The San Francisco Directory, 1874, Part 244

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Publication date: 1874
Publisher: San Francisco : Langley, Henry G.
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. PACIFIC COAST BUSINESS DIRECTORY circulates throughout the Pacific Coast ..

ATNA INSURANCE COMPANY, OF HARTFORD. lost over $3,000,000 in the CHICAGO FIRE, and paid in full, Dollar for Dollar.

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L. W. KENNEDY, General Insurance Agent, Fire, Marine, and Life, 411 California St.'

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into the County Court, which shall hold, invest, and distribute the same in the same manner as provided in section nineteen of an Act entitled " An Act to declare and regulate the Power of the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, to take Private Lands for certain Public Improvements, and to prescribe the Manner of its Execution," approved April fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. All such judgments shall be in favor of the City and County of San Francisco, and shall be a lien upon the lot until the same is paid; but no sale shall be made nor execution issued until the County Court shall determine that said work has been completed.

SEC. 3. Before entering up judgment, the Court shall fix a day for hearing parties who may feel aggrieved by reason of any of the proceedings ; but no objection shall be considered except such as are specifically set forth in writing by the parties ; and all errors, omissions, and irreg- ularities not specifically set forth shall be deemed to be waived. Any party dissatisfied may, within thirty days after judgment against him or his lot, or the order to pay the damages assessed, appeal to the Supreme Court to review the matter complained of, and the appeal shall be taken in the manner and with the same effect as prescribed in, and in all respects be in conformity to, "An Act to declare and regulate the Power of the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, to take Private Lands for certain Public Improve- ments, and to prescribe the Manner of its Execution," approved April fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four ; and all subsequent proceedings shall be in conformity therewith and with the same effect.

SEC. 4. All acts and proceedings under this law shall be liberally construed, and the judg- ments and proceedings of the County Court shall be construed like judgments and proceedings of Courts of general jurisdiction.

SEC. 5. The Sheriff shall collect fees for the execution, in case an execution issues, as in other cases ; but each party may pay to the Treasurer the amount of the judgment against him, and the Treasurer's receipt being produced to the County Court, satisfaction of the judgment shall be entered by the Clerk. The Clerk shall not charge any fees for the proceedings unless execution issue, in which case he shall be authorized to charge five dollars for each execution, to be collected by the Sheriff on the execution.

SUPPLEMENTAL XXII .- An Act to empower the Board of Supervisors to make an Appropriation to estab- lish the Grades of Streets, etc .- Approved March 28, 1868.

SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco is author- ized to provide, by ordinance, for the establishment of the lines and grades of the streets and avenues within the tracts or districts in said city and county hereinafter described, lying without the corporate limits of the City of San Francisco, as defined in an Act entitled " An Act to Incorporate the City of San Francisco," passed April fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, to wit :

District, No. 1 .- That tract lying east of Potrero Avenue, south of Mission Creek, west of the water front, and north of Precita Creek.

District, No. 2 .- That tract west of Potrero Avenue, south of the charter line of eighteen hundred and fifty-one, produced westerly to the westerly line of Douglass Street, easterly of the westerly line of Douglass Street, continued to Figg or Twenty-seventh, northerly of Figg or Twenty-seventh Street and Precita Creek.

District, No. 3 .- That tract west of the charter line of eighteen hundred and fifty-one, easterly of Douglass Street, southerly of the northerly boundary of the San Miguel Ranch, and northerly of the southerly line of Twenty-second Street, extended to the westerly line of Douglass Street. District, No. 4 .- That tract lying southerly of the water front, westerly of Devisadero Street, northerly of Geary Street, easterly of Cemetery Avenue and Government Reserve.

District, No. 5 .- That tract lying westerly of the charter line of eighteen hundred and fifty- one, northerly of the San Miguel Ranch, easterly of westerly line of West Eighth Street, south- erly of the Government Reserve and Lone Mountain Cemetery and that part of Geary Street easterly of Cemetery Avenue.

SEC. 2. For the accomplishment of the purposes set forth in section one of this Act, and the providing and placing suitable monuments to perpetuate the work, the said Board of Super- visors are authorized to appropriate a sum not to exceed twenty thousand dollars. The ex- penditure authorized by this Act, and every item thereof, before it becomes a claim or debt against said city or county, shall first be allowed and ordered paid by the Board of Supervisors, and audited by the Auditor, when the same shall be paid by the Treasurer out of the General Fund of the City and County of San Francisco.

SUPPLEMENTAL XXIII .- An Act to confer further Powers on the Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco .- Approved April 2, 1870.

SECTION 1. The Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco is hereby authorized and empowered, on behalf and in the name of the City and County of San Francisco, to petition the Board of Supervisors of said city and county to order the change of the official grade of any street or streets, where such change may affect any public square or other lot of land belonging

Insurance effected, Losses adjusted, and promptly paid by FARNSWORTH & CLARK.

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

O. P. VAN SCHAACK & CO., 708, 712, 714, and 716 Kearny St., Importers and Jobbera

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to said city and county ; and such petition shall have the same effect as if the same were signed by or in behalf of the owners of any property not belonging to said city and county .*

SUPPLEMENTAL XXIV .- An Act to provide for a Police Contingent Fund .- Approved February 28, 1859.

SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco shall an- nually set apart from the General Fund in the Treasury of said city and county, the sum of three thousand six hundred dollars, to constitute a Special Fund, to be called the Police Contingent Fund.

SEC. 2. The Police Commissioners of the City and County of San Francisco, or a majority of them, are hereby authorized to allow, out of the Police Contingent Fund of said city and county, any and all orders signed by the Chief of Police of said city and county : provided, that the aggregate of said orders shall not exceed the sum of three thousand six hundred dol- lars per annum.

SEC. 3. The Auditor of said city and county is hereby authorized to audit, and the Treas- urer of said city and county to pay, out of the Police Contingent Fund, any and all orders 80 allowed by the Police Commissioners, not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of three thousand six hundred dollars per annum.

SEC. 4. At the end of each fiscal year any sum remaining in the Police Contingent Fund, upon which no order shall [have] been allowed, shall be returned to the credit of the General Fund.

SUPPLEMENTAL XXV .- An Act relating to the Board of Supervisors, and more particularly Defining its Powers and Duties .- Approved March 30, 1868.

SECTION 1. Each member of the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, excepting the Mayor, ex offico President of said Board, shall, after the passage of this Act, be allowed a salary during the time he is in office, of one hundred dollars per month ; and the Auditor of said city and county is hereby directed to audit, and the Treasurer to pay, such salaries monthly out of the General Fund.

SEC. 2. The votes of seven members constituting the Board of Supervisors shall be neces- sary to pass any ordinance, order, or resolution ; but in the event of a veto by the Mayor, then nine votes shall be necessary to pass any ordinance, order, or resolution over such veto ; other- wise such ordinance, order, or resolution shall be of no validity.

SEC. 3. If a member of said Board of Supervisors shall hereafter absent himself from the State, or shall neglect to attend the meetings of said Board, for the period of ninety days, his office may be declared vacant by the Board, and a successor may be appointed t for the unex- pired term, as provided in other cases.

SEC. 4. This Act shall be construed so as to harmonize with existing laws in regard to the powers and duties of said Board of Supervisors ; and all such laws shall continue in full force, except so far as they may be inconsistent or in conflict with the provisions of this Act ; and only so far as they are inconsistent or in conflict with this Act they are hereby repealed.

SUPPLEMENTAL XXVI .- An Act to confer Additional Powers upon the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, and upon the Auditor and Treasurer thereof, and to authorize'certain Ap- propriations of Money by said Board .- Approved March 27, 1874.

SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco are hereby au- thorized to appropriate, allow, and order paid out of the General Fund, the several sums of money hereinafter mentioned, and to exercise the powers following :

First-To allow and order paid to G. W. L. Post, a disabled fireman, a sum not to exceed one hundred dollars per month, for services rendered as Janitor and Messenger to the Board of Fire Commissioners, from August twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two.

Second-To allow and order paid to the San Francisco Homeopathic Medical and Surgical Dispensary, a sum not to exceed fifty dollars per month, from February first, eighteen hun- dred and seventy-three, for drugs and medicines furnished at said Dispensary, free of charge to indigent persons, said persons having also received gratuitous medical treatment and advice.

SEC. 2. The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco are hereby fur- ther authorized and empowered ---

First-To receive and accept from the owners or claimants of the lots and lands lying con- tiguous to Channel Street and Mission Creek, from Ninth to Eighteenth streets of said city, a deed or deeds of a tract of land not less than fifty feet in width, and without abrupt curves or short angles, to be located on a line to be laid out by and to be satisfactory to said Board of Su- pervisors, for the construction of a sewer therein and for the purposes of a public street.

* The Act of March 13, 1868, provides for the payment of assessments against the property of the Govern- ment of the United States in the manner following, to wit : The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco are hereby authorized to allow the Auditor of said city and county to audit, and the Treas- urer to pay, out of the Street Department Fund. all claims not heretofore paid for assessments that have been made or that may hereafter be made pursuant to law, against the property of the Government of the United States for street improvements in the said city and county : provided, the Government of the United States shall by its officers refuse to make such payment.

+ For provisions in relation to unexpired terms, see Section 6, page 838.

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

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

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

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Second-The said Board of Supervisors are hereby authorized to acquire by purchase, for such considerations as to said Board shall seem reasonable, any of the lots or lands herein- before described, for the purposes of said sewer and street, as cannot be acquired by voluntary gift or donation, and to order payment of such considerations out of the General Fund of the treasury of said city and county.

Third-For the purpose of acquiring title to all such portions of said lots and lands as may not be acquired under the provisions of the first and second subdivisions of this section, the said Board of Supervisors is hereby authorized and required to cause the same to be condemned and appropriated to public uses for the purposes of said sewer and street. The Mayor, Auditor, and Tax Collector of said city and county are hereby appointed and constituted Commission- ers, with power to ascertain and determine the value of the lands, and the sums to be paid therefor to the owners thereof. In case of a vacancy in said commission, by reason of any member thereof being disqualified from acting, or for other cause, the County Judge of said city and county shall fill such vacancy by appointment of some competent and disinterested per- son. The moneys to be paid for any lands under the provisions of this Act must be paid out of the General Fund of the treasury of said city and county. The said proceedings to acquire title to lands, except as herein otherwise provided, must conform to the provisions of the Act approved April first, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, entitled “ An Act to open and estab- lish a Public Street in the City and County of San Francisco, to be called Montgomery Avenue, and to take Private Lands therefor," and to the provisions of any other Act passed at the pres- ent session of the Legislature, defining the powers of said Board of Supervisors, which are hereby made applicable to this Act, so far as the same are not inconsistent therewith.

Fourth-The said Board of Supervisors are hereby authorized and required, under such rules and regulations as they may prescribe, to sell at public auction to the highest and best bidders, all of said Channel Street and Mission Creek, from Ninth to Eighteenth streets, except such portions thereof as may be required for the purposes of the sewer and street herein provided for. The lands so offered for sale shall first be surveyed and subdivided into lots, conforming, as near as may be practicable, in form and size to the lots next contiguous thereto. Streets in confor- mity to and connecting with the streets laid down upon the official plan of said city shall be re- served and dedicated to public use. A deed from the Mayor of said city and county, executed to the purchaser of any lot after full payment therefor shall have been made, shall vest the title of such lot in such purchaser. The proceeds of said sales shall be paid into the General Fund of the treasury of said city and county. The said Commissioners shall receive for their services such compensation as the Board of Supervisors may allow.

Fifth-Whenever the said city and county shall have acquired the lands herein mentioned for said sewer and street, the said Board of Supervisors are authorized to open and improve said street, and construct said sewer of such material and capacity as said Board may deter- mine, and are authorized to appropriate, allow, and order paid out of the General Fund such sums as may be necessary for such purposes.

SEC. 3. All of said Channel Street and Mission Creek, lying between said Ninth and Eighteenth streets, are hereby vacated as a public street, highway, or navigable stream, and all Acts or parts of Acts, so far as they provide for an open canal and public street or highway, between said Ninth and Eighteenth streets, are hereby repealed, and nothing in this Act con- tained shall affect Mission Creek or Channel Street below the point of intersection with said Ninth Street.

SEC. 4. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Act to confer Additional Powers upon the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco. -Approved January 21, 1874.

The Board of Supervisors is authorized and empowered to allow and order paid : For the Street Department Fund, one hundred and sixty-seven thousand dollars ; for City and County Hospital and Alms House, thirty-nine thousand dollars ; for Industrial School, eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; for advertising and election printing, eight thousand dollars; for repairs to public buildings, six thousand dollars; for purposes of urgent necessity, eight thousand dollars; for material for the Fire Department, twenty-three thousand three hundred and eighty-five dollars; for Small-pox Hospital purposes, five thousand dollars. The Board of Supervisors is also authorized and empowered to order paid the sum of thirty-eight thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars, heretofore borrowed, to pay the interest accrued on the public debt.

SUPPLEMENTAL XXVII .- An Act to Establish and Maintain an Alms House and Hospital in the City and County of San Francisco .- Approved March 10, 1866.

SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco are hereby authorized and empowered to establish and maintain an Alms House and Hospital, and for that purpose to set apart and appropriate land belonging to the said city and county, or to purchase land, not exceeding eighty acres, as said Board may deem necessary, in said city and county, and erect thereon one or more buildings, suitable for alms house or hospital purposes, and they may from time to time add to and enlarge such buildings as necessity may require.

SPRINGFIELD FIRE AND MARINE INS. CO., of Mass., always Just, always Prompt.

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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SEC. 2. For the purpose of procuring or purchasing and improving land, and erecting build- ings thereon, as provided in the preceding section, said Supervisors are hereby authorized to appropriate and order paid so much as may be necessary of the appropriation now authorized by law to be expended for purchasing land, or erecting or enlarging buildings for hospital pur- poses, or for both ; also, to expend, in addition thereto, a sum not to exceed twenty thousand dollars for furnishing the same.

SEC. 3. Said Board of Supervisors may, by ordinance, make such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, for the government and management of said Alms House, and for the admission, discharge, and employment of the inmates thereof, as to them shall seem proper .- [Amendment March 28, 1868.]

SEC. 4. Said Board shall also have power [appointing power transferred to Board of Health, see Supplemental XXVII] to appoint for duty at the Alms House, a Superintendent, Matron, Resident Physician, and such assistants and employés as they may from time to time deem necessary : provided, they shall not at any time pay more than the following sums as salary to the various employés : To the Superintendent, one hundred and fifty dollars per month ; to the Matron, fifty dollars per month ; to the Resident Physician, one hundred and twenty-five dol- lars per month ; to the Cook, sixty dollars per month ; to the Chief Farmer, fifty dollars per month ; to the principal Teamster, fifty dollars per month ; and to each and every other employé, not to exceed thirty dollars per month each, except Nurses, when necessary, may be employed at a salary not to exceed fifty dollars per month .- [Amendment March 28, 1868.]

SEC. 5. Said Board of Supervisors are hereby authorized to expend a sum not exceeding twelve thousand dollars per month [Amendment March 30, 1872], for the support, care, and maintenance of such persons as may be admitted to said Alms House and Hospital, which sum shall be in lieu of any sums now authorized by law to be expended for such purposes.

SEC. 6. Contracts for the support of the inmates of said Alms House and Hospital shall be given out in the manner now prescribed by law for the support of the inmates of the City and County Hospital.

SEC. 7. The Mayor of said city and county, the Resident Physician of said Alms House and Hospital, and the Chairman of the Hospital Committee, respectively, and they alone, shall have power to admit inmates to said Alms House and Hospital, under such restrictions as are provided in section three of this Act.

SEC. 8. The Mayor, when authorized by the Board of Supervisors, shall have power to sell the buildings and land now occupied for hospital purposes, and to that end is hereby authorized to execute, sign, seal, and deliver good and sufficient deed or deeds therefor, to such person or persons, and for such sum or sums as said Board may prescribe ; and he shall pay the proceeds of such sale or sales into the City and County Treasury to the credit of the General Fund.

SUPPLEMENTAL XXVIII .- An Act to abolish the Board of City Hall Commissioners, and to provide for the Continuance of the Construction of the City Hall of the City and County of San Francisco .- Approved March 30, 1874.

SECTION 1. The Board of City Hall Commissioners, created under and by virtue of an Act entitled " An Act to provide for the Erection of a City Hall, in the City and County of San Francisco," approved April fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy, is hereby abolished, and said Commissioners shall, forthwith, turn over and deliver to the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, all and singular, the site, superstructure, and material of said City Hall, as well as the books, papers, contracts, rights, privileges, and immunities, machinery, tools, and appliances, and property of every description and nature belonging to said Board of City Hall Commissioners, and from said delivery and acceptance thereof said Com- missioners shall cease to exercise any official functions, and be deemed to be out of office.

SEC. 2. Said Board of Supervisors are hereby authorized, empowered, and required to accept of and from said City Hall Commissioners, all of said property, buildings, site, mate- rials, books, papers, and other things connected with said work, and to sign and deliver acquittances therefor, and from the time of said delivery and acceptance, said Board of Super- visors shall be charged with all the duties and liabilities, and invested with all the powers, rights, and authority heretofore granted to or imposed upon said City Hall Commissioners by virtue of the Act above named creating said Board of Commissioners as fully and as effect- ually for the purposes herein named as if they had been the Board of Commissioners origi- nally named in said Act.

SEC. 3. Said Board of Supervisors shall examine the condition of said works, and the con- tracts and liabilities of said Board, and adjust and pay the same out of the proceeds of the sale of the bonds hereinafter provided for that purpose, and they shall supervise, control, direct, and carry on said work of building said City Hall, under and in accordance with such lawful and valid contracts, as now exist for that purpose, and entered into between said Commission- ers, and the persons who have made, or are the holders or assignees of such contracts. And when the work contracted for to be done and materials to be furnished by virtue of such exist- ing contracts shall be fully finished and completed, then they shall stop said work, and their powers shall end, save in so far as may be necessary to pay off the lawful indebtedness hereto-

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

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

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

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fore contracted as is herein provided, and to preserve and protect said buildings and grounds and the materials, property, books, papers, machinery, and appliances belonging to said work as connected therewith.

SEC. 4. Said Board of Supervisors are hereby authorized and directed by ordinance, to cause to be issued bonds as hereinafter provided in amount, not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and not more than shall be sufficient to pay off and discharge all liabilities, dues, and indebtedness of said Board of City Hall Commis- sioners, and said Board of Supervisors as successors to said Commissioners, contracted or incurred in the existing unpaid contracts for labor, work, and materials in and about the work of building said City Hall as the same stood upon the day of the passage of this Act. But no new or fresh contracts, debts, or liabilities shall be undertaken or incurred by virtue of this Act than those existing at the time of the passage hereof, except such debts or liabilities as may be necessarily incurred by them in carrying out and completing said contracts already entered into as aforesaid, and in preserving and protecting said building, and not exceeding the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars.

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The San Francisco Directory, 1874, Part 244

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