The San Francisco call., 1898-03-30

| block, and the term street" shall h. 1 clude crossing.
 blocks known or designated as such
 upon the maps and books of the As i seSsor.
 The term quarter block,' as used in
 this Chapter as to irregular blocks, | shall be deemed to include all lots or portions of lots, having any frontage
 on either intersecting street half way 1 from such intersection to the next main l street. or, when no main street inter
 venes, all the way to @ boundary line
 of the City and County.
 The word paved" shall include any 1 pavement of stone, iron. wood or other
 material which the Supervisors may by ordinance order to be used; but no
 patented pavement shall be ordered | during the existence of the patent
 therefor, until the owner of such pat | ent shall have transferred to the City
 and County all right to the use of the
 same therein, with the privilege to any l person to manufacture and lay the
 same upon its streets under any con- tract that may be awarded to him. or
 entered into by him with the City and l County.
 1 The term expense" shall include the price at which the contract was award 1 ed, and the term incidental expenses"
 shall include all expenses incurred in | printing and advertising the work con- i tracted for, and all expenses for sur- | veying, measuring and inspecting the | work.
 All notices and resolutions required
 in this Article to be published shall be
 published daily, legal holidays except
 ed, in the official newspaper.
 | All notices herein required to be
 served. whether by delivery, mailing
 or posting. may be 50 served by any
 male citizen of the age of twenty-one
 years, and his affidavit thereof shall be prma facie evidence of such service
 The affidavit by the publisher of the
 official newspaper. or his clerk, of the publication of any notice required in
 this Article to be published, shall be prima facie evidence of such publica- 1 ton.
 Sec. T. When the owners of all the lands fronting upon any street which Is
 less than forty feet in width, for the
 entire distance of said street, or for the
 distance of one or more entire blocks, shall petition the Board of Public Works that the said street, or that DOT tion thereof upon which said lands front, be closed, the Board may pass 8
 resolution recommending that the same
 be closed. Before passing such resolu-
 tton the Board shall cause notice of the application to be published in the
 official newspaper, and shall fix time and place at which 1t will consider the same and hear objections thereto. Upon
 such hearing 1t shall determine whether it will recommend that the street be
 closed; and If 1t shall so determine, it shall transmit such recommendation to the Supervisors. Thereupon the Super visors may pass an ordinance that the street be closed; and the same shall not thereafter be, or be deemed to be, public street, or subject to any public expense or improvement; and the land heretofore included within the road way and sidewalks of said street shall thereafter be the property of the City
 and County No such ordinance shall be passed until the petitioners shall have paid all the expenses of said pro- ceedings.
 Sec. 2S. In all cases where lands in
 the City and County shall be hereafter
 sub divided and laid out into blocks or plats, sub-lots, streets and alleys. or when new streets or public grounds
 shall be laid out, opened, donated or
 granted to the public by any proprietor. the map or plat thereof shall be sub- mitted to the Board of Public Works for it's approval, and If the Board ap-
 prove the same, such approval shall be by 1t indorsed upon the said map or plat, and said map with said approval shall then be filed in the office Of the Recorder; and without such approval indorsed thereon no such map or plat shall be filed in the office of the Re- corder, or have any validity; nor shall
 any street, alley, or public ground here after opened and dedicated as such, be- come or be public street or be subject to any public improvement or expense
 without such approval, indorsement and record. No street hereafter laid out shall be approved or become pub lie street unless the same shall be at | least forty feet in width and two hun dred feet distant from any parallel street.
 Sec. 2e. The Board shall annually in- vfte proposals for cleaning and sprtnk- ling such of the streets of the City and County as the Board shall determine should be cleaned and sprinkled at the public expense. Before causing notice for such proposals to be published the
 Board shall divide the City and County into such number of districts as in it's judgment will best induce competition for bids, and secure the cleaning and sprinkling of the streets at the lowest cost The Secretary of the Board shall, under its direction, on the first Monday in May of each year, cause to be pub lished for a period of ten days notice inviting proposals for cleaning and sprinkling each of said districts speci- fying in said notice the streets of each district which are to be cleaned ana Sprinkled, the number or times week that they are to be cleaned and sprin-
 kled, and the amount of security to be given with each contract. Bids shall be made for each district separately. All the provisions of this Article in re-
 lation to the making and opening of bids, awarding of contracts and enter ing into and performance of contracts,
 shall be applicable to said contracts. The Board may, at the time it in- vites proposals for said cleaning and
 for said sprinkling, also invite propo-
 sals for said cleaning separately and for said sprinkling separately, and may award such contracts accordingly as
 may be for the best interest of the City and County.
 The Board may also. with the consent
 of the Supervisors expressed by ordin- ance, purchase one or more machines for sweeping the streets, and may en- ter into contracts for sweeping the
 streets with said machines; but the Board must give the preference to | handsweeping so far as 1t can do so
 with reference to the proper sweeping of the streets and to the funds at its
 disposal.
 Sec. 30. The Board shall cause to be
 p,oda all urgent reDairS upon the puD-