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License Collectors .- To appoint one person as Collector of Licenses, whose salary shall not exceed one hundred and seventy-five dollars per month, and two persons as Deputy Collectors of Licenses, whose salaries shall not exceed one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month each, the amount of each such salary to be fixed by the said Board of Supervisors ; which said Col- lector of Licenses and Deputy Collector of Licenses shall have and exercise the same powers as Police Officers in serving process or summons and in making arrests ; also, shall have and exer- cise the power to administer such oaths and affirmations as shall be necessary in the discharge and execution of their official duties. The said Board of Supervisors shall have power to make all needful rules and by-laws regulating the official conduct or duty of said persons who shall be appointed Collector of Licenses and Deputy Collectors of Licenses, and to alter or amend the same from time to time, in such manner as they may deem proper .- [Act April 27, 1863.]
License Notice Servers .- To authorize the Treasurer of said city and county to appoint two License Notice Servers, to be approved by the Board of Supervisors, whose salaries shall be fixed by said Board at a sum not to exceed eighty-five dollars per month .- [Act March 14, 1868.]
Mayor pro tem .- To designate one of their number, who shall, in the absence of the Mayor, or during his inability from any cause, perform the duties required by law of the Mayor of said city and county .- [Act April 25, 1863, Sec. 1, Sub. 7.]
Mechanics' Institute .- To lease the Mechanics' Institute any lot or lots of land under their control they may deem proper, (excepting all school-lots and Portsmouth Square) for the use of said Institute, to erect temporary buildings for the holding of fairs and other purposes .- [ Act April 15, 1859.]
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National Anniversary .- To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, a sum not to ex- ceed three thousand dollars in any year, for the celebration in said city and county of the anni- versary of our National Independence. [Act April 4, 1864, Sec 1, Sub 4.]
Nuisances .- To authorize and direct the summary abatement of nuisances; to make all regulations 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 sum- mary 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 .- [Act April 25, 1863.]
Official Seal .- To ordain, procure, and use a common seal, to be used at pleasure, as the offi- cial seal of the said City and County of San Francisco, the cost of which seal shall not exceed fifty dollars, to be paid out of the General Fund, by order of said Board of Supervisors .- [ Act April 23, 1858, Sec. 1, Sub. 20.]
Omnibus Lines .- The said Board of Supervisors may make all needful rules and police regu- lations for the safety and well ordering of all omnibus lines in the City and County of San Francisco .- [ Act April 23, 1858, Sec. 1, Sub. 23.]
Police .- To regulate the Police and Police force of said city and county, and to prescribe their powers and duties .- [Act April 25, 1863, Sec. 1, Sub. 1.]
To authorize and empower the Police Commissioners of said city and county to appoint and regulate local Policemen, whenever in their judgment the necessities of said city and county require it : provided, that no money shall be paid out of the treasury of the said city and county to said local Policemen .- [Act April 4, 1864, Sec. 1, Sub. 12.]
To increase the Police force of said city and county, as from time to time may be deemed necessary by the said Board of Supervisors, to not exceeding one hundred members, including the number now allowed by law, a portion of which increase may constitute a Harbor Police in and for the city and county, and to allow and order paid out of the General Fund the sala- ries of said additional Police force, not to exceed the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month, or any less sum which they may deem proper for each member of said additional Police force .- [Act April 4, 1864, Sec. 1, Sub. 11.]
To increase the salary of each member of the Police force of said city and county, twenty-five dollars per month, and to diminish the same again at pleasure to the present salary of said Police force ; which said increase of salary, if made, shall be paid as the salaries of the Police force are now paid, and out of the same fund .- [ Act April 4, 1863, Sec. 1, Sub. 16.]
Police Attorney .- To appoint an Assistant Prosecuting District Attorney, who shall hold said office during the pleasure of said Board. The said Assistant shall also be the Prosecuting At- torney for the Police Court of said city and county, and shall receive a salary as such Assistant and Prosecuting Police Attorney of three thousand dollars per annum, payable monthly, out of the General Fund, which shall be in full for all services rendered for said city and county, or for either of them .- [Acts April 23, 1858, and April 16, 1862.]
Porters City Hall .- To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, to the Porter of the City Hall of said city and county, a sum not to exceed ninety dollars per month in lieu of the salary now allowed to him by law .- [Amendment April 4, 1864, Sec. 1, Sub. 14.]
To appoint an additional Assistant Porter for the City Hall of said city and county, after the same shall be enlarged, and to allow and order paid out of the General Fund a salary to him not exceeding the sum of seventy-five dollars per month .- [Amendment April 4, 1864, Sec. 1, Sub. 13.]
Protection of the Public .- To require, by ordinance, all contractors for street work, or other persons lawfully undertaking to improve, grade, or alter streets or public highways in the City and County of San Francisco, to erect fences or other suitable barriers to protect the public from damage, loss, or accident, by reason of such grading, alteration, or improvement, and to determine and prescribe the fines and penalties that shall be incurred for breach of such regula- tions and ordinances as may be passed by virtue hereof .- [ Act April 25, 1863, Sec. 1, Sub. 6.]
Public Buildings .- In case the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Fran- cisco shall order any gas for the City Hall, engine houses, or any other public buildings, they are hereby authorized to audit and pay for the same out of the General Fund of the City and County of San Francisco as herein provided .- [ Act March 6, 1858, Sec. 3.]
To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, not exceeding the sum of seven thousand dollars in any one fiscal year, for repairs to the public buildings of said city and county .- [Act April 27, 1860.]
To improve, alter, and enlarge the present jail building and property of said city and county, and if by them deemed expedient, for that purpose to purchase and receive additional land in
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said city and county, and to allow and order paid out of the General Fund, sums not to exceed the aggregate sum of twenty thousand dollars, for the purposes mentioned in this section .- [Act April 4, 1863, Sec. 1, Sub. 20.]
To transfer to the Board of Education of said city and county, for Public School purposes, the building now occupied as a County Hospital, whenever the same shall not be required for a Hospital .- [Act April 4, 1864, Sec. 1, Sub. 4.]
Public Grounds .- The amounts authorized to be paid by the Act of April 4, 1864, shall be the only amounts to be paid for the respective purposes for which they are authorized to be paid under the provisions thereof, except when otherwise expressly provided therein, and excepting an allowance of two thousand dollars per annum, heretofore provided by law, for inclosing, improv- ing, and regulating all public grounds in said city and county ; and said Board of Supervisors are hereby authorized and empowered to direct and have executed the work, building, services, and improvements thereinbefore mentioned and provided to be paid for .- [Act April 4, 1861, Sec. 3.]
For improving Columbia Square, six thousand dollars .- [Act March 14, 1868.]
To appropriate, allow, and order paid ont of the General Fund, a sum not to exceed ten thou- sand dollars for grading and fencing Hamilton Square, in said city and county .- [Act April 4, 1864, Sec. 1, Sub. 24.]
For improving Washington Square, ten thousand dollars .- [Act March 14, 1868.]
Public Offices .- From and after the first day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and after the purchase aforesaid, it shall not be lawful to pay out of the treasury of the City and County of San Francisco, or out of any public funds thereof, any money for rent of rooms or offices for Judges' Chambers, the City and County Attorney, the Board of Education, the Board of Delegates of the Fire Department, or for any other officer or officers of the said city and county ; provided, that this section shall not impair any contract now existing .- [Act January 30, 1864.]
Public Pound .- To order constructed a common pound for estrays, and to provide for the taking up and impounding of all animals running at large within the streets of said city and county, north of Johnston Street and east of Larkin Street [jurisdiction extended over the entire limits of the City and County of San Francisco-Act May 14, 1861] : provided, the cost of the construction of said pound shall not exceed five hundred dollars, which sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be paid out of the General Fund by order of said Board of Supervisors. The said Board shall have power to make all needful rules and regulations neces- sary for the proper management and control of said pound, and may appoint one or more Pound Keepers, who shall be paid out of the fines imposed and collected of the owners of any animals impounded, and from no other source .- [Act April 23, 1858, Sec. 1, Sub. 14.]
To allow and pay, out of the General Fund, a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars per annum, for deficiency in the salary of the Pound Keeper in said city and county .-- [ Act April 4, 1864, Sec. 1, Sub. 5.]
Public Prostitutes .- To exclude, by order, prostitutes from certain limits, in the discretion of said Board .- [ Act April 26, 1862.]
Railroads .- To have the power and authority to restrict all railroad companies, in laying down their tracks along the streets of said city and county, to a space of not more than ten feet on each side of the center of such street or streets; and for a violation of such restriction the Board is hereby granted the power to prescribe and enforce such penalties as they may deem just and proper .- [Act March 21, 1868.]
ROADS.
SUPPLEMENTAL XIII .- An Act to create certain Road Districts in the City and County of San Fran- cisco, and to provide for the Repair and Improvement of Roads therein .- Approved May 20, 1861.
SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco, within sixty days from and after the passage of this Act, to divide that portion of the Eleventh and Twelfth Districts in said city and county, being southerly and westerly of the line formed by Center, Dolores, Market, and Larkin streets, into two road districts; they shall cause each district to be numbered and the boundaries of the same to be accurately defined by refer- ence to public streets or highways, or other permanent monuments, and shall cause such descrip- tion of boundaries, with their numbers, to be entered on their minutes.
SEC. 2. The said Board of Supervisors shall, as soon as they have established the road districts before named, appoint some qualified person, a resident and legal voter in each road district, Roadmaster ; and whenever thereafter a vacancy in said office may occur, each Road- master shall hold his office for the term of one year from and after the date of his appointment, and until his successor is appointed and qualified.
SEC. 3. Said Roadmasters shall each take and subscribe the proper oath of office, and give
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bond conditioned on the faithful discharge of the duties of his office, in such sum, not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars, and with such sureties as the Board of Supervisors may direct.
SEc. 4. It shall be the duty of each Roadmaster to carefully examine all the public roads in his district and report the condition of the same, from time to time, to the Board of Supervisors : provided, that from the month of November to May, inclusive, of each year, such report shall be made on the first Monday of each month ; said report shall specify the kind of repairs and the portion or portions of the district in which they are required, together with the estimate of the cost thereof.
SEC. 5. Upon presentation to the Board of Supervisors of the estimate of the Roadmaster of any district, as herein provided, the said Board of Supervisors shall appropriate a sum of money not exceeding the amount of said estimate : provided, that the amount of all appropria- tions authorized by this Act shall not exceed four thousand dollars for any one fiscal year. All sums so appropriated shall be faithfully applied for the purposes specified in such appropriation ; and upon the presentation of the sworn certificate of the Roadmaster of any district, any sum or sums, not exceeding such appropriation, shall be allowed and ordered paid out of the General Fund, in like manner as other demands are allowed and ordered paid.
SEC. 6. For the purposes of this Act, public roads and highways shall include all roads that have been open to the public and used as public highways long enough to evince their utility and necessity, but shall not include any street established by any authorized survey of the city, or City and County of San Francisco, or any part thereof, unless such street shall have been or may hereafter be established across or along such public road or highway, or some part thereof.
SEC. 7. Each Roadmaster is hereby authorized to purchase all necessary timber, planks, or other material for the construction or repair of bridges or culverts, and to hire, at just and reasonable rates, all necessary labor, tools, or implements, for widening, straightening, grading, or otherwise improving such roads and highways. Each Roadmaster shall receive a reasonable compensation, to be paid out of the General Fund, not to exceed five dollars a day for each day's service rendered in the discharge of the duties of his office : provided, that no Roadmaster shall be entitled to receive more than three hundred dollars for all services he may render as such officer, in any one fiscal year.
SUPPLEMENTAL XIV .- Act to confer additional Powers, etc .- Approved March 16, 1868.
SECTION 1. The Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco are hereby fully empowered and authorized to expend a sum not to exceed four thousand dollars per annum, payable out of the General Fund, for the improvement of roads in the First Road District ; said money to be expended on roads outside of the charter line of eighteen hundred and fifty- one (1851).
To expend a sum not to exceed six thousand dollars per annum, payable out of the General Fund, for the improvement of roads in the First Road District ; said money to be expended on roads outside of charter line of eighteen hundred and fifty-one (1851) .- [Act February 14,1866.]
Sheriff's Advertising .- The official advertising of the Sheriff shall be included in the adver- tisement for proposals to do the city and county official printing, and shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder publishing a newspaper of general circulation in said city and county : provided, said award shall be made to the lowest responsible bidder, in the aggregate, for the whole of said city and county official printing and sheriff's advertising. [Act March 24, 1868.]
Special Counsel .- To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, not exceeding the sum of five thousand dollars for any one fiscal year, for the employment of special counsel .- [ Act May 17, 1861, Sec. 5.]
Streets .-- To allow and order paid out of the General Fund, not to exceed eight thousand dollars per annum, in addition to the sum now allowed by law, for cleaning the streets, sewers, cross-walks, and highways of said city and county .- [ Act April 4, 1863, Sec. 1, Sub. 6.]
To order paid out of the General Fund, not to exceed seven thousand five hundred dollars, for cleaning sewers, cesspools, and street crossings, in any one fiscal year .-- [ Act April 26, 1862, Sec. 1, Sub. 9.]
To allow and order paid, out of the General Fund, not exceeding the sum of twelve thousand dollars, in any one fiscal year, for repairs to, and improvements upon, streets and sewers in front of property belonging to the city, other than those mentioned in the previous subdivision of this section .- [Act April 27, 1860, Sec. 1, Sub. 2.]
'To allow and order paid, out of the General Fund, for the repairs to the outer half of streets constituting the water front of said city and county, as provided in section thirty-eight of " An Act to repeal the several Charters of the City of San Francisco, to establish the Boundaries of the City and County of San Francisco, and to consolidate the Government thereof," approved April nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six ; the Auditor to audit, and the
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Treasurer to pay, sums not exceeding, in the aggregate, three thousand dollars [increased to six thousand dollars-Act April 27, 1860] during any one fiscal year .- [Act April 18, 1858, Sec. 1.]
To order paid ont of the General Fund, any deficiency that may occur in the Street Light Fund, for lighting the public streets .- [Act April 26, 1852, Sec. 1, Sub. 7.]
SUPPLEMENTAL XV .- An Act to empower the Board of Supervisors to make an Appropriation to establish 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 expenditure 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 XVI .- An Act to confer further Powers upon the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco .- Approved April 25, 1863.
SECTION 1. That the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco shall have full power and authority to provide, by order, for laying out, opening, extending, widening, straightening, or closing up, in whole or in part, any street, square, lane, or alley, within the bounds of said city, which, in their opinion, the public welfare or convenience may require ; to provide for ascertaining whether any and what amount in value of damage will be caused thereby, and what amount of benefit will thereby accrue to the owner or possessor of any ground or improvements within said city and county, for which such owner or possessor ought to be compensated, or ought to pay a compensation, and to provide for assessing and levying either generally on the whole assessable property within said city, or specially on the property of persons benefited, the whole, or any part of the damages and expenses which they shall as- certain will be incurred in locating, opening, extending, widening, straightening, or closing up the whole or any part of any street, square, lane, or alley, in said city and county ; to provide for granting appeals to the County Court of the City and County of San Francisco, from the decisions of any Commissioners or other persons, appointed in virtue of any ordinance, to ascer- tain the damage which will be caused or the benefit which will accrue to the owners or possessors of grounds or improvements, by locating, opening, extending, widening, straightening, or closing up, in whole or in part, any street, lane, or alley, within said city and county, and for securing to every such owner and possessor, the right, on application, within a reasonable time, to have decided, by a jury trial, whether any damage has been caused, or any benefit has accrued to them, and to what amount ; to provide for collecting and paying over the amount of compen- sation adjudged to each person entitled, and to enact and pass all orders, from time to time, which shall be deemed necessary and proper to exercise the powers and effect the objects above specified : provided, nevertheless, that before the Board of Supervisors of the City and County of San Francisco proceed to execute any of the powers vested in them by this Act, at least
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thirty days' notice shall be given of any application which may be made for the passage of any order, by advertisement in at least two of the daily newspapers of the City and County of San Francisco having the largest circulation : provided, further, that whenever any street or part of any street in the said city and county, occupied or used by the track of any railroad company, shall require to be altered or widened for the convenience of public travel, and proceedings for the altering or widening the same shall have been taken under the provisions of this Act, it shall be lawful for the Commissioners appointed as in this Act provided, and whose duty it may be. to make a just and equitable assessment of the whole amount of costs, damages, and expenses of such altering or widening, among the owners of all the lands and real estate intended to be bene- fited thereby, to assess such portion of said costs, damages, and expenses upon the corporation or company owning or using said railroad track, as shall to them seem equitable and just, and such assessment shall be a lien upon any property of said corporation or company in the said city and county, and may also be enforced in the same manner as the assessment upon such owners of lands and real estate intended to be benefited thereby.
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