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SEC. 70. The Board of Supervisors shall have power to hear and determine appeals from the executive officers of said city and county, in the cases provided in this Act ; and in all cases of an appeal taken to the Board of Supervisors or Board of Education, from the order or decision made by any other officer or officers, such officer or officers shall furnish the Board with a state- ment of his or their reasons for the orders or decisions so appealed from ; and the party appealing shall be heard briefly, but without the observance of any technical or other formalities, not necessary, in the discretion of the Board, to a just decision, which shall, after ascertaining the true state of the case, be given without delay.
SEC. 71. First. On or before the first Monday of May, annually, the Board of Supervisors of said city and county shall levy the amount of taxes for State, city, and county purposes, required by law to be levied upon all property, not exempt from taxation, said amount to be such as the said Board may deem sufficient to provide for the payment of all demands upon the treasury thereof, authorized by law to be paid out of the same : provided, that such taxation, exclusive of the State tax, and any and all special taxes now or which hereafter may be author- ized by law, shall not in the aggregate exceed the rate now allowed by said Act, of which this is amendatory, to wit : two dollars and thirty-five cents upon each one hundred dollars' valuation of the property to be assessed : provided, further, that the said Board of Supervisors shall, in making the said levy of said taxes, apportion and divide the taxes so levied and to be collected and applied to the several specific funds, known as the Corporation Debt Fund, General Fund, School Fund, Street Light Fund, and Street Department Fund, according to the estimate of said Board of the necessities of the said funds, except that the rate for the School Fund shall not exceed thirty-five cents on each one hundred dollars' valuation of property : and, provided, further, that the said Board shall authorize the disbursement of said money for the purposes hereinafter mentioned ; and at the close of each fiscal year the said Board shall direct the Treasurer to transfer all surplus moneys of all funds, excepting the School Fund, after liquidating or pro- viding for all outstanding demands upon said funds, to the General Fund ; but no money shall be transferred from either of the said funds to another, nor used in paying any demand upon such other fund, until all the indebtedness arising in any fiscal year and payable out of said funds so raised for said fiscal year, shall have been paid and discharged.
Second. The Corporation Debt Fund shall be applied to and used for the payment of de- mands authorized under the fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and tenth subdivisions of section ninety- five of the Act of which this is amendatory, and the several other Acts amendatory thereof; and of section seven of an Act, entitled "An Act to provide for the Funding and Payment of the Outstanding Unfunded Claims against the City of San Francisco, and against the County of San Francisco, as they existed prior to the first day of July, A.D. eighteen hundred and fifty-eight."
Third. The General Fund shall be applied and used for the payment of all sums authorized by law to be paid out of the General Fund, and not otherwise provided for in this Act.
Fourth. The School Fund shall be applied and used for the payment of all sums authorized by law to be paid out of the School Fund.
Fifth. The Street Light Fund shall be applied and used in payment for lighting the streets of the city. and for the repair of lamps and posts in pursuance of any existing or future contract of the said city or county.
Sixth. The Street Department Fund shall be applied and used for repairing, improving all streets, lanes, and the crossings thereof, which shall have been accepted by the said Board of Supervisors ; for cleaning streets, lanes, crossings, and sewers ; for all street work in front of or assessable upon property belonging to the said city and county, except school lots already pay- able out of [the ] School Fund ; for all street work on the water front of said city and county, not by law assessable upon private property ; for all work authorized by the said Board upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Streets and Highways, as immediately essential for the safety of life, limb, or property, or necessary for public health, or which cannot be by law assessed upon private property, and for such other objects relating to streets and highways, as shall be directed by law to be paid therefrom. All moneys received from licenses on vehicles,
E. H. JONES & CO., 116 Sansom Street, Hosiery and Gloves.
M. S. WHITING & CO., 219 Bush St., supply country dealers with Wines and Liquors, in quantities to suit. fee next leaf.
REDINGTON, HOSTETTER & CO., keep a full and choice stock Paints, Oil Colors, etc.
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from the income from street railroads, from fines and penalties for violation of any law or ordi- nance regulating vehicles, or the public streets, shall be paid into the Street Department Fund. -[Amendment March 26, 1866.]
SEC. 72. The said Board of Supervisors shall also constitute a Board of Equalization for said city and county, and as such shall have the powers conferred by the general laws regulating the. assessment and collection of taxes, when not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act. Appointments of officers or public agents required by existing statutes, not repealed by this Act, to be made on the nomination of the Mayor, and confirmation by the Common Council of the City of San Francisco, shall, after this Act takes effect, be made in like manner on the nomination of the President of the Board of Supervisors and a confirmation by said Board.
SEC. 73. It shall be the duty of the Auditor, the Superintendent of Common Schools, the Superintendent of Public Streets and Highways, Chief of Police, and Chief Engineer of the Fire Department of said city and county, to report to the Board of Supervisors on the first Monday in February of each year, the condition of their respective departments, embracing all their operations and expenditures during the preceding year, and recommending such improve- ments in them as they may deem necessary. The Auditor shall also present to the Board of Supervisors at each quarterly session, and must also publish the same, a statement of the exact condition of the finances of said city and county. which must show the receipts into, and dis- bursements made from, the treasury during the preceding quarter, the amount of money on hand, and the amount of audited demands outstanding. Immediately after the first Monday in Feb- ruary, the Board of Supervisors shall make up and publish an abstract from these several reports and other sources of the operations, expenditures, and conditions of all departments of governments of the said city and county.
SEC. 74. The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco shall have power, by regulation or order [Amendment April 25, 1863]:
First. To regulate the Police and Police Force of said city and county, and to prescribe their powers and duties .- [Amendment April 25, 1863.]
Second. To provide for the security, custody, and administration of all property of said city and county, without any power to sell or encumber the same, or lease any part thereof for more than three years, except, however, that such personal property belonging to the fire, street, or other departments, as they deem unsuited to the uses and purposes for which the same was designed, or so much worn and dilapidated as not to be worth repairing, may be sold or exchanged, by order or resolution.
Third. To authorize and direct the summary abatement of nuisances ; to make all regula- tions which may be necessary or expedient for the preservation of the public health and the prevention of contagious diseases ; to provide by regulation, for the prevention and summary removal of all nuisances and obstructions in the streets, alleys, highways, and public grounds of said city and county ; and to prevent or regulate the running at large of dogs, and to authorize the destruction of the same, when at large contrary to ordinance .- [Amendment April 25, 1863.]
Fourth. To provide for cases omitted in this Act, and in conformity with the principles adopted in it for opening, altering, extending, constructing, repairing, or otherwise improving, of public streets and highways, at the expense of the property benefited thereby, without any recourse, in any event, upon the city and county, or the public treasury for any portion of the expense of such works, or any delinquency of the property-holders or owners.
Fifth. Providing for lighting the streets .- [Amendment April 26, 1862.]
Sixth. To regulate market-houses and market-places.
Seventh. To provide for the erection, repair, and regulation of wharves and docks, and fixing the rates of wharfage thereat.
Eighth. To provide for inclosing, improving, and regulating all public grounds of the city and county, at an expense not to exceed two thousand dollars per annum.
Ninth. To prohibit the erection of wooden buildings, or structures, within any fixed limits where the streets have been established and graded, or ordered to be graded ; to regulate the sale, storage, and use of gunpowder, or other explosive, or combustible materials and substances, and make all needful regulations for protection against fire.
Tenth. To make such regulations concerning the erection and use of buildings as may be necessary for the safety of the inhabitants.
Eleventh. To determine the fines, forfeitures, and penalties that shall be incurred for the breach of regulations established by the said Board of Supervisors, and also for a violation of the provisions of this Act, where no penalty is affixed thereto, or provided by law ; but no pen- alty to be imposed shall exceed the amount of one thousand dollars, or six months' imprison- ment, or both ; and every violation of any lawful order, or regulations, or ordinance, of the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, is hereby declared a misde- meanor or public offense, and all prosecutions for the same shall be in the name of the people of the State of California.
EDWARD BOSQUI & CO., Paper Rulers, Leidesdorff st., corner of Clay.
PACIFIC COAST BUSINESS DIRECTORY circulates throughout California.
C. P. VAN SCHAACK & CO., Nos. 712, 714 and 716, Kearny Street.
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Twelfth. To regulate and provide for the employment of prisoners sentenced to labor on the public works of said city and county.
Thirteenth. To license and regulate hackney-coaches, carriages, and other public vehicles, and to fix the rates to be charged for the transportation of persons, baggage, and property therein ; and also to license and regulate porters employed in conveying baggage for persons arriving in and departing from said city and county, and to prohibit the exercise of those em- ployments without such licenses.
Fourteenth. To license and regulate all such callings, trades, and employments, as the public good may require to be licensed and regulated, and are not prohibited by law .- [ Amendment April 27, 1863, Sec. 1, Sub. 1.]
Fifteenth. To prohibit and suppress, or exclude from certain limits, all houses of ill-fame, prostitution, and gaming ; to prohibit and suppress, or exclude from certain limits, or to regu- late, all occupations, houses, places, pastimes, amusements, exhibitions, and practices, which are against good morals, contrary to public order and decency, or dangerous to the public safety .- [Amendment April 25, 1863.]
Sixteenth. To provide for the erection of a work-house, house of refuge, or house of correc- tion, and for the regulation and government of the same.
Seventeenth. To direct and control the Fire Department of said city and county, in conformity with the laws .- [ Amendment. See Supplemental III, page 678.]
Eighteenth. 'T'o fix the fees and charges to be collected by the Surveyor of said city and county, for certificates of surveys for buildings or other purposes, and by the Superintendent of Streets and Highways, and any and all other municipal officers, where their fees are not otherwise fixed by law.
Nineteenth. To provide, by regulation, where it may be necessary, for carrying the provisions of this Act into effect.
Twentieth. To provide for the care and maintenance of the indigent sick of said city and county.
Twenty-first. To provide for the construction and repair of hydrants, fire-plugs, cisterns, and pumps in the streets, for public security and convenience.
Twenty-second. [Repealed, Act April 26, 1862.]
Twenty-third. To provide ways and means for the prosecution of the claims, in the name of the City of San Francisco, to the public lands, now pending for the same.
Twenty-fourth. To permit the laying down of railroad tracks, and the running of cars there- on, along any street, or portion of street, for the sole purpose of excavating and filling in a street or portion of a street, or adjoining lots, and for such limited time as may be necessary for the purposes aforesaid, and no longer .- [Act May 18, 1861, Sec. 15.]
The term " construction of a street," as used in this Act, shall include any, or all, of the following, viz : Grading, sewering, paving, piling, and capping, planking, excavating, filling in, and other incidental matters necessary to make a street, or part of a street, in perfect condition ; in the first instance, including sidewalks, crosswalks, street-crossings, or intersections of streets. The term " repairs of streets," as used in this Act, includes all manner of necessary improve- ments of any street, or part of a street, including sidewalks and crossings, or intersection of streets, and, also, keeping the same in order after the same has been accepted, as in this Act provided.
The term " main streets," as used in this Act, means such streets as bound a block. The word " block " shall mean the blocks which are known and designated as such on the map and books of the Assessor of said city and county .- [Act May 18, 1861, Sec. 16.]
The publication of all notices required by the provisions of this Act, shall be made in the newspaper doing the printing for said city and county .- [Act May 18, 1861, Sec. 17.]
The following additional powers* have been granted by the Legislature of the State, viz :
Advertising and Election Printing. - To pay out of the General Fund a sum not exceeding eight thousand dollars per annum, for advertising and election printing .- [ Act March 14, 1868.] Block Book .- To pay George C. Potter, for making Block Book, one thousand three bun- dred and twenty-seven dollars .- [Act March 14, 1868.]
Burning Bricks .- To fix limits in said City and County of San Francisco, within which the burning of bricks shall be prohibited, and to make such rules and regulations in relation to the
* In addition to the powers of the Board of Supervisors herein specified, the Legislature of the State, Session 1867-68, authorized the following :
I. Kearny Street, appropriating forty thousand dollars to meet demands on fund. See Statutes, page 30.
II. M. Lynch, authorizing the settlement of claim. See Statutes, page 575.
III. Nevada Street, authorizing the re-survey of the lines of. See Statutes, page 714.
IV. Order Eight Hundred, confirming and ratifying the provisions thereof, and setting apart lands for a Public Park, Cemetery, etc. See Statutes, pages 379 and 410.
V. San José Railroad, authorizing the sale of Bonds loaned to. See Statutes, page 716,
VI. Spring Valley Water Works, authorizing and confirming sale of certain lands. See Statutes, page 60.
E. H. JONES & CO., 116 Sansom Street, Laces and Embroideries.
M. S. WHITING & CO., 219 Bush St., supply country dealers with Wines and Liquors, in quantities to suit. See next leaf.'
REDINGTON HOSTETTER & CO., keep largest assortment of Fancy Goods, Perfumery.
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burning of bricks in any part of said city and county as they may deem advisable .- [ Act April 15, 1861, Sec. 1.]
Contingent Expenses .- To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, a sum not to ex- ceed one hundred and fifty dollars per month, to be expended at the instance of the President of the Board of Supervisors, for contingent expenses, other than those heretofore provided for, and of which he shall make a quarterly report to the Board .- [ Act May 17, 1861, Sec. 1, Sub. 1.]
Election Expenses .- To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, for the election ex- penses of said eity and county, not to exceed seventy-five dollars for each Election District for each election in said city and county .- [Act April 4, 1863, Sec. 1, Sub. 5.]
Finance Committee .- 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 ordi- nary duties of the Finance Committee of said Board, shall have the power as hereinafter speci- fied. 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 collection, cus- tody. 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 con- tinue to have and exercise all the powers granted in this Act. The said committee shall have power to appoint a Clerk, who, during the time that he shall be actually employed, shall receive a salary of two hundred dollars a month, which amount shall be understood to cover all expen- ses for books, stationery, lights, fuel, and contingencies, which may be necessary for the use of said committee, and shall be paid out of the General Fund, upon demand, of the treasury of said City and County of San Francisco, after being first approved by the committee, and allowed and registered by the Auditor, like other similar demands. The said committee may visit any of the public offices when and as often as they think proper, and make their ex- aminations and investigations therein without hindrance. In the exercise of its functions, the concurrence of two members of the committee shall be deemed sufficient .- [Act April 10, 1857.]
Fire Alarm Telegraph .- To appoint one Superintendent for the Fire Alarm and Police Tele- graph," at a salary of one hundred and fifty dollars per month, payable out of the General Fund. -[Act April 4, 1864.]
To expend a sum not to exceed ten thousand dollars for extending and repairing the Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph, payable out of the General Fund .- [Act March 14, 1868.]
Health Officer. To employ a Health Officer for the City and County of San Francisco, at a salary not to exceed two hundred dollars per month .- [ Act February 14, 1866.]
Home for the Inebriate .- To allow and order paid to the President and Treasurer of the Home for the Care of the Inebriate, for the support of said institution, out of the Police Fund of said city and county, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars per month .- [Act April 25, 1863.]
Hospital, City and County .- The Mayor, Auditor, and Treasurer of the City and County of San Francisco, by, and with the consent of the Board of Supervisors of said city and county first obtained by ordinance, are hereby authorized and empowered to issue from time to time, as may be directed by the said Board of Supervisors and as may be necessary for the purposes herein named, bonds not exceeding in the aggregate the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. All money derived from the issue and sale of said bonds shall be appropriated and used for the sole purpose of building a Hospital in the City and County of San Francisco, the location, style, and material thereof, the construction, and all contracts and plans relating there- to, 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 .- [Act March 28, 1868.]
Also to allow and order paid out of the General Fund, such sums as are now due, or may become due, to the physicians of the City and County Hospital .- [ Act April 27, 1860, Sec. 1, Sub. 17.]
Indigent Dead .- To allow and order paid out of the General Fund. such sums as are now due, or may become due, for burying the indigent dead. - [Aet April 27, 1860, Sec. 1, Sub. 6.]
Indigent Sick .- To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, not to exceed the sum of five thousand dollars per month. for the support of the indigent sick and the contingent expenses of the City and County Hospital of said city and county ; and out of the same fund, not to
* The Superintendent of the Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph Is authorized (Act March 14. 1868) to appoint three operators, at a salary of one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month each; also one repairer, at a salary of one hundred dollars per monili. See Statutes, page 160.
EDWARD BOSQUI & CO., Steel and Copperplate Engravers and Printers, cor. Clay and Commercial.
PACIFIC COAST BUSINESS DIRECTORY, Henry G. Langley, Publisher, 612 Clay Street, San Francisco.
C. P. VAN SCHAACK & CO., Nos. 712, 714 and 716, Kearny Street.
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exceed the sum of six thousand dollars for any one year, for the support of the Small Pox Hospital of said city and county .- [ Act April 4, 1863, Sec. 1, Sub. 13.]
Industrial School .- To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, a sum not to exceed three hundred dollars per annum for medical attendance upon the inmates of the Industrial School in said city and county .- [ Act April 4, 1864, Sec. 1, Sub. 26.]
Insane Persons .- To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, such sums as are now due, or may become due, for expenses of conveying insane persons to the State Hospital, at. Stockton .- [ Act April 27, 1860, Sec. 1, Sub. 6.]
Interpreter Police Court .- To allow and order paid to an Interpreter of the German language for the Police and County Courts, to be appointed by the County Judge, Police Judge, and President of the Board of Supervisors, one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month, to be paid from the General Fund .- [ Act April 4, 1864, Sec. 1, Sub. 28.]
Judgments against the City .- To order paid any final judgment against said city and county, out of the Surplus Fund .- [ Act April 23, 1858.]
Laws and Ordinances .- To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, for the fiscal year of eighteen hundred and sixty and eighteen hundred and sixty-one, not exceeding the sum of ten hundred dollars, for compiling and publishing the laws and ordinances relating to the City and County of San Francisco ; and for any fiscal year thereafter a further sum, not exceeding three hundred dollars, for the same purpose .- [ Act May 17, 1861, Sec. 3.]
Licenses .- 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 all licenses granted in pursuance of the provisions of this Act, or the powers therein delegated, shall be signed by the Auditor of said city and county .- [ Act April 27, 1863.]
Authorized to direct the Auditor of said city and county to issue licenses to so many and to such persons as they shall deem properly qualified to keep intelligence offices in said city and county .- [Act May 17, 1861.]
To license and regulate hackney coaches, and other public passenger vehicles, and to fix the rates to be charged for the transportation of persons, baggage, and property, or either, therein ; and to license and regulate all vehicles used for the conveyance of merchandise, earth, and bal- last, or either ; and also, to license and regulate persons and parties employed in conveying baggage, property, and merchandise, or either, to or from any of the wharves, slips, bulkheads, or railroad stations within the limits of the City and County of San Francisco ; to appoint and license one Collector, in addition to the two now authorized by law, [amended, see the next paragraph ] at a salary not to exceed one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month, which License Collector, and also those now authorized by law to be appointed, shall each have and exercise the same powers as Police Officers in serving process of summons and making arrest ; to fix and establish the amount of every license paid into the city and county treasury for city and county purposes, at such rate as said Board shall determine, not exceeding the amount fixed by law ; and, provided, said Board shall have no power to entirely abolish any license fixed by law, or to reduce the proportions of each license collected, which by law is paid into the city and county treasury for State purposes .- [ Act April 25, 1863, Sec. 1, Sub. 4.]
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