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

that may be assessed to, property
owned by the City and County or by
any department thereof.
C. OF all work done in front of, or
that may be assessed to, property
owned by the United States.
Second.-The expense of all sewers,
cesspools, manholes, culverts and
drains, and Of all grading, planking,
maoadamlzing. paving, piling and cap
ping any street, or portion thereof, and
OF all curbs thereon, and of all work
done on sidewalks, shall be assessed
upon the lands within the block or
blocks adjacent thereto as herein pro-
Vided, except where by an assessment
district 1t may be provided otherwise.
Third.-The expense of all work on
such portion of any street required by
law to be kept in order by any person,
company, or corporation, having rail-
road tracks thereon, shall be borne and
paid for by such person, company or
corporation, and shall be included In
the assessment hereinbefore provided
for.
No assessment shall be levied upon
any property, which, together with all
assessments for street Improvements
that may have been levied upon the
same property during the year next
preceding, will amount to sum great
er than fifty per centum of the value
at which said property was assessed
upon the last preceding Assessment
Book of the City and County.
Sec. g., Subdivision One = Except
where the expense incurred for the
street work and Improvement author
lied herein is to be assessed upon a
district as hereinafter provided. such
expense. other than that to be paid
by a person, company or corporation
having tracks on the street where such
work and improvement has been done.
shall be assessed upon the lots and
lands fronting thereon, except as here
matter specifically provided; each lot
or portion of a lot being separately as
seSSed in proportion to the frontage at
a rate per front foot sufficient to cover
the total expense Of the work.
Subdivision Two-The expense of all
Improvement except such as is done by
contractors under the provisions Of sec
ton sixteen of this Chapter, until the
streets, avenues, street crossings, lanes,
alleys, places, or courts are finally ac-
cepted, as provided in section twenty
three of this Chapter, shall be assessed
upon the lots and lands as provided in
this section according to the nature
and character of the work.
Subdivision Three-The expense of
the work done on main street cross
ingS shall be assessed at uniform
rate per front foot on the quarter
blocks and irregular blocks adjoining
and cornering upon the crossings, ana
separately upon the whole OF each lot
or portion of lot having any front
age in the said blocks fronting on said
main streets, half way to the next main
street crossing, and all the way on
said blocks to a boundary line OF the
city where no such crossing intervenes,
but only according to its frontage In
said quarter blocks and irregular
| blocks.
Subdivision Four-Where a main
street terminates in another main
street, the expense of the work done
on one-half of the width of the street
opposite the termination shall be as
SeSsed upon the lots in each of the two
quarter blocks adjoining and corner
ing on the same, according to the front
age of such lots on said main street,
and the expense of the other half of the
width of said street upon the lot or lots
fronting on the latter half of the street
at such termination.
Subdivision Five-Where any alley
or subdivision street crosses a main
street, the expense of all work done on
said crossing shall be assessed on all
lots or portions of lots half way on said
alley or subdivision street to the neXJ
crossing or intersection, or to the end
of such alley or subdivision street If 1t
does not meet another
Subdivision Six-The expense of work
done on alley or subdivision street
crossings shall be assessed upon the
lots fronting upon such alley or subdi-
vision streets on each side thereof, in
all directions. half way to the next
street, place, or court, on either side,
respectively, or to the end of such al
ley or subdivision street, if it does not
meet another.
Subdivision Seven-Where a subdivis-
ion street, avenue, lane, alley, place, or
court terminates in another street,
avenue, lane, alley, place, or court, the
expense of the work done on one-half
! the width of the subdivision street,
avenue, alley, place, or court opposite
the termination, shall be assessed upon
! the lot or lots fronting on such subdi-
vision street or avenue, lane, alley,
place, or court so terminating, accord
! ing to its frontage thereon, halfway
on each side, respectively, to the next
street, avenue, lane, alley, court, or
place, or the end of such street, avenue,
lane alley, place, or court, II 1t does
not meet another, and the other one
half of the width upon the lots fronting
such termination.
Subdivision Eight-Where any work
mentioned in this Chapter, manholes,
cesspools, culverts, crossWalkS, pillng
and Gaping excepted, is done on either
street for one block or less, and fur
Their work opposite to the work of the
same class already done is ordered to
be done to complete the unimproved
portion of said street, the assessment
to cover the total expense of said work
so ordered shall be made upon the lots
or portions of the lots only fronting the
portions of the work SO ordered When
sewering or resewering is ordered to
be done under the sidewalk or only on
one side of a street for any length
thereof, the assessment for it's expense
shall be made only upon the lots and
lands fronting nearest upon that side,
and for intervening intersections only
upon the two quarter blocks adjoining
and cornering upon that side.
Subdivision Nine = Any owner or
owners of lots or lands fronting upon
any street, the width and grade of
which have been established by the
Supervisors, may perform at his or
their own expense (after obtaining per-
mission from the Board of Public Works
so to do but before said Board has
passed it's resolution Of intention to
recommend grading inclusive of this)
any grading upon said street, to it's
full width, or to the centre line thereof,
and to it's grade as then established,
and tharQIIr1OO at his