Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-08-06
CITY ADvERTIS EMENTs,
Am ORDINANCE

To Create she Office OF city Surveyor.
TO Provide for Filling said Office
aut rescribi"g the N0wers ant
Duties of such officer.
The Mayor and Common Council Of d,e Citv Of
Los Angeies CO oTItdtt as JoLtOtOs:
SECTION L. That there be and hereby is cre-
ated the office to be known and called the
office OF City surveyor.
SIC. 2. The Office of City Surveyor shall bo
filled by appointment of some suitable person
TO be selected by the Common Council OF said
during the pleasure OF the Common Council.
SEC. 8. Whenever the Common Council
shall appoint any person to the position of
Guy Surveyor, it shall be the duty of the
Gle k of the Common Council to make out
and deliver to such appointee "a certificate of
such appointment, in writing, and thureupon
such person SO appointed snail within ten Qe)
days after receiving such certificate of his APP
pointment qualify by taking and subscribing
cutting to SAID city an Official bond in such
amount as the Common Council shall pre-
SCRIBE, SCRIBE, win Two or more suretles, condl-
all he duties of his said Office. The bond
shall be approved by the Mayor and when SO
approved shall be, together with the affidavit
containing the oath OF office so taken by said
officer, deposited with and remain in The
official keeping Of the Clerk of the Common
Council
SEC. 4. 1t shall be the duty of the City Sur
veyor TO make all surveys, maps and plans
required by said city; to make out ALI assess
ments of the cost or probable cost OF any work
done or to be done, and to superintend tho
making of all public improvements; to keep
recUld, in books to be provided by the city,
of the field notes ofall surveys made and maps
OF he same, and full true and correct ac-
coun and memoranda of the cost and eX
penses of ali public works and improvements,
and to keep posted in his office all plans and
specifications of wolk to be uone, ior the in
spection of all parties desiring to examine the
same, and to do and perform any and all other
matters and things which may be required of
him by any ordinance of said city or by any
res luton or other order of the Common Coun-
Gil OF said city.
Sec s. The City Surveyor shall receive no
salary, but shall he paid from time to Time
full compensation for all services rendered
the city such fees as may be prescribed by the
Common COunc. |.
sec. &. 1t shall be unlawful for the City Sur.
veyor To become or he in any way, directly or
to be made by said city with any contractor or
other person for making any kind of improve
ments in SAID city; provided that the piovis-
ions of III. s section shall not be cons rued
as to prohibit the said surveyor from charg-
ing and rece wing the fees allowed by the
Common Council to be charged by him
aforesaid.
Sec. 7. This ordinance shall take effect and
be in force from and after is passage, approval
and publication, and all ordinances ana parts
of ordinances in SO tar - they conflict with
this ordinance shall be, and the same are,
hereby repealed.
Approved in the city of Los Angeles, Cal.
July 70, 1874. j. X. TOBERMAN,
Mayor.
hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance
was adopted by the Common Council at its
session July %, 1874 Nj. KREMER,
Jy2S 10. City Clerk.