Los Angeles daily herald., 1876-05-03

contract let under the provisions O
the Act.
The Board organized on April 9th
1875.
Among its powers are these:
To appoint Secretary and City
Engineer, (who shall be eX-Officit
Street superintendent es
To fill vacancies in its own body.
TO have full and complete contro
over all the city officers, (the City At
torney alone excepted so far as i;
necessary to carry out the objects Of
| the Act.
70 draw directly upon the City
Treasury for all moneys expended
under this Act, by audited warrants oi
the Board, signed by its Chairman
and Secretary.
TO keep a full record of its proceed
ings, and its accounts.
The essential grant of authority, is
comprehended in sections one and
two, to wit:
SECTION ONE.
"a Board of Public Works in and
for the City of Los Angeles is hereby
created and established, the said
| Board to consist of three members,
whose powers and duties shall be
First, to have complete and exclu.
sive control over and management of
| the construction, repairs and MAIN
tenance of all zanias, dams, bridges,
streets, sewers, alleys, gas ard gas
works, water and water works, public
parks and buildings, and all other
public works, and of every thing per-
tanning thereto"
Second, to have the exclusive power
to contract for the construction and
repairs of all public works embraced
within the provisions of this Act, and
complete control over the expendi-
ture of all monies expended for the
purposes in this Act contemplated.
SECTION TWO.
GAIL power and control over and
management by the Mayor and Coun-
Gil of each, every and all the subjects
enumerated in this Act, is hereby an
nulled, vacated and set aside, and the
same vested exclusively in the Board
of Public Works hereby created anC
established"
as to gas and gas works, water and
water works, or any other improve
ment in respect to which contracts
may now exist between the city and
individuals, this Board cannot regu-
late their use, improvement and de-
velopment, farther than to see that
such contracts shall be fulfilled.
Some notifications of the general
grants of power to the Council by the
Amended Charter have been already
indicated, and the subjects of them
pointed out, which now devolve upon
the Board of Public Works.
See ante Council, under the follow
ing numbers:
l. Purchase or condemnation of
lands for public works.
8. Sale etc. of municipal lands.
5. Creation of officers.
II. Market houses.
co. Hospital.
81. Zanjas.
%. City Jail.
%. Salaries etc. of officers.
"a. Control of municipal lands.
Is. Surveys of streets or other SUBJ
jects pertaining to the Board, are
binding on the Council.
A close inspection of the Amended
Charter, exhibits more clearly the
powers of which the Council has been
Invested and those now possessed by
the Board.
I. zANJAs, DAMS, WATER AND WATER
wORKs-IRRIGATIo
Gam. Char. Art. w, Sec. 1.)
"To provide the city with good and
wholesome water and to that end and
for that purpose, may exercise, use,
enjoy and carry out, in the name OF
the corporation, any and all measures
requisite and necessary therefor, pow
er to perform which is given said cor
poration by the provisions of Section
two of article two of this Act"
The entire matter of irrigation, be-
longs to the Board.
1t will necessarily have control over
all receipts from the existing irriga-
tion system, or any that may be adopt.
ed as best suited to the wants of the
Inhabitants.
1t will have the right to develop,
economize, use and utilize all waters
flowing beneath the surface in the bed
of said river (Los Angeles) at any
point or points,. ...... from its source
or sources to the intersection of said
river with the southern boundary of
said city. IAN. Char. Art. III, Sec |. J
1t will have the right of cOndenlrld-
ton, provided for in the last mention
ed section, the same granted in Art.
III, Sec. 2, eighth clause, that is to say,
to condemn any and all property re-
quired to be taken therefor, in the
manner hereinafter provided" (Am.
Char. Art. VIZ cor as otherwise pro-
vided for by law. Code of Civil Pro-
ceedure, Vol. 2, Tit. VII
1t Will have the control and man.
agement of any property acquired by
the city for water works, dams, res
ervoirs, bitches, canals, and other
means to supply the City and its in
habitants with water for the purposes
of domestic use and of Irrigation, and
to distribute such water either in zan-
jas, bitches, pipes, or otherwise, into,
upon, and over the lands within the
limits of said city, or for either of said
purposes (Art. ii. sec. 2.
1t will have the exclusive control OF
the Zanjero, and over his appoint
ment.
See Sewers" post.
II. STREETS, ALLEYS, BRIDGES.
| (Am. Char. Art. w, Sec. /.
"To lay out and open public streets
within said city, at such time and in
such manner as to it shall seem prop
er; to vacate, to extend, widen and
improve the same;" with the right of
condemnation, according to Art. III,
Sec. 2, above referred to.
The lines of streets must be eXclu-
sively determined by the Board.