The San Francisco Directory, 1874, Part 243

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Publication date: 1874
Publisher: San Francisco : Langley, Henry G.
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Public Grounds .- * excepting an allowance of two thousand dollars per annum, * heretofore provided by law for inclosing, improving, and regulating all public grounds in said city and county .- [Act April 4, 1863.] For inclosing with wood the city and county prop- erty, including a portion of the land reserved for public use by the Outside Land Committee, fifteen thousand dollars .- [Act March 9, 1870.]

Public Pound .- To order constructed a common pound for all estrays, and to provide for the taking up and impounding of all animals running at large within the streets of said city and county, north of Johnston Street and east of Larkin Street [jurisdiction extended over the en- tire limits of the City and County of San Francisco. Act May 14, 1861]: provided, the cost of the construction of said pound shall not exceed five hundred dollars, which sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be paid out of the General Fund by order of said Board of Supervisors. The said Board shall have power to make all needful rules and regulations neces- sary for the proper management and control of said pound, and may appoint one or more Pound Keepers, who shall be paid out of the fines imposed and collected of the owners of any animals impounded, and from no other source .- [Act April 23, 1858.] To allow and pay out of the General Fund, a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars per annum, for deficiency in the salary of the Pound Keeper in said city and county .- [Act April 4, 1864.]

Railroads .- To have the power and authority to restrict all railroad companies, in laying down their tracks along the the streets of said city and county, to a space of not more than ten feet on each side of the center of such street or streets ; and for a violation of such restriction, the Board is hereby granted the power to prescribe and enforce such penalties as they may deem just and proper .- [Act March 21, 1868.]

Sergeant-at- Arms .- To appoint a Sergeant-at-Arms who shall have the same power as is con- ferred upon Police Officers, to attend meetings of the Board, to serve notices, subpenas, and to per-

# For Act to provide for Police Contingent Fund, see Supplemental Act XXIV.

t The Sheriff is authorized to appoint a driver at a salary of seventy-five dollars per month .- [Act March 9,1870.]

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

ETNA INSURANCE COMPANY, OF HARTFORD, has been identified with every large fire in the Country.

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

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

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form such other duties as may be required, at a salary not to exceed one hundred dollars per month .- [Act March 30, 1872.]

Sheriff's Advertising .- The official advertising of the Sheriff shall be included in the adver- tisement for proposals to do the city and .county official printing, and shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder publishing a newspaper of general circulation in said city and county: provided, said award shall be made to the lowest responsible bidder, in the aggregate, for the whole of said city and county official printing and Sheriff's advertising .- [Act March 24, 1868.]

Special Counsel .- To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, not exceeding the sum of five thousand dollars for any one fiscal year, for the employment of special counsel .- [Act May 17, 1861.]

Streets.#-To order paid out of the General Fund, not to exceed seven thousand five hundred dollars, for cleaning sewers, cesspools, and street-crossings, in any one fiscal year .- [Act April 26, 1862.] To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, not to exceed eight thousand dollars per annum, in addition to the sum now allowed by law, for cleaning the streets, sew- ers, crosswalks, and highways of said city and county .- [Act April 4, 1868.] To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, not exceeding the sum of six thousand dollars in any one fiscal year, for repairs and improvements of streets fronting upon the water front of the city, as defined by an Act entitled " An Act to provide for the Disposition of certain Property of the State of California," passed March twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one .- [Act April 27, 1860.] To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, not exceeding the sum of twelve thousand dollars, in any one fiscal year, for repairs to and improvements upon streets and sewers in front of property belonging to the city other than those mentioned in the previous subdivisions of this section .- [Act April 27, 1862.]

Street-light Fund .- To order paid out of the General Fund, any deficiency that may occur in the Street-light Fund for lighting the public streets .-- [Act April 26, 1862.]

Tax Collector's Clerks .- To authorize the employment of such extra Clerks as may be required by the Tax Collector in his office from time to time, at a salary not to exceed one hundred and fifty dollars per month each .- [Act March 30, 1872.]

Unclaimed Property .- To provide for the safe keeping and disposition of all lost, stolen, or unclaimed property of every kind which may be in the possession or under the control of the Chief of Police of said city and county, or which may hereafter come into the possession of the Police of said city and county .- [Act April 25, 1863.]

Urgent Necessities .- To pay out of the General Fund, the sum of eight thousand dollars, for purposes of urgent necessity .- [Act March 30, 1872.]

Vehicles .- To provide for the summary removal and disposition of any or all vehicles found during certain hours of the day and night, to be designated by said Board, in the streets, high- ways, and public squares of said city and county, or such of them as said Board may desig- nate; and, in addition to all other remedies, to provide by regulation for the sale or other disposition of said vehicles so found in said streets, highways, or public squares, as aforesaid .- [Act April 25, 1863.]

Watchman .- To appoint a Night Watchman for public buildings, at a salary not to exceed ninety dollars per month .- [Act March 30, 1872.]

Weigher of Coal .- To appoint a Weigher of Coal in and for the City and County of San Francisco, who shall reside in said place, and continue in office for the term of two years from the date of his appointment, and until his successor is appointed and qualified. Said Weigher, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take and subscribe the oath of office, and give bonds in the sum of ten thousand dollars, for the faithful discharge of his duties. When requested to do so by any person interested in knowing the weight of any coal, it shall be the duty of said Weigher to weigh all coal brought to his scales to be weighed, and, unless some other price be agreed upon by said Weigher and the person or persons making such request, he may charge and collect ten cents per ton for such service. Said Weigher shall have and maintain at suitable places such number of scales as he may deem necessary ; but this Act shall not be so construed as to enable said Weigher to create any liability against said city and county .- [Act April 27, 1863.]

SUPPLEMENTAL XVIII .- An Act to define the Powers and Duties of the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco in certain cases .- Approved April 10, 1857.

SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco shall have power to appoint a committee, consisting of three members of said Board, to be denominated the "Finance Committee," and to fill all vacancies which may happen in said committee by new appointments, from time to time. Said committee, in addition to the ordinary duties of the Finance Committee of said Board, shall have the power as hereinafter specified.

SEC. 2. The Clerk of the Board of Supervisors shall be Clerk of the Finance Committee, after the expiration of six months from the passage of this Act.

* See Article IV, page 864, for the provisions of the Act regulating the department of streets ; and for miscellaneous Acts referring thereto, see Supplemental Acts XV, XVI, and XX-XXIII.

FARNSWORTH & CLARK furnish Safe and Reliable Insurance against Fire.

O. P. VAN SCHAACK & CO., 708, 712, 714, and 716 Kearny Street, Trunks and Valises ..

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SEC. 3. The Clerk of said committee shall keep a record of its proceedings, with the names of witnesses examined, and a substantial account of the evidence taken. It shall be the duty of the Sheriff, or any Constable or Policeman of said city and county to execute the lawful process and orders of the said committee. The said committee may visit any of the public offices when and as often as they think proper, and make their examinations and investigations therein without hindrance. In the exercise of its functions, the concurrence of two members of the committee shall be deemed sufficient.

SECS. 4 and 5. [Obsolete. ]

SEC. 6. The said committee shall hereafter, as often as may be required by order of the Board of Supervisors, investigate the transactions and accounts of all officers having the col- lection, custody, or disbursement of public money, or having the power to approve, allow, or audit demands on the treasury, and report thereon to the Board of Supervisors, and for the purpose shall continue to have and exercise all the powers granted in this Act. But nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to relieve the Auditor, President of the Board of Supervisors, or other officers, from any of the duties and obligations now imposed on them by law.

SEC. 7. The said committee and the Clerk shall have free access to any records, books, and papers in all public offices. And said committee shall have the same power as courts of record, to administer oaths and affirmations, to examine witnesses and compel their attendance before them, by subpena, and attachment for contempt, in case of their refusal to appear or to testify when lawfully required, and shall have the like power to punish as for contempt, any officer, ex-officer, or other person who shall refuse or neglect, when required in writing, by said com- mittee, to exhibit any official records, books, or papers in his custody, or to explain the same, or any official transaction of his own, or of any other officer, so far as he may be able.

SEC. 8. If, from the examination made by the Finance Committee, in pursuance of the powers granted by this Act, it shall appear that a misdemeanor in office, or a defalcation has been committed by any officer of said city and county, whose accounts and transactions they are authorized to examine as aforesaid, said committee shall immediately report the same to the President of the Board of Supervisors, who shall immediately cause said report to be pub- lished, in at least two daily newspapers published in the City of San Francisco for the period of three days.

SUPPLEMENTAL XIX .- An Act to provide for the Repair and Improvement of Roads and Highways in the City and County of San Francisco .- Approved April 1, 1872.

SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco is hereby authorized and empowered to repair and improve the public roads within the said city and county, outside the charter line of eighteen hundred and fifty-one.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Public Streets and Highways to carefully examine all the public roads in said city and county, and report the condition of the same, from time to time, to the Board of Supervisors : provided, that from the month of No- vember to May of each year, such report shall be made on the first Monday of each month ; and said report shall specify the kind of repairs and the portion or portions of the road or roads in which they are required, together with an estimate of the cost.

SEC. 3. Upon presentation to the Board of Supervisors of the report and estimate of the said Superintendent of Public Streets and Highways, as herein provided, the said Board of Supervisors shall direct the Clerk of said Board to advertise, inviting sealed proposals for doing the work required, and shall award the contract for doing said work to the lowest responsible bidder, the proceedings in relation hereto to be the same as is provided by law for the letting of contracts for the improvement of streets and highways in said city and county: provided, that the amount of all appropriations authorized by this Act shall not exceed ten thousand dollars for any one fiscal year.

SEC. 4. For the purpose of this Act, public roads and highways shall include all roads that have been open to the public, and used as public highways long enough to evince their utility and necessity, but shall not include any road or highway when, in the judgment of the Board of Supervisors, the same should be kept in order by the owners of the property fronting on said road or highway.

SEC. 5. Whenever any improvement or repairs require to be made to any public road or highway, for which, in the judgment of the Board of Supervisors, the owners of the property fronting thereon should be assessed to defray the cost of the same, then and in that case the Board of Supervisors shall acquire jurisdiction, and shall have power to proceed in the same manner as is now provided by law for the improvement of streets within said city and county; and all provisions of law in relation to the improvement of streets within said city and county, and for the making and collection of the assessment for the cost of the work performed, shall apply to the collection of the sums of money so assessed as aforesaid.

SEC. 6. The Superintendent of Public Streets and Highways is hereby authorized and it is made his duty to superintend all repairs made on public roads and highways, and, when au- thorized by the Board of Supervisors, to purchase all necessary timber, plank, or other material

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

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

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

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for the construction and repair of bridges, and to hire at just and reasonable rates all necessary labor, tools, or implements for grading or otherwise improving such roads and highways.

SUPPLEMENTAL XX .- An Act to confer further Powers upon the Board of Supervisors of the City and Coun- ty of San Francisco .- Approved April 25, 1863.

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

SECTION 1. That the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco shall have full power and authority to provide, by order, for laying out, opening, extending, widen- ing, straightening, or closing up, in whole or in part, any street, square, lane, or alley, within the bounds of said city, which, in their opinion, the public welfare or convenience may require; to provide for ascertaining whether any and what amount in value of damages will be caused thereby, and what amount of benefits will thereby accrue to the owner or possessor of any ground or improvements within said city and county, for which such owner or possessor ought to be compensated, or ought to pay a compensation, and to provide for assessing and levying either generally on the whole assessable property within said city, or especially on the property of persons benefited the whole, or any part of the damages and expenses which they shall as- certain will be incurred in locating, opening, extending, widening, straightening, or closing up the whole or any part of any street, square, lane, or alley, in said city and county ; to provide for granting appeals to the County Court of the City and County of San Francisco, from the decisions of any Commissioners or other persons, appointed in virtue of any ordinance, to ascer- tain the damages which will be caused or the benefit which will accrue to the owners or possessors of grounds or improvements by locating, opening, extending, widening, straightening, or closing up, in whole or in part, any street, lane, or alley, within said city and county, and for securing to every such owner and possessor the right, on application, within a reasonable time, to have decided, by a jury trial, whether any damage has been caused, or any benefit has accrued to them, and to what amount ; to provide for collecting and paying over the amount of compen- sation adjudged to each person entitled, and to enact and pass all orders, from time to time, which shall be deemed necessary and proper to exercise the powers and effect the objects above specified : provided, nevertheless, that before the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco proceed to execute any of the powers vested in them by this Act, at least thirty days' notice shall be given of any application which may be made for the passage of any order, by advertisement in at least two of the daily newspapers of the City and County of San Francisco having the largest circulation : provided further, that whenever any street or part of any street in the said city and county, occupied or used by the track of any railroad company, shall require to be altered or widened for the convenience of public travel, and proceedings for the altering or widening the same shall have been taken under the provisions of this Act, it shall be lawful for the Commissioners appointed as in this Act provided, and whose duty it may be to make a just and equitable assessment of the whole amount of costs, damages, and expenses of such altering or widening among the owners of all the lands and real estate intended to be benefited thereby, to assess such portion of said costs, damages, and expenses upon the corpora- tion or company owning or using said railroad track, as shall to them seem equitable and just, and such assessment shall be a lien upon any property of said corporation or company in the said city and county, and may also be enforced in the same manner as the assessment upon such owners of lands and real estate intended to be benefited thereby.

SEC. 2. That before any Commissioners, appointed by any order to be passed in virtue of this Act, shall proceed to the performance of their duty, they shall give notice in at least two of the daily newspapers, published in the City of San Francisco, having the largest circulation, of the object of the order under which they propose to act, at least ten days before the time of their first meeting, to execute the same.

SEC. 3. Upon the return of any assessment to be made under any ordinance to be passed in virtue of this Act, the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Fran- cisco shall cause a copy of said assessment to be published for-ten days, in at least two daily newspapers of said city and county having the largest circulation.

SEC. 4. That the time within which any appeal is to be made from any assessment, shall be computed from and after the expiration of the ten days mentioned in the preceding section.

SEC. 5. All the expenses resulting from locating, opening, extending, widening, straighten- ing, or closing up, in whole or in part, any street, square, lane, or alley, within said City and County of San Francisco, shall be paid out of the moneys derived from the assessment upon the property benefited by such locating, opening, extending, widening, straightening, or closing up, in whole or in part, any street, square, lane, or alley, within said city and county ; and the City and County of San Francisco shall not be liable for any expense caused by the same.

SUPPLEMENTAL XXI .- An Act to Modify and Change the Grade of Streets, etc .- Approved March 28, 1868.

SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco are hereby authorized and empowered, upon petition of the owners of three fourths of the property to be affected thereby-said property to be ascertained and indicated by said Board of Supervisors in the manner provided in the first subdivision of section two of this Act-to change and modify

ORIENT FIRE INS. CO. OF HARTFORD; Assets 8700,000; Farnsworth & Clark, Agts.

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

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the grade of any street or avenue, or any part of any street or avenue, in said city and county, as is hereinafter provided.

SEC. 2. The grade of any street or avenue, or portion of any street or avenue, the grade of which has been fixed by ordinance, shall not be altered or changed, except upon an adjustment of the benefits or damages ; and the proceedings shall be as follows:

First-The Board of Supervisors, upon the receipt of a petition in conformity with the pro- visions of section one of this Act, shall publish in the official newspaper of said city and coun- ty a notice of their intention to make such [change]. Said notice shall be published for thirty days, and shall describe the proposed change and designate the limits within which the lots of land to be benefited shall be assessed to pay, and damages that may be awarded by reason of the change.

Second-Within twenty days after the first publication of said notice, any person claiming that he or she would sustain damage by reason of such change, shall file a petition with the County Clerk, addressed to the County Court, setting forth the fact of his or her ownership, the description and situation of his or her property, its market value, and the amount of dam- age, over and above all benefits, which he or she would sustain by reason of the proposed change, if completed, asking the appointment of Commissioners to assess such damage ; which petition shall be verified by the oath of the petitioner, or his or her agent.

Third-On the filing of such petition, the said County Court shall take jurisdiction of the proceedings, and the County Clerk shall immediately give notice thereof to the President of the Board of Supervisors.

Fourth-At the expiration of the time of publication of said notice, and at the time indica- ted by said notice, or at such other time to which it may be continued, the County Court shall appoint three citizens, who are freeholders in said city and county and competent judges of the value of real estate therein, and not interested in said proceedings, as Commissioners, to assess the benefits and damages to each separate lot of land within the limits designated in the notice.

Fifth-The Commissioners shall be sworn by the County Judge to make the assessments of benefits and damages to the best of their judgment and ability, without fear or favor, and that they have no interest in the controversy nor in any of the land within the limits designated, which oath shall be filed with the County Clerk as part of the proceedings. A copy thereof and of the order of appointments, certified by the Clerk, may be delivered to said Commision- ers as their authority.

Sixth-Said Commissioners shall visit and inspect the premises to be assessed and the prem- ises for which damages are claimed, with a committee from their body, appointed for that purpose by the Board of Supervisors.

Seventh-Said Commissioners shall have power, and it is hereby made their duty, to exam- ine, under oath, which any one of them is hereby authorized to administer, any witnesses pro- duced before them by any party, touching the matters to be investigated, and such other witnesses as they may deem necessary to fully acquaint themselves with the actual amount of benefits and damages which will result to the respective parties interested in the proposed change.

Eighth-Said Commissioners, having determined the damage which will be sustained by each petitioner, over and above all benefits, by the completion of the proposed change, shall proceed to assess the whole amount thereof, together with the costs, charges, and expenses of the proceedings, including the compensation to the Commissioners for their services, to be taxed and allowed by the County Judge, ratably, upon the several lots of land benefited within the limits designated in said notice, so that the same shall be distributed according to the ben- efits produced by such change as nearly as possible.

Ninth-Said Commissioners shall make their report in writing, and shall subscribe the same and file it with the County Clerk. In their said report they shall describe each piece of prop- erty which will sustain damage, stating the amount of the damages which it will sustain, over and above all benefits; and they shall also give a brief description of each lot benefited within the designated limits, the name of the owner, if known, and the amount of benefit assessed against the same. In case the three Commissioners do not agree, the award agreed upon by any two of them shall be sufficient. On the filing of said report, the County Clerk shall notify the Board of Supervisors, in writing, of the fact, and thereupon the said Board shall, by ordinance, confirm or reject said report. If they confirm it, the grade of the streets shall be changed as contemplated, and the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors shall notify the County Court that the Board have confirmed the report. The County Court shall thereupon enter up judgment against each lot assessed for benefits, describing the same as accurately as can conveniently be done. Upon which judgment an order of sale may issue by order of the Court, commanding the Sheriff of said city and county to collect the amount therein men- tioned by sale of the lot assessed, in the mode prescribed by law for the sale of real estate, the proceeds to be paid by the Sheriff to the Treasurer of the City and County of San Francisco, who shall place the same to the credit of the Street Department Fund ; and the same shall be paid, and the Treasurer of said city and county shall pay the amount collected for damages

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The San Francisco Directory, 1874, Part 243

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