The San Francisco Directory, 1874, Part 242

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SEC. 74. The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco shall have power, by regulation or order [Amendment May 18, 1861]:

First-To regulate the Police and Police Force of said city and county, and to prescribe their powers and duties .- [Amendment April 25, 1863.]

Second-To provide for the security, custody, and administration of all property of said city and county [inapplicable to the property of the School Department, Act April 26, 1858], without any power to sell or incumber the same, or lease any part thereof, for more than three years, except, however, that such personal property belonging to the fire, street, or other depart- ments, as they deem unsuited to the uses and purposes for which the same was designed, or so much worn or dilapidated as not to be worth repairing, may be sold or exchanged by order or resolution. * *

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Third-To authorize and direct the summary abatement of nuisances; to make all regula- tions which may be necessary or expedient for the preservation of the public health and the prevention of contagious diseases; to provide by regulation for the prevention and summary removal of all nuisances and obstructions in the streets, alleys, highways, and public grounds of said city and county; and to prevent or regulate the running at large of dogs, and to authorize the destruction of the same when at large, contrary to ordinance .- [Amendment April 25, 1863.]

Fourth-To provide for cases omitted in this Act, and in conformity with the principles adopted in it for opening, altering, extending, constructing, repairing, or otherwise improving of public streets and highways," at the expense of the property benefited thereby, without any recourse in any event, upon the city and county or the public treasury for any portion of the expense of such works, or any delinquency of the property holders or owners.

Fifth-To provide for lighting the streets .- [Amendment April 26, 1862.]

Sixth-To regulate market houses and market places.

Seventh-[Superseded by Act of April 24, 1863, establishing a Board of State Harbor Commissioners. ]

Eighth-To provide for inclosing, improving, and regulating all public grounds of the city and county, at an expense not to exceed two thousand dollars per annum .- [See Public Grounds, page 883.]

Ninth-To prohibit the erection of wooden buildings or structures within any fixed limits where the streets have been established and graded, or ordered to be graded ; to regulate the sale, storage, and use of gunpowder, or other explosive or combustible materials and sub- stances, and make all needful regulations for protection against fire.

Tenth-To make such regulations concerning the erection and use of buildings as may be necessary for the safety of the inhabitants.

Eleventh-To determine the fines, forfeitures, and penalties that shall be incurred for the breach of regulations established by the said Board of Supervisors, and also for a violation of the provisions of this Act, where no penalty is affixed thereto, or provided by law ; but no penalty to be imposed shall exceed the amount of one thousand dollars, or six months' im- prisonment or both ; and any violation of any lawful order, or regulation, or ordinance of the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, is hereby declared a mis- demeanor or public offense, and all prosecutions for the same shall be in the name of the Peo- ple of the State of California.

Twelfth-To regulate and provide for the employment of prisoners sentenced to labor on the public works of said city and county.

Thirteenth-To license and regulate hackney coaches, carriages, and other public vehicles, and to fix the rates to be charged for the transportation of persons, baggage, and property therein ; and also to license and regulate Porters employed in conveying baggage for persons arriving in and departing from said city and county, and to prohibit the exercise of those em- ployments without such licenses. t

Fourteenth-To license and regulate all such callings, trades, and employments as the public good may require to be licensed and regulated and are not prohibited by law ; and all licenses granted in pursuance of the provisions of this Act shall be signed by the Auditor of said city and county .- [Amendment April 27, 1863.]

Fifteenth-To prohibit and suppress, or exclude from certain limits, all houses of ill-fame,

See also Supplemental Act XX.

t See also powers granted by Act April 25, 1863, page 882.

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prostitution, and gaming ; to prohibit and suppress, or exclude from certain limits, or to regu- late, all occupations, houses, places, pastimes, amusements, exhibitions, and practices, which are against good morals, contrary to public order and decency, or dangerous to the public safety .- [Amendment April 25, 1863.]

Sixteenth-To provide for the erection of a work house, house of refuge or house of correc- tion, and for the regulation and government of the same.

Seventeenth-To direct and control the Fire Department of said city and county, in con- formity with the laws .- [Amendment, see Supplemental Acts II and III, pages 844-847.]

Eighteenth-To fix the fees and charges to be collected by the Surveyor of said city and county, for certificates of surveys for buildings or other purposes, and by the Superintendent of Streets and Highways, and any and all other municipal officers where their fees are not otherwise fixed by law.

Nineteenth-To provide by regulation, where it may be necessary, for carrying the provisions of this Act into effect.

Twentieth-To provide for the care and maintenance of the indigent sick of said city and county .*

Twenty-first-To provide for the construction and repair of hydrants, fire plugs, cisterns, and pumps in the streets, for public security and convenience.

Twenty-second-[Repealed, Act April 26, 1862. ]

Twenty-third-To provide ways and means for the prosecution of the claims, in the name of the City of San Francisco, to the public lands now pending for the same.

Twenty-fourth-To permit the laying down of railroad tracks, and the running of cars there- on, along any street or portion of street, for the sole purpose of excavating and filling in a street, or a portion of a street, or adjoining lots, and for such limited time as may be necessary for the purposes aforesaid, and no longer .- [Act May 18, 1861, Sec. 15.]

The following additional powers have been granted by the Legislature of the State:

Advertising and Election Printing .- To pay out of the General Fund a sum not exceeding eight thousand dollars per annum, for advertising and election printing .- [Act March 14, 1868.]

Board of Supervisors' Clerks .- To pay to the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors a salary not to exceed two hundred and fifty dollars per month, and to the Deputy Clerk of said Board & salary not to exceed one hundred and fifty dollars per month .- [Act March 30, 1872.]

Burning Bricks .- To fix limits in said City and County of San Francisco, within which the burning of bricks shall be prohibited, and to make such rules and regulations in relation to the burning of bricks in any part of said city and county as they may deem advisable .- [Act April 5, 1861.]

Channel Street Canal .- That portion of the city extending from the Bay of San Francisco along Channel Street to Eighth Street, thence west to Harrison Street, and south to a point forty feet west from the northwest corner of Eighteenth Street and Treat Avenue, is declared and dedicated to be and shall forever remain an open canal for the purpose of drainage and navigation, and the construction of a bulkhead where necessary is authorized upon and along both sides of the canal named, of such materials as the Board of Supervisors shall determine to be most suitable. A Board of three Commisioners is to be appointed by the County Court to value and assess the benefits and damages caused by said improvement, and the necessary authority is provided to successfully carry out the other important objects contemplated by the Act .- [Act April 1, 1872.]

City Cemetery .- To expend such sums as may be hereafter annually levied for improving the City Cemetery. To appoint a keeper at a salary of seventy-five dollars per month .- [Act March 30, 1872.]

Contingent Expenses .- To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, a sum not to exceed one hundred and fifty dollars per month, to be expended at the instance of the President of the Board of Supervisors, for contingent expenses other than those heretofore provided for, and of which he shall make a quarterly report to the Board .- [Act April 27, 1860.]

Corporation Yard .- To dedicate and appropriate the hospital grounds and buildings on Fran- cisco Street for the purposes of a Corporation Yard, and to make provision for the storage and safe keeping of all materials used in the repair of public streets and highways, and of all ap- paratus, material, and hose belonging to and not in use by the Fire Department; and also to provide for the storage of all supplies, of whatever nature or kind, that may in the judgment of said Board be deemed necessary for the use of any or all departments and officers of the City Government .- [Act March 30, 1872.]

Court Rooms.t-To pay rent and suitable accommodations therefor of Court Rooms and

" See Act March 10, 1866, to provide and maintain an Alms House, etc .- [Supplemental Act XXVII.]

t The Act of January 16, 1872, authorizes the Sheriff to provide, under the direction of the said Courts, in the event of the Board of Supervisors not making suitable provisions therefor, rooms for holding the Dis- trict Courts, County Courts, Probate Courts, Municipal Criminal Court of the City and County of San Fran- cisco, and the Chambers of the Judges of said Courts, together with attendants, furniture, etc., etc., and the expenses thereof shall be a charge against the county.

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Chambers for the Judges of the Third, Fifteenth, and Nineteenth Judicial Districts .- [Act March 30, 1872.]

Election Expenses .- To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, for the election expenses of said city and county, not to exceed seventy-five dollars for each Election District for each election in said city and county .- [Act April 4, 1863.]

Extra Clerks .- To allow and order paid out of the General Fund such sums as they deem absolutely necessary for extra assistance in the offices of Assessor, Tax Collector, and Auditor. -[Act March 30, 1872.]

Fire Alarm Telegraph .- To appoint one Superintendent of the Fire Alarm Telegraph, at a salary of one hundred and fifty dollars per month [Act April 4, 1864]; three assistants, at a salary of one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month each [Act April 4, 1864. Amended March 14, 1868], and two repairers, at a salary of one hundred dollars per month .- [Act March 14, 1868.] To expend a sum not to exceed six thousand dollars for extension and repair to the fire alarm and police telegraph, payable out of the General Fund, and to appoint a compe- tent person to repair and keep in order said fire alarm and police telegraph, at a salary not to exceed one hundred dollars per month, payable out of the General Fund .- [Act February 14, 1866.] To expend a sum not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars for extending and repairing the fire alarm and police telegraph, payable out of the General Fund .- [Act March 4, 1870.] To expend a sum not to exceed seven thousand five hundred dollars per annum for extending and repairing the fire alarm and police telegraph .- [Act March 30, 1872.]

Fuel .- To pay for fuel furnished to and used in public buildings .- [Act March 30, 1872.]

Gardeners, Public Squares .- To appoint four gardeners to take charge of Portsmouth, Wash- ington, Union, and Columbia squares, at a salary of seventy-five dollars per month .- [Act March 9, 1870.] Also a gardener for Jefferson Square, at a salary of seventy-five dollars per month. - [Act March 30, 1872.]

Gas Companies. "-To grant the right to lay down gas pipes in and through the streets of the City and County of San Francisco, and through such pipes to supply gas for the use of said city and county and the inhabitants thereof, for the term of fifty years, subject to the provi- sions of the Act by which this authority is granted .- [Act April 27, 1863.]

Gas for Public Buildings .- In case the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco shall order any gas for the City Hall, engine houses, or any other public buildings, they are hereby authorized to audit and pay for the same out of the General Fund of the City and County of San Francisco, as herein provided .- [Act March 6, 1858.]

Home for the Inebriate.t-To allow and order paid to the President and Treasurer of the Home for the care of the Inebriate, for the support of the said institution, out of the Police Fund of said city and county, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars per month .- [Act April 25, 1863.]

Hospital and Alms House .- To expend a sum not exceeding twelve thousand dollars per month for the support, care, and maintenance of such persons as may be admitted to the City and County Hospital and Alms House, which shall be in lieu of all sums now authorized by law to be expended for such purposes .- [Act March 30, 1872.]

Hospital City and County. t-To improve and enlarge the present City and County Hospital buildings and property of said city and county, and if by them deemed expedient to that end to purchase and receive additional land in said city and county, and to erect new buildings for the City and County Hospital in said city and county, and to allow and order paid out of the General Fund, and for the purposes mentioned in this section, such sums of money as in the aggregate shall not exceed the sum of one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, in addi- tion to the amount now allowed by law .- [Act April 4, 1864.] The Mayor, Auditor, and Treasurer of the City and County of San Francisco, by and with the consent of the Board of Supervisors of said city and county first obtained by ordinance, are hereby authorized and empowered to issue from time to time, as may be directed by the said Board of Supervisors and as may be necessary for the purposes herein named, bonds not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. All moneys derived from the issue and sale of said bonds shall be appropriated and used for the sole purpose of building a Hospital in the City and County of San Francisco, the location, style, and material thereof, the construc- tion and all contracts and plans relating thereto to be determined by said Board of Supervi- sors, and in all cases to be approved, before the adoption and ratification of the same, by the Mayor, Auditor, and Treasurer of said city and county .- [Act March 28, 1868.] And for fur- nishing said hospital and for improving and inclosing the grounds connected therewith .- [Amendment February 2, 1872.] Also to allow and order paid out of the General Fund

*The Act of April 4, 1870, concerning gas companies, provides that the authorities of every such town or city, including San Francisco, as aforesaid, may contract with any gas company for lighting the streets thereof ; but no such contract shall be made at a fixed rate for a longer term than five years, nor at a vari- able or other rate for a longer term than ten years ; nor shall any such contract be made at a higher rate than that now paid in the City of San Francisco.

For Act relating to the Home of the Inebriate, see Act April 1, 1870.

For Act to establish and maintain an Alms House and Hospital, see Supplemental Act XXVII.

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such sums as are now due or may become due to the physicians of the City and County Hos- pital .- [Act April 27,1860.]

Hospital, Small-pox .- To allow and order paid out of the General Fund the sum of six thousand dollars annually, for the support of the Small-pox Hospital of said city and county. -[Act April 4, 1863.]

Indigent Dead .- To allow and order paid out of the General Fund such sums as are now due or may become due, for burying the indigent dead .- [Act April 27, 1860.]

Industrial School. *- To allow and order paid out of the General Fund a sum not to exceed three hundred dollars per annum, for medical attendance upon the inmates of the Industrial School in said city and county .- [Act April 4, 1864.] Insane Persons .- To allow and order paid out of the General Fund such sums as are now due or may become due, for expenses of conveying insane persons to the State Hospital at Stockton .- [Act April 27,1860.] Interpreter Police Court .- To allow and order paid to an interpreter of the German language for the Police and County Courts, to be appointed by the County Judge, Police Judge, and President of the Board of Supervisors, one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month, to be paid from the General Fund .- [Act April 4, 1864.] Judgments against City and County .- To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, not exceeding the sum of ten thousand dollars in any one fiscal year, for the redemption of such property belonging to the City and County of San Francisco as may have been or may here- after be sold for taxes or judgments .- [Act May 17, 1861.] Laws and Ordinances .- To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, for the fiscal year of eighteen hundred and sixty, and eighteen hundred and sixty-one, not exceeding the sum of ten hundred dollars, for compiling and publishing the laws and ordinances relating to the City and County of San Francisco ; and for any fiscal year thereafter a further sum not exceeding three hundred dollars, for the same purpose .- [Act May 17, 1861.] Licenses .- To license and regulate hackney coaches and other public passenger vehicles, and to fix the rate to be charged for the transportation of persons, baggage, and property, or either therein ; and to license and regulateall vehicles used for the conveyance of merchandise, earth and ballast, or either ; and also to license and regulate persons and parties employed in con- veying baggage, property, and merchandise, or either, to or from any of the wharves, slips, bulkheads, or railroad stations, within the limits of the City and County of San Francisco ; * License Notice Servers .- To authorize the Treasurer of said city and county to appoint two License Notice Servers, to be approved by the Board of Supervisors, whose salaries shall be fixed by the said Board at a sum not to exceed eighty-five dollars per month .- [Act March 14, 1868.] Mayor pro tem .- To designate one of their number, who shall, in the absence of the Mayor, or during his inability from any cause, perform the duties required by law of the Mayor of said city and county .- [Act April 25, 1863.] National Anniversary .- To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, a sum not to ex- ceed three thousand dollars in any year, for the celebration in said city and county of the anni- versary of our National Independence .- [Act April 4, 1863.] New Cemetery Avenue .- Authorized to sell the triangle bounded by the south line of Bush Street, the east line of New Cemetery Avenue, the north line of Sutter Street, and the east line of Old Cemetery Avenue, to the person or persons who now own the land fronting on Old Cemetery Avenue, and to allow said Old Cemetery Avenue to be closed .- [Acts March 4, 1872, and March 4, 1874.] EDWARD BOSQUI & CO., Stationers, Printers, and Bookbinders, corner of Clay and Leidesdorff Streets. * * to fix and establish the amount of every license paid into the City and County Treasury for the city and county purposes, at such rate as said Board shall determine, not ex- ceeding the amount fixed by law: and provided, said Board shall have no power to entirely abolish any license fixed by law, or to reduce the proportions of each license collected, which by law is paid into the City and County Treasury for State purposes .- [Act April 25, 1863.] To direct the Auditor of said city and county to issue licenses to so many and to such persons as they shall deem properly qualified to keep intelligence offices in said city and county, subject to the conditions of the Act by which this authority is granted .- [Act May 17, 1861.]

Nuisances .- To authorize and direct the summary abatement of nuisances ; to make all regulations which may be necessary or expedient for the preservation of the public health and the prevention of contagious diseases ; to provide by regulation for the prevention and sum- mary removal of all nuisances and obstructions in the streets, alleys, highways, and public grounds of said city and county ; and to prevent or regulate the running at large of dogs, and to authorize the destruction of the same when at large contrary to ordinance .- [Act April 25, 1863.]

Official Seal .- To ordain, procure, and use a common seal, to be used at pleasure, as the offi-

# For Act to establish the Industrial School, see Act April 15, 1858, and the amendments thereto March 8, 1860, February 15, 1864, and March 28, 1868. For Act transferring management to Board of Supervisors, see Supplemental Act XXXV.

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cial seal of the said City and County of San Francisco, the cost of which seal shall not exceed fifty dollars, to be paid out of the General Fund by order of said Board of Supervisors .- [Act April 23, 1858.]

Omnibus Lines .- The said Board of Supervisors may make all needful rules and police regu- lations for the safety and well ordering of all omnibus lines in the City and County of San Francisco .- [Act April 23, 1858.]

Police."-To authorize and empower the Police Commissioners of said city and county to ap- point and regulate local Policemen, whenever in their judgment the necessities of said city and county require it : provided, that no money shall be paid out of the treasury of said city and county to said local Policemen .- [Act April 4, 1864.] To purchase boats, tackle, and ap- paratus for the use of the Harbor Police, and to allow and order paid out of the General Fund for that purpose a sum or sums not in the aggregate to exceed one thousand dollars .- [Act April 4, 1864.] To pay rent for Harbor Police Office a sum not to exceed fifty dollars per month .- [Act March 30, 1872.]

Porters City Hall .- To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, to the Porter of the City Hall of said city and county, a sum not to exceed ninety dollars per month in lieu of the salary now allowed to him by law .- {Amendment April 4, 1864. ] To appoint an additional As- sistant Porter for the City Hall of said city and county, after the same shall be enlarged, and to allow and order paid out of the General Fund, a salary to him not exceeding the sum of seventy-five dollars per month .- [Amendment April 4, 1864.] To appoint a Janitor for the City Hall at a salary of seventy-five dollars per month .- [Act March 9, 1870.]

Prison Wagon .- To procure a strongly-built covered spring wagon, capable of seating twelve persons, also two horses and harness, etc., to be used under the direction of said Sheriff,t and exclusively in the transportation of prisoners and insane persons, and to allow and order paid out of the General Fund, fifty ($50) dollars per month, to the Sheriff, which shall be in full satisfaction for the keeping and maintaining said horses .- [Act March 9, 1870.]

Protection of the Public .- To require by ordinance, all contractors for street work, or other persons lawfully undertaking to improve, grade, or alter streets or public highways in the City and County of San Francisco, to erect fences or other suitable barriers to protect the public from damage, loss, or accident, by reason of such grading, alteration, or improvement, and to deter- mine and prescribe the fines and penalties that shall be incurred for breach of such regulations and ordinances as may be passed by virtue hereof .- [Act April 25, 1863.]

Public Buildings .- To order paid out of the General Fund, not to exceed twelve thousand dollars in any one fiscal year hereafter for repairs to public buildings .- [Act April 26, 1862.] To transfer to the Board of Education of said city and county, for Public School purposes, the building now occupied as a County Hospital, whenever the same shall not be required for a Hospital .- [Act April 4, 1864.] To pay out of the General Fund, for repairs of public build- ings, the sum of four thousand, five hundred dollars, which has heretofore been allowed by said Board and ordered paid in excess of allowances provided by law .- [Act Feb. 1, 1872.]

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The San Francisco Directory, 1874, Part 242

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