The San Francisco call., 1898-04-04

newspaper. Any person violating any of such ordinances shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished therefor, on conviction, n any court of competent jurisdiction. None of such ordinances shall be valid unless it receives the vote of four members of the Board. No ordinance shall be passed at the same meeting at which it is introduced or at any other than a regular meeting. Such ordinances shall take effect in not less than ten days af- ter their adoption.
 Sec. 6. The Commissioners shall have the complete and exclusive control, management and direction of the afore- said parks, squares, avenues and grounds, and the exclusive right to erect, and to superintend the erection of, buildings and structures thereon; and to that end may employ and ap- point superintendents, laborers, sur veyors, engineers, and other officers and assistants, and prescribe and fix their duties, authority and compensation. They shall have the exclusive manage, ment and disbursement of all funds le- gally appropriated or received from any source for the support of said parks squares, avenues and grounds.
 The Board may accept from donors suitable articles for the Museum and Art Gallery situate in the aforesaid Golden Gate Park and shall manage and control said Museum and Art Gal lery.
 Except as provided in section nine of this Chapter, nothing in this section shall be so construed as to authorize the Commissioners to lease any part of any of said parks, squares, avenues and grounds to any person, company or cor pOration for any purpose; or to permit any person, company or corporation to build or maintain any structure on any part of said parks, squares. avenues or grounds; but this shall not inhibit the Board from leasing, for period not greater than one year, such buildings as may be constructed by itself for the use of the public to such person, com. pany or corporation who shall under. take to serve such use; and in every such lease the Board shall reserve the right to enter at all times into and upon the premises so leased, and shall make the condition that the building so leased shall be used for park pleasure purposes only. No such building shall be constructed by the Board except it pe within the objects and purposes for which said parks, squares, aye tues and grounds were dedicated to the public.
 Nothing. however, in this ection con- tained shall :nhibit the Board from lue uSe Cl d llnlteQ portion of any one of the aforesaid parks or squares for the purpose or conducting thereon a Fair or Exposition, under such conditions and restrictions as may be necessary 10 conserve the integrity of said parks and squares, and for a pc. ricd not greater than six months. and so as not to interfere with the use Of any of the same by the public for park pleasure purposes; but no such permis- sion shall ever be granted except such Fair or Exposition be of National, State cr Municipal importance. None of the moneys in, or apportioneG to, the Park Fund shall te used for the purposes cp any such Fair CT Exposition
 Sec. z. The Chief of Police shall. on the request of the Comms sionerc, de- tail such members of the Police Force of the City and County for service in said parks. squares, averues and grounds as may be necessaryfor the en- fCrcement of the law and for the proper observance of the ordinances of the Commissioners; and the Go mmissioners may provide place of detention with II, either of sad public pla .es in which the persons arrested for violating any of the ordinances of the Board may be detained teTppcl arily.
 Sec. S. The Board may receive dona- tions from persons and corporations and legacies and bequests for the im- provement of said park, squares, ave- nues and grounds. All moneys that may be derived from such donations, legacies and bequests, shall. unless such gift, legacy, or bequest, be de- posted in the treasury of the City and county to the credit of the Park Fund The same may be withdrawn therefrom ana paid out in the same manner as is provided for the payment of moneys le- gally appropriated for the support and improvement of such parks, squares, avenues and grounds. If the moneys derived from such gifts, bequests or legacies, shall at any time exceed in amount the sum necessary for imme- d1ate expenditures on said parks. squares, avenues and grounds, the Board shall invest all or a part of the same in interest bearing bonds of the United States, or of the State of Cali fornia or of any municipality thereof.
 Sec. g. The Board may lease to the State of California, on such terms as it may deem proper, a plot of ground in Golden Gate Park not more than seven hundred feet square, on which said State may erect and maintain an ex- position building, in which may be ex- hibited the products of the several counties of the State and in which the collection made by the State Mining Bureau may be maintained and ex- hibited; but said lease shall be upon the express condition that no fee shall ever be charged for admission to said build ing.
 Sec. 10. Hereafter no work of art shall become the property of the City and County by purchase gift or other wise, unless such work of art or design of the same, together with a statement of the proposed location of such work of art, shall first have been submitted to and approved by the Commissioners: nor shall such work of art, until so ap- proved, be erected or placed in or upon, or allowed to extend over or upon any street, avenue, square, park, muni- cipal building or other public place be- longing to the City and County. The Board may require a complete model of the proposed work of art to be sub mitted. The term work of.art" as used in this section shall apply to and in clude all paintings, mural decorations, stained glass, statues. bas-reliefs or other sculptures, monuments, foun- tains, arches or other structures of a permanent character, intended for ornament or commemoration. No ex- isting work of art in the possession of the City and County shall be removed, relocated or altered in any way with out the similar approval of the Board. When so requested by the Mayor or