Year: 1874




To Create tho Office OF city Surveyor.


60 Provide for Filling said Office.


aud Resembling thG Powers and


Duties OF such Officer.


The Mayor and Common Council Of The city Of


Los angeles do ord0ir as TotI0tOs:


SECTION l.. That there be and hereby Is ere
ated the office to be known and called the
office of City Surveyor.


SEC. g The office of City Surveyor shall be
filled by appointment of some suitable person
TO be selected by the Common Council of said
city, and who shall hold said office for and
during the pleasure of the Common Council.


SEC. B. Whenever the Common Council
shall appoint any person to the position OF
City Surveyor, it shall be the duty of the
Clerk of the Common Council to make out
and deliver to such appointee certificate OF
such appointment, in writing, and thereupon
such person SO appointed shall within ten (ltD
days after receiving such certificate of his APP
pointment qualify by taking and subscribing
TO the constitutional oath of office and by exc
cutting TO said city an official bond in such
amount as the Common Council shall pre-
scribe, with two or more sureties, condi-
toned for the faithful performance by him of
all he duties of his said Office. The bond
shall be approved by the Mayor, and when so
approved shall be, together with the affidavit
containing the oath OF Office SO taken by said
officer deposited with and remain in the
official keeping of the Clerk of the Common
Council.


SEC4 It shall be the duty of the City Sur
veyor to make all surveys, maps and plans
required by said city; to make out all assess
mentS of the cost or proba BILE cost of any work
done or to be done, and to superintend the
making of all public improvements; to keep
a record, in books to be provided by the city,
of the field notes ofall surveys made and maps
of 'he same, and full, true and correct ac-
counts and memoranda of the cost and ex-
penses of all public works and Improvements,
and to keep posted in his office all plans and
specifications of work to be done, for the in
spection of all parties desiring to examine the
same. and to do and perform any and all other
matters and things which may be required of
him by any ordinance of said city or by any
resu ulution or other order of the Common Coup-
Gil of said city.


Sec. 5. The City Surveyor shall receive no
salary, but shall be paid from time to time as
full compensation for all services rendered
the city such fees as may be prescribed by the
Common Council.


Sec. 6. 1t shall be unlawful for the City Sur
veyor to become or he in any way. directly or
indirectly, interested in any contract made or
to be made by said city with any contractor or
ments in said city; provided that the provis-
ions of h section shall not be SO cons rued
as to prohibit the said Surveyor from charg-
ing and rece wing the fees allowed by the
Common Council to be charged by HIM as
aforesaid.


Sec. l. This ordinance shall take effect and
be in force from and after is passage, approval
and publication, and all ordinances ana parts
of ordlnanceS.in so tar IS they conflict with
this ordinance shall be, and the same are,
hereby repealed


Approved in the city of Los Angeles, Cal.
July 70, 1874. j. IL. TOBERMAN,
Mayor.
l hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance
was adopted by the Common Council ut its
session ofJuly %, 1874. Nj. KREMER,
jy2S 10. City Clerk.