The San Francisco call., 1896-08-04

always be foreseen, which is seemingly bound
to occur until courts can determine hat be-
yond the appropriation made therefor no de-
psrtment can expend greater amount than
provided for it.
This subject and the evils of the system now
prevailing and allowed have been reported on
time and time again, and no remedy has yet
been evolved to check and prevent such out
lays.
The resolutions to be introduced will pre-.
sent the result OF your committees labor,
showing the purposes and the several appro-
priations made therefor and which in the ex-
ercise of economy, of the power vested in the
board to control the same, should have re-
suited in many reductions being made. AS ii
is, the power has be- en- exercised so as to show
that discretion has been used to provide suf-
tieient and reasonable appropriations to meet
all expenditures.
AS many of our departments and citizens
have impressed the committee with their views
on many public requirements, it is but just to
state that but for the conditions existing
these requirements would have been provided
for. Among many none appealed to your
committee more strongly than the ap-
preparation asked for high school building
at the Mission, but as the appropriation for
the School Department was 81, 600, 900 your
$4,000 to the levy this year for that purpose,
although it is conceded high school should
be located in that section of our City, Your
committee was not unanimous in the matter,
as Supervisor Hobbs was urgent as to the ne
cessity of providing h is constituents with their
demand for higher educational facilities.
The Importance of carrying out the improve
ments and preserving those already made in
Golden Gate Park appealed to your committee,
a 81 Of
1925 900 was allowed. Supervisor Benjamin,
while dissenting to the amount, was willing to
allow $25O,00O.
The attention cf your committee was called
to the action of the Grand Jury in determining
that the sum of $S4 900 was a sufficient appro-
priation for the conduct of the County Clerk S
department in the payment of salaries, and
with that view your committee comedies and
have fixed the appropriation at that amount.
The appointment of Walter S. Hinkle
as Assistant District Attorney was ex-
tended to October 1, 1896.
A resolution was adopted instructing
the City and County Attorney to appear
on behalf of the City and County at the
hearing of the petition of P. L. Weaver,
ex-superintendent of the Almshouse.
against the Board of Supervisors.
n AOoOAueAOh Wao oUOptOu O"iHS NOA-
pany L, First Regiment Infantry National
Guard, to give boxing and wrestling ex-
hibition at its armory, corner of Cough
and Page streets, during September. The
company is expected to pay the license of
500, but it is exempted from the $135 con-
tribution to the Robinson bequest fund
that is demanded of the boxing clubs.
The Superintendent of Streets was in
structed to issue an assessment for the cost
of laying plank sidewalks three feet wide
on California street, between First and
Thirteenth avenues, and on Lake street,
between Fourth and Thirteenth avenues.
The Hicks-Judd Company sent in a
bill for $2O67 10 for printing fifty copies of
the transcript on appeal in the Durrant
case, and the amount was ordered paid
by a special resolution.
The board then adjourned until Mon
day, September 81, the time for the an
nual vacation having arrived.