The San Francisco call., 1898-04-19

clude crossing.
 The word sblock" shall mean the
 blocks known or designated as such
 upon the maps and books of the As | 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
 from such intersection to the next main | 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 | 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
 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 County.
 The term "expense" shall include the price at which the contract was award ed, and the term incidental expenses" shall include all expenses incurred in printing and advertising the work con-
 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.
 l All notices herein required to be
 served, whether by delivery, mailing
 or posting, may be so served by any | male citizen of the age of twenty-one
 years, and his affidavit thereof shall be | pr1ma facfe 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
 prina facie evidence of such puhlica- | tion.
 Sec. 27. 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 1 tion thereof upon which said lands front, be closed, the Board may pass
 resolution recommending that the same | be closed. Before passing such resolu- tion the Board shall cause a notice of the application to be published in the official newspaper and shall fix a time | and place at which it will consider the same and hear objections thereto. Upon such hearing it shall determine whether
 it will recommend that the street be closed; and if it shall so determine, it | shall transmit such recommendation to | the Supervisors. Thereupon the Super l v1sorS may pass an ordinance that the street be closed; and the same shall not thereafter be, or be deemed to be, a 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 l 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 a public street or be subject | to any public improvement or expense without such approval, indorsement | and record. No street hereafter laid l -I, I0o TyaI N,- h | lie street unless the same shall be at least forty feet in width and two hun
 dred feet distant from any parallel
 street
 Sec. 29. The Board shall annually in vite proposals for cleaning and sprink- 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 it's 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- flying in said notice the streets of each district which are to be cleaned and sprinkled, the number of times a 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 it's disposal.
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