The San Francisco Directory, 1874, Part 246

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

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SEC. 3. The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco shall have power, by ordinance, to license and regulate all such callings, trades, and employments, as the public good may require to be licensed and regulated, and as are not prohibited by law, and shall have power to make all needful rules and regulations to govern the official conduct and duties of the Collector of Licenses, Deputy Collector of Licenses, and the Assistant Collectors of Licenses, who shall each hold office during the pleasure of the power appointing them (and who shall pursue no other calling or business), and to alter and amend the same from time to time in such manner as they may deem proper and for the public good, and to fix the amounts of the bonds to be required from the Collector of Licenses and Deputy Collector of Licenses and Assistant Collectors of Licenses. The Auditor of said city and county is hereby author- ized and required to deliver, from time to time, to the Collector of Licenses, as many of such municipal licenses as may be required ; also to deliver from time to time to said Collector of Licenses for collection, such State and county licenses as may be required and such as he shall have received from the Controller of the State, and to sign the same and charge them to the Collector of Licenses receiving them, specifying in the charge the amounts thereof named in such licenses, respectively, and the class of licenses, taking receipts therefor; and said Collector shall proceed to collect the same, signing the same in lieu of the County Treasurer ; and he

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shall, daily, pay to the Treasurer of the said city and county all moneys so collected for licenses sold, or by him received as fees ; and shall, under oath, at least once in each calendar month, and oftener when required so to do by the Auditor, make to the Auditor a report of all such licenses sold and on hand and of all amounts so paid to the County Treasurer, in the same manner and upon the same conditions as by law the County Treasurer heretofore has been required to make return thereof to the County Auditor, and shall at such time exhibit to the Auditor all unsold licenses in his hands and the Treasurer's receipt for all moneys paid into the treasury ; and all licenses so signed by the License Collector or Deputy License Collector shall be as valid as if signed by the County Treasurer. All fees so paid to him shall be placed to the credit of the Special Fee Fund by the said Treasurer.

SEC. 4. It is hereby made the duty of the Mayor, the Auditor, and the Treasurer of said city and county, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to appoint, subject to con- firmation by the Board of Supervisors of said city and county, one person as Collector of Li- censes for the City and County of San Francisco, who shall receive a monthly salary of two hundred dollars, payable monthly ; and the said Collector of Licenses is hereby authorized and empowered to appoint one Deputy Collector of Licenses, who shall be paid a monthly salary of one hundred and fifty dollars, payable monthly, and three Assistant Collectors of Licenses, who shall be paid each a monthly salary of one hundred and twenty-five dollars, payable monthly. Such License Collector and Deputies shall hold office during the pleasure of the Board of Supervisors. All salaries herein provided for shall be paid from the General Fund in the same manner as the salaries of other city and county officers are paid. The As- sistant Collectors of Licenses and the Deputy Collector of Licenses shall, under the direction and instructions of the Collector of Licenses, observing the form and rules and regulations prescribed by said Collector and Board of Supervisors, make to the said Collector daily reports of duty performed and daily payments of money received for licenses and fees ; and at the close of each month, and oftener when required by the Collector of Licenses, each shall make oath to the Auditor that he has so paid over to the Collector of Licenses all such moneys, and a failure so to do shall be a cause for removal from office.

SEC. 5. The Police Commissioners of the City and County of San Francisco are hereby authorized and empowered to revoke any licenses provided to be collected under the provisions of this Act upon the conviction in the Police Judge's Court of any person of disorderly or improper conduct, or any offense upon the premises of any person holding a license, or upon the conviction of the person holding said license of any offense which in the judgment of said Commissioners ought to disqualify such person from holding such license.

SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of the County Treasurer to deliver to the Collector of Licenses, immediately upon this Act taking effect, all papers, books, materials, and other property ap- pertaining and belonging to the License Department. And all Acts or parts of Acts requiring the County Treasurer to collect licenses in the City and County of San Francisco, and all other Acts or parts of Acts, so far as they conflict with this Act, are hereby repealed : provided, that nothing in this Act contained shall curtail the clerical force in the office of the Treas- urer of the City and County of San Francisco during the term of office of the present incum- bent.

SUPPLEMENTAL XXXIII .- An Act in relation to the Assessment and Collection of Taxes upon Personal Property in the City and County of San Francisco .- Approved March 18, 1874.

SECTION 1. The City and County of San Francisco is hereby exempted from the provisions of the Political Code relating to the assessment and equalization of personal property for taxa- tion and the collection of taxes thereon, but only in so far as to give force and effect to the provisions of this Act hereinafter contained.

SEC. 2. The Assessor of said city and county must complete the assessment of personal property on or before the first Monday of June in each year, and enter the same in a separate assessment book, to be known as "The Assessment Book of Personal Property." As soon as completed the said assessment book must be delivered to the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, who must immediately give notice thereof, and of the time the Board will meet to equalize said assessment by publication in some daily newspaper printed in said city and county, and in the mean time until the Board meets to equalize said assessments the Assessment Book must remain in his office for the inspection of all persons interested.

SEC. 3. The Board of Supervisors shall meet on the second Monday in June and must ex- amine and equalize said assessment in the same manner as required by the Political Code, and must complete the equalization of said assessment on or before the fourth Monday in June; and the Clerk of the Board must record in a book to be kept for that purpose, all changes, cor- rections, and orders made by the Board, and during its session must enter in said Assessment Book all changes and corrections made by the Board, and must deliver the same Assessment Book, so corrected, to the Auditor of said city and county on the fourth Monday of June, with an affidavit in substance the same as that required by section three thousand six hundred and eighty-two of the Political Code.

SEC. 4. The Board of Supervisors must, on the fourth Monday of June, fix the rate of city

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and county taxes for the current fiscal year, and the Auditor must, on or before the second Monday of July, prepare and deliver to the Tax Collector a copy of said Assessment Book, to be styled " Duplicate Assessment Book of Personal Property," in which shall be computed and entered in separate money columns the respective sums in dollars and cents, rejecting the fractions of a cent, to be paid as a tax on the property therein enumerated, and to which must be attached his affidavit, subscribed and sworn to as follows :

"I, - -, Auditor of the City and County of San Francisco, do swear that I received the Assessment Book of the personal property of the City and County of San Francisco, from the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors, with his affidavit thereto affixed, and that I have corrected it and made it conform to the requirements of the Board of Supervisors ; that I have reckoned the respective sums due as taxes, and have added up the columns of valuations and taxes as required by law, and that the copy to which this affidavit is attached is a true, full, and correct copy thereof."

Said Duplicate Assessment Book must contain columns for entry as hereinafter provided for the State Tax upon the property therein assessed.

SEC. 5. The said Duplicate Assessment Book must thereupon be delivered to the Tax Col- lector, and all the acts required by the Political Code to be performed by the Auditor and Tax Collector in relation to the Duplicate Assessment Book and the taxes therein mentioned must be performed by said officers in relation to the Assessment Book herein provided, so far as the same can be made applicable.

SEC. 6. The Tax Collector, immediately upon receiving said assessment roll, must publish in one or more of the daily newspapers of said city and county that the taxes therein mentioned are due and payable at the office of the Tax Collector of said city and county, and will become delinquent on the first Monday of August, and that unless paid on or before the last mentioned date, five per cent. will be added to the amount thereof. The Tax Collector may at any time after said taxes become delinquent collect the same by seizure and sale of any personal prop- erty owned by the delinquent, and in proceedings for that purpose must be governed by sec- tions from three thousand seven hundred and ninety-one to three thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, inclusive, of the Political Code.

SEC. 7. On the Wednesday following the fourth Monday of September, the Tax Collector must return the said Duplicate Assessment Roll to the Auditor, who must, at the time pro- vided in the Political Code for computing and entering the State and County taxes, add to or deduct from the valuation of the property enumerated in said Assessment Book any percentum which may have been required by the State Board of Equalization, and compute the State taxes to be paid on said personal property, and enter the same with all delinquent taxes which may appear in said book in the proper columns. After completing such computations and entries, the Auditor must annex his affidavit to said book, stating that he has truly and correctly made all reductions and additions required by the State Board of Equalization, and computed, entered, and added all the State taxes and all the delinquent city and county taxes, and the percentum due on the property therein enumerated, and return the same to the Tax Collector at the time when the Duplicate Assessment Book of taxes upon real estate is required by law to be delivered.

SEC. 8. The Tax Collector must collect said State taxes and said delinquent city and county taxes and percentum, at the same time and in the same manner as he is by law re- quired to collect other State and county taxes.

SEC. 9. The Assessor may at any time prior to the fourth Monday in October in each year specially assess any property which may have been omitted and which shall not be entered upon the regular assessment roll, and if he makes any such special assessment, he shall forth- with deliver a copy thereof to the Tax Collector, and the original to the Auditor, who shall charge the Tax Collector with the amount of taxes due thereon, and all such special assessments shall be as valid and shall have the same force and effect as regular assessments.

SEC. 10. All the provisions of the Political Code and other laws relating to State and county revenues, except where they are in conflict with, are made part of this Act.

SEC. 11. This Act shall take effect immediately.

SUPPLEMENTAL XXXIV .- An Act to Provide Funds to be applied to Building a House of Correction in the City and County of San Francisco, and to authorize the Construction of such House of Correction. -Approved April 1, 1872.

SECTION 1. 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 one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. Said bonds shall be issued in such manner and at such times not inconsistent with the foregoing section, and made payable in the City and County of San Francisco, at the office of the Treasurer of said city and county, both principal and interest, at such times, not ex-

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ceeding twenty years from the time of their issuance, as the Board of Supervisors may pre- scribe by ordinance. The interest on said bonds shall not exceed seven per cent. per annum, and shall be paid semi-annually ; and both principal and interest shall be payable in United States gold coin.

SEC. 3. The said bonds shall be signed by the Mayor, Auditor, and Treasurer of the City and County of San Francisco, and shall be known as the " House of Correction Fund Bonds of the City and County of San Francisco."

SEC. 4. Said bonds shall have coupons attached to them for the semi-annual interest which may accrue upon them, signed by the Auditor of said city and county ; and the faith and credit of the said City and County of San Francisco are hereby pledged for the redemption of the same and for the payment of the principal and interest thereof.

SEC. 5. Whenever said bonds or any portion of them are issued, the Treasurer and Audi- tor of said city and county are hereby authorized and empowered to sell the same to the highest bidder thereof, after having first advertised the same for three consecutive weeks in three daily papers published in said city and county. All money derived from the issue and sale of said bonds shall be appropriated and used for the sole purpose of building and furnishing a House of Correction upon any property of the City and County of San Francisco, to be selected by the Board of Supervisors and approved by the Mayor, south of twenty-sixth Street or west of New Cemetery Avenue, in the City and County of San Francisco ; the style and material thereof, the construction and all contracts and plans relating thereto, to be determined by said Board of Supervisors, and in all cases to be approved before the adoption or ratification of the same by the Mayor, Auditor, and Treasurer of said city and county. But no bonds authorized to be issued by this Act shall be sold for a less sum than ninety cents in gold coin on the dol- lar, par value. Said House of Correction shall be used for the safe keeping of such persons as shall be sentenced to be punished for crime by the Criminal Courts of the City and County of San Francisco, and are now and who would be confined in the County Jail.

SEC. 6. To secure the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds, the Board of Supervisors of the said City and County of San Francisco shall, when deemed necessary by them for the purpose in this section provided, levy an annual tax upon all the taxable property in the said City and County of San Francisco, and a sufficient sum or sums shall be raised by such annual levies to pay the principal of said bonds when the same shall become due. And it shall be the duty of the Treasurer of said city and county to set apart annually out of the moneys coming into the treasury to the credit of the House of Correction Fund, raised by said annual tax, a sum sufficient to pay the semi-annual interest on said bonds, and also to provide a Sinking Fund suficient for the redemption of the same at maturity.

SUPPLEMENTAL XXXV .- An Act to transfer to the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco the Management, Control, and Direction of the Affairs of the Industrial School Depart- ment of said City and County .- Approved March 23, 1872.

SECTION 1. The President of the Board of Managers of the Industrial School of the City and County of San Francisco is hereby authorized and directed to grant, convey, and deliver to the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco all and singular the property, both real and personal, now in the possession or under the control of said depart- ment, as created under and by virtue of an Act of the Legislature of the State of California, entitled " An Act to establish the Industrial School Department of the City and County of San Francisco," approved April fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, and the Acts sup- plementary thereto and amendatory thereof, and he is hereby authorized and directed to make, execute, and deliver to said City and County of San Francisco, all and singular, such deeds and instruments in writing, as the act and deed of said department, as may be necessary to carry the provisions of this section into effect.

SEC. 2. From and after the passage of this Act, all and singular, the powers and duties now vested in the Board of Managers of said Industrial School, shall be vested in the Board of Supervisors of the said City and County of San Francisco. Said Board of Supervisors shall exercise all the duties and possess all the rights now vested in the Board of Managers of the Industrial School Department, and all present indebtedness and liabilities of said Industrial School Department, and future expenditures and disbursements on account of the same, shall be presented, audited, and paid in the same manner as is now provided by law for the present- ment, auditing, and payment of other claims against said City and County of San Francisco: provided, that the current expenses of such Industrial School shall only be audited and paid to the extent of four thousand five hundred dollars ($4,500) per month.

SEC. 3. The purposes and objects of said Industrial School shall hereafter be the same as are now provided by law for the Industrial School Department of the City and County of San Francisco : provided, that persons who may be convicted of offenses mentioned in section ten of the Act entitled " An Act to establish the Industrial School Department of the City and County of San Francisco," approved April fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, in counties other than San Francisco, may be committed by the proper authorities of such counties to the Industrial School of the City and County of San Francisco, on the approval of the

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Supervisors of the county in which such persons are committed to said Industrial School, upon payment to the City and County of San Francisco by such counties of the sum of fifteen (15) dollars, gold coin, per month for each month that such persons and each of them shall be inmates of said Industrial School.

SUPPLEMENTARY XXXVI .- An Act to authorize the City and County of San Francisco to Provide and Maintain Public Water Works for said City and County, and to Condemn and Purchase Private Property for that Purpose .- Approved March 30, 1874.

By the provisions of this Act* the Board of Supervisors is authorized and empowered to take all necessary steps to provide and supply said city and county, and the inhabitants thereof, and manufacturing establishments therein, with a sufficient and abundant supply of pure and fresh water, at the lowest possible rates, and to secure an abundant supply for their future wants, and to that end, and for that purpose, they are authorized and empowered to construct, appro- priate, and acquire, or to purchase and to hold the necessary real estate, water works, reservoirs, distributing mains, pipes, flumes, ditches, water and water rights, creeks, ponds, springs and sources pertaining thereto. If deemed expedient, they are also authorized to purchase the water works and other property and rights of the Spring Valley Water Works, or any other corporation or person in the State, or the water of the Laguna de la Merced, at such price or prices as may be agreed upon by a committee consisting of the Mayor, Auditor, and City and County Attorney. Before any contract to purchase shall be entered into, the Board of Super- visors shall appoint a competent civil engineer, who is to make a full and accurate examination of all real estate, water works, etc., purposed to be purchased, and to make a report thereon, which shall state the value of the real estate, its water rights, etc., its character and its resources, with an estimate of the cost of maintaining said works. If, after the examination of the report and a personal examination of the works to be purchased, by a committee of the Board of Supervisors, the Board of Supervisors consider it for the interests of the city and county to purchase said property on the terms proposed, they shall publish the report of the engineer with their conclusions thereon, and shall submit the question of purchase to the qualified electors of said city and county at the next general election. In the event of a disagreement as to the terms for the purchase of the rights and property referred to, the committee may procure the condemnation of the same, or any other property necessary to carry out the objects of this Act; and to ascertain the value thereof, Commissioners are to be appointed by the Judge of the Twelfth District Court, whose decision shall be final. The Commissioners are also authorized to make the necessary investigation, as to the adaptability and values of the property condemned, and report thereon, which is to be submitted, after approval by the Judge of the Twelfth District Court, to a vote of the people in like manner as that of the engineer previously referred to. The Board of Supervisors, if the measure is sanctioned by a majority of the people, are also authorized to employ a competent engineer or engineers to commence at once the erection of such works, and to adopt the necessary measures to meet the objects of this Act. To secure the means to carry into effect these provisions, authority is given to issue thirty-year six per cent. bonds, the amount of which shall be fixed by the Board of Supervisors. The full and complete management of the works, when completed, is intrusted to a Board of three Commis- sioners, who are to be appointed by the Mayor, who shall serve without compensation.

ARTICLE VI. FINANCE AND REVENUE.+

SEC. 75. All fines, penalties, and forfeitures imposed for offenses committed within the said city and county shall be received by the Clerk or Magistrate of the respective Court and paid into the treasury thereof, as a part of the Police Fund; forty per cent. of all poll taxes [Amend- ed, see Sec. 76] collected in said city and county, or any other portion of such poll taxes which may be hereafter assigned to said city and county by law, shall also be paid and re- ceived into the treasury thereof as a part of the Police Fund. All demands payable out of said fund may, in case there be not sufficient money in the treasury arising from the sources specified in this section, be paid out of the General Fund of said city and county.

SEC. 76. The School Fund of said city and county shall consist of all moneys received from the State School Fund ; all moneys arising from taxes upon property which shall be levied each year for that use by the Board of Supervisors, and which shall in no case exceed the rate of thirty-five dollars for each pupil who shall have actually attended school during the preceding year [Act April 1, 1872]; also the proceeds of the poll tax .- [Political Code, Article III, Sec. 3861.] The General Fund consists of all moneys in the treasury not designated and set apart by law to a specified use, and of the overplus of any Special Fund remaining after the satisfaction of all demands upon it. The Surplus Fund consists of any moneys belonging to the General Fund remaining in the treasury after the satisfaction of all demands due and payable which are specified in the first fourteen subdivisions in section ninety-five. The fiscal year shall be the same as that of the State.

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The San Francisco Directory, 1874, Part 246

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