter into and file, as provided by law, a new official bond, in like amount and with like conditions as is now required by law ; and upon fail- ing to do so, his office shall become vacant.

SEC. 11. An Act entitled " An Act to change the time for holding Municipal Elections in the City and County of San Francisco, and to define the Official Terms of certain Officers therein mentioned," approved April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

SUPPLEMENTAL II .- An Act to Establish a Paid Fire Department for the City and County of San Fran- cisco .- Approved March 2, 1868.

SECTION 1. There shall be a Board of Fire Commissioners of the City and County of San Francisco, consisting of five persons of good standing and character, citizens of the United States, and who shall have been residents of San Francisco for at least two years previous to their

* Amended. See Supplemental Act III, Sec. 8, page 847.

t By the provisions of the Political Code, Part 4, Chap. 3, Sec. 4109, the term of the Assessor is extended to the first Monday in December, 1875.

* For the Act of the Legislature organizing the Board of State Harbor Commissioners, see Statutes of 1863, page 406 ; and the amendments thereto, Statutes 1868, pages 217 and 234.

FARNSWORTH & CLARK, Gen'l Fire and Marine Insurance Agency; office 230 Cal. St.

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

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appointment or election as such Commissioners .- [Remainder of this section repealed by Act March 30, 1874, Sec. 8. See page 847.]

SEC. 2. In the event of a refusal or neglect to perform the duties of their office of any one or more of said Commissioners, or in the event of a vacancy occurring from any cause, the Board of Supervisors of said city and county, being duly certified thereof by any one or more of said Commissioners, shall declare the office of such Commissioner vacant, and shall appoint a suitable person to fill such vacancy until the next ensuing general election .- [Amended March 14, 1870.]

SEC. 3. [Repealed. See Supplemental III, Secs. 5 and 11, page 846.]

SECS. 4 and 5. [Repealed. Sec Supplemental III, Secs. 2, 3, and 5, page 846.]

SEC. 6. The salaries* of the officers and men composing said Fire Department shall be paid monthly, and shall be as follows : Chief Engineer, two hundred and fifty dollars per month; First, Second, Third, and Fourth Assistant Engineers, one hundred and fifty dollars per month each [Act March 30, 1874]; Clerk to the Board of Fire Commissioners and Chief En- gineer, one hundred and fifty dollars per month [Act March 30, 1874]; Superintendent of Steam Fire Engines, one hundred and fifty dollars per month; Assistant Superintendent of Steam Fire Engines, one hundred and fifty dollars per month; Corporation Yard Keeper, sev- enty-five dollars per month ; Corporation Yard Drayman, seventy-five dollars per month ; each Hydrantman, seventy-five dollars per month; Veterinary Surgeon, sixty dollars per month ; each Foreman, forty-five dollars per month ; each Engineer, one hundred and forty dollars per month ; each Driver, seventy-five dollars per month ; each Fireman, seventy-five dollars per month ; each Tillerman, seventy-five dollars per month; each Steward, sixty-five dollars per month ; each Hose and Hook and Ladderman, thirty-five dollars per month *

# -[Amendment April 1, 1872.]

SEC. 7. [Repealed. See Supplemental III, Sec. 7, page 846.]

SEC. 8. The Board of Supervisors of said city and county are hereby authorized to appro- priate, allow, and order paid, annually, out of the General Fund of said city and county, the salaries hereinbefore specified and allowed, and salaries at similar rates to the several officers and men of any additional companies created as aforesaid; also, the sum of forty thousand dol- lars per annum, for running expenses, horse feed, repairs to apparatus, and other expenses of said Department ; also a sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, annually, for the purchase of horses and apparatus; also, a sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, an- nually, in lieu of the amount now allowed by law, for the construction and erection of hydrants and cisterns ; and the Board of Supervisors shall have power to advertise for proposals and make contracts for the construction of said cisterns and the erection of said hydrants, and they are hereby empowered to locate the same .- [Amendment April 1, 1872.] The Board of Super- visors of said city and county are hereby authorized and empowered to establish and maintain at the Corporation Yard a workshop, for making repairs and improvements upon the appara- tus of the Fire Department, such workshop and such repairs and improvements to be under the supervision of the Superintendent of Steam Fire Engines and his assistant; and said Board of Supervisors shall allow and order paid out of the amount herein appropriated for repairs and apparatus and other expenses of said Department, all the expenses of such workshop, repairs, and improvements : provided, that the Board of Supervisors shall have full power to limit the expenditures under this section to such an amount as they in their discretion think necessary. -[Supplementary April 1, 1872.]

SEC. 9. [Repealed. See Supplemental III, Sec. 12, page 847.]

SEC. 10. [Repealed. See Supplemental III, Sec. 1, page 845.]

SEC. 11. Any person who may have been an active fireman in the Fire Department of said city and county for three years and six months immediately preceding the time when this Act shall take effect, shall be entitled to enjoy all the privileges and immunities now enjoyed by exempt firemen in said city and county, under the existing laws of this State. Any such per- son shall, upon application and proper proof of such service, receive a certificate to that effect from the person or persons now issuing such certificates, and in the same form as exempt fire- men in said city and county are now entitled to receive such certificates.

SEC. 12. [Obsolete.]

SUPPLEMENTAL III .- An Act providing for a Paid Fire Department in the City and County of San Francisco .- Approved March 30, 1874.

SECTION 1. The Fire Department of the City and County of San Francisco shall consist of such engine, hook and ladder, and hose companies, as shall be recommended by the Board of Fire Commissioners and be determined by the Board of Supervisors of said city and county, with the approval of the Mayor, to be necessary to afford protection against fire : provided, that, as auxiliary thereto, patent fire extinguishers may also be purchased and employed, if in the judgment of said Boards deemed advisable, providing that no hand engines shall hereafter be

* The Act of March 30, 1872, authorizes the Board of Supervisors, upon the recommendation of the Board of Fire Commissioners, to allow a sum not exceeding fifty dollars per month, for three months, to any mem- ber of the Department disabled in the discharge of his duties.

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The San Francisco Directory, 1874, Part 233

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