The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-25
PROPOSALS
For Burial of INDECENT Dead.

PROPOSALS
For Burial Of INDECENT Dead
OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF THE
Board of Supervisors of the City and
County of San Francisco, April 25 1899
In accordance with Resolution No. 262S
(tourth Ser1esl of the Board of Super
visors, SEALED PROPOSALS will be re-
Supervisors on MONDAY AFTERNOON,
May 8, 1899, from 2:30 to o'clock, for
the ,interment of such of the INDECENT
dead as are required to be buried at the
charge of the City and County of San
Francisco, including the City and County
Smallpox Hospital, for the term of one
June 80, 1900, in such cemetery or ceme-
teries in San Mateo County wherein
bgT Tn1;iI may b., be allowed.
NOT1CE-The collins to be made of
hree-quarter-inch surface redwood clear
lumber, to be lined with muslin and pill
lowed inside, and to be shellacked and
fastened down with not less than six
screws. In all cases where persons have
died from smallpox or other contagious
diseases the coffin shall be lined with No
10 zinc instead of with muslin, and her
metically sealed, and all collins used
must be subject to the inspection and APP
stitution from which the body of the
decedent is to be buried, and must in all
cases be taken to such institution for the
purpose of having the deceased placed
therein.
No bid will be considered from any par
ty who has not been engaged in the un-
dertaking business in this City and Coun-
ty and conducted said business in a rep
utable manner for a period of at least six
months Immediately preceding the date
hereof.
of at least six feet.
No body to be removed from the insti-
tuition where 1t lies awaiting burial with
in a period of tWenty-four hours after
death, except by express order of the
Superintendent or officer in charge Of
said institution.
The contractor will be required in all
cases on the death of the INDECENT person
from infectious disease to inter the body
of said decedent within such time as may
be designated by notice from the Superin-
tendent or officer in charge of the institu-
ton where the death may have occurred,
and in all other cases within thirtysix
hours after notification by the proper Of
ficer.
The contractor will further be required
to convey the bodies of decedents COM
mitted to his charge for interment direct
from the institution from which he re-
ceives the same to the cemetery, and then
and there bury the same. And will not
be permitted upon any consideration to
convey such bodies to any intermediate
resting-place, or to keep the same in his
custody for a longer period than that re-
quired for their transit to the cemetery.
Should the friends of any decedent APP
ply at the institution where such decd
ent may be lying awaiting burial for per-
mission to bury the same, and prove to
the Superintendent or officer in charge of
said institution that their purpose is to
provide a decent burial, and that they
have no intention and will not allow the
body to be used for the purpose of dissec-
ton, then and in that case the body of
said deceased shall be delivered to said
friends who shall take charge thereof
and make the necessary arrangements for
the funeral with any undertaken they
NAV think fit; but in such event the con-
tractor aforesaid shall have no claim
against the city for the burial of said de-
cedent.
The party to whom the contract may
be awarded shall be required, in all cases.
to procure from the Superintendent of the
cemetery wherein the burials have been
made a certificate of the proper burial of
each person under the provisions of his
contract and of these specifications: and
such certificate must, in all cases, be at
tached to the demand of said contractor
when presented to the Board OF Super
visors for approval and must state the
names of the decedents and the institu-
tons from which the body was procured.
In case of the violation of any Of the
above conditions, the contract shall be
terminated by said City and County.
The party to whom this contract is
awarded will be required, prior to or at
the time of the execution of said contract,
to pay the cost of advertising this notice
in three daily newspapers, and to also
pay the cost of the publication in the Of
fetal newspaper of the resolution award
All interments of INDECENT persons the
expenses of which must be borne by the
City and County (other than those from
any of the public institutions) must be
authorized by the Health officer issuing
a permit therefor. and all bills for such
interments to be approved by the Health
officer prior to being presented to this
Board All demands for the burial of in
digent persons from any of the public in
situations to be approved by the Superin-
tendent of the institution at which the
death occurs, prior to being presented to
this Board.
Bidders will estimate and state a speci-
fic amount for each interment.
In order to preserve the uniformity and
to facilitate the award, the Board has
resolved to receive no bids unless made
upon blank forms prepared by the COM
mittee and a certified check on some
bank in the City and County of San Fran
cisco for the sum of five hundred (s500)
dollars, in favor of and made payable to
the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors,
must be deposited by the bidder, with his
bid conditioned that if the proposal is
accepted and the contract awarded and
If the bidder shall fail or neglect to pay
the printing charges, execute the con-
tract and give a bond of five thousand
(S50O0) dollars required within six days af
ter the award is made, then, and in that
paid into the City and County Treasury
by said Clerk as liquidated damages for
such failure and neglect.
Blanks furnished by the Clerk.
The Board reserves the right to reject
all bids If the public good so require.
JNO. A. RUSSELL, Clerk.