The San Francisco Directory, 1874, Part 236

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SEC. 5. No person shall knowingly and willfully persuade or aid any person who shall have shipped on any vessel for a voyage from said port, and received any advanced wages therefor, to desert or willfully neglect to proceed on such voyage. Any person guilty of so doing shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before the Police Judge's Court of said city and county, shall be punished for each offense by a fine not ex- ceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the County Jail of the City and County of San Francisco for a term not exceeding fifty days, or both, in the discretion of the Judge of said Police Judge's Court, which Court shall have jurisdiction in such cases.

SEC. 6. Any person offending against any provision of this Act may be arrested with or without warrant, as provided in other cases of misdemeanor, by any officer qualified to serve criminal process in said City and County of San Francisco: provided, the person so arrested shall forthwith be brought before said Police Judge's Court, or admitted to bail, as in other cases of misdemeanor committed in said City and County of San Francisco.

SEC. 7. The word " Harbor," as used in this Act, shall be held to mean and include all the waters of the Bay of San Francisco, within the limits of the said City and County of San Francisco ; and the word " Vessel," as used in this Act, shall be held to mean and include all vessels propelled by steam or sails, plying or bound on a voyage between the said port of San Francisco and any other port in this State, or in any other State of the United States, or in any foreign country.

SEC. 8. The Board of Supervisors of said City and County of San Francisco shall cause this Act to be printed in cheap pamphlet form ; and it shall be the duty of each and every Branch Pilot of the port of San Francisco to obtain from the Clerk of the Board of Super- visors of said city and county a reasonable supply of said pamphlets, and to deliver one copy of the same to the Master or person in charge of each and every vessel boarded by him as a Pilot, whether the said Pilot is employed to bring such vessel into said port or not.

SEC. 9. Any Branch Pilot refusing or neglecting to perform the requirements set forth in the last preceding section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction thereof before the Police Judge's Court of said city and county, be fined in the sum of ten dol- lars, or be imprisoned in the County Jail for the term of twenty-five days, or both, in the dis- cretion of the Judge of said Police Judge's Court, which said Court is hereby given jurisdiction in such cases.

SUPPLEMENTAL VIII .- An Act to Increase and Regulate the Police Force of the City and County of San Francisco .- Approved March 23, 1872.

SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco shall have power to increase the Police force of the said city and county, as from time to time may be deemed necessary by said Board of Supervisors, to not exceeding one hundred and fifty mem- bers, including the number now allowed by law, to be appointed by the Police Commis- sioners, as now provided by law. The salaries of the additional officers hereby authorized shall be of the same amount, not exceeding one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month, and shall be paid in the same manner and at the same time as other members of the said Po-

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lice force are now, or shall hereafter be paid. The Chief of Police of said city and county may detail a regular Police Officer to act as his Clerk, who shall receive the same salary as the Property Clerk of the Police Department. The Captain of the Harbor Police shall receive the same salary as is now or may hereafter be paid to Police Captains.

SEC. 2. No member of the Police force of the City and County of San Francisco shall be allowed to interfere in politics on the day of election, or at any other time, while employed on said Police force ; nor shall be removed from office for political or partisan causes, reasons, or purposes.

ARTICLE III.

PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.

[Sections 30-35 are repealed by the following Act, approved April 27, 1863]:

An Act to establish and define the Powers and Duties of the Board of Education of the City and County of San Francisco, and to repeal former Acts regulating the same, and to confer further Powers upon the Auditor and Treasurer of said City and County.

SECTION 1. The Board of Education of the City and County of San Francisco shall consist of the School Directors elected for the several election districts of said city and county. The said Board shall organize annually, on the first Tuesday in December [Amendment Act, April 2, 1866. See Supplemental Act I, page 843], by electing a President from among its members, and shall hold meetings monthly thereafter, and at such other times as the Board may determine. A majority of all the members elect shall constitute a quorum to transact business, but a smaller number may adjourn from time to time. The Board may determine the rules of its proceedings. Its sessions shall be public, and its records shall be open to public inspection.

SEC. 2. The Board of Education shall have power [Amended March 12, 1864, and April 1,1872]* :

First -* to establish School Districts, and to fix and alter the boundaries thereof. Second-[Repealed.]+ Third -* * * * to employ and pay such mechanics and laborers as may be necessary

to carry into effect the powers and duties of the Board.# Fourth-[Repealed.] Fifth-[Repealed.] Sixth-[Repealed.] Seventh-[Repealed.]

Eighth-To receive, purchase, lease, and hold in fee, in trust for the City and County of San Francisco, any and all real estate, and to hold in trust any personal property that may have been acquired, or may hereafter be acquired, for the use and benefit of Public Schools of said city and county : provided, the lots to be purchased under the provisions of this section do not exceed ten in number, and all conveyances heretofore made to the said Board of Education are hereby legalized and declared valid, and the property therein conveyed vested in said Board in trust as aforesaid.

Ninth-{Repealed. ]¿

Tenth-To grade, fence, and improve school lots, and in front thereof to grade, sewer, plank, or pave, and repair streets, and to construct and repair sidewalks. |

Eleventh-To sue for any and all lots, lands, and property belonging to or claimed by the said School Department, and to prosecute and defend all actions at law, or in equity, necessary to recover and retain the full enjoyment and possession of said lots, lands, and property, and to employ and pay counsel in such cases : provided, the amount of fees paid to such counsel shall not exceed one thousand dollars in any one year ; and further, to do any or all lawful acts necessary thereto.

Twelfth-[Repealed.].

Thirteenth-To establish regulations for the just and equal disbursement of all moneys belonging to the Public School Fund. Fourteenth-[Repealed.]

Fifteenth-To discharge all legal incumbrances now existing upon any school property. Sixteenth-[Obsolete.]

@ Several of the sections contained in the Acts of April 27, 1863, and March 12, 1864, have been re-enacted. -See Supplemental Act IX, page 858.

t The Act of April 4, 1870, providing for the erection of a new City Hall, sets apart from any moneys remaining from the Building Fund, $100,000 for the School Fund of San Francisco, from which may be drawn such sums as may be necessary for the erection of a Normal School Building for the City and County of San Francisco.

The Act of April 4, 1870, authorizes and requires the Board of Education to equalize the salaries of the male and female teachers employed by them in said Public Schools, allowing and paying to female teachers the same amount of money per month for their services as male teachers are allowed and paid for similar services in the same grades and classes of the department.

¿ In case any school lots are hereafter sold in said city and county, at least one half of the proceeds of such sale shall be reserved and set apart for the redemption of bonds issued under this Act and former Acts, until all such bonds now outstanding or hereafter issued for school purposes are paid, or sufficient money received and set apart for their final redemption and payment .- Act March 17, 1836.

I The Board of Supervisors authorized to pay the expenses thereof .- Act March 30, 1868.

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Seventeenth-[Re-enacted.] Eighteenth-[Re-enacted. ] SEC. 3. [Re-enacted.]

SEC. 4. At the last regular session of the Board, in September, December, March, and June, of each year, before proceeding to other business, each Director shall be called on to report the condition of the school or schools in his district, and the circumstances and wants of the inhabit- ants thereof in respect of education, and suggest any defect he may have noted and improve- ment he would recommend in school regulations. The reports to be made in December and June shall be in writing.

SEC. 5. Before giving out any contract or incurring any liability to mechanics or laborers, or for expenditures authorized by section two, subdivisions three, five, and six, respectively, to any amount exceeding two hundred dollars, the Board of Education shall cause notice to be published for five days, inviting sealed proposals for the object contemplated. All proposals offered shall be delivered to the Superintendent of Public Schools, and said Board shall in open session open, examine, and publicly declare the same and award the contract to the lowest responsible bidder: provided, said Board may reject any and all bids should they deem it for the public good, and also the bid of any party who may have proved delinquent or unfaithful in any former contract with said city and county or said Board, and cause a republication of the notice for proposals as above specified .- [Amended March 12, 1864.]

SEC. 6. No School Director or Superintendent shall be interested in any contract pertain- ing in any manner to the School Department of said city and county. All contracts in viola- tion of this section are declared void, and any Director or Superintendent violating or aiding in the violation of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

SEC. 7. No teacher shall be employed in any of the Public Schools without having a cer- tificate issued under the provisions of this Act. For the purpose of granting the certificates required, the Board of Education, either as a body, or by committee, or by the Superintend- ent, shall hold examinations of teachers. No certificate shall be issued except to a person who shall have passed a satisfactory examination in such branches as the Board may require, and shall have given evidence of good moral character, ability, and fitness to teach. The said certificates shall be in force for two years : provided, that the person to whom it is granted is continuously employed in the schools in teaching.

SEC. 8. The Board may, in its discretion, renew, without re-examination, the certificate of any person so employed. It shall have power to revoke the certificate of any teacher upon evidence of immoral or unprofessional conduct ; and any School Director, with the consent and advice of the Superintendent, may, for good and sufficient cause, provisionally withdraw the certificate of any teacher employed in the schools of his district until the next regular meeting of the Board.

SEC. 9. The Superintendent of the Public Schools of the City and County of San Francisco is hereby declared and constituted ex officio a member of the Board of Education, without the right to vote.

SEC. 10. The said Superintendent is hereby authorized to appoint a Clerk, subject to the approval of the Board of Education, who shall act as Secretary of the Board, and who shall be paid a salary to be fixed by the said Board not to exceed the sum of two hundred dollars per month .- [Amendment Act April 2, 1870.] The said Clerk shall be subject to removal at the pleasure of the Superintendent, and shall perform such duties as may be required of him by the Board or the Superintendent.t

SEC. 11. The Superintendent shall report to the Board of Education, annually, on or before the twentieth day of June, and at such other times as they may require, all matters pertaining to the expenditures, income, and condition, and progress of the Public Schools of said city and county during the preceding year, with such recommendations as he may deem proper.

SEC. 12. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent to visit and examine each school at least once in three months ; to observe and cause to be observed such general rules for the regu- lation, government, and instruction of the schools, not inconsistent with the laws of the State, as may be established by the Board of Education ; to attend the sessions of the Board, and inform them at each session of the condition of the Public Schools, School Houses, School Funds, and

* The Act of April 2, 1870, establishes and defines the powers and duties of the Secretary as follows: Section 1. The Secretary of the Board of Education of said City and County of San Francisco shall have power to administer oaths and affirmations concerning any demand upon the treasury payable out of the School Fund, or other matters brought before the School Department for investigation.

Sec. 2. The said Secretary shall be paid a salary, to be fixed by the Board of Education, not to exceed the sum of two hundred dollars per month, in lieu of any salary now paid, payable in the same manner and out of the same fund as the Superintendent of Common Schools for the City and County of San Fran- cisco is paid.

t The California School Law, April 4, 1870, Sec. 27 [re-enacted, see Political Code, Part III, Secs. 1549 and 1550], authorizes each County Superintendent to appoint a Deputy who may exercise all the functions of County Superintendent, but shall draw no salary from the Public School Fund, and that the Deputy for the City and County of San Francisco may receive such compensation as may be allowed by the Board of Education of said city and county, and be paid out of the same fund out of which the Superintendent is paid.

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other matters connected therewith, and to reccommend such measures as he may deem necessary for the advancement of education in the city and county. He shall acquaint himself with all the laws, rules, and regulations, governing the Public Schools in said city and county, and the judicial decisions thereon, and give advice on subjects connected with the Public Schools, gra- tuitously, to officers, teachers, pupils, and their parents and guardians .- [Amended. See Sup- plemental Act IX, Sec. 3, page 858.]

SEC. 13. Any vacancy in the office of School Director shall be filled by appointment by the Superintendent, by and with the consent of a majority of the School Directors then in office ; and such appointees shall hold office, respectively, until the municipal 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, page 844.]

SEC. 14. In case of a vacancy in the office of Superintendent, the Board of Education may appoint a person to fill the vacancy until the regular election then next following, when the office shall be filled by election of the people.

SEC. 15. The School Fund of the City and County of San Francisco shall consist of all moneys received from the State School Fund ; of all moneys arising from taxes which shall be levied annually by the Board of Supervisors of said city and county for school purposes ; of all moneys arising from the sale, rent, or exchange of any school property, and of such other moneys as may, from any source whatever, be paid into the School Fund ; which fund shall be kept separate and distinct from all other moneys, and shall only be used for school purposes, under the provisions of this Act, and for the payment of the interest and redemption of the principal of the school bonds according to law. No fees or commissions shall be allowed or paid for assessing, collecting, keeping, or disbursing any school moneys ; and if, at the end of any fiscal year, any surplus remains in the school fund, such surplus money shall be carried forward to the School Fund of the next fiscal year, and shall not be, for any purpose whatever, diverted or withdrawn from said fund, except under the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 16. The said School Fund shall be used and applied by said Board of Education for the following purposes, to wit:

First-For the payment of the salaries or wages of Teachers, Janitors, School Census Mar- shals, and other persons who may be employed by said Board.

Second-For the erection, alteration, repair, rent, and furnishing school houses.

Third-For the expense of Model and Normal Schools.

Fourth-For the purchase money, or rent, of any real or personal property purchased or leased by said Board.

Fifth-For the insurance of all school property.

Sixth-For the payment of interest due on School Bonds, and for the redemption of the same.

Seventh-For the discharge of all legal incumbrances now existing on any school property. Eighth-For lighting school rooms and the office and rooms of the Superintendent and the Board of Education.

Ninth-For supplying the schools with fuel, water, apparatus, blanks, blank books, and necessary school appliances, together with books for indigent children.

Tenth-For supplying books, printing, and stationery, for the use of the Superintendent and Board of Education, and for incidental expenses of the Board and Department.

Eleventh -- [Amended. Act April 2, 1870. See note (*), page 856.]

Twelfth-For grading, fencing, and improving school lots, and for grading, sewering, plank- ing, paving, or repairing streets, and constructing and repairing sidewalks in front thereof.

SEC. 17. All claims payable out of the School Fund, excepting the coupons for interest and the School Bonds, shall be filed with the Secretary of the Board ; and after they shall have been approved by a majority of all the members elect of the Board, upon a call of yeas and nays which shall be recorded, they shall be signed by the President of the Board and the Superintendent of Public Schools, and be sent to the City and County Auditor. Every demand shall have indorsed upon it a certificate of its approval by the Board, showing the date thereof, and the law authorizing the same, by title, date, and section. All demands for teachers' salaries shall be payable monthly.

SEC. 18. Demands on the School Fund may be audited and approved in the usual manner, although there shall not at the time be money in the treasury for the payment of the same: provided, that no demand on said fund shall be paid out of or become charged against the School Fund of any subsequent fiscal year: and further provided, that the entire expenditure of said Department, for all purposes, shall not in any fiscal year exceed the revenues thereof for the same school year.

SEC. 19. The City and County Auditor shall state, by indorsement upon every claim or demand audited on the School Fund, the particular money or fund out of which the same is payable, and that it is payable from no other source.

SEC. 20. Audited bills for the current fiscal year for wages or salaries of the teachers in the Public Schools shall be receivable for school taxes due upon real estate.

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SEC. 21. All demands authorized by this Act shall be audited and approved in the usual manner; and the Auditor and Treasurer of said city and county are, respectively, authorized and required to audit and pay the same when so ordered, paid, and approved by said Board: pro- vided, that the said Board shall not have power to contract any debt or liability in any form whatsoever against said city and county in contravention of this Act.

SEC. 22. The teachers in the Industrial School in said city and county shall be exempt from the provisions of this Act.

SUPPLEMENTAL IX .- An Act to provide for the Support of the Common Schools of the City and County of San Francisco, and to define the Powers and Duties of the Board of Education thereof .- Ap- proved April 1, 1872.

SECTION 1. The Board of Education of the City and County of San Francisco shall have power :

First-To maintain Public Schools as now organized in said city and county, and to establish additional ones as required, and to consolidate and discontinue schools as shall be deemed best for the public interest.

Second-To establish Experimental and Normal Schools for the education and training of teachers.

Third-To employ and dismiss teachers, janitors, and School Census Marshals, and to fix, alter, allow, and order paid their salaries or compensation, and to withhold, for good and suf- ficient cause, the whole or any part of the salaries or wages of any person or persons employed as aforesaid.

Fourth-To make, establish, and enforce all necessary and proper rules and regulations not contrary to law, for the government and efficiency of the public schools within said city and county, the teachers thereof and the pupils therein, and for carrying into effect the laws relat- ing to education ; also to establish and regulate the grade of schools, and determine the course of study and the mode of instruction to be used in said schools.

Fifth-To issue a subpena, duly attested by the President and Clerk of said Board, directed to any person whose attendance shall be required before said Board, or any committee thereof, as a witness on the examination of any charges against any employé of said Board for viola- tion of any of the rules or regulations thereof, requiring such person to attend before said Board, or a committee thereof, at a time and place to be therein named, to testify in relation to such charges ; and if such a person shall refuse or neglect to obey such subpena, or refuse to testify when so required, he or she shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished on conviction thereof, by a fine of not less than ten dollars, nor more than one hun- dred dollars, or by imprisonment in the County Jail for not less than ten days nor more than thirty days.

Sixth-To provide for the School Department of said city and county, fuel, lights, water, blanks, blank-books, printing, stationery, and other such articles, materials, or supplies as may be necessary or required for use in the schools, either by the pupils or teacher.

Seventh-To make rules of order, and by-laws for the government of the Board, its members, and committees, and general regulations, to secure proper economy and accountability in the expenditure of school moneys.

Eighth-To use and control such building or buildings as shall be necessary for the uses of the Board and its committees, and for storing supplies.

Ninth-To dispose of such personal property used in the schools or in other buildings, under the charge of the Board, as shall be no longer required for use therein; and all moneys realized by the sale of any such property shall be paid into the City Treasury for the same purposes as the money received under the fifth section of this Act.

Tenth-To build, alter, repair, rent, and provide school houses, and furnish them with proper school furniture, apparatus, and school appliances, and to insure any and all school property.

Eleventh-To lease for a term, not exceeding ten years, any unoccupied property of the School Department not required for school purposes .- [Amended. See Supplemental Act XIII.] Twelfth-To examine and allow, in whole or in part, every demand payable out of the School Fund, or to reject any such demand for good cause, of which the said Board shall be the sole judge.

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The San Francisco Directory, 1874, Part 236

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