The San Francisco Directory, 1874, Part 241

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

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MERIDEN FIRE INS. CO. OF CONN .; Assets over 8300,000; Farnsworth & Clark, Agte.

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

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

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five of said Act, amendatory of the Act aforesaid, approved April twenty-fifth, eighteen hun- dred and sixty-three, and to amend section two of An Act amendatory of the Act first mentioned aforesaid, approved March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and to amend sections one, three, and four of an Act amendatory of the Act first mentioned aforesaid, approved March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, being the original sections one, two, four, six, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, seventeen, and twenty-one of the Act mentioned first aforesaid, and to repeal An Act for paving the streets in the City and County of San Fran- cisco, approved March fourteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, approved April fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and also an Act entitled " An Act to provide for Paving the Streets in the City and County of San Francisco," approved April second, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, all and singular and all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed, and this Act shall be deemed to be substituted in place of said article four, and as amendatory of the Act first above recited in this section, and held as a part thereof, and all advertisements being published at the date of the passage of this Act shall be published for the respective periods provided by the law in force at the time the publication may have been commenced.

SEC. 28. This Act shall be liberally construed to carry out the intentions and purposes of this Act, and shall not be construed so as to affect any contracts heretofore awarded or assess- ments issued.

SUPPLEMENTAL XIV .- An Act granting Power, etc .- Approved March 31, 1866.

SECTION 1. Whenever street work or grading of any street or part thereof may be deemed necessary by the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, on a portion of any street in front of any lot owned or possessed by the Government of the United States, said Board shall have power to order the whole or any portion of such street in front of any such lot to be graded, paved, planked, or repaired, any law to the contrary notwithstanding .*

SUPPLEMENTAL XV .- An Act to Vacate certain Streets, Alleys, and Market Places in the City and County of San Francisco, etc .- Approved March 30, 1872.

SECTION 1. All streets and alleys in the City and County of San Francisco which lie within the exterior boundaries of certain salt marsh and tide lands, donated by the State to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company and the Western Pacific Railroad Company, for terminal purposes, by an Act entitled An Act to survey and dispose of certain salt marsh and tide lands belonging to the State of California, approved March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty- eight ; and also all streets and alleys within the exterior boundaries of lands lying within the boundaries of said lands not donated to said railroad companies, but reserved for market places, and known as Produce Exchange and Market Place, are hereby vacated, and the lands covered by said streets and alleys and said market places, together with the lands hereto- fore set apart by the Board of Tide Land Commissioners for basins, and known as China and Central basins are hereby granted to the City and County of San Francisco, with full power to regulate, manage, control, and donate or dispose of the same, by ordinance, for railroad and other commercial purposes. The grant herein made to the City and County of San Francisco for the purposes specified, is on this express condition, to wit: that any lands donated under authority of this Act to any railroad company shall revert again to the State of California, if at any time such railroad company shall cease to use, for terminal purposes, the lands granted to it .- [The Act of the Legislature, approved March 30, 1874, prohibits the Board of Supervisors from granting the fee of the property referred to for any purpose whatever, and limits the leasing thereof to a period not exceeding five years.]

SUPPLEMENTAL XVI .- An Act to Confirm Order One Thousand and Four, to prevent the Sand from drifting or being blown into or upon the Streets that are planked, paved, or macadamized, etc., etc .- Ap- proved March 23, 1872.

SECTION 1. All persons shall prevent sand or dirt from drifting, or being blown or other- wise moved, from all lots owned by them into or deposited upon any paved, planked, or mac- adamized street of the City and County of San Francisco.

SEC. 2. All persons owning or having the control of any premises fronting on streets that are paved, planked, or macadamized, situated in said city and county, shall within five days after notice from the Superintendent of Public Streets and Highways, requiring him or them so to do, and without expense to the city and county, so construct fences or bulkheads around the premises or lots owned by them as to prevent sand or dirt from drifting or being blown or falling from such lots or premises into or upon any planked, paved, or macadamized street or upon the sidewalks thereof.

SEC. 3. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this order shall be deemed

* For Acts to legalize street grades, see Supplemental Act XVII; authorizing the Board of Supervisors to open streets, see Supplemental Act XX ; to modify grades of streets, see Supplemental Act XXI ; to establish grades of streets, see Supplemental Act XXII; to change grades of streets, see Supplemental Act XXIIL.

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

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

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

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guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the County Jail not more than fifty days.

SUPPLEMENTAL XVII .- An Act to Legalize the Grades of certain Streets in the City and County of San Francisco .- Approved March 25, 1874.

Whereas, The grades and widths of the main streets of the City and County of San Fran- cisco were established by the Board of Engineers, under and by virtue of An Act of the Legis- lature of the State of California, approved April twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and Acts supplementary to and amendatory thereof, as shown by the maps made by them, which maps were made official by the Board of Supervisors of said city and county, as per order num- ber six hundred and eighty-four, dated January thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six; and,

Whereas, The grade and width of all the small or intermediate streets, lanes, alleys, places, and courts shown on said map were deemed and held by said Board of Engineers as established at the same grade as the main streets at the point of intersection ; and,

Whereas, Doubts exist as to whether there was any grade established in relation thereto, prior to April first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, now, therefore-

The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows :

SECTION 1. The official grade and width of all the small and subdivision streets, lanes, alleys, places, and courts, in blocks bounded by main streets, which were dedicated to public use on the thirtieth day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, in the City and County of San Fran- cisco, shall be deemed and held to have been fixed and established on said last date at the same grade as was established for said main streets on said last date, at the point of intersection of said small and subdivision streets, lanes, alleys, places, and courts with said main streets; and all such small and subdivision streets, lanes, alleys, places, and courts as have since said last date been dedicated to public use, shall take the same grade at the point of intersection with said main streets as the grade of the main street at such point of intersection; and where a dif- ferent grade has not been heretofore established or shall not hereafter be established by the Board of Supervisors of said city and county, the grade shall be a straight or direct line drawn through the block from one main street to the other ; and the surveys heretofore made from time to time by City and County Surveyors of said city and county, locating and establishing the lines and grades of said streets, lanes, alleys, places, and courts, and the lots fronting there- on, are hereby made valid, ratified, and confirmed, and the records of said office shall be prima facie evidence of such surveys.

SEC. 2. This Act to take effect from and after its passage.

ARTICLE V. SUPERVISORS.

SEC. 65. The Supervisors, in their respective districts, shall vigilantly observe the conduct of all public officers, and take notice of the fidelity and exactitude, or the want thereof, with which they execute their duties and obligations, especially in the collection, custody, ad- ministration, and disbursement of public funds and property ; for which purpose the books, records, and official papers of all officers and magistrates of such district shall, at all convenient times, be open to their inspection. They shall take care that the books and records of all officers in their district are kept in a legal and proper form. They shall have power, and it shall be their duty, every month, to examine the accounts of any officer of their respective districts, having the collection and custody of the public funds, to examine and count over the moneys remaining in the hands of such officers ; and shall note any discrepancy or defal- cation that may be discovered or reasonably suspected, and report the same forthwith, together with any willful official negligence or misconduct on the part of any such officer to the President of the Board of Supervisors.

SEC. 66. At every regular session of the Board of Supervisors, before proceeding to other business, each member shall be called upon to report, orally, upon the matters specified in the preceding section ; to give information of the condition of his district, in regard to public schools, streets, roads, and highways, health, police, industry, and population, and to suggest any defects he may have noticed in the laws and regulations, or the administration thereof, and the means of remedying them.

SEC. 67. The Supervisors shall meet within five days after each annual election, and also on the first Monday of January, April, July, and October of each year, and at such other times as specially required by law; or they may, for urgent reasons, be specially convoked by the President of the Board of Supervisors. A majority of all the Supervisors to be elected in the several districts shall constitute a quorum to do business ; and no regulation, resolution, ordinance, or order of the Board can pass without the concurrence of a majority of all the members elected [seven votes necessary; Act March 30, 1868], but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day. All the sessions, acts, and resolutions of the Board shall be public. The President of the Board of Supervisors, elected by the city and county at large, shall preside at all the sessions of the Board, without the right to vote. In his absence, dur-

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

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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ing any session, the Board shall appoint a President pro tempore, who shall, however, have the same vote as other members. The Board of Supervisors shall be judge of election returns and qualification of its own members, and shall order and provide for holding elections in the proper districts to fill vacancies [see Section 6, page 838; Amendatory Act April 27, 1863] which may happen to exist more than six months previous to the next general election; at which general election such office shall be filled by election for the full term of two years. The Board of Supervisors shall determine the rules of its proceedings, keep a record of its acts and resolutions, and allow the same to be published ; and the yeas and nays on any question shall, at the request of any member, be entered on its journal. The Board of Supervisors shall appoint a Clerk, with a salary of three thousand dollars a year [Amended Act March 30, 1872], to hold office during the pleasure of the Board, who shall be ex officio Clerk of the Board of Equalization, without any additional salary as such [Amended May 17, 1871], and shall be required to take the constitutional oath of office, and give bond for the faithful discharge of the duties of the office .* He shall have power to administer such oaths and affirmations, as may be required by law or the regulations or the orders of the Board, relating to any demands upon the treasury or other business connected with the government of the city and county ; and shall also have power to certify and authenticate copies of all records, pa- pers, and documents in his official custody. The powers of the Board of Supervisors are those granted in this Act, and they are prohibited to exercise any others .- [Amended April 18, 1857.]

SEC. 68. It shall be the duty of the President of the Board of Supervisors vigilantly to observe the official conduct of each Supervisor in his district, and of all public officers of the city and county, and to take note of the fidelity and exactitude, or want thereof, with which they execute their duties and obligations, especially in the collection, custody, administration, and disbursement of the public funds and property, for which purpose the books, records, and official papers of all officers and magistrates of said city and county shall, at all convenient times, be open to his inspection. He shall take especial care to see that the books and records of all such officers are kept in legal and proper form; and any official defalcation, or willful neglect of duty, or official misconduct, which he may have discovered, or which shall have been reported to him by any Supervisor, shall, at the earliest opportunity, be laid before the Grand Jury, in order that the officer in default may be proceeded against according to law. Every ordinance or resolution of the Board of Supervisors providing for any specific improve- ment, the granting of any privilege, or involving the lease or other appropriation of public property, or the expenditure of public moneys (except for sums less than five hundred dollars), or levying tax or assessment ; and every ordinance or resolution imposing a new duty or penalty, shall, after its introduction in the Board, be published with the ayes and nays, m some city daily newspaper, at least five successive days before final action of the Board upon the same ; and every such ordinance, after the same shall pass the Board, shall, before it takes effect, be presented to the President of the Board for his approval. If he approves he shall sign it ; if not he shall return it within ten days to the Board, with his objections in writing. The Board shall then enter the objections on the journals and publish them in some city newspaper. If, at any stated meeting thereafter, two thirds of all the members elected to the Board [nine votes necessary, Act March 30, 1868] vote for such ordinance or resolution, it shall then, despite the objections of the President, become valid. Should any such ordi- nance or resolution not be returned by the President within ten days after he receives it, it shall become valid the same as if it had received his signature.

SEC. 69. All contracts for buildingt and printing to be done for the said city and county, and ordinary supplies for the subsistence of prisoners, must be given by the Board of Supervisors to the lowest bidder offering adequate security, after due public notice, published for not less than five days in at least two newspapers in said city and county. All contracts for subsistence of prisoners must be given out annually, at a fixed price per day, not exceeding twenty-five cents per diem, for each person connected with the prison [Amendment Act, April 26, 1862]; and the advertisment for proposals to be published as aforesaid by the Board of Supervisors, shall specify each article that will be required, the quantity thereof, the quantity for each person, and the existing and probable number of persons to be supplied. All articles of food supplied for prisoners must be of sound and wholesome quality, and subject to the inspection and approval of the Keeper of the prison and also the President of the Board of Supervisors and Police Judge of said city and county, all of which must be expressed in the contract therefor to be entered into.

SEC. 70. The Board of Supervisors shall have power to hear and determine appeals from the executive officers of said city and county, in the cases provided in this Act ; and in all cases of

* The Clerk of the Board is authorized to appoint an assistant with a salary of one hundred and twenty- five dollars per month .- [Act of February 14, 1866 ; amended March 14, 1868.] Salary increased to one hundred and fifty dollars per month .- [Act March 30, 1872.]

t Inapplicable to the Board of Education and the property of the School Department .- [Act April 26, 1858.]

{ The official advertising of the Sheriff shall be included in the advertisement for proposals to do the city and county printing .- [Act of March 24, 1868.]

PACIFIC COAST BUSINESS DIRECTORY, 1874-6, H. G. Langley, Pub'r, S. F. Price 85.

Get a Policy in the ATNA INSURANCE CO., OF HARTFORD. It is the best. GEO. C. BOARDMAN, Manager, 14 Merchants' Exchange.

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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an appeal taken to the Board of Supervisors or Board of Education, from the order or decision made by any other officer or officers, such officer or officers shall furnish the Board with a state- ment of his or their reasons for the orders or decisions so appealed from ; and the party appeal- ing shall be heard briefly, but without the observance of any technical or other formalities not necessary, in the discretion of the Board, to a just decision, which shall, after ascertaining the true state of the case, to be given without delay.

SEC. 71. First-On the fourth Monday of June, annually, the Board of Supervisors must fix the rate of city and county taxes [Act March 18, 1874, see Supplemental XXXIII] required by law to be levied upon all property, not exempt from taxation, said amount to be such as the said Board may deem sufficient to provide for the payment of all demands upon the treasury thereof authorized by law to be paid out of the same: provided, that such taxation exclusive of the State tax, and any and all special taxes now or which hereafter may be authorized by law, shall not in the aggregate exceed the rate now allowed by said Act of which this is amendatory, to wit: two dollars and thirty-five cents upon each one hundred dollars' valuation of the property to be assessed: provided further, that the said Board of Supervisors shall, in making the said levy of said taxes, apportion and divide the taxes so levied and to be collected and applied to the several specific funds, known as the Corporation Debt Fund, General Fund, School Fund, Street Light Fund, and Street Department Fund, according to the estimate of said Board of the necessities of the said funds: and provided further, that the said Board shall authorize the disbursement of said money for the purposes hereinafter mentioned ; and at the close of each fiscal year the said Board shall direct the Treasurer to transfer all surplus moneys of all funds, excepting the School Fund, after liquidating or providing for all outstanding demands upon said funds, to the General Fund ; but no money shall be transferred from either of the said funds to another, nor used in paying any demand upon such other fund, until all the indebted- ness arising in any fiscal year and payable out of said funds so raised for said fiscal year shall have been paid and discharged.

Second-The Corporation Debt Fund shall be applied to and used for the payment of demands authorized under the fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and tenth subdivisions of section ninety-five of the Act of which this is amendatory, and the several other Acts amendatory thereof, and of section seven of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the Funding and Payment of the Outstanding Unfunded Claims against the City of San Francisco, and against the County of San Francisco, as they existed prior to the first day of July A.D. eighteen hundred and fifty-eight." Third-The General Fund shall be applied and used for the payment of all sums authorized by law to be paid out of the General Fund, and not otherwise provided for in this Act.

Fourth-The School Fund shall be applied and used for the payment of all sums authorized by law to be paid out of the School Fund.

Fifth-The Street Light Fund shall be applied and used in payment for lighting the streets of the city, and for the repair of lamps and posts in pursuance of any existing or future con- tract of the said city and county.

Sixth-The Street Department Fund shall be applied and used for repairing, improving all streets, lanes, and the crossings thereof, which shall have been accepted by the said Board of Supervisors ; for cleaning streets, lanes, crossings, and sewers ; for all street work in front of or assessable upon property belonging to the said city and county, except school lots already payable out of [the] School Fund," for all street work on the water front of said city and county, not by law assessable upon private property ; for all work authorized by the said Board upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Streets and Highways, as immediately essential for the safety of life, limb, or property, or necessary for public health, or which can not be by law assessed upon private property, and for such other objects relating to streets and highways, as shall be directed by law to be paid therefrom. All moneys received from licenses on vehi- cles, from the income from street railroads, from fines and penalties for violation of any law or ordinance regulating vehicles on the public streets, shall be paid into the Street Department Fund .- [Amendment March 26, 1866.]

SEC. 72. The said Board of Supervisors shall also constitute a Board of Equalization for said city and county, and as such shall have the powers conferred by the general laws regulat- ing the assessment and collection of taxes, when not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act. Appointments of officers or public agents required by existing statutes, not repealed by this Act, to be made on the nomination of the Mayor and confirmation by the Common Council of the City of San Francisco, shall, after this Act takes effect, be made in like manner on the nomination of the President of the Board of Supervisors, and confirmation by said Board.

SEC. 73. It shall be the duty of the Auditor, the Superintendent of Common Schools, the Superintendent of Public Streets and Highways, Chief of Police and Chief Engineer of the Fire Department of said city and county, to report to the Board of Supervisors on the first Mon- day in February of each year, the condition of their respective departments, embracing all their operations and expenditures during the preceding year, and recommending such improve-

* Expense of improvements in front of school lots payable from same fund as other street work .- [Act March 30, 1868.]

SPRINGFIELD FIRE & MAR'E INS. CO .; Assets, $1,100,000; Farnsworth & Clark, Agts.

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

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ments in them as they may deem necessary. The Auditor shall also present to the Board of Supervisors at each quarterly session and must also publish the same, a statement of the exact condition of the finances of said city and county, which must show the receipts into and dis- bursements made from the treasury during the preceding quarter, the amount of money on hand and the amount of audited demands outstanding. Immediately after the first Monday in Feb- ruary, the Board of Supervisors shall make up and publish an abstract from these several re- ports and other sources, of the operations, expenditures, and conditions of all departments of government of said city and county.

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The San Francisco Directory, 1874, Part 241

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