The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-04-13

cluue crossing.
The word block" shall mean the
blocks known or designated as such
upon the maps and books of the AS
SCISSOR.
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 it's 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.
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
prima 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
prlma facie evidence of such publica-
ton.
Sec. q. 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 por-
ton thereof upon which said lands
front, be closed, the Board may pass a
resolution recommending that the same
be closed. Before passing such resolu-
ton the Board shall cause a notice of
the application to be published in the
official newspaper, and shall fix time
and place at which it will consider the
same and hear objections thereto Upon
such hearing it shall determine whether
1t will recommend that the street be
closed; and if it 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, 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. %. 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 it Endorsed 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
Endorsed 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, Endorsement
and record. No street hereafter laid
out shall be approved or become a pub
lie street unless the same shall be at
least forty feet in width and two hun
bred feet distant from any parallel
street.
Sec. 90. 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 period of ten days a notice
inviting proposals for cleaning and
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-
killed., 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-
sails 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 it can do so
with reference to the proper sweeping
of the streets and to the funds at it's
disposal
Sec. 80. The Board shall cause to be
made all urgent repairs upon the pub