The San Francisco Directory, 1874, Part 248

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Publication date: 1874
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O. P. VAN SCHAACK & CO., 708, 712, 714, and 716 Kearny Street, Glassware and Toys.

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provided and reserved for the redemption of said bonds and certificates of stock, to the amount herein before specified.

SEC. 98. If any expenditures not authorized by this Act be incurred, they can never be paid out of the treasury, nor shall they be deemed to constitute or lay the foundation of any claim, demand, or liability, legal, equitable, or otherwise, against the said city or county. If expenditures be incurred which are authorized by this Act to be paid out of the Surplus Funds in the treasury, but not for the preferred objects specified in section ninety-six, such expendi- tures can only be paid out of such Surplus Funds and revenues strictly appertaining to the fiscal year in which such expenditures have been ordered, or the contracts therefor entered into, and cannot be carried forward and paid out of any revenues accruing and receivable into the treas- ury for any subsequent year ; nor shall any demand for or arising out of any such expenditure, contract, or consideration be deemed to be a legal or equitable claim or liability against the said city and county or the treasury thereof, or the taxable property of tax payers otherwise than as in this section provided ; and no demand preferred against the said city and county or the treasury thereof, which is not legally obligatory under the provisions of this Act, can be recognized, assumed, or legalized, so as to give it any validity or authorize the payment thereof.

SEC. 99. [Repeals former Acts and provides that all laws and parts of laws defining the powers and duties of Supervisors or Boards of Supervisors, are declared inapplicable to the said City and County of San Francisco, except such as are expressly referred to in, and made ap- plicable thereto by, the provisions of this Act ; also, all laws and parts of laws, as far as they conflict with the provisions of this Act. The schedule to the Act provides for the organization of San Mateo County, and is therefore omitted.]*

SUPPLEMENTAL XXXVII .- Health and Quarantine Regulations for the City and Harbor of San Francisco -From the Political Code, Secs. 3004-3032.

SECTION 3004. The quarantine grounds of the Bay and Harbor of San Francisco are at the anchorage of Saucelito.

SEC. 3005. The Board of Health for the City and County of San Francisco consists of the Mayor of the city and county, and four Physicians in good standing, residing in the City and County of San Francisco, appointed by the Governor, holding their office for the term of five years.

SEC. 3006. The Mayor is ex officio President of the Board. The Board must meet monthly and at such other times as the President may direct. In the absence of the President, the Board may elect a Chairman, who is clothed with the same powers as the President.

SEC. 3007. The Health Officer for the City and County and Port of San Francisco is elected by the Board of Health, and holds office at its pleasure. He must be a graduate of some medical college in good standing, and must reside within the city limits of San Francisco.

'SEC. 3008. The Health Officer may perform all acts which quarantine officers are usually authorized to perform, and he is the executive officer of the Board of Health.

SEC. 3009. The Board of Health must appoint a Deputy Health Officer, who shall be a Physician in good standing, a Secretary, two Health Inspectors, one Market Inspector, and one Messenger, whose duties must be fixed by the Health Officer. They must also appoint one Resident Physician, one Assistant Resident Physician, one Steward, one Matron, one First Apothecary, one Second Apothecary, two Visiting Physicians, two Visiting Surgeons, as offi- cers of the City and County Hospital, in and for the City and County of San Francisco, one each of said Visiting Physicians and Surgeons to be nominated by the Faculty of the Medical Department of the University of California, and one each of said Visiting Physicians and Surgeons to be nominated by the Medical College of the Pacific. The said Board shall also have the power to appoint one Superintendent, one Resident Physician, one Matron, and such other employés as are now authorized by law to be employed in and for the Alms House in said city and county. The appointing power aforesaid is vested solely in said Board of

* In addition to the Acts herein set forth the Legislature of the State, Session 1873-74, passed the follow- ing, viz. :

. I. To legalize and ratify certain orders and resolutions (Wetzler's Dead-animal Contract) .- March 30. 1874.

II. To authorize the Board of Education to exchange a School Lot .- March 24, 1874.

III. Concerning Public Reservations .- March 24, 1874.

IV. To confirm certain contracts and assessments for Street work .- March 19 and March 25, 1874.

V. To establish and maintain a Training Ship or Ships in the City and County of San Francisco .- March 19, 1874.

VI. To provide an additional Notary Public for the district south of Market Street .- February 20, 1874. VII. To authorize the closing of certain Streets (in Agricultural Park Tract) .- February 28, 1874.

VIII. In relation to the Industrial School (commitments from the Municipal Court) .- March 4, 1874.

IX. To ratify sale of City Slip Lot No. 21, to G. F. Sharp .- March 30, 1874.

X. To grant certain privileges to the North Beach and Mission Railroad Co .- March 30, 1874.

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

ETNA 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.

906

SAN FRANCISCO DIRECTORY.

Health, and said Board shall have power to prescribe the duties of said appointees and to remove the same at pleasure.

SEC. 3010. The following annual salaries are hereby allowed to the officers of the Health Department and such other officers as are mentioned in section one of this Act, viz. : Health Officer, twenty-four hundred dollars; Deputy Health Officer, eighteen hundred dollars ; Sec- retary, two thousand one hundred dollars ; Health Inspectors, one thousand two hundred dollars each ; Market Inspector, one thousand two hundred dollars ; Messenger, nine hun- dred dollars. All of said salaries must be paid in equal monthly installments out of the Gen- eral Fund of the City and County of San Francisco in the same manner as the salaries of the other officers of the said city and county are paid. There shall be paid to the officers and employés of the City and County Hospital and Alms House, the following annual salaries, viz .: Resident Physician, two thousand and four hundred dollars ; Assistant Resident Physi- cian, fifteen hundred dollars ; Steward, fifteen hundred dollars ; Matron, seven hundred and twenty dollars ; First Apothecary, twelve hundred dollars ; Second Apothecary, six hundred dollars ; Visiting Physicians and Surgeons, twelve hundred dollars each ; Superintendent of Alms House, eighteen hundred dollars ; Resident Physician of Alms House, fifteen hundred dollars ; Matron of the Alms House, six hundred dollars ; and all other employés of said institutions are to be paid such sums as are now authorized by law ; all to be paid in equal monthly installments out of the Hospital and Alms House Fund of said City and County of San Francisco. And the Auditor of said city and county is hereby directed to audit the said demands, payable out of the funds aforesaid upon the approval of the same by the said Board of Health, and also to audit all demands for salaries of medical attendants and employés appointed by the Board of Health in accordance with this chapter for the amounts authorized by law to be paid when the same shall have been approved by said Board .- [Amend- ment, approved March 23, 1874.] The Board of Health of the City and County of San Fran- cisco shall alone have the power to appoint one City Physician, who shall receive an annual salary of nine hundred dollars, which must be paid in equal monthly installments out of the General Fund of the City and County of San Francisco, in the same manner as the salaries of the other officers of said city and county are paid.

The said Board of Health of the City and County of San Francisco may, in their discretion, appoint one Engineer and Plumber, one First Cook, one Second Cook, one Third Cook, one Baker, one Butcher, one Clerk and Interpreter, one Ambulance Driver, one Gate Keeper, one Dresser, and sixteen Nurses as employés and medical attendants of the City and County Hos- pital of San Francisco.

The following monthly salaries are hereby allowed to said employés and medical attendants mentioned in this Act : Engineer and Plumber, one hundred dollars per month ; First Cook, seventy dollars per month ; Second Cook, forty dollars per month ; Third Cook, thirty-five dollars per month ; Baker, seventy-five dollars per month ; Butcher, forty dollars per month ; Clerk and Interpreter, forty dollars per month ; Ambulance Driver, forty dollars per month ; Dresser, fifty dollars per month ; Nurses, forty dollars per month each. All of said sums must be paid monthly out of the Hospital and Alms House Fund of said City and County of San Francisco, and the Auditor of said city and county is hereby directed to audit the said demands, payable out of the fund aforesaid, upon the approval of the same by the said Board of Health .- [Amendment, approved March 30, 1874.]

SEC. 3011. The Health Officer, in addition to his salary, receives such sums for the neces- sary expenses of his office as the Board of Health may direct, and the Auditor must audit, and the Treasurer pay, such sums out of the General Fund. The Board of Supervisors must pro- vide proper offices for the Health Department.

SEC. 3012. The Board of Health have general supervision of all matters appertaining to the sanitary condition of the city and county, including the City and County Hospital, the County Jail, Alms House, Industrial School, and all public health institutions provided by the City and County of San Francisco ; and may adopt such orders and regulations, and appoint or discharge such medical attendants and employés, as to them seems best to promote the public welfare, and may appoint as many Health Inspectors as they deem necessary, in time of epi- demics.

SEc. 3013. Shipmasters bringing vessels into the Harbor of San Francisco, and masters, owners, or consignees having vessels in the harbor which have on board any cases of Asiatic cholera, small-pox, yellow, typhus, or ship fever, must report the same, in writing, to the Health Officer before landing any passengers, casting anchor, or coming to any wharf, or M soon thereafter as they, or either of them, become aware of the existence of either of these diseases on board of their vessel.

SEC. 3014. No Captain or other officer in command of any vessel sailing under a register arriving at the Port of San Francisco, nor any owner, consignee, agent, or other person having charge of such vessel, must, under a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, land or permit to be landed any freight, passengers, or other per- sons from such vessel until he has reported to the Health Officer, presented his bill of health, and received a permit from that officer to land freight, passengers, or other persons.

MERIDEN FIRE INS. CO. OF CONN .; Assets over $300,000; Farnsworth & Clark, Agts.

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. 3015. Every pilot who conducts into the Port of San Francisco any vessel subject to quarantine or examination by the Health Officer, must :

First-Bring the vessel no nearer the city than is allowed by law.

Second-Prevent any person from leaving and any communication being made with the vessel under his charge until the Health Officer has boarded her and given the necessary orders and directions.

Third-Be vigilant in preventing any violation of the quarantine laws, and report without delay all such violations that come to his knowledge to the Health Officer.

Fourth-Present the master of the vessel with a printed copy of the quarantine laws, unless he has one.

Fifth-If the vessel is subject to quarantine, by reason of infection, place at the masthead a small yellow flag.

SEC. 3016. Every master of a vessel subject to quarantine or visitation by the Health Officer, arriving in the Port of San Francisco, who refuses or neglects either :

First-To proceed with and anchor his vessel at the place assigned for quarantine, when legally directed so to do; or,

Second-To submit his vessel, cargo, and passengers to the Health Officer, and furnish all necessary information to enable that officer to determine what quarantine, or other regulations, they ought, respectively, to be subject; or,

Third-To report all cases of disease and of deaths occurring on his vessel, and to comply with all the sanitary regulations of the bay and harbor ; is liable in the sum of five hundred dollars for every such neglect or refusal.

SEC. 3017. All vessels arriving off the Port of San Francisco, from ports which have been legally declared infected ports, and all vessels arriving from ports where there is prevailing, at the time of their departure, any contagious, infectious, or pestilential diseases, or vessels with decaying cargoes, or which have unusually foul or offensive holds, are subject to quarantine, and must be, by the master, owner, pilot, or consignee, reported to the Health Officer without delay. No such vessel must cross a right line, drawn from Meiggs' Wharf to Alcatraz Island, until the Health Officer has boarded her and given the order required by law.

SEC. 3018. The Health Officer must board every vessel, subject to quarantine or visitation by him, immediately on her arrival, make such examination and inspection of vessel, books, papers, or cargo, or of persons on board, under oath, as he may judge expedient, and deter- mine whether the vessel should be ordered to quarantine, and, if so, the period of quarantine.

SEC. 3019. No Captain, or other officer in command of any passenger-carrying vessel of more than one hundred and fifty tons burden, nor of any vessel of more than one hundred and fifty tons burden having passengers on board, nor any owner, consignee, agent, or other person having charge of such vessel or vessels, must, under penalty of not less than one hundred dol- lars nor more than one thousand dollars, land, or permit to be landed, any passenger from the vessel, until he has presented his bill of health to the Health Officer, and received a permit from that officer to land such passenger, except in such cases as the Health Officer deems it safe to give the permit before seeing the bill of health.

SEC. 3020. The following fees may be collected by the Health Officer: For giving a permit to land freight or passengers, or both, from any vessel of less than one thousand tons burden, from any port out of this State, two and a half dollars ; from any port in this State, one dollar and a quarter ; from any passenger-carrying vessel of more than one thousand tons burden, three dollars and seventy-five cents ; from vessels of more than one thousand tons burden carrying no passengers, two dollars and fifty cents ; for vaccination, from each person, one dollar.

SEC. 3021. The Board of Health may enforce compulsory vaccination on passengers in infected ships, or coming from infected ports.

SEC. 3022. The Board of Health may provide suitable hospitals, to be situated at, or near, Saucelito, and furnish and supply the same with nurses and attachés, and remove thereto all persons afflicted with cholera, small-pox, yellow, typhus, or ship fever.

SEC. 3023. The Health Officer must keep a record of all births, deaths, and interments occurring in the City and County of San Francisco. Such records, when filled, must be deposited in the office of the County Recorder, and produced when required for public in- spection.

SEC. 3024. Physicians and midwives must, on or before the fourth day of each month, make a return to the Health Officer of all births, deaths, and the number of still-born children occurring in their practice during the preceding month. In the absence of such attendants, the parent must make such report within thirty days after the birth of the child. Such returns must be made in accordance with rules adopted, and upon blanks furnished by the Board of Health.

SEC. 3025. No person must inter, in the City and County of San Francisco, any human body, without having first obtained a Physician's or Coroner's certificate, setting forth, as near as possible, the name, age, color, sex, place of birth, date, locality, and cause of death, of the deceased, and Physicians, when deaths occur in their practice, must give such certificates.

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

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

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

908 SAN FRANCISCO DIRECTORY.

SEC. 3026. Superintendents of cemeteries, within the boundaries of the City and County of San Francisco, must return to the Health Officer, on each Monday, the names of all persons interred within their respective cemeteries for the preceding week, together with the certificates mentioned in the preceding section.

SEC. 3027. No superintendent of cemetery can remove, or cause to be removed, disinter, or cause to be disinterred, any corpse that has been deposited in the cemetery, without a permit from the Health Officer, or by order of the Coroner.

SEC. 3028. Whenever a nuisance exists on the property of any non-resident of the city and county, the Board of Supervisors may, on the recommendation of the Board of Health, cause the nuisance to be abated, and may allow and order paid out of the General Fund, all proper charges and expenses incurred in abating such nuisance ; and all sums so allowed and paid become a charge upon the property on which the nuisance existed, and may be recovered by an action against such property.

SEC. 3029. The Health Officer must keep, in his office, a book in which he must make an entry of all fees collected by him. He must pay all fees collected to the City and County Treasurer, weekly, to the credit of the General Fund.

SEC. 3030. The Health Officer must execute an official bond, to be approved by the Board of Health, in the sum of ten thousand dollars.

SEC. 3031. Any member of the Board of Health, Deputy Health Officer, or Secretary of the Health Department, is empowered to administer oaths on business connected with that Department.

SEC. 3032. Whenever any cause of action arises, under any of the provisions of this chapter, suit may be maintained therein, in the name of the Health Officer, in any District Court of this State.

Preparing for Immediate Publication.

THE PACIFIC COAST

BUSINESS DIRECTORY

FOR 1874-76.

Containing the Names, Business and Post-office Address of over Fifty Thousand Merchants, Manufacturers and Professional Men, in the States of California, Oregon and Nevada, the Territories of Washington, Utah, Arizona, Idaho, Montana and Alaska, and the Colony of British Columbia, With a Gazetteer of the Counties, Cities and Towns of the Pacific Coast, and the Names of the Officers governing the same, Federal, State and Municipal, and Finances thereof.

TO WHICH WILL BE ADDED

AN EXHIBIT of the RESOURCES OF THE PACIFIC COAST, And a variety of other items of information, the whole forming one of The most Valuable Books of Reference for BUSINESS MEN Ever Published.

One Volume, 1100 pp. 8vo. PRICE, FIVE DOLLARS, HENRY C. LANGLEY, Publisher, San Francisco. Copies will be Sent by Mail on Receipt of Price.

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

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

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

INDEX TO THE CONSOLIDATION ACT,

WITH THE AMENDMENTS THERETO.

Advertising, how contracted for, 877; appropriation for, 880.

Alcatraces Island, where located, 837.

Alms House and Hospital, law to establish, 890; ap- propriation for support of, 881 and 891; to pay deficiency 1872-73, 890.

Amusements, improper, may be suppressed, 880.

Assessor, County, when elected, 844; salary, 840; du- ties in assessing personal property, 897; liability for defect in assessment roll, 901; deputies and saleries, 840; extra deputies allowed, 881; how paid, 842.

Attorney and Counselor, City and County, when elected, 843; salary and duties, 839; clerk and sal- ary, 839.

Attorney, District, when elected, 844; salary, 839; du- ties, 842; clerk and salary, 839; may appoint as- sistant, 896.

Attorney, Prosecuting, Police Court, how appointed and salary, 839.

Auctioneer for Tax Collector, compensation, 841.

Auditor, County, when elected, 843, salary, 841, du- ties, 863, 878, 901-904; clerk and salary, 841; extra clerks allowed, 881; how paid, 842.

Benevolent Society, S. F., appropriation for, 904. Bonds, Official, sureties and filing, 843.

Bricks, limits for burning, 880.

Buildings, contracts for, 877.

Buildings, wooden, erection of, may be prohibited in certain limits, 879.

Cemetery, City, keeper of, 880.

Channel St. Canal, to provide for construction of, 880. Channel Street Sewer, 889.

Cisterns, construction and repair of, 880; location of, 846; appropriation for construction, 815.

City Hall Commissioners, Board of, to abolish and transfer of powers, 891-893.

Clerk Board of Supervisors, how appointed, 877, sal- ary, 877, 880; duties, 877; ex officio Clerk Board Equalization, 877; Finance Committee, 884; assist- ant and salary, 877, 880.

Clerk, County, when elected, 844; salary 839; deputies and salaries, 839.

Clerk Police Court, how appointed and duties, 851; salary, 889, 851.

Coal, weigher of, how appointed, compensation and duties, 884.

Contingent Expenses, President Board of Supervis- ors, 880.

Contracts, how made, Board of Supervisors, 877 ; Board of Education, 856; Alms House, 891.

Contractors to provide against accidents, 883.

Coroner, when elected, 841 ; salary, 810 ; duties, 818- 851; to act as Elisor, 839 ; clerk and messenger and salaries, 850.

Corporation Yard, to appropriate hospital grounds for, 880.

Cosmopolitan Schools, law to establish, 862.

County Judge, when elected and term, 843 ; salary, 839 ; to examine Treasurer's books, 903.

Court, County, jurisdiction under street grading law, 887.

Court, Justices', organization, officers, and salaries, 893, 894.

Court, Municipal, law organizing, 895 ; Judge, when elected and term, 843 ; salary, 839, 890.

Court, Probate, Judge of, when elected and term, 843 ; salary, 839.

Court Rooms, payment of rent for, authorized, 880 ; furnishing of, 880.

Court, Supreme, Supervisors to furnish rooms for, 894. Definition of Terms, " qualification of officers," 838 ; under street law, 873 ; "audited," 901 ; "law or laws," 901.

Demands on treasury, how audited and allowed, 902; payment of, 902 ; limitation of, 903 ; appeals re- lating to, 903 ; preferred, 904 ; unauthorized, 904. Deputies, additional, for city and county officers may be appointed, 842.

Dogs, relating to, running at large, 879.

Drifting sand upon streets, to prevent, 875.

Education, Board of, members and duties, 855-863 ;

officers and duties, 856-862 ; Secretary, duties and salary, 856.

Elections, expenses advertising and printing, 880; to

pay deficiency 1872-73, 800 ; incidental expenses, each district, 881.

Elections, Municipal, law changing time for holding, 843.

Equalization, Board of, Supervisors to constitute, 878 ; clerk of, 877.

Farallone Islands, where located, 837.

Fees, official, to be paid into Special Fee Fund, 842. Finance and Revenue, provisions relating to, 900.

Finance Committee, law organizing, 884 ; Clerk of and duties, 885.

Finance Department, Auditor head of, and duties, 902.

Fines, certain, to be paid into Police Fund, 852.

Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph, officers and sala- ries, 881; appropriation for expenses of, 881.

Fire Department, laws organizing, 814-847; Board of Commissioners and duties, 846, 847; clerk and salary, 845, 816; officers and working force, 846; salaries, 845; appropriation for expenses of, 845; to pay deficiency 1872-73, 890 ; janitor and salary, 846, 889; relief of members, 846.

Fiscal Year, what constitutes a, 900.

Fourth of July, appropriation to celebrate, 882.

Fuel for Public Buildings, payment for, 881.

Fund, transfer of moneys from one to another, 878 ;

moneys to be kept separate, 901 ; when insuffi- cient, demand to be registered, 902.

Fund, Corporation Debt, how applied, 878.

Fund, General, what moneys comprise, 837, 900; how applied, 878, 904.

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The San Francisco Directory, 1874, Part 248

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