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Form 3427
HM«rNTS
SAN FRANCISCO
MUNICIPAL REPORTS,
FOR THE
FISCAL YEAR 1865-6, ENDING JUNE 30, 1866.
PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
SAN FRANCISCO:
i
PRINTED BY TOWNE & BACON, 536 CLAY STREET.
1866.
778027
PRESIDENT,
H. P. COON.
Deputy
Clerk.
Sergeant
at Arms
T
LS. H. I
CHAS. **.
STANYAN 16
PRANK | -I *
M'COPPIN ' '
DIAGRAM
OP THE
CHAMBER
OF THE
BOARD OF
SUPERVISORS,
1866.
1
A. H.
TITCOMB.
2
R. P.
CLEMENT.
3
ISAAC
ROWELL.
LOBBY.
TABLE OP CONTENTS.
AUDITOR'S REPORT 9-79
Demands Audited, General Fund 91-4
Special Fee Fund 14-15
Street Light Fund 15
Street Department Fund 15-16
Pound Fee Fund 16
Police Contingent Fund 16
School Fund 16-17
School Mortgage Account 17
School Bonds Interest Account, 1854 17
School Bonds Interest Account, 1860 17-18
Corporation Debt Fund 18
Coupons paid, Loans, and Interest Account. 18-23
Recapitulation of Demands Audited 24-25
Demands Audited, June 30th, 1866, outstanding 25-29
Special Fee Fund Statement 29-31
Report of Commissioners of Funded Debt 31 -36
Assets in hands of Fund Commissioners 37
Treasurer's Account with City 37-45
Treasurer's Account with State 46
Tax Collector in account with Auditor 47-49
Tax Apportionment and Rates 50, 51
Poll Tax Statement 52
License Exhibit, State and County 53
License Exhibit, Municipal 54
United States Notes held in Treasury 55
Revenue of Fiscal Year 56
Expenditures in Fiscal Year 57-59
Auditor's Appendix 60-79
Officers' Salaries and Deputies ... 60-63
Salaries of Police Force 64
Fire Department Expenses 64-66
Cisterns and Hydrants 66
Public Buildings, Repairs 67
Hospital Supplies and Expenses 67-69
Repairs in front of Public Property 69-70
Public Ground Improvements 70
Statement of Taxes refunded 71
Statement of Urgent Necessity Expenditures 72-75
Military Appropriations 75
Lighting Streets 76, 77
Expenditure for School Houses erected 77, 78
Kearny Street Widening Expenses paid 78
Statement of Demands Audited during ten years still outstanding 79
VI MUNICIPAL REPORTS.
TREASURER'S REPORT* '. 80
Balance at Credit of State
City and County Balance
TAX COLLECTOR'S REPORT 81-87
Real Estate and Personal Property Valuations
Cash paid into Treasury, etc
Office Expenses
Remarks 86, 87
ASSESSORS' REPORT 88-90
Office Expenses
Assessment Roll 89
Remarks 89, 90
COUNTY RECORDER'S REPORT 91-93
Receipts and Expenditures
Books of Record
Instruments Recorded 92, 93
Remarks and Recommendations 93
COUNTY CLERKS' REPORT 94-114
Organization of Courts 94, 96
Court Proceedings and Character of Suits 96-101
Miscellaneous Matters 1 02, 103
Transactions of County and Probate Courts 104-106
Record Books in Office 106-109
Receipts and Expenditures 110—112
Remarks 112-114
CHIEF OF POLICE'S REPORT 115-140
Introductory 115
Gambling ." 1 16-1 23
Sanitary 124
Chinese 124-126
Police Telegraph 126, 127
Arrests and Classification 127-129
Stolen Property and Value 130
Witnesses Subpenaed, etc 131
Cash Received from other County Officers 131-133
Schedule of Property Recovered, Lost or Stolen 133-140
CITY AND COUNTY ATTORNEY'S REPORT 141-175
Preliminary Statement of Subject Matter 141
City Litigation, present and past 142-168
Pueblo Case 168
Widening Kearny and Merchant Streets, and City Slip Cases 169-170
Index to all Suits in charge or settled 171-175
CHIEF ENGINEER'S REPORT 176-209
Fires 176, 177
Hydrants, Cisterns and Hose 177-1 79
Fire Alarm Telegraph 179
Location of Fire Companies and Fire Limit Blocks 179, 180
Volunteer Fire Department 181-183
Fire Department Expenses 1 84-1 86
Company Houses and Lots, location and condition 187-191
List and Location of Hydrants 191-203
Location and Capacity of Cisterns 203, 204
Property in Corporation Yard 204
Number of Members enrolled in the different Companies 205
Exempt Fire Company Officers 205
Officers and Composition of the Volunteer Department 206-209
CITY AND COUNTY SURVEYOR'S REPORT 210
* A detailed statement of transactions of City and County Treasury is included in Audit-
or's Report, pages 37 to 45.
TABLE OP CONTENTS. Vll
CORONER'S REPORT 211-215
Suicides 211
Accidental and Sudden Deaths 212, 213
Other Causes of Death and total number during year 214
Nativity and Ages of Deceased 215
FIRE ALARM AND POLICE TELEGRAPH REPORT 216-218
General Remarks 217
Office Expenses 218
HARBOR MASTER'S REPORT 219-221
Wharves and Docks 219
Vessels in Coast and Bay Trade 220
Vessels from Eastern Ports 221
HEALTH OFFICER'S REPORT 222-235
Duties of Health Officer 223
Summary of Deaths 225
Causes of Death 226-229
Localities and Proportion of Death in Wards 230
Ages and Nationality 231
Special Diseases 233, 234
Remarks 235
HOSPITAL REPORT 236-241
Patients Admitted and Remaining 236
Nativity of Patients 237
Causes of Death 238
Diseases of Patients • 238, 241
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL REPORT 242-259
Report of President 243, 244
Report of Secretary 245, 254
Statement of Commitments 245, 246
Nativity of those Committed during year 246
Ages and Causes of Commitments 247
Disposal and Employment of those discharged 248, 249
Statistical Tables 249-254
Report of Auditor 255, 256
Officers and Employes 256, 257
President's Anniversary Address . . . .' 258, 259
LICENSE COLLECTOR'S REPORT 260,261
Quarterly Licenses 261
Annual Licenses 261
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR'S REPORT 262-283
Estates Settled and Distributed 262
Unsettled Estates 263-268
Estates Administered upon 268-273
Letters of Administration issued 273-283
POUND MASTER'S REPORT 284, 285
Receipts 284
Dogs Impounded, Redeemed, or Killed 285
PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT 286-331
Members and Officers of Board of Education 286-287
Standing Committees 287, 288
Disbursements, Estimated Revenue, and Expenditures 289, 291
Recapitulation 291 , 292
Schedule of Salaries, Rank and number of Teachers 293, 294
Notes regarding Disbursements 294-297
General Review and Statistics 297-308
Organization of Schools 309-316
Number of Classes and Grades 317
General Statistics 318-326
Statement of Real Estate 327-329
Former and Present Members of the Board of Education 330, 331
Vlll MUNICIPAL REPORTS.
SHERIFF'S REPORT 332-334
Receipts and Expenditures 331
County Jail Statistics 333, 334
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC STREETS' REPORT .... 335-362
Grading 336-341
Paving 341-343
Brick Sewers 344-346
Planking 347, 348
Sidewalks 349-352
Curbs and Crosswalks 352-354
Macadamizing 354-357
Redwood Sewers 358, 359
Piles and Caps 359
Recapitulation and Summary of Cost of Work ... 360, 362
APPENDIX TO MUNICIPAL REPORTS.
COMPILED BY JAS. W. BTNGHAM.
Financial and General Transactions 363, 364
Expenditures from 1850 to 1866 365
State Payments 366
Revenue and Rates of Taxation 367
Statement of Tax Apportionment 368
Special Fee Fund 369, 370
City and County Indebtedness 371
Treasury Exhibit 371, 372
Kearny Street Widening 372, 374
Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph 374, 375
Paid Fire Department 376, 378
Fires and Alarms 378, 381
Fire Limits 381
City and County Hospital 382, 383
Street Lines and Grades 383-386
Outside Lands 387-393
Van Ness Ordinance 392-395
Public Grounds ; 395-403
Wards and Election Districts 403-405
Election Officers 405-407
Military Organization 407-409
Harbor and Wharves 409-412
Health Department 413, 414
Registry Law and Municipal Elections 414, 415
Justices' Court 415, 416
Industrial Statistics 416, 417
Fees of Officers in lieu of Salaries 418
Street Expenditures 419
Gerrit W. Bell 420, 421
Schedule of Officers * * 422-426
Board of Supervisors under Consolidation Act 427, 428
Standing and Special Committees 429
Members elect, 1866-7 430
Resolution No, 5556 430
AUDITORS' REPORT.
CITY AND COUNTY AUDITOR'S OFFICE.
San Francisco, July 31st, 1866.
To the Honorable Board of Supervisors
Of the City and County of San Francisco :
GENTLEMEN — In accordance with Resolution No. 5,556, of your
Honorable Body, I herewith submit to you my Annual Report for the
Fiscal Year ending June 30th, 1866.
HENRY M. HALE,
Auditor.
DEMANDS AUDITED DURING THE FISCAL YEAR 1865-6,
ENDING JUNE 30iH, 1866.
ON THE GENERAL FUND.
For—
City and County Officers' Salaries. $170,850 24
[For items and Acts authorizing the same, see
Appendix.]
Extra Deputies' Salaries, under al-
lowance of $3,000 per annum. . . 2,965 00
[Statutes 1861, p. 558; items in Appendix.]
Police Force Salaries .118,822 43
[Statutes of 1863-4, p. 503 ; items in Appendix.]
$292,637 67
Carried forward $292,637 67
2
10
AUDITOR'S REPORT.
Brought forward
Fire Department Expenses, viz :
Under allowance of $4,000 per
month,
[Statutes 1863, p. 168.]
and extra allowance of $18,000 00.
[Statutes 1865M5, p. 83 ; items in Appendix.]
$292,637 G7
$65,248 21
Rents of Buildings, one each $75,
$60, and $20 per month 1,860 00
[Statutes 1863, p. 168.]
Erection of Houses, etc 1,239 43
[Statutes 1863, p. 171 ; 1863-4, p. 502.]
Erection of third story on Howard
Engine House 2,700 00
[Statutes 1863-4, p. 502.]
Extension and Repairs Fire Alarm
and Police Telegraph 1,475 48
[Statutes 1863-4, p. 504 ; 1865-6, p. 82.]
Salary of Superintendent Fire Alarm
and Police Telegraph, $150 per
month 1,800 00
[Statutes 1863-4, p. 504.]
Salary of Repairer Fire Alarm and
Police Telegraph, $100 per month,
4i months 450 00
[Statutes 1865-6, p. 82.]
Purchase of Engine for Engine Co.
No. 1, $1,800 ; for No. 12, $4,799 6,599 00
[Statutes 1865-6, p. 83.]
Construction and Repairs of Cisterns
and Hydrants 10,000 00
[Statutes 1863, p. 168; items in Appendix.]
Appropriation for Exempt Fire Co. 89 45
[Statutes 1863, p. 99.]
91,461 57
Repairs to Public Buildings 11,819 15
[Statutes 1862, p. 467 ; items in Appendix.]
Purchase of Lot and Building for
Police Court 15,000 00
[Statutes 1865-6, p. 83.]
Carried forward $410,918 39
DEMANDS AUDITED.
11
Brought forward $410,918 39
Hospital Expenses :
Supplies under allowance of $5,000
per month,
[Statutes 1863, p. 169.]
and extra allowance of $15,000... $74,475 25
[Statutes 1865-6, p. 83 ; items in Appendix.]
Repairs to Buildings 1,749 54
[Statutes 1863, p. 170.]
Additions to Buildings 2,036 81
[Statutes 1863, p. 170 ; 1863-4, p. 503.]
Salaries of Visiting Physician and
Surgeon, $100 per month each. . 2,400 00
[Statutes 1860, p. 274.]
Supplies for Small Pox Hospital . . 2,833 84
[Statutes 1863, p. 169 ; items in Appendix.]
Burials of Indigents from Hospital,
etc 1,141 50
[Statutes 1860, p. 273.]
Burials of Indigents by Coroner, also
Chemical Analyses 804 50
[Statutes 1863-4, p. 161.]
85,441 44
Appropriation for " Home of Inebriate,"
$250 per month 3,000 00
[Statutes 1863, p. 574.]
Examination of persons on issue of
Insanity 850 00
[Statutes 1863-4, p. 326.]
Expenses sending Insane to Stock-
ton 1,755 00
[Statutes 1860, p. 273.]
Industrial School Expenses :
Appropriation of $1,000 per month
until March 20th; $2,000 per
month afterwards 15,384 66
[Statutes 18S3-4, p. 187 ; 1865-6, p. 304.]
Medical Services 300 00
[Statutes 1863-4, p. 505.]
Pursuit of Runaways 154 85
[Statutes 1863-4, p. 77.]
15,839 51
Street, Road Repairs, etc., viz :
Street Repairs front of public prop-
erty to April 1st, 1866 33,505 47
[Statutes I860, p. 273; 1865-6, p. 83; items in
Appendix.]
Carried forward $33,505 47 $517,804 34
12 AUDITOR'S REPORT.
Brought forward *$33,505 47 $517,804 34
Street Repairs, Water Front, to April
1st, 1866 955 63
[Statutes 1860, p. 273.]
Cleaning Streets, Sewers, and Cross-
ings, 10,669 87
[Statutes 1862, pp. 466, 467; 1863', p. 168.]
Since April 1st, 1866, all Street Work has been
paid from the Street Department Fund.]
Road Repairs, $3,397 50; Road
Masters' Salaries, $602 50 4,000 00
[Statutes 1861, p. 565.]
Road Repairs south of Navy Street,
balance of allowance 2,178 08
[Statutes of 1863-4, p. 503.]
Road Repairs, First District 2,852 22
[Statutes 1865-6, p. 82.]
Repairs Brannan Street Bridge . . . 250 00
Expenses Board of City Engineers 24 25
54,435 52
Public Squares:
Improving Portsmouth and other
Squares, balance of appropriation 14 00
[Statutes 1863-4, p. 502.]
Grading, etc., Yerba Buena Park . . 2,900 00
[Statutes 1860, p. 274 ; 1863-4, p. 502.]
Balance of allowance of $20,000, July 1st, 1866,
$9,156 09.
Inclosing and improving Public
Grounds 1,964 43
[Statutes 1861, p. 551 ; items in Appendix.]
4,878 43
Election Expenses :
Services of Officers 4,005 00
[Statutes of 1861, p. 559.]
Expenses other than services of Offi-
cers 2,557 92
[Statutes 1863, p. 168; 1863-4, p. 505.]
See other Election Expenses in Items of Ur-
gent Necessity.
6,562 92
Carried forward $583,681 21
DEMANDS AUDITED. 13
Brought forward $583,681 21
Lighting City Hall, $4,077 14; County Jail, $675 01 ;
Hospital, $9 45 ; Harbor Police Station, $103 95 4,865 55
Subsistence of Prisoners :
County Jail, $9,381 88; City Prison, $3,999 44. 13,381 32
[Statutes 1856, p. 173.]
Witnesses' Expenses 456 30
[Statutes of 1856, p. 173.]
Services of Matron for County Jail, $75 per month . . . 900 00
[Statutes 1863-4, p. 474.]
Services of District Court Reporters 776 08
[Statutes of 1862, p. 253.]
Special Counsel 900 00
[Statutes 1861, p. 479.]
Copying Assessment Roll 2,100 00
Making and Copying Military Roll 450 00
Printing Pilot Regulations 30 00
Compiling and publishing Laws and Ordinances 250 00
[Statutes 1861, p. 478.]
Newspapers filed in Recorder's Office 143 12
[Statutes 1862, p. 141.]
Contingent Expenses of Mayor, $150 per month 1,800 00
[Statutes of 1860, p. 273.]
Celebration of Fourth of July, 1865 2,950 00
[Statutes 1863, p. 168.]
Expenses Kearny Street Commissioners 2,094 55
[Statutes 1865-6, p. 663 ; see Appendix.]
Boat Hire and Office Rent for Harbor Master, at $75
per month, 2 mos 150 00
[Statutes 1865-3, p. 663.]
Warrants received for Delinquent Taxes 1856-7,
1857-8, and 1858-9, at 40 per cent 37 50
[Statutes 1861, p. 576.]
Taxes Refunded paid in other years on Consigned Goods 6,902 73
[Statutes 1863-4, p. 505 ; items in Appendix.]
Claim of J. R. Traverse for horse and carriage dam-
aged by reason of a street being out of repair. ... . 2,260 00
[Statutes 1865-6, p. 772.]
Claim of M. C. Bateman for loss in Hospital Supplies
in 1862 1,500 00
[.Statutes 1865-6, p. 332.]
Carried forward .* $625,628 36
14 AUDITOR'S REPORT.
Brought forward $625,628 36
Urgent Necessity allowance, $2,000 per month,
[Statutes 1862, p. 467.]
and extra allowance of $12,000 35,997 98
[Statutes 1865-6, p. 83 ; items in Appendix.]
Military Appropriations advanced for State of California 27,798 15
[Statutes 1863, p. 441 ; items in Appendix.]
Total amount of Demands Audited on the General Fund $689,424 49
ON THE SPECIAL FEE FUND.
[Statutes 1861, pp. 554-9.
Salary of Recorder $4,000 00
Books and Stationery for Office . 1,710 80
- $5,710 80
Salary of County Clerk 4,000 00
Books and Stationery for Offices
and Courts 2,081 22
Copyist's Salaries 2,161 68
8,242 90
Salary of Sheriff 8,000 00
Books and Stationery for Office . 246 62
8,246 62
Salary of Auditor 4,000 00
Books and Stationery for Office . 171 85
4,171 85
Salary of Treasurer 4,000 00
Books and Stationery for Office. . 364 25
4,364 25
Salary of Tax Collector 4,000 00
Books and Stationery for Office. . 1,020 50
Publishing Delinquent Tax List. 1,868 23
6,888 7&
Salary Clerk Police Court 2,400 00
Books and Stationery for Police
Court 372 12
. 2,772 12
Carried forward $40,397 27 $689,424 49
DEMANDS AUDITED.
15
Brought forward ........ $40,397 27 $689,424 49
Books and Stationery for other Officers:
Clerk Board of Supervisors .......... 893 00
District Attorney ................... 124 25
City and County Attorney ............ 11 75
Superintendent of Streets ............ 630 50
Assessor ........................... 1,632 35
Harbor Master ..................... 45 09
Chief of Police .................... 379 74
Prosecuting Attorney ..... ........... 25 00
Surveyor .......................... 67 00
Secretary of Fire Department ........ 30 00
State and County License Blanks ........ 35 75
Duplicate Assessment Books: 11 volumes
Real Estate, 1865-6, and 11 volumes
Real Estate, and 4 volumes Personal,
1866-7 ........................... 545 00
Fees paid in collection of Delinquent Taxes
(included in District Attorney's Expenses
in " Fee Statement") ................ 1,282 10
Total Special Fee Fund ............... 46,098 80
[For statement of other expenses of fee officers paid from
General Fund, see Fee Statement.]
ON THE STREET LIGHT, FUND.
Lighting Streets, Repairs to Lamps, etc. . . 124,931 47
[Items in Appendix.]
Taxes Refunded, paid in other years on
Consigned Goods 334 71
[Items in Appendix.]
125,266 18
ON THE STREET DEPARTMENT FUND.
Repairs to Accepted Streets 3,297 09
Commissioners Services and Incidental Ex-
penses in change of grades 509 90
Carried forward $3,806 99
,789 47
16
AUDITOR'S REPORT.
Brought forward $3,806 99 $860,789 47
Repairs to Streets front of public property
after April 1st 12,427 40
[Items in Appendix.]
Repairs to Streets, Water Front, after April
1st 341 12
[See additional amount audited on the General Fund.]
Other Street Repairs after April 1st' 3,248 85
[See further amount in items Urgent Necessity.]
Cleaning Sewers, Crossings, etc., after April
1st 2,176 00
[See further amount in General Fund.]
22,000 36
ON THE POUND FEE FUND.
Salary of Pound Keeper, $75 per month . .
900 00
ON THE POLICE CONTINGENT FUND.
Contingent Expenses of Police Department
— Conveyance of Prisoners, Telegraph-
ing, Traveling Expenses, etc
ON THE SCHOOL FUND.
Salaries of Teachers 185,512 59
Salaries of Janitors 14,313 57
Salary of Secretary Board of 'Education. . 1,800 00
Services of Census Marshals 830 00
Purchase of Lots 960 00
Erection of School Houses 59,366 82
[Items in Appendix.]
Repairs and Alterations to School Houses —
includes Carpenters' Salaries 16,605 83
Furniture for Schools and for Office of
Board of Education 19,567 48
Fuel and Light 3,496 26
Water 232 50
Books, Stationery, and Advertising 8,883 31
3,322 73
Carried forward $311,568 36 $887,012 56
DEMANDS AUDITED. 17
Brought forward $311,568 36 $887,012 56
Rente 14,095 78
Repairs Streets front of School Property. . 2,495 74
Grading and Improving Lots 6,842 84
Removal Legal Incumbrances 80 00
Insurance of Houses . . . r 2,104 27
Taxes Refunded paid in other years on
Consigned Goods 3,477 90
[Items in Appendix.]
Incidental Expenses 2,081 32
Salaries of Industrial School Teachers 1,797 98
344,544 19
ON THE SCHOOL MORTGAGE ACCOUNT.
Last payment on Mortgage, November 1st,
1865 1,333 35
Interest on $1,333 35 six months, due No-
vember 1st, 1865, at 1 per cent, per mo. 80 00
. 1,413 35
ON INTEREST ACCOUNT— SCHOOL BONDS 1854.
1
Remittance to New York to pay Coupons
No. 24, due November 1st, 1865 ....... 1,120 00
Premium of Exchange, 1J per cent 19 60
1,139 60
ON INTEREST ACCOUNT— SCHOOL BONDS 1860.
Remittances to New York to pay Coupons
School Bonds 1860 :
No. 11, due January 1st, 1866 2,775 00
No. 12, due July 1st, 1866 2,775 00
Premium of Exchange on each, 1J per
cent 97 13
5,647 13
Carried forward $1,239,756 83
18 AUDITOR'S REPORT.
Brought forward $1,239,756 83
ON INTEREST ACCOUNT— SCHOOL BONDS 1861.
Remittances to New York to pay Coupons
School Bonds 1861 :
No. 11, due January 1st, 1866 $900 00
No. 12, due July 1st, 1866 900 00
Premium of Exchange on each, If per
cent 31 50
1,831 50
ON THE CORPORATION DEBT FUND.
Requisition of Commissioners of
Funded Debt 1851 :
For Interest 130,550 00
For Sinking Fund 50,000 00
-180,550 00
Remittances to New York to pay
Coupons Fire and Civil
Bonds :
No. 23, Fire, due January 1st,
1866 8,725 00
No. 24, Fire, due July 1st, 1866 8,725 00
No. 21, Civil, due January 1st,
1866 .".... 9,870 00
No. 22, Civil, due July 1st, 1866 9,165 00
Premium of Exchange on each,
If per cent 638 48
-37,123 48
Taxes Refunded, paid in other
years on Consigned Goods. . . . 2,691 98
220,365 46
[Items in Appendix.]
ON COUPON ACCOUNT— BONDS 1858.
Coupons Bonds 1858, paid :
No. 9, duo January 1st, 1863, 1 at 15 00
Carried forward $15 00 $1,461,953 79
DEMANDS AUDITED.
19
Brought forward $15 00 $1,461,953 79
No. 10, due July 1st, 1863, 1 at 15 00 '
No. 11, due January 1st, 1864, 2 at $15 30 00
No. 12, due July 1st, 1864, 1 at $30,
and 4 at $15 90 00
No. 13, due January 1st, 1865, 8 at $30,
and 9 at $15 375 00
No. 14, due July 1st, 1865, 989 at $30,
and 281 at $15 '. . . 33,885 00
No. 15, due January 1st, 1866, 989 at
$30, and 275 at $15 33,795 00
68,205 00
•
ON COUPON ACCOUNT— BONDS 1863 AND 1864.
Coupons Bonds 1863 and 1864, paid :
1863, No. 3, due April 1st, 1865, 16 at
$17 50, and 4 at $35 420 00
1863, No. 4, due October 1st, 1865, 918 at
$17 50, and 502 at $35 33,635 00
1863, No. 5, due April 1st, 1866, 911 at
$17 50, and 509 at $35 1 33,757 50
1864, No. 2, due June 1st, 1865, 8 at $35 280 00
1864, No. 3, due December 1st, 1865,
28 at $35 980 00
1865, No. 4, due June 1st, 1866, 28 at $35 980 00
70,052 50
ON INTEREST TAXX ACCOUNT — SAN FRANCISCO AND SAN
JOSE RAILROAD BONDS.
Coupons San Francisco and San Jose Rail-
road Bonds paid :
Due July 1st, August 1st, August 9th,
September 15th, October 13th, No-
vember 10th, December 1st, 1865; Jan-
uary 1st, February 1st, February 9th,
March 15th, April 13th, 1866, 30 at
$17 50, and 15 at $35, each date 12,600 00
Carried forward $12,600 00 $1,600,211 29
20
Brought forward $12,600 00 $1,600,211 29
Due September 14th, 1865, and March
14th, 1866, 60 at $17 50, and 15 at
$35, each date 4,200 00
Due May 10th, 1865, 6 at $17 50 105 00
Due June 1st, 1865, 3 at $17 50, and 4
at $35 192 50
Due June 22d, 1865, 22 at $17 50, and
11 at $35 770 00
Due December 22d, 1865, 29 at $17 50,
and 15 at $35 1,032 50
Due May 10th, 1866, 24 at $17 50, and .
15 at $35 945 00
Due June 1st, 1866, 29 at $17 50, and
15 at $35 1,032 50
Due June 22d, 1866, 12 at $17 50, and
4 at $35 350 00
21,227 50
ON INTEREST TAX ACCOUNT— PACIFIC RAILROAD BONDS.
Coupons Central and Western Pacific Rail-
road Bonds paid :
Central No. 1, due Jan. 1st, 1865, 400
at $35 14,000 00
Central No. 2, due July 1st, 1865, 400
at $35 14,000 00
Central No. 3, due January 1st, 1866,
400 at $35 14,000 00
Western No. 1, due November 1st, 1865,
250 at $35 8,750 00
Western No. 2, due May 1st, 1866, 250
at $35 8,750 00
r 59,500 00
ON SINKING FUND— SCHOOL BONDS 1854.
Loans on Security of City and
County Bonds 18,960 00
Carried forward $18,960 00 $1,680,938 79
DEMANDS AUDITED. 21
Brought forward . . . $18,960 00 $1,680,938 79
Amount remitted to pay School
Bonds 1854 outstanding,
due in New York Novem-
ber 1st, 1865:
Eighteen Bonds, $500 each
(Nos. 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12,
13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 46,
47, 48, 49, 55, 56) and
twenty-three Bonds $1,000
each (Nos. 22, 23, 25, 26,
30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36,
37, 38, 41, 42, 58, 59, 60,
61, 62, 65, 69, 72) 32,000 00
1| per cent, premium of Ex-
change 560 00
32,560 00
51,520 00
ON SINKING FUND— SCHOOL BONDS 1860.
Loans on Security of State and
City and County Bonds 15,700 00
ON SINKING FUND— SCHOOL BONDS 1861.
Loans on Security of State and
City and County Bonds 14,750 00
ON SINKING FUND— FIRE BONDS 1854.
Loans on Security of State and
, City and County Bonds .... 294,215 00
ON SINKING FUND-BONDS 1855.
Loans on Security of City and
County Bonds 17,900 00
Carried forward . . . $17,900 00 $2,057,123 79
22 AUDITOR'S REPORT.
Brought forward . . . $17,900 00 $2,057,123 79
Redemption of Bonds as fol-
lows :
Twenty-three Bonds each
$500 (Nos. 50, 55, 58, 61,
65, 68, 71, 113, 122, 123,
218, 255, 268, 336, 536,,
556, 557, 616, 617, 618,
627, 628, 643) =$11,500,
at 80 per cent $9,200 00
Seven Bonds each $500
(Nos. 29, 35, 197, 198,
200, 272, 274j = $3,500,
at 84 percent 2,940 00
Thirteen Bonds each $500
(Nos. 6,27, 117, 118, 119,
120, 121, 127, 128, 130,
147, 163, 166) =$6,500,
at 96 per cent 6,240 00
Four Bonds each $500 (Nos.
129, -234, 245, 527) =
$2,000, at 99} per cent. . 1,995 00
- 20,375 00
38,275 00
ON SINKING FUND-BONDS 1863 AND 1864.
Loans on Security of City and
County Bonds 46,400 00
Redemption of Bonds as fol-
lows :
Issue of 1863, 16 Bonds each
$500 (Nos. 361, 362, 363,
364,365,366,1,177,1,178,
1,179, 1,180, 1,193, 1,194,
1,195,1,196, 1,197,1,198)
= $8,000, at 81 per cent. 6,480 00
Carried forward . . $6,480 00 $46,400 00 $2,095,398 79
DEMANDS AUDITED. Z6
Brought forward . . . $6,480 00 $46,400 00 $2,095,398 79
Issue of 1863, 60 Bonds each
$500 (Nos. 128, 129, 131,
134, 148, 156, 320, 321,
325, 491, 492, 493, 495,
496, 501, 502, 541, 585,
634, 666, 667, 668, 669,
670, 671, 672, 673, 674,
675, 810, 811, 812, 822, j
823, 824, 825, 831, 858,
859, 860, 861, 862, 871,
872, 878, 880, 882, 885,
886, 1,267, 1,268, 1,410,
1,411, 1,412, 1,413, 1,414,
1,415, 1,416, 1,433, 1,434)
and 10 Bonds each $1,000
(Nos. 939, 941, 949,1,010,
1,011, 1,012, 1,013, 1,018,
1,021, 1,029) = $40,000,
$10,000 at 90 per cent,,
$10,000 at 91 per cent,
$10,000 at 92 per cent.,
and $10,000 at 93 per cent. 36,600 00
Issue of 1863, 3 Bonds each
$1,000 (Nos. 959, 960,
961) at 94 per cent 2,820 00
Received of C. E. S. McDonald, irvpart
payment for City Slip Lot 19 (see
Auditor's Report, 1864-5, p. 46)— am't
placed at credit of General Fund.
Issue of 1864, 6 Bonds each
$1,000, (Nos. 14, 15, 16,
17, 18, 19) $6,000, at 87
per cent 5,220 00
51,120 00
97,520 00
Total Demands Audited .. $2,192,918 79
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AUDITOR S REPORT.
EECAPITULATION OF DEMANDS AUDITED.
For Salaries, including City and Coun-
ty Officers, Police Department,
School Department, Fire Depart-
ment, Hospital employes, etc $593,802 00
For Lights (Street Lights and Lights
for all Public Buildings) 135,711 27
For Repairs to Public Buildings (in-
cluding -School Houses) 44,761 33
For Repairing and cleaning Streets
and Sewers, and repairing Roads 84,327 90
For Subsistence of Prisoners 13,381 32
For Books, Stationery, Printing, and
Advertising 32,616 94
For Appropriation for Industrial Sch'l
and Home for care of Inebriate. 18,839 51
For School Houses and Lots (includes
improvement of lots) G7,169 66
For Fire Department expenses, other
than above stated 58,498 03
For Hospital expen's, other than above
stated 66,517 36
For Election expen's, other than above
stated 4,283 05
For School expenses, other than above
stated 40,663 36
For Squares, other than above stated . . 4,600 08
For Expenses other than above stated
(includes Police Contingent Ex-
penses, Copying Assessment Roll,
Furniture for City Hall, Mayor's
Contingent Expenses, 4th July
Celebration Expenses, etc.) 18,916 05
Total Expenses, including Pub-
lic Improvements $1,184,087 86
Carried forward . . .
$1,184,087 86
DEMANDS OUTSTANDING. 25
Brought forward $1,184,087 86
For Interest on Debt 395,276 71
For Reduction of Debt (includes $50,-
000 paid to Commissioners Fund-
ed Debt of 1851) 154,055 00
For Old Claims. . 19,097 47
Grand Total of Expenditures. . 1,752,517 04
For advances to State, etc. — to be re-
paid 32,476 75
For Loans from Sinking Funds 407,925 00
Total demands Audited $2,192,918 79
See extended statement of Eevenues and Expendi-
tures forward.
DEMANDS OUTSTANDING JUNE 30-TH, 1866.
[WITH PROOF.]
[See Appendix for detailed statement of demands outstanding, audited previous to 1865-6.]
GENERAL FUND.
Demands outstanding June
30th, 1865 $33,313 85
Demands audited during the
Fiscal Year 1865-6 689,424 49
722,738 34
Demands paid $683,013 56
Demand of $134 92 (re-
ceivable only for delin-
quent taxes, 1856-7, 1857
-8, and 1858-9) received .
for $125, difference 9 92 683,023 48
Demands outstanding June
30th, 1866 $39,714 86
Carried forward. . $39,714 86
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26 AUDITOR'S REPORT.
Brought forward. . $39,714 86
Demands of 1856-7 $66 00
1857-8 22 71
1859-60 8 00
1861-2 1,230 00
1862-3 13 20
1863-4 29 60
1864-5 2,362 71
1865-6 35,982 64
SPECIAL FEE FUND.
Demands outstanding June
30th, 1865 $2,997 88
Audited 1865-6 46,098 80
49,096 68
Paid 1865-6.. 46,228 85
Outstanding June 30th, 1866 2,867 83
STREET LIGHT FUND.
Demands outstanding June
30th, 1865 62,014 72
Audited 1865-6.. 125,266 18
187,280 90
Paid 1865-6.. 176,843 88
Outstanding June 30th, 1866 10,437 02
POUND FEE FUND.
Demands outstanding June
30th, 1865... 75 00
Audited 1865-6 900 00
975 00
Paid 1865-6..... ^00 00
Outstanding June 30th, 1866 75 00
Carried forward, $53,094 71
DEMANDS OUTSTANDING. 27
Brought forward. . $53,094 71
POLICE CONTINGENT FUND.
Demands outstanding June
30th, 1865 $374 21
Audited 1865-6 3,322 73
3,696 94
Paid 1865-6.. 3,671 99
Outstanding June 30th, 1866 2495
SCHOOL FUND.
Demands outstanding June
30th, 1865 14,138 03
Audited 1865-6 344,544 19
358,682 22
Paid 1865-6 $338,428 01
Canceled by Board of Ed-
ucation 59 06 338,487 07
Outstanding June 30th, 1866 20,195 15
CORPORATION DEBT FUND.
Demands audited 1865-6. . 220,365 46
Paid 1865-6 219,672 96
Outstanding June 30th, 1866 692 50
SURPLUS FUND, 1856-7.
Demands outstanding June
30th, 1865, and still out-
standing 475 20
Carried forward. $74,482 51
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Brought forward. . $74,482 51
POLICE FUND, 1856-7.
Demands outstanding June
30th, 1865, and still out-
standing . 66 75
SCHOOL MORTGAGE ACCOUNT.
Demands outstanding June
30th, 1865 $ 80 00
Audited 1865-6 . , 1,413 35
1,493 35
Paid 1865-6.. 1,493 35
INTEREST TAX ACCOUNT— SAN FRANCISCO AND SAN JOSE
RAILROAD BONDS.
Demands outstanding June
30th, 1865 3,447 50
Audited 1865-6 . , 21,227 50
24,675 00
Paid 1865-6.. 24,675 00
\Total demands outstanding
June 30th, 1866 $74,548 26
[On other funds and accounts no
demands are outstanding — the
amounts audited and paid being
the same, and no demands out-
Standing at the beginning of the
Fiscal Year (i. e. July 1st, 1865)
viz. :]
On Street Department Fund . .$22,600 38
Coupon Account, Bonds 1858.. 68,205 00
Coupon Account, Bonds 1863
and 1864 70,052 50
Interest Account,School Bonds
1854 1,139 60
Interest Account-School Bonds
1860 5,641 13
FEE STATEMENT. 29
Interest Account,School Bonds
1861 $1,831 50
Interest Tax Account, Pacific
Railroad Bonds 59,500 00
Sinking Fund, School Bonds
1854 51,520 00
Sinking Fund, School Bonds
1860 : 15,700 00
Sinking Fund, School Bonds
1861 14,750 00
Sinking Fund, Fire Bonds 294,215 00
Sinking Fund, Bonds 1855 38,275 00
Sinking Fund, Bonds 1863 and
1864 97,520 00
RECAPITULATION.
i
Demands outstanding June
30th, 1865 . . $ 116,982 14
Demands audited, 1865-6. . 2,192,918 79
2,309,900 93
Demands paid 1865-6 $2,235,283 69
Demands canceled 1865-6. . 68 98 2,235.352 67
Outstanding June 30th, 1866,
as above . $74,548 26
FEE STATEMENT
Showing Receipts into the Special Fee Fund and Expenditures from
the General Fund and Special Fee Fund on account of the Offi-
cers Collecting Fees.
NOTE — Only the fees collected by the Recorder and County Clerk can be considered
under present laws to be regulated with reference to meeting the expenses of the offices.
The Sheriff's expenses are to a great extent on criminal business, care of jail, etc., and are
necessarily in excess of fees collected. The expenses of the other officers are not by law
provided for or expected from fees, they being incidental ; it is considered desirable, how-
ever, in stating this table of fees collected to include in it all the officers who pay in fees,
however disproportionate the incidental fees are to the salaries and expenses of such. By
the numerous changes in the laws, the original object of the Special Fee Fund has been
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AUDITOR S REPORT.
rendered nugatory. The large amounts collected and paid into the Treasury by the Tax
Collector and Treasurer are mainly commissions received from the State for collections.
Officers.
Fees Received.
Expenses, per State-
ment below.
Recorder
$37,348 50
$28092 24
31,829 70
30,842- 90
Sheriff . ...
13022 55
32546 62
Auditor
2,472 50
5 855 85
Treasurer
12,517 44
10,057 75
Tax Collector
15,141 72
18 646 18
District Attorney
1,402 10
8,206 35
Prosecutin0* Attorney ...
2 50
3 025 00
Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
Clerk of the Police Court
983 35
1,764 00
4,447 24
2,772 12
$116,484 361 $144,492 25
EXPENSES OF ABOVE NAMED OFFICERS.
Officers.
Special Fee
Fund
Expenses.
General
Fund
Salaries.
Advertis-
ing.
Postage
Briefs
Tax
Suits.
Other
Expens-
es.
Total.
Recorder
$'
5,710 80
$
22 381 44
|
$
$
S
i
28 092 24
County Clerk. .
8,242 90
22 600 00
30,842 90
Sheriff
8,246 62
24 300 00
32,546 62
Auditor
4 171 85
1 575 00
109 00
5 855 85
Treasurer ....
4,364 25
5 475 00
169 00
49 50
10,057 75
Tax Collector. .
6,888 73
9,675 00
1,165 50
300 00
616 95
18,646 18
District Attor'y
1 406 35
6 800 00
8 206 35
Prosecuting "
25 00
3 000 00
3,025 00
Clerk Board of
Supervisors .
893 00
3 529 14
3 60
21 50
4,447 24
Clerk of Police
Court . ,
2.772 12
2,772 12
[See accounts of " City and County Officers' Salaries," " Extra Deputies' Salaries," and " Ur-
gent Necessity," in Appendix, for further particulars of the General Fund expenses. Advertising
for Board of Supervisors not included in Clerk's expenses. Much of the amount ($893) for Sta-
tionery, charged to the Clerk's Office was for.the Board of Supervisors.]
BALANCE OF SPECIAL FEE FUND.
Am't at credit, June 30th, 1865
Fees received during the year
1865-6
Carried forward . . .
$2,997 88
116,484 36
$119,482 24
FUNDED DEBT. 31
Brought forward $119,482 24
Demands Paid $46,228 85
Transferred to General Fund,
quarterly balances :
Oct. 1, 1865 $10,465 31
Jan. 1, 1866........ 28,975 89
Apl. 1, 1866 16,382 72
June 30, 1866 14,561 64 70,385 56
Am't at credit, June 30th, 1866,
reserved to pay Outstand-
ing Demands $2,867 83 $119,482 24
ANNUAL STATEMENT TO MAY 31 ST, 1866, OF THE COMMIS-
SIONERS OF THE FUNDED DEBT OF 1851.
Statement of Receipts, Disbursements, Outstanding Loans, etc., of the
Commissioners of the Funded Debt of the City of San Francisco,
from June 1st, 1865, to May 3lst, 1866, inclusive:
Balance of Cash on hand, per statement
of May 31st, 1865 , $ 9,597 30
Loans outstanding at that date 384,822 32
Stocks taken to account 378,161 32
Real Estate taken to account ' 11,639 20
RECEIPTS, 1865-6.
City Treasurer, requisition of 1865-6. . . $180,550 00
Interest 83,771 20
Wharf Rents 2,523 68
Real Estate 1,457 00
Rent of Lots 2,160 00
270,461 88
$1,054,682 02
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DISBURSEMENTS.
Interest on Bonds $130,695 64
Bonds Redeemed '. 15,600 00
Premium on do 775 00
Advertising, Clerk's Hire, Notarial and
Court Fees* etc 1,626 60
Attorney's Fees 2,400 00
Salaries of Commissioners, including Pres-
ident and Secretary '. 7,400 00
$158,497 24
Loans outstanding at this date; viz. :
On Real Estate 102,330 00
On Stocks and Bonds 246,042 40
Stocks taken to account 528,993 02
Real Estate taken to account 11,639 20
Cash on deposit with Parrott & Co 7,180 16
896,184 78
$1,054,682 02
The amount of Bonds outstanding on the
31st of May, 1865, as stated in our
' last Report, was 1,305,500 00
During the past year there has been re-
deemed 15,600 00
Leaving outstanding on the 31st ult $1,289,900 00
[The Interest on this sum for the year 1866-7 amounts to f 128,990, which,
with $50,000, the sum annually appropriated under the Act to the Sinking
Fund, makes a total of $178,990 to be drawn from the City Treasury the
current year.]
The following is a statement of the Sinking Fund, as
appears on the books of the Board, and in the
condensed statement of the Secretary accom-
panying this Report :
FUNDED DEBT.
33
Loans on Mortgage of Real Estate $102,330 00
Loans on Bonds and Stocks ..'..' 246,042 40
Stocks owned by the Board, to wit :
$260,500 San Francisco 6 per cent. Bonds 153,345 50
277,500 San Francisco 7 per cent. Bonds 206,125 00
1,000 San Francisco 10 per cent. Bonds 1,016 67
45,000 Santa, Clara County 7 per cent. Bonds . 31,626 00
27,000 Spring Valley Water Co. 12 per cent.
Bonds 24,790 00
50,000 United States 7-30 per cent. Bonds .... 37,375 70
3,000 Miss. R. R. 7 per cent. Bonds (Page,
Bacon & Co.) ^ 2,464 15
1,000 shares Spring Valley Water Stock * 51,000 00
150 shares San Francisco Gas Stock 15,050 00
$8,184 38 warrants on the State Treasury 6,200 00
Real Estate taken to account 11,639 20
Interest accumulated on Bonds and Loans 16,893 00
Cash on deposit with Parrott & Co 7,180 16
913,077 78
Less Coupons due, but not presented ' 24,755 00
Available Sinking Fund 888,322 78
Add amount due from the City on the requisition of
1856-7 . 68,513 43
$956,836 21
[In the above statement the available Sinking Fund is made out to be
$888,322 78 ; but if we add to this sum the difference between the actual
cost and the present increased market value of the Bonds, Stocks, and
Heal Estate owned by the Board — say $80,000 — we have an available
Sinking Fund of $968,322 78.]
The Annual Statement of Receipts and Disbursements, certified to
as required by the Funding Act, is herewith appended, together with
a list of Lots conveyed 'by the Board under the Act of the Legislature
of April 14th, 1862. The details of the financial transactions of the
Board are furnished to the Auditor of the City in the monthly state-
ments made to him.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
JOHN MIDDLETON,
WM. HOOPER,
C. L. LOW.
Commissioners of the Funded Debt of the City of San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 19th, 1866.
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AUDITOR'S EEPORT.
SCHEDULE OF PROPERTY CONVEYED BY THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE
FUNDED DEBT OF THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO, UNDER THE ACT OF
THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, OF APRIL 14TH, 1862.
To Whom Conveyed.
Description of Property.
Amount Paid.
H. Zwieg
For portion of 100-vara Lot No. 311 ..
$272 00
Henry Clifton . . .
Edwin Stone. . . .
J P Treadwell
For portion of 50-vara Lot No. 1329. .
For portion of 100-vara Lot No. 168. .
For 100-vara Lot No. 333
62 00
53 00
772 00
W. B. Rowe ....
Bridget Barnet . .
B. S. Brooks
For portion of 50-vara Lot No. 1188. .
For portion of 100-vara Lot No. 317. .
For 50-vara Lot No. 934
92 00
97 00
82 00
C. W. Miller.-...
For portion of 50-vara Lot No. 1132. .
27 00
,457 00
SAN FRANCISCO, May 31st, 1866.
WM. HOOPER,
Secretary.
FUNDED DEBT OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRAN-
CISCO, JUNE 30TH, 1866.
Bonds
Outstanding.
Annual Interest Annual Sinking
from T ax cs. F und from Taxes.
CITY BONDS OP 1851, due May 1st, 1871,
Interest 10 per cent, per annum, payable
by Commissioners Funded Debt of 1851,
in San Francisco, May and November.. $1,289,900 00 $128,990 00 $50,000 00
CITY BONDS OF 1854, due December 1st,
1866, Interest 10 per cent, per annum,
payable in New York, July 1st and De-
cember 1st, 1866 174,500 00
CITY BONDS OP 1855,due January 1st, 1875,
Interest 6 per cent, per annum, pay-
able in New York, January and July. .
CITY AND COUNTY BONDS OP 1858, due
January 1st, 1888, Interest 6 per cent,
per annum, payable in San Francisco,
January and July 1,133,500 00
CITY AND COUNTY BONDS OF 1860, (School)
due July 1st, 1870, Interest 10 percent,
per annum, payable in New York, Jan-
uary and July 55,500 00 5,550 00 5,000 00
About
7,275 00
305,500 00 18,330 00
68,010 00
About
36,000 00
Commences
in 1867.
Carried forward.
. $2,958,900 00 $228,155 00 $91,000 00
FUNDED DEBT.
35
18,000 00 1,800 00 2,500 00
Bonds Annual Interest Annual Sinking
Outstanding, from Taxes. Fund fm Taxes.
Brought forward $2,958,900 00 $228,155 00 $91,000
CITY AND COUNTY BONDS OP 1861, (School)
due July 1st, 1870, Interest 10 per cent,
per annum, payable in New York, Jan-
uary and July
CITY AND COUNTY BONDS OF 1862 AND
1863, (San Francisco and San'Joze Kail-
road] $30,000 'due each July 1st, Au-
gust 1st, September 15th, November
10th, December 22d, 1877, February 9th,
April 13th, and June 1st, 1878, and
$60,000 due September 14th, 1878, In-
terest 7 per cent, per annum, payable
in San Francisco
CITY AND COUNTY BONDS OF 1863, (Judg-
ment] due October 1st, 1883, Interest 7
per cent, per annum, payable in San
Francisco, April and October
CITY AND COUNTY BONDS OF 1864, (Judg-
ment] due June 1st, 1884, Interest 7 per
cent, per annum, payable in San Fran-
cisco, June and December
CITY AND COUNTY BONDS OF 1864, (Central
Pacific Railroad] due July 1st, 1894,
Interest 7 per cent, per annum, payable
in San Francisco, January and July. . . . 400,000 00
CITY AND COUNTY BONDS OF 1865, (West-
ern Pacific Railroad] due May 1st, 1895,
Interest 7 per cent, per annum, payable Commences
in San Francisco, May and November. . 250,00000 , 17,50000 in 1873.
CITY AND COUNTY BONDS OF 1866, (School]
due April 1st, 1881, Interest 7 per cent,
per annum, payable in San Francisco,
April and October — Act of March 17th,
1866, and Order 695 of the Board of Commences
Supervisors ' 75,000 00 5,250 00 in 1867.
300,000 00 21,000 00
917,385 92 64,217 00'
28,007 91 1,960 00
About
18,000 00
About
54,000 00
Commences
28,000 00 in 1873.
Total Amount of Bonds outstanding . . .$4,947,293 83
Amount of Annual Interest
Amount of Annual Sinking Fund
Amount to be provided for by Taxes for
Interest and Sinking Funds for year T
1866-7 . .
$367,882 00
165,500 00
[The Coupons of Bonds of 1858, 1863, and 1864,
(Judgment) and 1866 are receivable for Taxes
of the Current Fiscal Year.]
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BONDS REDEEMED DURING THE FISCAL YEAR.
City Bonds of 1851 $15,600 00
City Bonds of 1854 (School) 32,000 00
City Bonds of 1855 23,500 00
City and County Bonds of 1863 51,000 00
City and County Bonds of 1864 6,000 00
Total amount of Bonds Redeemed. . $128,100 00
BONDS ISSUED DURING THE FISCAL YEAR.
City and County Bonds of 1866 (School) $75,000 00
EXHIBIT OF THE FUNDED DEBT, WITH ASSETS, JUNE
30.TH, 18C6.
Amount of Bonds outstanding, per fore-
going statement $4,947,293 83
Coupons due and not presented for pay-
ment of
Bonds of 1851 $15,455 00
Bonds of 1854 • 225 00
Bonds of 1855 1,3C5 00
Bonds of 1858 885 00
Bonds of 1862-3 857 50
Bonds of 1863-4 577 50
19,365 00
Coupons due July 1st, 1866 :
Bonds of 1858 34,005 00
Bonds of 1862-3 1,050 00
Bonds of 1864 14,000 00
49,055 00
Carried forward $5,015,713 83
37
Brought forward $5,015,713 83
ASSETS —
In hands of Fund Commissioners,
Debt of 1851, June 30th, 1865 $895,148 94
In hands of New York Agents 1,285 00
In Treasury, etc., at credit of
Corporation Debt Fund 27,047 85
Coupon Account, Bonds 1858 885 00
Coupon Account, Bonds 1863 and
1864 3,766 71
Sinking Fund, School Bonds 1860,
Cash and Loans 12,189 58 '
Sinking Fund, School Bonds 1861,
Cash and Loans 6,565 69
Sinking Fund, Fire Bonds, Cash
and Loans 177,107 48
Sinking Fund, Bonds of 1855 '. . . . 879 79
Sinking Fund, Bonds of 1863 and
1864, Cash and Loans 2,223 28
Pacific Railroad Loan Fund Account 6,81 6 76
1,133,916 08
Net amount of Debt, June 30th, 1866. . $3,881,797 75
Dr. JOSEPH S. PAXSON, TREASURER, IN CASH ACCOUNT
WITH AUDITOR, FOR CITY AND COUNTY MONEYS,
FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30TH, 1866.
GENERAL FUND.
To Receipts from
Taxes $489,811 20
Poll Taxes 13,170 24
State and County Licenses 89,253 25
Municipal Licenses 19,139 85
Harbor Dues 20,136 85
Carried forward $631,511 39
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Brought forward $631,511 39
Fines, Police Court 31,925 56
Fines, County ( Jourt ' . . . 9,860 00
Fines, Fourth District Court 10 00
Forfeited Bail Bonds, collected by Pros-
ecuting Attorney 150 00
Sale of Engine House and Lot, No. 12
(balance) 6,325 00
Sale of City Slip Lot 19, proceeds of
$3,000 Bonds of 1863 2,820 00
[See Annual llcport of 1864-5, p. 46.]
Sale of Unclaimed Property, 1865 1,075 65
Sale of Flag Stones front of City Hall,
etc 205 00
State, for Assessment Expenses 6,453 05
State, for Rents of Armories, etc., ad-
vanced by City and County. . ... 50,378 80
State, for Hospital Dues 2,533 05
$743,247 50
SPECIAL FEE FUND.
To Receipts of Fees from
Recorder 37,348 50
County Clerk 31,829 70
Sheriff 13,022 55
Auditor 2,472 50
Treasurer 12,517 44
Tax Collector 15,141 72
Clerk of Board of Supervisors 983 35
Clerk of Police Court 1,764 00
District Attorney 1,402 10
Prosecuting Attorney. 2 50
116,484 36
STREET LIGHT FUND.
To Receipts from Taxes 51,548 71
Carried forward $911,280 57
TREASURER'S ACCOUNT. 39
Brought forward $911,280 57
STREET DEPARTMENT FUND.
To Receipts from
Taxes $68,167 64
Licenses on Vehicles 9,659 40
77,827 04
POUND FEE FUND.
To Receipts of Pound Fees 493 50
SCHOOL FUND.
To Receipts from
Taxes 240,582 04
Poll Taxes 2,214 75
Rents of Lots 1,225 50
Fines in Police Court 25 00
Sale of Lots 11 and 12, Block 15, Fair-
mount Tract 400 00
Sale of old Buildings on Tehama Street
Lot 425 00
Sale of 75 Bonds, each $1,000, dated
April 1st, 1866, $75,000 ; $45,000 at
81 per cent., and $30,000 at 82 per j
cent (see " Statement of Funded
Debt") •. . 61,050 00
Evening Schools 200 00
Insurance on Spring Valley Building, in-
jured by Fire 333 35
Industrial School Department 77 40
State Apportionment of School Revenue 43,043 55
349,576 59
CORPORATION DEBT FUND.
To Receipts from Taxes 295,771 37
COUPON ACCOUNT— BONDS 1863 AND 1864.
To Receipts from Taxes 69,152 86
Carried forward $1,704,101 93
40 AUDITOR'S REPORT.
Brought forward $1,704,101 93
INTEREST TAX ACCOUNT-SAN FRANCISCO AND SAN
JOSE RAILROAD BONDS.
To Receipts from Taxes 13,774 78
INTEREST TAX ACCOUNT— PACIFIC RAILROAD BONDS.
To Receipts from Taxes } 54,534 12
SINKING FUND— SCHOOL BONDS, 1854.
To Receipts from
Loans Returned $33,760 00
Interest 1,462 53
35,222 53
SINKING FUND— SCHOOL LONDS, 1860.
To Receipts from
Loans Returned 6,900 00
Interest 541 92
7,441 92
SINKING FUND— SCHOOL BONDS, 1861.
To Receipts from
Loans Returned 9,900 00
Interest 443 91
10,343 91
SINKING FUND-FIRE BONDS.
To receipts from
Loans Returned 213,175 00
Interest 21,092 63
234,267 63
Carried forward $2,059,686 82
TREASURER'S ACCOUNT. 41
Brought forward $2,059,686 82
SINKING FUND— BONDS 1855.
To Receipts from
Taxes 20,450 29
Loans Returned 17,900 00
Interest 804 50
39,154 79
SINKING FUND— BONDS 1863 AND 1864.
To Receipts from
Taxes 51,266 49
Loans Returned 44,400 00
Interest 1,990 17
97,656 66
LOAN FUND ACCOUNT— PACIFIC RAILROAD BONDS.
To Receipts from Taxes 6,816 76
Total Receipts into Treasury.. 2,203,315 03
C The total amount of receipts into the Treasury includes
Loans returned, and is not exclusively Revenue, for
statement of which see page 56.]
To Cash on hand July 1st, 1865 188,722 77
$2,392,037 80
Or.
By Demands redeemed on the following
Funds and Accounts :
General Fund 683,01356
Special Fee Fund 46,228 85
Street Light Fund 176,843 88
Street Department Fund 22,000 36
Pound Fee Fund 900 00
Police Contingent Fund 3,671 99^
School Fund 338,428 01
Carried forward $1,271,086 65
4
42 AUDITOR'S REPORT.
Brought forward $1,271,086 65
School Mortgage Account 1,493 35
Interest Account, School Bonds 1854 1,139 60
Interest Account, School Bonds 1860 5,647 13
Interest Account, School Bonds 1861 1,831 50
Corporation Debt Fund 219,672 96
Coupon Account, Bonds 1858 68,205 00
Coupon Account, Bonds 1863 and
1864 70,052 50
Interest Tax Account, San Fran-
cisco and San Jose Railroad
Bonds 24,675 00
Interest Tax Account, Pacific Rail-
road Bonds 59,500 00
Sinking Fund, School Bonds 1854.. 51,520 00
Sinking Fund, School Bonds I860.. 15,700 00
Sinking Fund, School Bonds 1861.. 14,750 00
Sinking Fund, Fire Bonds 294,215 00
Sinking Fund, Bonds 1855 38,275 00
Sinking Fund, Bonds 1863 and 1864 97,520 00
Total Payments from Treasury $2,235,283 69
C The total payments out of the Treasury includes Loans
of Sinking Funds, and the amount above stated is far
in excess of the expenses of the year— for a statement
of which see page 57.]
By Cash on hand June 30th, 1866, at
credit of the following Funds and
Accounts :
General Fund 91,393 08
Special Fee Fund 2,867 83
Street Light Fund 10,358 27
Pound Fee Fund 46 00
Police Contingent Fund 24 95
School Fund / 11.796 84
Corporation Debt Fund 27,047 85
Coupon Account, Bonds 1858. .'. . . 885 00
Coupon Account, Bonds 1863 arid
1864 3,766 71
Sinking Fund, School Bonds I860.. 289 58
Sinking Fund, School Bonds 1861 .. 215 69
Carried forward $148,691 80 $2,235,283 69
TRANSFER ENTRIES.
43
Brought forward $148,691 80 $2,235,283 69
Sinking Fund, Fire Bonds 1854. . . 142 48
Sinking Fund, Bonds 1855 879 79
Sinking Fund, Bonds 1863 and 1864 223 28
Loan Fund Account, Pacific Rail-
road Bonds 6,816 76
156,754 11
$2,392,037 80
TRANSFER ENTRIES— FISCAL YEAR 1865-6.
To General Fund:
From Special Fee Fund $70,385 56
[See Statement of Special Fee Fund, p. 31.]
From Street Department Fund, amount
unexpended June 30th, 1866 55,826 68
From Special Pound Fee Fund, amount
unexpended June 30th, 1866 45 40
From Police Contingent, amount unex-
pended June 30th, 1866, of appro-
priation of $3,600 for 1865-6 277 27
$126,534 91
From General Fund :
To Street Light Fund, to provide for
deficiency 83,478 82
[Statutes 1862, p. 468 ; see Appendix.]
To Pound Fee Fund, to provide for
deficiency 377 50
[Statutes 1863-4, p. 502.]
To Interest Tax Account, San Fran-
cisco and San Jose Railroad Bonds,
to provide for deficiency 8,240 57
[Statutes 1865-6, p. 437.]
To Interest Tax Account, Pacific Rail-
road Bonds, to provide for deficiency 4,965 88
[Statutes 1865-6, p. 437.]
To Police Contingent Fund, annual
appropriation 1865-6 3,600 00
__: $100,662 77
44
AUDITOR'S REPORT.
To School Fund :
From Sinking Fund, School Bonds
1854; balance after payment of
Bonds outstanding $2,806 36
From School Fund :
To Interest Account, Bonds 1854, an-
nual Interest 1,069 42
To Interest Account, Bonds 1860, an-
nual Interest 5,511 50
To Interest Account, Bonds 1861, an-
nual Interest 1,630 38
To Sinking Fund, Bonds 1860, annual
Sinking Fund 5,000 00
To Sinking Fund, Bonds 1861, annual
Sinking Fund 2,500 00
To School Mortgage Account 1,413 35
$17,124 65
From Corporation Debt Fund :
To Coupon Account, Bonds 1858, an-
nual Interest 68,010 00
To Sinking Fund, Fire Bonds, annual
Sinking Fund 16,666 66
$84,676 66
To Corporation Debt Fund :
From Interest Account, Fire and Civil
Bonds $ 15984
LOAN ACCOUNT.
[ Loans arc made on Security of State, and City and County Bonds only.]
SINKING FUND— SCHOOL BONDS 1854.
Loans outstanding June 30th, 1865 $14,800 00
Loans during the Fiscal Year 1865-6. .. 18,960 00
33,760 00
Loans paid 1865-6 33,760 00
LOAN ACCOUNT.
SINKING FUND-SCHOOL BONDS 1860.
45
Loans outstanding June 30th, 1865 3,100 00
Loans during the Fiscal Year 1865-6. .. 15,700 00
18,800 00
Loans paid 1865-6 6,900 00
Outstanding June 30th, 1866 $11,900 00
SINKING FUND— SCHOOL BONDS 1861.
Loans outstanding June 30th, 1865 1,500 00
Loans during the Fiscal Year 1865-6. .. 14,750 00
16,250 00
Loans paid 1865-6 9,900 00
Outstanding June 30th, 1866 6,350 00
SINKING FUND— FIRE BONDS 1854.
Loans outstanding June 30th, 1865 95,925 00
Loans during the Fiscal Year 1865-6. .. 294^215 00
390,140 00
Loans paid 1865-6 213,175 00
Outstanding June 30th, 1866 176,965 00
SINKING FUND— BONDS 1865.
Loans made and paid during the Fiscal
Year 17,900 00
SINKING FUND— BONDS 1863 AND 1864.
Loans during the Fiscal Year 1865-6. .. 46,400 00
Loans paid 44,400 00
Outstanding June 30th, 1866 2,000 00
Total Loans Outstanding June 30th,
1866 $197,215 00
46
AUDITOR'S REPORT.
JOSEPH S. PAXSON, TREASURER, IN CASH ACCOUNT WITH
AUDITOR FOR STATE OF CALIFORNIA MONEYS, FOR
THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE SOxn, 1866.
Cr.
To Receipts on account of the State
of California, from
Taxes, 1855-6 $3 98
Taxes, 1856-7 34 28
Taxes, 1857-8. 1515
Taxes, 1863-4 9 11
Taxes, 1864-5 7,052 23
Taxes, 1865-6 787,86207
$794,976 82
State Poll Tax 19,755 36
Military Poll Tax 20,870 90
State and County Licenses 20,320 25
Passenger Brokers' Licenses 9,104 67
Stamps —
Insurance 27,001 82
Exchange 30,745 15
Passenger 6,305 06
Attorney , 30 00
64,082 03
Tax on Premiums of Insurance. . . . 15,378 22
Estates of Deceased Persons 324 10
Total Receipts 944,812 35
To Cash on hand, June 30th, 1865,
at Credit of State 61,822 67
Or.
By settlement with Controller of
State :
July 17th, 1865
October 14th, 1865
December 19th, 1865
January 18th, 1866.
April 19th, 1866
By Cash on hand June 30th, 1866,
at Credit of State. .
$1,006,635 02 $1,006,635 02
STATEMENT OF TAXES.
47
STATEMENT OF TAXES 1865-6.
CHARLES R. STORY, TAX COLLECTOR, IN ACCOUNT WITH AUDITOR FOR
TAXES OF THE FISCAL YEAR 1865-6.
Assessed.value Total Tax
of Property. $3 12 f? $100.
To amount of the Assessment Roll
1865-6 :
Personal Property ........... $39,775,496 34 '$1,240,995 49
Real Estate ................ $49,138,027 00
Duplicate and over-payments
on ditto .................. 21,020 00
-- 49,159,047 00 1,533,762 26
Total .................. $88,934,543 34 $2,774,757 75
Cr*
PERSONAL PROPERTY.
By Delinquent, as follows :
Mortgages ................ 12,670,869 34
Shipping .................. 138,000 00
Other Personal ............ 779,507 08
Total Delinquency, carried
to new account ....... 13,588,376 42 423,957 c4
By amount paid on in other coun-
ties, chiefly shipping ......... 429,925 00 13,413 66
By Duplicate and Erroneous As-
sessments, viz. :
Mortgages satisfied, canceled,
etc ..................... 981,742 54
Shipping lost, or registered in
other ports ............... 104,360 00
Other Personal ........ ..... 1,260,618 77
-- 2,346,721 31 73,217 70
By errors in additions found in
vol. 2, subsequent to charging
roll to Tax Collector ......... 511,249 66 15,951 00
,By Exemptions:
Property of Widows and Or-
phans ................... 109,605 00
Benevolent Institutions ...... 53,150 00
Carried forward $162,755 00 $16,876,272 39 $526,539 70
48
AUDITOR S REPORT.
Brought forward $162,755 00 $16,876,272 39 $526,53970
Foreign Consuls 5,750 00
168,505 00 5,257 36
By amount paid into the Treasury
on account of Personal As-
sessments. . .-. .' 22,730,718 95 709,198 43
$39,775,496 34 $1,240,995 49
REAL ESTATE.
By Delinquent, carried to new ac-
count 2,60000 8112
By Duplicate and Erroneous As-
sessments 24,405 00 761 43
By Exemptions — Property of
United States. . ... 486,780 00
State of California 18,500 00
City and County 1,319,840 00
Protestant Churches 394,470 00
Roman Catholic Churches 544,375 00
Hebrew Congregations. . . 31,000 00
Benevolent Institutions 497.345 00
Widows and Orphans 402,808 00
3,695,118 00 115,287 68
By amount paid into the Treasury
on account of Real Estate As-
sessments 45,436,924 00 1,417,632 03
Total Real Estate 49,159,047 00 1,533,762 26
Total Personal, brought down . 39,775,49634 1,240,99549
$88,934,543 34 $2,774,757 75
[See Apportionment of Taxes for State-
ment of Taxes of other years, and 5
and 2M per cent, collected.]
CHARLES R. STORY, TAX COLLECTOR, IN NEW ACCOUNT.
r>r.
To amount of Delinquent Taxes
1865-6:
Personal Property
Real Estate . .
13,588,376 42 423,957 34
2,600 00 81 12
$13,590,976 42 $424,038 46
STATEMENT OF TAXES.
49
DELINQUENT TAXES OF THIS AND PREVIOUS YE4RS.
Fiscal Year.
State.
City and County.
Total.
1865-6
$156,296 23
$267,742 23
$424,038 46
1864 5
168035 28
232,560 83
400,596 11
1863-4
160,635 98
214,181 31
374,817 29
1862 3
115 324 16
295 793 08
411 117 24
1861-2
4,297 09
15,594 29
19,891 38
1860-1
4,123 80
15,464 26
19,588 06
1859-60
7,381 98
31,607 18
38,989 16
1858-9
16,092 23
46,935 27
63,027 50
1857-8
13 548 74
30 968 56
44 517 30
1856-7
44,586 46
104,234 06
148.820 52
$690,321 95
$1,255,081 07
$1,945,403 02
NOTE.— The large amount of Delinquent Taxes of the last four years is- mostly on Mortgages.
See Tax Collector's Account for amount this year.
TAXES HELD UNDER PROTEST.
By W. Y. Patch, Taxes 1858-9
By Jonathan Hunt, Taxes 1858-9 and 1859-60 .
By E. H. Washburn, Taxes 1863-4
$304 08
4,717 10
738 67
$5,759 85
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STATE AND COUNTY LICENSES.
53
STATEMENT OF STATE AND COUNTY LICENSES ISSUED
DURING THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE SOie, 1866.
At credit of State
of California.
At credit of City
and County.
496 Merchandise, 3d to 8th Class... . $4,743 75 $4,743 75
7,649 Merchandise, 9th and 10th Class , 20,122 00
3,552 Bar 53,280 00
61 Bankers 2,550 00 2,550 00
158 Brokers 769 00 769 00
85 Pawnbrokers 1,275 00 1,275 00
290 Billiard 1,347 50 1,347 50
36 Bowling 217 50 217 50
38 Home Insurance 475 00 475 00
111 Foreign Insurance 2,775 00
102 Auctioneers 3,750 00 1,875 00
107 Theater 1,632 50 1,632 50
7 Circus 35 00 35 00
3 Bull and Bear Fight 37 50 37 50
21 Intelligence Office 525 t>0 525 00
12,716 Licenses $20,132 75 $88,884 75
Collections made by District At-
torney (no Licenses issued). . 187 50 368 50
$20,320 25 $89,253 25
Grand Total. $109,573 50
[The amounts received for Bar 3d, Merchandise 9th and
10th Classes, are placed at credit of the City and Coun-
ty ; Foreign Insurance at credit of State ; Auctioneers
two-thirds State, one-third City and County; others
one-half .State, one-half City and County.]
54 AUDITOR'S REPORT.
STATEMENT OF MUNICIPAL LICENSES ISSUED DURING
THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30™, 1866.
AT CREDIT OF GENERAL FUND.
[QUARTERLY LICENSES.]
5 Shooting Gallery $37 50
12 Shipping Office 115 00
10 Express 120 00
6 Race 130 00
37 Laundry 132 00
22 Hand Organ 180 00
82 Real Estate Brokers 205 00
28 Assayers 280 00
61 Powder and Pyrotechnic 427 50
13 Merchandise Peddlers 750 00
63 Dance1 1,190 00
572 Market Stall 1,430 00
127 Slaughter House 1,490 60
1,009 Meat Shop and Bakery 2,138 00
1,087 Hotel and Restaurant 2,214 25
449 Meat, Fish and Produce Peddlers . 8,300 00
$19,139 85
3,583 ~
STREET DEPARTMENT FUND.
[ANNUAL LICENSES.]
95 Drivers 95 00
91 Laundry Wagon, Sprinkler, and
Hand Cart 108 25
164 Coach, Hack, Omnibus, and Coupe 1,010 00
1,107 Grocery, Milk, Bakery, and Mar-
ket Wagon 1,121 65
398 Double Team (2 or more horses) . 1,203 00
1,846 Wagon, Truck, Dray, and Cart. .. 3,014 25
[QUARTERLY LICENSES.]
248 Street Railroad Car 3,100 00
$9,652 15
3,949 ==
[$7 25 overpaid, to be deducted from next
year's statement— see Treasurer's Report.]
LEGAL TENDER NOTES. 55
STATEMENT OF UNITED STATES LEGAL TENDER NOTES.
RECEIPTS DURING THE FISCAL YEAR 1866-6.
From Clerk Police Court $10 00
Amount on hand June 30th, 1865 64,431 91
$64,441 91
PAYMENTS DURING THE FISCAL YEAR 1865-6.
For Street Repairs 1,367 34
For Postage for Tax Collector 300 00
For Advertising Redemption of Bonds
and Coupons, in New York 320 60
For Castings and Porous Cups for Fire
Alarm and Police Telegraph 155 00
For Subscription to Eastern School Jour-
nals, for School Department 8 00
2,150 94
Balance on hand June 30th, 1866 62,290 97
$64,441 91
56
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EXPENDITURES.
57
EXPENDITURES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30iH,
1866.
Demands Audited on the
following Funds, other
than for Permanent
Improvements, Old
Claims, and Debt and
Interest :
General Fund
Special Fee Fund
Street Light Fund
Street Department Fund
Pound Fee Fund
Police Contingent Fund
School Fund
Deduct amounts received,
properly an offset to
the above :
Fees paid into the Treas-
ury by Fee Officers . . .
Fees paid into the Treas-
ury by Pound Keeper
Amount received from
State for School Ex-
penses ,
Amount received from
State for Assessment
Expenses
Amount received from
State for Hospital
Dues . .
Total net Current Expenses
CURRENT EXPENSES.
$614,791 97
46,098 80
124,931 47
22,000 36
900 00
3,322 73
273,896 63
1,085,941 96
$116,484 36
493 50
43,043 55
6,453 05
2,533 05
169,007 51
$916,934 45
PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS.
Demands Audited on the
following Funds:
General Fund
School Fund
Carried forward. . . .
5
30,976 24
67,169 66
98,145 90 $916,934 45
58
AUDITOR'S REPORT.
Brought forward. ... $98,145 90 $916,934 45
Deduct amount received
from slale of Engine
House and Lot 6,325 00
Deduct amount received
from sale of School Lots
and Buildings 825 00
7,150 00
Total net Permanent Imp's 90,995 90
INTEREST ON DEBT.
Demands Audited on the
following Funds and
Accounts :
Interest Account, School
Bonds 1854 1,139 60
Interest Account, School
Bonds 1860 5,647 13
Interest Account, School
Bonds 1861 1,831 50
Corporation Debt Fund. 167,67348
Coupon Account, Bonds
1858 • 68,205 00
Coupon Account, Bonds
1863 and 1864 70,052 50
Interest Tax Account,
San Francisco and San
Jose Railroad Bonds. 21,227 50
Interest Tax Account,
Pacific Railroad Bonds 59,500 00
Deduct
Interests and Profits dur-
ing year of Fund Com-
mission of 1851 :
Amount of Sinking Fund
June EOth, 1866 $895,148 94
Amount of Sinking Fund
June 30th, 1865 782,406 27
395,276 71
Net gain
Interest rec'd by Treas-
urer
Total net Interest on Debt
Carried forward. . . .
112,742 67
26,335 66
139,078 33
256,198 38
$1,264,128 73
Brought forward. . .
EXPENDITURES.
REDUCTION OF DEBT.
59
$1,264,128 73
Demands Audited on the
following Funds :
Sinking Fund, School
Bonds 1854 32,56000
Sinking Fund, Bonds
1855 20,375 00
Sinking Fund, Bonds
1863 and 1864 51,120 00
Corporation Debt Fund,
for Sinking Fund,
Bonds 1851 50,000 00
Total Reduction of Debt 154,055 00
OLD CLAIMS.
Demands Audited on the
following Funds and
Accounts :
General Fund 11,179 53
Street Light Fund 334 71
School Fund 3,477 90
"School Mortgage Acc't. 1,413 35
Corporation Debt Fund . 2,691 98
Total for Old Claims 19,097 47
Total net Expenditure $1,437,281 20
RECAPITULATION OF NET EXPENDITURES.
For
Current Expenses 916,934 45
Permanent Improvem'ts >90,995 90
Interest on Debt 256,198 38
Reduction of Debt 154,055 00
Old Claims 19,097 47
Total net Expenditure, as
above $1,437,281 20
For more minute details of expenditures see Appendix following.
APPENDIX TO AUDITOR'S REPORT.
CITY AND COUNTY OFFICERS' SALARIES.
Salary of
Mayor, 1 year
Mayor's Clerk, 1 year. .
Clerk Board of Super-
visors, 1 year ,
Assistant Clerk Board
of Supervisors, 4 mos.
and 9 days, at $100
per month
[See items of "Extra Dep-
uties' Salaries."
County Judge, 1 year . .
Probate Judge, 1 year.
City and County Attor-
ney, 1 year
Clerk of City and County
Attorney, 1 year. . . .
District Attorney, 1 y'r.
Clerk of District Attor-
ney, 1 year
Prosecuting Attorney, 1
year
Police Judge, 1 year. .
Police Chief, 1 year. . .
Assessor, 1 year
Deputies of Assessor . .
1, 9 months, at $150. 1,350 00
1, 3 months, at $200. 600 00
Extra Deputies, $150
per month each ....
2, July 1st to October
27th, 1865 1,170 00
Statutes.
1861
1863-4
1863
1865-6
1863
1863
1862
1863
1863
1863
1862
1861
1861
1861
1861
1863-4
1865-6
Page.
555
503
169
82
702
702
169
170
169
467
554
557
556
556
43
477
$3,000 00
1,800 00
2,400 00
432 14
5,000 00
5,000 00
5,000 00
1,500 00
5,000 00
1,500 00
3,000 00
4,000 00
4,000 00
4,000 00
Carried forward. .$3,120 00
$45,632 14
APPENDIX.
61
Brought forward. . .
$3,120 00 Statutes.
Page.
$45,632 14
10, month February,
1866, and 1, 14
days, February. . .
1,570 00
1 1, month M'ch, 1866
1,650 00
14, month April, 1866
2,100 00
14, month May, 1866
and 1, 20 days May
2,200 00
8, month June
1,200 00
ne>A{\ f\i\
Coroner, 9 months, at
\
,o4U UU
$1Q6|, and 3 months
( ( 1863-4
161 )
2,125 00
at $208^- per month.
j ( 1865-6
625 f
Health Officer, 4£ mos.
at $200 per month . .
1865-6
83
866 66
Superintendent of Pub-
•
lic Schools, 1 year. . .
1861
557
4,000 00
Superintendent of
Streets, 1 year
1861
557
4 000 00
Deputies of Superin-
tendent of Streets, 3,
at $125, and 3 at $150
per month each, 1
year
1863
KQO
Q QA(-) fit)
Surveyor, 1 year
1861
vvjB
555
*f,yuu ui/
500 00
Harbor Master, 1 year .
1861
657
3,000 00
Collector of Licenses, 1
1863
724
2,100 00
Deputies of Collector of
Licenses, 2 at $125
per month each, 1
year
1863
724
5»,000 00
Interpreters for Police
Court, 2, at $125 per
month each, 1 year. .
1863
764
3,000 00
City Hall Porter, 1 year
1863-4
503
1,080 00
Assistants of City Hall )
Porter, 1 year, 2 at >-
( 1861
556 )
1,800 00
I
$75 per month each ;
( 1863-4
503 )
Auditor's Clerk, 9 -^
months at $125,
j 1863
169 )
7 \.
and 3 months at 1
\ 1865-6
663 J
1,675 00
$150 per month . . J
Treasurer's Deputies,"]
1 each at $175 and
( 1861
656 )
$125 per month, 1 |
VPflT*
( 1863
169 )
3,600 00
Jectl J
Carried forward. .
$98,018 80
62 AUDITOR'S REPORT.
Brought forward. . statutes- ****• $»8,018 80
Tax Collector's Depu- ) j 1862 239)
ties, etc F i 1865-6 583 J
1 Deputy each at $175
and $200 per mo.,
lyear 4,500 00
1 Deputy 3 months at
$150 per month . . 450 JO
Clerks at $150 per
month each:
3, month July, 1865. 450 00
2, month August, 2,
2 days, and 1, 16
days, August 400 00
3, month September,
and 2, 7 days Sep-
tember 520 00
5, month October, and
1 each, 1, 3, 6, and
10 days October.. 850 00
5, month November. 750 00
4, month December,
1, £ month Decem-
ber 675 00
3, | month, and 1,
21 days January. . 405 00
9,000 00
Auctioneer at Tax Sale 200 00
9,200 00
[See items of " Extra Dep-
uties' Salaries," for fur-
ther amount of $475 for
Tax Collector's Clerks.]
Sheriff's Deputies, etc. ' 1861 555
Under Sheriff, 1 year 2,400 00 1863-4 503
Book Keeper, 1 year 1,800 00 1865-6 624
Deputies, 6 at $150,
and 4 at $125 each
per month, 1 year. 16,800 00
1, 3 months at $150. 450 00
21,450 00
$1,950 allowed for 1 Dep-
uty in account of " Ur-
gent Necessity," and $900
for "Matron County
Jail," in addition to the
above.
Carried forward.. $128,668 80
Brought forward. .
County Clerk's Dep-
uties :
6 at $175 and 4 at
$150 each per month
1 year
C$2,800 allowed for 1 Deputy
in account of " Urgent
Necessity," and $2,161 68
for copyists, " Special
Fee Fund."]
Recorder's Deputies,etc.
1 Deputy, each, at
$175 and $150 per
month, 1 year. . . .
1 Porter 1 year ....
Clerks, for Copying
146,512 Folios at
12 cents . .
Total, per Report, page 9
APPENDIX. 63
Statutes. Page. $128,668 80
1861 555
1863-4 135 J 19,800 00
3,900 00 1861
900 00 1862
17,581 44 1863
556-7
467
170
22,381 44
$170,850 24
EXTRA DEPUTIES' SALARIES.
2 License Notice Servers, 12 months, at
$75 per month each, June 1st, 1864,
to June 1st, 1865 1,800 00
1 License Notice Server, month June,
1866.... 75 00
1,875 00
Clerks for Tax Collector, 2, 6£ days
each, February, 1866, at $150 per
month 65 00
2, month March 300 00
1, 22 days April 110 00
475 00
Assistant Clerks of Board of Equaliza-
tion on Personal Property and Real
Estate, 1865-6 575 00
Assistant Clerk of Board of Supervis-
ors (before allowance for extra Clerk
by Legislature), 4 meetings 40 00.
Total, per Report, page
$2,965 00
64
POLICE FORCE SALARIES.
4 Captains, 12 months, at $150 each per
month $7,200 00
1 Clerk, 12 months, at $150 per month. 1,800 00
Officers, at $125 per month each :
61, months July, August and Septem-
ber, less deduction by Police Com-
missioners $22,802 39
61, month October, and 17, 9 days
October, less deductions . . ;! 8, 193 54
79, months November, December,
January, February, March, April,
May, June, less deductions 78,826 50
109,822 43
Total, per Report, page 9 $118,822 43
FIRE DEPARTMENT EXPENSES.
Salaries :
Chief Engineer, 1 year 4,000 00
3 Assistants, 1 year, $50 per
month each 1,800 00
Secretary, 1 year 1,800 00
Telegraph Operators, 2, 1
year, and 1, 11 months and
29 days, at $100 per
month each 3,593 54
Repairer, 71 months, at $100 750 00
Stewards, 20 at $40 per
month each, June 1st,
1865, to July 1st, 1866,
13 months 10,400 00
Engineers, 4 at $60 per
month each, June 1st,
1865, to July 1st, 1866,
13 months 3,120 00
Carried forward . . $25,46354
APPENDIX. 65
Brought forward. . $25,463 54
Corporation Yard Keeper,
11 months, at* $30 per
month 330 00
25,793 54
Other expenses :
Repairs to Engines, etc. . . . 17,044 29
Hose, and freight on same. . 7,741 76
2 Hose Carriages, and freight
on same 3,123 44
1 Hose Carriage, and 500
feet Hose, purchased of
South Park Hose Co 1,000 00
Freight on Engine for No. 5 928 83
Brake, Copper Jacket, and
Pipe for Steam Engine
No. 6 325 00
Lanterns, 3J dozen 160 00
Wood and Coal 263 50
Oil, Fluid, etc 632 87
Consulting Engineer, pur-
chase of No. 12 Engine. . 50 00
Implements for Corporation
Yard 36 52
Rent of Corporation Yard
to June 1st, 1866, 14
months, at $100 per
month 1,400 00
Cleaning Vaults, 2 months
at $30, and 10 months at
S40 per month 460 00
Carting 390 25
Filling Cisterns 292 50
Work on Cisterns 27 00
Cleaning, Oiling Hydrants,
and Cleaning around 1
Hydrant 87 50
Expenses Fire Alarm and
Police Telegraph, after
Carried forward ... $33,963 46 $25,793 54
66
AUDITOR'S REPORT.
Brought forward.. $33,963 46 $25,793 54
allowance of $25,000 was
exhausted, and before new
allowance 325 85
Arrest of Persons found
tampering with the Fire
Alarm and Police Tele-
graph 100 00
Telegrams regarding Paid
Fire Department 145 36
Lighting Buildings, at $20 per
month each :
20 Houses ( Engine, Hook
and Ladder, and Hose)
for 1 year 4,800
6 Houses, June, 1865... 120
4,920 00
39,454 67
Total, per Report, page 10 $65,248 21
CISTERNS AND HYDRANTS.
Extra for constructing Cistern corner Cali-
fornia and Davis streets 800 00
Constructing Cistern corner Fremont and
Mission streets 1,150 00
Repairs to Cisterns 53 47
2,003 47
Setting 64 Hydrants, at $60 3,840 00
Resetting 5 Hydrants, at $40 200 00
Resetting 39 Hydrants, at $30 1,170 00
Repairs to Hydrants, examination of and
oiling Hydrants 523 89
50 Hydrants 1,750 00
Part payment of bill of $573 80, for set-
ting, resetting Hydrants, etc., (to close
appropriation for the Fiscal Year). . . 512 64
7,996 53
Total, per Report, page 10 $10,000 00
APPENDIX. 67
REPAIRS TO PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
Repairs to
City Hall * $7,883 32
County Jail 317 14
Engine House No. 1 153 35
Engine House No. 2 101 30
Engine House No. 3 26 50
Engine House No. 4. . . 1,258 45
Engine' House No. 5 655 05
Engine House No. 6 17302
Engine House No. 7 166 65
Engine House No. 8 34 55
Engine House No. 9 14 30
Engine House No. 10 281 81
Engine House No. 11 144 60
Engine House No. 12 58 55
Engine House No. 13 69 47
Engine House No. 14. 63 49
Hook and Ladder House No. 2 223 32
Hook and Ladder House No. 3 6 80
Hose House No. 1 187 48
3,618 69
Total, per Report, page 10 $11,819 15
HOSPITAL SUPPLIES.
Salaries :
Resident Physician, 14 mos., at $200 2,800 00
Apothecary, 7 months and 17 days at
$125, and 5 months and 13 days, at
$100 per month 1,489 16
Nurses, 13 months 5,300 00
Door- Keeper, 12 months, 26 days, at
$30 per month 385 15
Night Watchman, 13 months, at $30.. 390 00
Waiter, 13 months, at $20 . . . . 260 00
3 Cooks and Dishwasher, 13 months. 2,138 55
2 Washermen, 13 months 910 00
Carried forward $13,672 86
68
AUDITOR'S REPORT.
Brought forward $13,672 86
Rations, 27,202, at 33J cents, and 132,402
at 281 Cents 46,779 17
Medicines 3,794 40
Liquors :
Ale 360 00
Alcohol 301 30
Claret 35 00
Brandy 412 25
Port Wine 505 75
Sherry 570 50
Whisky 670 76
2,855 56
Groceries r
Lard 30 50
Soap 426 30
Sugar 99 76
556 56
Shoes 525 25
Rents :
Building corner Stockton and Bay
streets, 15 months, at $50 750 00
Room for Cooks 48 00
798 00
Pots, Pans, Basins, Repairs Boilers, etc . . 317 75
Crockery 143 75
Coal for Washhouse 975 50
Stovepipe, Shovels, Hods, etc 10 50
Cartage of rubbish from Hospital yard .... 27 00
Printing Schedules 33 00
Stricture Cutter 23 00
Hose 24 00
Straw 29 38
Repairs Bath Tub, Pipes, etc 48 49
36 Cots 54 00
Tables and Benches, 61 00
Chairs 120 00
ISafe 61 00
Carried forward $70,910 17
APPENDIX. 69
Brought forward $70,910 17
Pails, Brooms, etc 152 00
Ironing, 13 months, at $35 455 00
Dry Goods :
Sheetings, Plaids, Checks, Cotton,
Flannel, Table Cloths, etc 1,641 05
Pants, Shirts, Drawers and Stockings 843 00
2,484 05
Sundry Disbursements by Resident Physi-
cian. . 474 03
Total, per Report, page 11 $74,475 25
SUPPLIES FOR SMALL POX HOSPITAL.
Salaries :
Health Inspector, $4 per day 1,036 00
Nurses 633 87
$1,669 87
Food 475 97
Wood 137 50
Horse Feed 32 50
Carriage Hire for Resident Physician, also
Wagon Hire 413 00
Rent of lot one year, to June 1, 1866 75 00
Painting Sign. 30 00
Total, per Report, page 11 $2,833 84
STREET REPAIRS FRONT OF PUBLIC PROPERTY.
Repairs of Streets assessed to the follow-
ing Public Property :
Yerba Buena Park $21,762 20
Gore Lots on Market Street 2,434 66
Columbia Square 2,220 00
Union Square 5,967 84
Lafayette Square 47 22
Washington Square 12 00
Carried forward $32,443 92
70 AUDITOR'S REPORT.
Brought forward $32,443 92
Mission street Gore Lot 354 80
Front street Lots 380 41
Mowry Lot 75 .00
City Hall and Portsmouth Square . . . 6,304 87
City Slip Lots 3;069 25
Engine, Hook and Ladder, and Hose
Lots 1,578 85
Hospital Lot 1,562 43
County Jail Lot 163 29
Total, per Report, pages 11, 16. $45,932 87
Audited on General Fund $33,505 47
Audited on Street Department Fund. 12,427 40
INCLOSING AND IMPROVING PUBLIC GROUNDS.
Salary of Keeper of Public Grounds, $75
per month $900 00
Trees and Seeds for Portsmouth Square. . 140 00
Iron Gates for Portsmouth Square 515 18
4 Lamps for Portsmouth Square 240 00
Stakes and Notice Stand for Portsmouth
Square 57 00
Benches for Portsmouth Square 81 00
Lumber, Nails, Paints, Locks, etc 31 25
Total, per Report, page 12 $1,964 43
APPENDIX.
71
TAXES REFUNDED-(PAID IN OTHER YEARS ON CONSIGNED GOODS).
Year.
PAID FROM
General
Fund.
Street Light
Fund.
School
Fund.
Corporation
Debt Fund.
Geo F Bragg
1859-60
1857-8
1858-9
1857-8
1858-9
1861-2
1857-8
1860-1
1857-8
1857-8
1857-8
1858-9
1859-60
1860-1
1862-3
1863-4
1857 8
$8450
250 00
21250
312 50
168 75
15 00
312 50
225 00
225 00
312 50
154 12
125 00
63 70
46 74
74 31
4511
$ 19 50
$ 45 50
70 00
$ 123 50
Dickson DeWolf & Co
Dickson DeWolf & Co
59 50
87 50
47 25
7 00
87 50
105 00
63 00
87 50
43 15
35 00
34 30
21 81
37 15
21 22
52 50
52 50
52 50
43 75
70 00
3600
35 00
42 00
31 50
28 00
28 00
140 00
140 00
140 00
87 50
52 50
26 25
52 50
1050
7 00
5250
21 00
21 00
26 25
8 75
7 00
52 50
35 00
28 00
31 50
2800
84 00
27 70
20 75
175 07
70 00
17 50
140 00
12950
14000
59 50
5950
70 00
70 00
52 50
70 00
42 50
Bragg Rollinson & Co
33 75
20 00
E. S. Gross
J B Newton & Co
3 00
J. B Newton & Co
45 00
300 00
R B Swain & Co
Crosby & Dibblee
James Phelan ...
25 00
93 10
62 33
90 23
47 77
14 70
9 34
7 96
7 96
James Phelan
James Phelan
James Phelan
Cro«s & Co
1858-9
1860-1
1861-2
1862-3
1863-4
1857-8
1858-9
1859-60
1860-1
1861-2
1857-8
1858-9
1859-60
1862-3
1857-8
1857-8
1857-8
1857-8
1858-9
1857-8
1858-9
1859-60
1857-8
1860-1
1861-2
1858-9
1857-8
1858-9
1859-60
1860-1
1857-8
1857-8
1858-9
1857-8
1857 8
112 50
93 75
140 00
76 50
12500
150 00
58 50
60 00
60 00
500 00
500 00
260 00
175 00
187 50
93 75
187 50
37 50
25 00
187 50
75 00
39 00
93 75
18 75
15 00
187 50
125 00
100 00
58 50
60 00
30000
99 00
7400
22 50
18 75
15 00
13 50
15000
125 00
17000
81 00
Cross & Co
Cross & Co
Cross & Co
E H Parker
E H Parker
30 00
85 50
80 00
8000
E H Parker
13 50
12 00
12 00
E H Parker
E H. Parker
W T Coleroan & Co
W. T Coleman & Co
100 00
380 00
21250
W. T. Coleman & Co
60 00
18 75
W. T. Coleman & Co
M Frisius
Ira P Rankin
A. E. Sabatie & Co
D R Provost
D. R Provost
5 00
C A Lowe
Peck, Rodgers & Co
900
15 00
5700
Peck Rodgers & Co
White & Wilson
White & Wilson
3 75
3 00
25 00
2000
37 50
White & Wilson
Morgan Stone & Co
Dupuy Foulkes & Co . . •
20 00
85 50
80 00
Dupuy, Foulkes & Co
Dupuy, Foulkes & Co
13 50
12 00
Edwards & Bailey
14 80
Flint Pcabodv & Co
DeWitt Kittle & Co
v
DeWitt Kittle & Co
1858-9
1857-8
D L Ross & Co
1««V7 8
Macondray & Co IB^S Q
Greene' Heath & Allen
1858-9
1859-60
1860-1
1857 8
Greene, Heath & Allen. ...
Greene Heath & Allen
R. A Swain
1858-9
Totals, per Report, pages 13, 15, 17, 18
$6,902 73
$334 71
$3,477 90
$2,691 98
72
URGENT NECESSITY ALLOWANCE.
Salaries :
Court Eoom Clerk, Fifteenth District
Court, 16 months, at $175 $2,800 00
Deputy Sheriff, Fifteenth District Court,
13 months, at $150 1,950 00
[Allowed 3 months additional in account of City
and County Officers.]
Sergeant-at-Arms, Board of Supervisors,
15 months, at $50 750 00
Health Officer, November 1, 1865, to
February 20, 1866, at $250 per month 916 66
[See Items " City and County Officers.'1]
Health Officer's Clerk, November 8th,
1865, to June 30, 1866, at $75 per
month 582 50
Health Inspector, 1, month May and
June, and 1, J month May, each $120
per month 300 00
[See Items of Small Pox Hospital Expenses, for
amount paid for services of Inspector, bal-
ance of year.]
Assistant Clerks of Board of Supervisors,
services during illness of Clerk 82 00
$7,381 16
Special Police at Elections 716 63
Furniture for City Hall 2,176 75
Furniture for County Jail 190 25
Advertising :
For Board of Supervisors, City Printing, .
per contracts 725 00
For Board of Supervisors, other Printing
not included below 2,066 25
Auditor's Reports 1 109 00
Treasurer's Reports 169 00
For Treasurer — Redemption of Coupons,
Bonds, etc 767 39
For Tax Collector 1,165 50
For Assessor .. 562 50
Carried forward $5,564 64 $10,464 79
APPENDIX. 73
Brought forward $5,564 64 $10,464 79
Stationery and Advertising for License Col-
lector 644 59
Stationery and Advertising for Health Of-
ficer 322 63
Stationery and Advertising for Elections . . 935 50
4,000 Municipal License Blanks 45 00
7,512 36
Printing Notices for Portsmouth Square,
and Report of Committee on Outside
Lands 21 50
Printing 400 Bonds for issuance to Central
Pacific Railroad Company 600 00
Printing 250 Bonds for issuance to Western
Pacific Railroad Company 500 00
Printing Briefs, Tax Suits 616 95
18 copies Hittell's Digest, for Board of Su-
pervisors, at $20 360 00
10 copies Ordinances, Pollack vs. Davis,
etal , 12 00
Copies of Acts of Legislature 144 12
Printing, Arranging, Binding, and Distribu-
ting Municipal Reports 2,038 20
Postage for Tax Collector 300 00
Postage for Clerk Board Supervisors 3 60
4 volumes "Star" and " Alta" Newspapers,
1847 to 1851 400 00
Examining Books of San Francisco and San
Jose Railroad Company, balance 15 00
Serving Subpoenas in Sacramento for Coun-
ty Court 2 60
Search of Title to West End Engine
Lot i»5 00
Expenses in matter of Widening Kearny
street 1,990 05
Expenses in matter of Widening Merchant
street 594 00
Boat Hire for Health Inspector 2 00
Carried forward $25,602 17
6
74 AUDITOR'S REPORT.
Brought forward $25,602 17
Repairs Harbor Boats 375 89
Landing for Harbor Boats 37 07
Rent of Office for Harbor Police, 15 months,
to April 19, 1866, at $12 180 00
Rent of Offices and hire of Teams, Novem-
ber 8, 1864 (for Police) 73 00
Services of Reporter — Nitro- Glycerine Ex-
plosion Investigation 50 00
Hitching Posts front of City Property 285 50
Coal and Wood for City Hall 770 00
Rent of Pound, 14 months, at $10 140 00
Horse Feed for Horse of Deputy License
Collector, 14 months, at $10 140 00
Flag Pole for Union Square 567 65
Flags, Poles, other than above named, and
Repairing Flags 354 62
Medical Examination of 2 Police Appoint-
ees 10 00
Rent of Music Hall during riot of April,
1865 200 00
Reward for Arrest of Incendiaries 250 00
Specie Bags for Treasurer 49 50
Surveying Outside Squares 54 00
Taxes, paid twice, Refunded — T. Payne &
Co., $40; R. Herrman, $16 80 56 80
Services of Assistant for District Attorney,
in the Collection of Delinquent Licenses,
1 year ". 300 00
Nursing a Foundling, found by Police. . . 15 00
Cleaning Public Vaults and Removing Of-
fal from streets, 10 months, at $60, and
4 months, at $50 -per month 800 00
Trimming City Hall, etc. — Obsequies of
President Lincoln 342 50
Trimming City Hall — Obsequies of Super-
visor Bell 95 25
Meals for Jurors. . 128 75
Carried forward $30,877 70
APPENDIX. 75
Brought forward $30,877 70
Filling Well, John Street, near San Bruno
Road 75 00
Draining Laguna 1,900 99
Costs, Case of Sargent 950
Sewers, corner Main and Mission Streets,
Valencia Street, Powell near corner
Polk and Broadway streets 2,076 36
Other Street Work (mostly small bills) to
April 1, 1866 (all demands for Street
Work audited on Street Department
Fund after that date) 1,058 43
Total, per Report, page 14 $35,997 98
MILITARY APPROPRIATIONS ADVANCED FOR STATE OF CALIFORNIA.
Rent of Armory, and Incidental Expenses
for —
Light Battery, July 1st to March 31st,
1866, 9 months, at $250 2,250 00
5 Regiments, July 1st to March 31st;
1866, 9 months, at $100 each per
month 4,500 00
Companies at $50 per month each —
1, 5 days, December, 1864 8 00
1, 15 days, May, 1865 24 15
1, month June, 1865, and 1, 28 days. . 96 65
45, month July 2,250 00
46, month August, and 1, 12 days. . . . 2,319 35
47, months September, October, No-
vember, December, and January. . . 11,750 00
46, months February and March 4,600 00
21,048 15
Total, per Report, page 14 . $27,798 15
Balance due from State, July 1, 1865, per Report
of last year $22,580 65
Audited this year 27,798 15
$50,378 80
Paid by State, see Treasurer's Acc't, page 38. . §50,378 80
76
AUDITOR S REPORT.
LIGHTING STREETS, REPAIRS TO LAMPS, ETC.
Lighting.
Kepair?.
1,616 Lamps, 28 nights, at 21 J cents
each, and extra lights, month
July, 1865 i 9,733 27 570 80
1,662 Lamps, 28 nights, at 21^ cents
each, and extra lights, month
August, 1865 10,017 29 473 15
1,678 Lamps, 27 nights, at 21^ cents
each, and extra lights, month
September, 1865 9,735 84 325 20
1,682 Lamps, 28 nights, at 21J cents
each, and extra lights, month
October, 1865 10,110 38 266 10
1,687 Lamps, 27 nights, at 21^ cents
each, and extra lights, month
November, 1865 9,751 33 520 63
1,698 Lamps, 28 nights, at 21^ cents
each, and extra lights, month
December, 1865 10,191 44 619 29
1,711 Lamps, 28 nights, at 21 J cents
each, and extra lights, month
January, 1866 10,297 85 409 16
1,734 Lamps, 26 nights, at 21^ cents
each, and extra lights, month
February, 1866 9,701 44 370 «U
1,744 Lamps, 27 nights, at 21^ cents
each, and extra lights, month
March, 1866 10,118 12 576 64
1,747 Lamps, 5 nights, 1,748 Lamps, 1
night, at 21^ cents each, and
1,756 Lamps, 21 nights, at 20
cents each, and extra lights,
month April, 1866 9,621 34 489 42
1,771 Lamps, 28 nights, at 20 cents
each, and extra lights, month
May, 1866 9,882 80 791 37
Carried forward $109,161 10 $5,412 10
APPENDIX. 77
Brought forward $109,161 10 $5,412 10
1,798 Lamps, 21 'nights, at 20 cents
each, aud extra lights, month
June, 1866 9,757 00 601 27
Total for Lights . $118,918 10
Total for Repairs $6,013 37
Total, per Report, page 15 $124,931- 47
BALANCE OF STREET LIGHT FUND.
Outstanding Demands, July
1st, 1865 62,014 72
Deduct cash on hand at
same date.. 52,174 62
9,840 10
Demands Audited during
year, see Report, page
15 125,266 18
135,106 28
Receipts at credit of Fund,
during year, see Report,
page 38 51,548 71
Transfer from Gener'l Fund 83,478 82
Demand Outstanding, July
1st, 1866, not included
in above transfer 78 75
135,106 28
ERECTION OF SCHOOL HOUSES.
Lincoln Building $36,982 71
[$58,394 32 audited on account of building this house last year, making
a total of $95,377 03, exclusive of Architects' commissions— 5 per ct.]
Fifth and Market street Building (now being constructed) 4,000 00
Pine, between Scott and Devisadero streets 2,167 84
Carried forward $43,150 55
78
Brought forward $43,150 55
Ohenery, between Grove and Randall streets 2,698 50
Broadway, between Larkin and Polk streets 8,118 00
Full payment of amount due Architect 5,399 77
$59,366 82
EXPENSES INCURRED IN THE MATTER OF WIDENING
KEARNY STREET.
Advertising $2,001 00
7,000 Circulars, and 2,100 Blanks 155 93
Copying Supervisors' Proceedings 60 00
Ascertaining Owners of Property, Serving Notices, etc. 1,400 00
Counsel Fee 1,000 00
Salary of Secretary of Commission September 7th,
1865, to April 7th, 1866, 7 months, at $200 1,400 0°
Obtaining Information about Leases 126 00
Making Duplicate of Commissioners' Report 150 00
Rent of Rooms, Lights, Fuel, Stationery, Furniture, etc.,
for Commissioners .... 573 67
Total, to date, paid in U. S. Coin (including 1864-5).. . $6,866 60
EXPENSES INCURRED IN THE MATTER OF WIDENING
MERCHANT STREET.
Advertising $432 00
Delivering Notices 150 00
Printing 800 Circulars 12 00
Total, to date, paid in United States Coin $594 00
APPENDIX.
79
DEMANDS, 1856-7 TO 1864-5 INCLUSIVE, OUTSTANDING.
Tear.
Number.
Fund.
Name.
Amount.
1856-7
242
General
Thos Hayes
$34 00
1856-7
524
General
G. Millett
20 00
1856-7
872
General
M Hoadley
12 00
1856-7
1,065
School .
M Hawes
7 75
1856-7
1,683
School
M. A. Casebolt
50 00
1856-7
1 690
School
J C Morrill
50 00
1856-7
1,956
School
Dore & Havens *. . . .
19 75
1856-7
1 957
School
Dore & Havens
16 88
1856-7
1 973
School
B. F Whitman
3 00
1856-7
2,028
School . . .
W. M. Coy
15 00
1856-7
691
Police
H McNally
65 75
1856-7
404
Surplus
Jos Norton
130 00
1856-7
405
Surplus
John Bolen
130 00
1856-7
406
Surplus
John Shelly
130 00
1856-7
523
Surplus
Hart & Heaney. . .
85 20
1857-8
17
General . . .
Graves & Smith ;
12 96
1857-8
2 962
General
G 0 Whitney & Co
9 75
1858-9
3466
School
T J Gangloff
3 50
1859-60
3 261
General
M. G. Searing
8 00
1861-2
409
General
J H Dixon
6 50
1861-2
843
General
C S Brooks
20 00
1861-2
912
General
J. W. Bell
3 50
1861-2
3 9'>8*
General
John Benson Assignee
100 00
1861-2
3 930*
General
John Benson Assignee . . .
100 00
1861-2
3 931*
General
John Benson Assignee
100 00
1861-2
1861-2
3,937*
3 941*
General
General
H. E. Perry
H E Perry
100 00
100 00
1861-2
3 942*
General
H. E. Perry
100 00
1861-2
1861-2
1861-2
3,944**
3,945*
3 953*
General
General
General
H. E. Perry
H. E. Perry
H Leffingwell, Assignee
100 00
100 00
100 00
1861-2
3 956*
General
H Leffingwell Assignee
100 00
1861-2
3 965*
General
H Leffingwell Assignee
100 00
1861-2
3 968*
General
John Benson Assignee
100 00
1862-3
3 445
General
C A Cherry
13 20
1863-4
9
General
Jane Miller . . .
8 00
1863-4
2 363
General
M O'Brien
4 60
1863-4
5 296
W Brown
12 00
1863-4
5 297
General
L Stappfer ....
5 00
1863-4
149 to 164 )
General
W Fitzpatrick
2 300 00
1863 4
171 to 177* J
2 026
General
Davis & Jordan
3 00
1863-4
2 360
General
J Van Riper
3 86
1863-4
2 686
General
J Inderstroth
55 85
1864-5
145
School
J D Farwell & Co
1 25
1864-5
216
School
C V Gillespie
20 00
1864-5
2 584
School
James Stewart
5 00
1864 5
7 822
School
F Donahue
5 00
1864-5
8.435
School . .
F. Donahue. .
5 00
* Receivable only for Delinquent Taxes of 1856-7, 1857-8, and 1858-9.
Auditor's Office, San Francisco, July 31st, 1865.
HENRY M. HALE, Auditor.
TREASURER'S REPORT.
CITY AND COUNTY TKEASURY, ">
San Francisco, July 21st, 1866. j
To the Honorable the President and Board of Supervisors
Of the City and County of San Francisco —
GENTLEMEN: In accordance with Resolution No. 5556, of your
Honorable Body, I herewith submit my Annual Report for the Fiscal
Year ending June 30th, 1866, which shows:
The balance at credit of State of Cali- .
fornia July 1st, 1865 $61,822 67
Receipts during the year 944,812 35
1,006,635 02
Disbursements in settlement with
Controller of State 949,611 29
Balance, June 30th, 1866. 57,023 73
Balance at credit of City and County,
July 1st, 1865 $188,722 77
Receipts during the year 2,203,315 03
2,392,037 80
Disbursements 2,235,283 69
156,754 11
Balance cash on hand June
30th, 1866 $213,777 84
Respectfully submitted by
JOS. S. PAXSON,
Treasurer.
For detailed account of transactions in City and County Treasury, see Auditor's lieport,
pages
TAX COLLECTOR'S REPORT.
TAX COLLECTOR'S OFFICE,
San Francisco, June 30th, 1866
To the Honorable the Board of Supervisors
of the City and County of San Francisco —
GENTLEMEN: In response to Resolution No. 5556 of your Honor-
able Body, I herewith submit my Annual Report for the Fiscal Year
1865-6, ending with this date.
TAX COLLECTOR'S REPORT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1865-6,
ENDING JUNE SOxn, 1866.
Upon the Assessment Rolls for said Fiscal Year the assessed valua-
tions of Real Estate and Personal Property appear as are hereafter
shown, to wit:
REAL ESTATE.
Valuation. Valuation.
Original Roll $49,137,312 00
Supplemental Roll 715 00
Total Real Estate $49,138,027 00
Add Duplicate and Overpayments 21.020 00
Total amount charged by Auditor
to Tax Collector on Real Es-
tate Account $49,159,047 00
Carried forward $49,159,047 00
82
TAX COLLECTOR'S REPORT.
Brought forward $49,159,047 00
PERSONAL PROPERTY.
Original Roll 38,617,895 68
Supplemental Roll 646,351 00
Total amount charged by Auditor
to Tax Collector on Personal
Property Account 39,264,246 68
Total Real Estate and Personal
Property $88,423,293 68
HENRY M. HALE, AUDITOR, IN ACCOUNT WITH TAX COLLECTOR.
Dr.
Valuation. Valuation.
REAL ESTATE ACCOUNT for
Cash paid Treasurer on $45,436,924 00
Duplicate and Erroneous As-
sessments 24,405 00
Exemptions from Taxation
by Law, on Property of
United States $486,780 00
State of California 18,500 00
City and County of San Fran-
cisco 1,319,840 00
Widows and Orphans 402,808 00
Benevolent Institutions 497,345 00
Roman Catholic Churches. .. 544,375 00
Protestant Churches 394,470 00
Hebrew Congregations 31,000 00
Total Exemptions of Real
Estate 3,695,118 00
Delinquent through Informal-
ities 2,600 00
Total amount charged by Au-
ditor to Tax Collector on
Real Estate Account, as
above shown.. $49,159,047 00
PERSONAL PROPERTY ACCOUNT.
PERSONAL PROPERTY ACCOUNT
for
Cash paid Treasurer on ....
Duplicate and Erroneous As-
sessment inclusive of Mort-
gages Satisfied and Cancel-
ed prior to assessment. . .
Exemptions from Taxation
by Law, on Property of
Widows and Orphans ....
Benevolent Institutions. . . .
Foreign Consuls
Total Exemptions of- Per-
sonal Property
Property which was found to
have been Assessed, and
Taxes thereon paid, in
other Counties in this State
Mortgage Assessments in sus-
pense, awaiting Supreme
Court decisions
Shipping and Water Craft,
not to be found
Sundry Personal Property
Assessed to parties, who (as
well as the Property assess-
ed) have disappeared, or
the parties are now in des-
titute circumstances
Delinquent, and presumed to
be collectable, a portion al-
ready in the hands of the
District Attorney for Suit
Total amount charged by Au-
ditor to Tax Collector on
Personal Property Accou't,
as above shown . .
$22,730,718 95
981,742 54
v
$109,605 00
53,150 00
5,750 00
168,505 00
429,925 00
12,670,869 34
138,000 00
779,507 08
1,364,978 77
$39,264,246 68
84
TAX COLLECTOR'S REPORT.
RECAPITULATION AS TO COLLECTIONS.
The Rate of Taxation was $3 12 on each $100 of Valuation, and
the Apportionment thereof as follows :
STATE TAX.
FIXED BY STATUTE.
For Cents.
General Purposes 48| .
Interest and Sinking Fund of 1857 30
Interest and Sinking Fund of 1860 1J-
State Capitol 5
Soldiers' Relief Fund 4
Aid to Central Pacific Railroad. . . 8
Benefit of Line Officers Cal. Vol.. 1
Soldiers' Bounty Fund 12
School Purposes , 5
Total for State Purposes $1 15
CITY AND COUNTY TAX.
LEVIED BY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
For Cents.
General Fund 70
School Fund 35
Street Light Fund 7£
Corporation Debt Fund 43
Interest San Francisco and San
Jo?6 Railroad Bonds 2
Judgment Bonds of 1863 and 1864
Sinking Fund 7|
Interest on said Bonds 10
Bonds of 1855, Sinking Fund 3
Pacific R. R. Bonds, Sinking Fund 1
Interest on Pacific Railroad Bonds 8
Street Department Fund 10
Total for City and County pur-
poses
Total on each $100 valuation $3 12.
$1 97
Valuation. Taxes.
Collections on Real Estate $45,436,924 00 $1,417,632 03
Collections on Personal Property. 22,730,718 95 709,198 43
Total
,167,642 95 $2,126,830 46
CASH PAID INTO THE TREASURY BY TAX COLLECTOR DURING THE FISCAL
YEAR 1865-6.
For Taxes of 1865-6— Real Estate. ..
For Taxes of 1865-6— Personal
For Taxes of 1865-6 — Real Estate
and Personal — Total
$1,417,632 03
709,198 43
$2,126,830 46
5 per cent.' on Real Estate, Delinquent $7,868 36
2J per cent on Personal, Delinquent. . 369 11
5 per cent, on Personal, Delinquent. . 4,595 66
Carried forward $12,833 13
COMMISSIONS FROM THE STATE. 85
Brought forward $2,126,830 46
Total 2J and 5 per cent, on Real Es-
tate and Personal 12,833 13
Total Taxes and Percentages for 1865-6 $2,139,663 59
TAXES OF PRIOR FISCAL YEARS.
Taxes of 1864-5 • $16,776 63
Taxes of 1863-4 2117
Taxes of 1857-8 46 00
Taxes of 1856-7 104 08
Taxes of 1855-6 • 19 28
Total 16,967 16
5 per cent, for said Prior Years 222 33
Sundry Taxes and Percentages collect-
ed during 1865-6 $2,156,853 08
State Poll Taxes of 1864 and 1865. . . 35,140 35
Military Poll Taxes of 1864 and 1865 20,870 90
Total paid Treasurer for Poll Taxes. . $56,011 25
COMMISSIONS FROM THE STATE.
6 per cent, on $10,000 600 00
4 per cent, on $10,000 400 00
3 per cent, on $30,000 900 00
2 per cent, on $150,000 . 3,000 00
1 per cent, on $529,472 5,294 72
Total Collector's Commissions from the
State $10,194 73
Received for 1,009 Tax Sale Certifi-
cates, at $2 2,018 00
Received for 119 Tax Deeds, at $4. . 476 90
Received for Advertising Delinquent
Lists 2,395 00
Sundry Commissions, Extra Fees, etc.,
paid Treasurer $15,083 72
TAX COLLECTOR'S REPORT.
EXPENSES OF THE OFFICE.
Tax Collector's Salary $4,000 00
Deputies' Salaries 4,950 00
Clerks' Salaries 4,525 00
Auctioneer's Salary 20000
Advertising, General 1,165 50
Advertising, Delinquent Lists .' 1,868 23
Postage (Currency) 300 00
Briefs in Tax Suits 616 95
Books and Stationery 1,020 50
Total $18,646 18
The valuations of Real Estate and Personal Property for 1865-6
exceed those of the immediately preceding fiscal year, nearly five and
a quarter millions of dollars, and the collections of taxes for 1865-6 ex-
ceed those of said preceding year, on about five and a half millions of
dollars, the excess of collections being on Personal Property.
The constant subdivisions of blocks, one hundred vara and fifty vara
lots, materially increase the labors of this department, but the expenses
are not proportionately increased.
The last Legislature passed an enabling Act, applicable to the whole
State, affording the much needed power for " the amendment of omis-
sions, errors and defects, in form," discovered in assessment rolls and
other official proceedings for raising public revenue, thus disposing of
a serious source of annoyance. The same Legislature passed an Act
" to facilitate the collection of Delinquent Taxes in the City and County
of San Francisco," from which Act great benefits are anticipated in
the future.
Another Act, passed at the same session, materially modified the
revenue law, as to exemptions of property from taxation, tending to
reduce the amounts of such exemptions and thereby increase the public
revenue.
The decisions of the Supreme Court, in the various, so-called, Mort-
gage Suits, did not reach the main question, to wit : the legality of the
said assessments, but disposed of the cases upon a mere technicality, to
wit: the absence in the rolls of the $, or other mark, indicating what
the figures in the valuation columns were intended to represent. As
that disability does not exist in the rolls of 1865-6 and 1866-7, new
REMARKS. 87
cases will be speedily prepared and submitted. In the mean time
that class of assessments, exceeding in valuation twelve millions of
dollars each year, will remain in suspense.
The Foreign Insurance Suits, mentioned in my last Annual Report,
were decided in favor of the People, excepting so far as the Bonds de-
posited were Bonds of the United States, and by Act of Congress not
taxable. Seven-twelfths of the Bonds so deposited were of the non-
taxable class.
The new "Military Law" of 1866 disposed of the Military Poll
Tax, and provided for the accumulation of a " Military Fund," by a
direct Property Tax of five cents on each one hundred dollars of val-
uation.
A revision and reenactment of the General Revenue Law was urged
during the session of the late Legislature, but the labor necessarily
connected therewith was greater than any one member was willing to
undertake. Preparations therefor should be made before the com-
mencement of the next ensuing session, and the subject presented
before the accumulation of other business renders another failure
certain.
Respectfully submitted,
CHAS. R. STORY,
Tax Collector.
ASSESSOR'S REPORT.
ASSESSOR'S OFFICE, ")
San Francisco, August 1st, 1866. )
To the Honorable the Board of Supervisors
Of the City and County of San Francisco —
GENTLEMEN: In compliance with the request contained in Resolu-
tion No. 5556, passed by your Honorable Body June 8th, 1866, I
herewith submit a Report of matters connected with the Office of City
and County Assessor.
EXPENSES OF THE OFFICE.
Salary of Assessor from July 1st, 1865, to July 1st,
1866 $4,000 00
Salary of Deputies from July 1st, 1865, to July 1st,
1866 11,840 00
Books, Maps, Blanks, and Stationery 1,632 35
Advertising 562 50
Total $18,034 85
Deduct State's Proportion, J|!j < 6,647 46
Citj and County's Proportion is $11,387 39
EEMARKS. 89
The aggregate of the Personal Assessment Roll for
the present Fiscal Year is $40,960,802 58
To which add Supplemental Roll, estimated amount 500,000 00
Making total of Personal $41,460,802 58
Assessed Value of Personal, 1865-6 39,164,246 68
Increase over last year's Roll $2,296,555 90
• The Real Estate Roll is not yet completed. I can, therefore, only
give at this time an estimate of the aggregate valuation, It will not
vary much from $52,500,000 00
Valuation of Real Estate 1865-6 $49,138,027 00
Estimated Increase over last year's Roll 3,361,973 00
Increase of Personal Roll, as above 2,296,555 90
Total of Increase $5,658,528 90
By reason of an Act passed at the last session of the Legislature,
there will be a considerable diminution in the amount of property here-
tofore exempt from the payment of taxes, it may be therefore reason-
ably expected that taxes will be collected the present fiscal year on an
amount exceeding that of last year, by at least $6,000,000.
The total amount on which taxes were collected last year was
$68,167,642 95, therefore it may be expected that taxes will be collect-
ed the present fiscal year, on at least $74,000,000 00.
Nearly one third in amount of the Personal Roll is comprised of the
items " money loaned, and solvent debts," under which classification is
assessed all moneys loaned, secured by mortgage. The collection of
taxes upon this description of property is still contested, no decision of
the Supreme Court of this State having yet been had upon the legality
of the assessments made by the present Assessor, the cases recently
decided by that Court were upon assessments made by the predecessor
of the present incumbent, and were decided upon purely technical
grounds. The undersigned is fully assured that the assessments of this
description of property, made for the present, and last two fiscal years,
have been made in strict conformity with the law in every respect, and
he respectfully urges the immediate necessity of obtaining a decision of
7
90
the Supreme Court thereon, believing that the assessments will be sus-
tained by the Court, and thus taxes on nearly $50,000,000 of property,
amounting to about $1,500,000 will be collected, the beneficial result of
which, to the Citizens at large of this County, will be the very material
reduction of the rates of taxation in the future.
Respectfully submitted.
WM. R. WHEATON,
Assessor.
COUNTY RECORDER'S REPORT.
HALL OF RECORDS, ^
San Francisco, August 1st, 1866. )
To the Honorable, the Board of Supervisors,
Of the City and County of San Francisco —
GENTLEMEN : In accordance with the Resolution No. 5,556, of
your Honorable Board, passed June 8th, 1866, requesting the various
City and County officials to report to you the proceedings of their re-
spective departments, I have the honor to submit the following, as a .
summary of the transactions in the Hall of Records :
RECEIPTS.
Fees collected and paid into the Treasury. . $37,348 50
EXPENDITURES.
Recorder's Salary $4,000 00
Chief Deputy's Salary 2,100 00
Second Deputy's Salary 1,800 00
Porter's Salary 900 00
Amount paid Clerks for Copying 146,512
folios, at 12 cents 17,581 44
Stationery 1,710 80
28,092 24
Surplus $9,256 26
92
LIST OF PRINCIPAL BOOKS OF RECORD EXISTING IN THE RECORDER'S
OFFICE.
Deeds 338
Mortgages , 175
Satisfaction of Mortgages 36
Powers of Attorney 20
Leases 23
Liens 9
Tax Deeds 14
Covenants 6
Bonds 2
Separate Property of Wife 3
Attachments 6
Lispendens 6
Claims of Homesteads 14
Transcripts of Judgments 3
Chattel Mortgages 7
General Indexes .' 37
Deeds Indexes 30
Mortgages Indexes 10
^Sheriff's Certificates 8
Attachments, A, B, C, D 4
Total.. 751
STATEMENT OF INSTRUMENTS RECORDED IN THE OFFICE OF THE RE-
CORDER, IN AND FOR THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO,
DURING THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30TH, 1866.
Deeds 6,015
Mortgages 2,035
Releases of Mortgages 1,615
Assignments of Mortgages 135
Attachments 224
Agreements 92
Claims and Abandonments of Homestead 373
Bonds 10
Lispendens 142
Carried forward $10,641 00
REMARKS. 93
Brought forward. .
$10,641 00
Liens
148
Leases and Assignments of Leases
416
Powers of Attorney and Substitution and Revocation . .
353
Transcripts of Judgments
47
Marriage Licenses
1,198
Sheriff's Certificates
105
Chattel Mortgages
63
Declarations of Sole Trader
19
Inventory of Separate Property of Wife
46
Tax Deeds
59
Tax Certificates
836
Miscellaneous
183
Total 14,114
I have only to add to what was recommended by me last year, that,
as there is, according to the annexed Report, a surplus of over Nine
Thousand Dollars, it would be advisable to create a Sinking Fund, to
be appropriated for the erection of a Hall of Records, to be exclusively
composed of brick, stone and iron, and detached from any other
building, thus rendering it a safe depository for such important docu-
ments as are those relating to Real Estate ; the safety of which cannot
be over estimated.
I regret that but one of the measures suggested by me last year was
acted on by the last Legislature, viz : The recording of Sheriff's Certifi-
cates of Sale under execution, which were required by law to be merely
filed previous to their action ; a very loose manner of preserving doc-
uments so valuable, and important in completing titles to Real Estate.
Your action in depositing in this office files of probably the two old-
est newspapers published in this City, meets with universal approval ;
they are frequently referred to for information of great importance to
the community.
The receipt of Instruments has been so uniform for each month
throughout the year, that I deem it unnecessary to present a tabular
monthly statement.
Respectfully submitted,
T. YOUNG,
County Recorder.
COUNTY CLERK'S REPORT.
OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO, ")
San Francisco, July 31st, 1866. j
To the Honorable the Mayor
and the Board of Supervisors —
GENTLEMEN : In compliance with a Resolution of your Honorable
Board, adopted on the 4th of June last, I submit the following report
of the condition of the County Clerk's Office, and of the business trans-
acted in its several departments during the Fiscal Year ending June
30th, 1866.
Very respectfully,
WM. LOEWY,
County Clerk.
ORGANIZATION OF THE STATE COURTS OF RECORD IN AND
FOR THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO.
District Attorney NATHAN PORTER,
City and County Attorney JOHN H. SAUNDERS.
County Clerk, and ex officio Clerk of the
Courts of Record, in and for said
County WM. LOEWY.
Sheriff. . . . HENRY L. DAVIS.
FOURTH DISTRICT COURT.
Judge Hon. E. D. SAWYER.
Deputy County Clerk and Minute Clerk. .JOHN F. BODEN.
DISTRICT COURTS. 95
Deputy County Clerk and Register Clerk. JAS. E. ASHCOM.
Deputy County Clerk and Assistant Regis-
ter Clerk L. J. LEE.
Deputy Sheriff and Bailiff S. C. ELLIS.
Court Commissioner JAS. M. TAYLOR.
Official Reporter GEO. O'DOHERTY.
TWELFTH DISTRICT COURT.
Judge Hon. O. C. PRATT.
Deputy County Clerk and Minute Clerk. .JOSEPH NAPHTALY.
Deputy County Clerk and Register Clerk . WM. R. SATTERLEE.
Deputy County Clerk and Assistant Regis-
ter Clerk GILES C. LETCHER.
Deputy Sheriff and Bailiff BENJ. W. DAVIS.
Court Commissioner ROBERT C. ROGERS.
Official Reporter GEO. O'DOHERTY.
FIFTEENTH DISTRICT COURT.
Judge . Hon. SAM'L H. DWINELLE
Deputy County Clerk and Minute Clerk. .ADOLPHUS D. GRIMWOOD
Deputy County Clerk and Register Clerk. WM. R. SATTERLEE.
Deputy County Clerk and Assistant Regis-
ter Clerk GILES C. LETCHER.
Copying Clerk WM. LEDLIE.
Deputy Sheriff and Bailiff JOHN HILL.
Court Commissioner JOHN L. LOVE.
Official Reporter '. ANDREW J. MARSH.
COUNTY COURT.
Judge , Hon. SAMUEL COWLES.
Deputy County Clerk and Minute Clerk. .WM. HARNEY.
Deputy County Clerk and Register Clerk . BERT. McNuLTY.
Deputy Sheriff and Bailiff H. D. LAMOTT.
96
COUNTY CLERK'S REPORT.
PROBATE COURT.
Judge Hon. M. C. BLAKE.
Deputy County Clerk and Minute Clerk. .A. J. JEGHERS.
Deputy County Clerk and Assistant Pro-
bate Clerk LEVI P. PECK.
Copying Clerk HENRY J. BRADY.
FOURTH, TWELFTH, AND FIFTEENTH DISTRICT COURTS.
CAUSES ON FILE IN SAID COURTS JUNE 30xn, 1866.
In the Fourth District Court (transferred from Court of First Instance) 1,472
In the Fourth District Court (transferred from Superior Court) 6,306
In the Fourth District Court 12,957
In the Twelfth District Court 12,853
In the Fifteenth District Court 1,915
Total number of Causes on file 35,503
NUMBER OF ACTIONS COMMENCED IN THE DISTRICT COURTS SINCE JULY
IST, 1860.
Actions commenced during the year ending June 30th, 1860 1,668
" " " " " 1861 1,832
" " " " " 1862 1,884
" " " " " 1863 1,778
" " " " " 1864 1,853
" " " " " 1865 2,348
" " " " " 1866 ' 2,126
NUMBER OF ACTIONS COMMENCED IN THE DISTRICT COURTS DURING THE
YEAR ENDING JUNE 30TH, 1866, AND THE DISPOSITION MADE OF THEM.
How DISPOSED OF.
Discontinued.
Adjudicated .
Still pending.
Totals.
Fourth
Dist. Court.
70
173
363
606
Twelfth
Dist. Court.
211
331
640
Fifteenth
Dist. Court.
116
248
516
880
TOTAL.
284
632
1,210
2,126
ACTIONS IN DISTRICT COURTS.
97
CHARACTER OF ACTIONS COMMENCED IN THE FOURTH, TWELFTH. AND
FIFTEENTH DISTRICT COURTS DURING THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30xn,
1866
CHARACTER OP ACTIONS.
Fourth
Dist. Court.
Twelfth
Dist. Court.
Fifteenth
Dist. Court.
TOTALS.
284
55
14
18
5
25
3
2
21
13
9
2
5
1
45
2
14
10
2
405
40
15
31
7
11
457
26
36
31
4
32
3
5
25
4
4
1,146
121
65
80
16
68
6
8
56
21
14
4
7
4
180
7
26
22
6
11
' 6
4
3
6
12
16
5
34
3
124
47
For Ejectment
For Recovery of Personal Property
Eor Foreclosure of Mortgage
For Enforcement of Lien. . .
For Injunction
For Partition of Real Estate
To Quiet Title against the City
1
10
4
1
2
2
2
31
1
6
4
To Quiet Title against others
To Compel Conveyance. .
To Set Aside Conveyance
To Perpetuate Testimony
For Leave to Sell Real Estate
1
104
4
6
8
4
10
6
2
2
3
6
7
3
12
2
55
18
For Leave to Mortgage Real Estate. . . .
For Divorce
For Mandamus
For Habeas Corpus ...
For Leave to act as Sole Trader ...
For Submission to Arbitration. . .
For Violation of Passenger Contract Act
(Passenger Act, 1)
1
To Dissolve Copartnership
For Delinquent Taxes
2
For False Imprisonment
1
2
2
3
For Libel
1
4
6
2
14
For Slander
For Malicious Prosecution
For Breach of Promise of Marriage
For Personal Injuries
8
1
31
17
For Injuries to Property
For Street Assessments
38
12
606
Miscellaneous
640
880
2,126
ATTACHMENT SUITS COMMENCED DURING THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30TH,
1866.
Fourth District Court . . ,
Twelfth District Court .
Fifteenth District Court
157
287
262
Total
706
98
COUNTY CLERK S REPORT.
JUDGMENTS ENTERED IN THE FOURTH, TWELFTH, AND FIFTEENTH DIS-
TRICT COURTS DURING THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30TH, 1866.
CHARACTER OF JUDGMENTS.
Fourth
Dist. Court.
Twelfth
Dist. Court.
Fifteenth
Dist. Court.
TOTAL.
For Money
144
180
181
505
For Possession of Personal Property
For Possession of Real Property... .
For Foreclosure of Mortgages ...
3
22
15
6
18
14
4
9
14
13
49
43
For Partition of Real Estate
2
2
4
To confirm Partition of Real Estate.
1
2
3
For Cancellation of Mortgages.. . .
1
1
1
3
For Foreclosure of Liens
13
9
20
42
For Granting leave to sell Real Estate
1
1
To Quiet Title against the City.
4
3
5
12
To Quiet Title against others
17
13
8
38
To Compel Conveyance
6
5
2
13
To Compel Execution of Agreement.
1
1
To Dissolve Partnership
1
1
2
For Cancellation of Deed
1
1
For Divorce . . .
17
27
44
88
For Injunction
9
3
1
13
For Transfer of Personal Property
2
1
3
For Nonsuits and Dismissals .
30
27
32
89
Miscellaneous
2
2
Total Number of Judgments
201
310
325
926
AGGREGATE AMOUNTS OF MONEY JUDGMENTS RENDERED IN THE DIS-
TRICT COURT DURING THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30TH, 1866.
Fourth District Court $911,006 21
Twelfth District Court 662,531 61
Fifteenth District Court. . . . 888,803 84
Total $2,462,341 66
APPEALS TAKEN FROM THE FOURTH, TWELFTH, AND FIFTEENTH DIS-
TRICT COURTS, TO THE SUPREME COURT, DURING THE YEAR ENDING
JUNE 30TH, 1866.
Fourth District Court . . .
Twelfth District Court .
Fifteenth District Court,
64
39
18
Total number of Appeals
121
DISPOSITION OF APPEALS.
99
DISPOSITION MADE IN THE SUPEEME COURT DURING THE LAST YEAR OF
APPEALS FROM THE FOURTH, TWELFTH, AND FIFTEENTH DISTRICT
COURTS.
Fourth
Distr. Court.
Fwelfth
Distr. Court.
Fifteenth
Distr. Court.
TOTALS.
Judgments affirmed 14 15 4 33
Judgments reversed 6 2 1 9
Appeals dismissed 3
No. of appeals decided during last year 23 20 5 48
CRIMINAL ACTIONS IN THE DISTRICT COURTS DURING THE YEAR ENDING
• JUNE 30TH, 1866.
Indictments For Murder. For
filed. Manslaughter.
Fourth District Court .
Twelfth District Court ,4 3 1
Fifteenth District Court 2 2
Convictions. Acquittals. Continued. Appeals.
Fourth District Court.. . 2
Manslaughter.
Twelfth District Court... 2 1 221
Imnrd'rlstdeg Manslaughter. 1 affirmed.
1 manslaughter 1 pending.
Fifteenth District Court . 2 2 2
Murder 1st deg. Manslaughter. 2 affirmed.
NATURALIZATION OF FOREIGNERS.
Number of Declarations of Intention made during the
year ending June 30th, 1866 208
Number of Certificates of Citizenship issued 202
DECLARATIONS OB1 INTENTION.
The Nationalities of Foreigners who made Declarations of
Intention, are as follows:
England — Ireland 92
Carried forward 92
100
Brought forward 92
Germany 79
Denmark 12
Sweden 8
France 6
Russia 5
'Italy 2
Belgium 2
Holland 1
Switzerland 1
— 208
CERTIFICATES OF NATURALIZATION.
Issued in the Fourth, Twelfth and Fifteenth District
Courts, and Nationalities of Naturalized Citizens :
Ireland • * 85
England 21
Germany 64
Sweden — Norway 10
Denmark 9
. Russia 4
Switzerland 3
Holland 1
France 3
Turkey 1
Portugal . . 1
— 202
. COUNTY COURT.
[CIVIL.]
Increase of Causes during the Fiscal Year ending June
30th, 1866 689
Whole number of Causes on File 5,489
Of these 689 Causes were :
On Appeal from Justices' Court 471
Transferred from District Courts 2
Original Actions and Proceedings 216
689
ACTIONS, JUDGMENTS, APPEALS. 101
CHARACTER OF ORIGINAL ACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS.
Insolvency 145
Dissolution of Incorporations 10
Habeas Corpus 9
Forcible Entry 52
Total. 216
CHARACTER OF JUDGMENTS ENTERED.
For Money 385
For Possession of Property 26
For Discharge in Insolvency Ill
For Dismissal of Actions
For Dismissal of Appeals 22
Total . 566
APPEALS.
During the last Fiscal Year six Appeals were taken from the County
Court to the Supreme Court. Three of these Appeals are still pend-
ing. In two of them the judgment of the County Court was affirmed,
and in one reversed.
INCORPORATIONS.
Number of Certificates of Incorporation filed within the
Fiscal Year ending Juno 30th, 1866 151
Whole number of Certificates of Incorporation on file in
the office of the County Court 3,648
The character of the Incorporations who filed Certificates
during the last year, is as follows :
Gold, Silver, and Copper Mining Incorporations .... 32
Petroleum " 40
Commercial " .... 16
Homestead " 18
Religious " 9
Carried forward 115
102 COUNTY CLERK'S REPORT.
Brought forward 115
Benevolent Incorporations 5
Scientific and Educational " 3
Masonic and Odd Fellows " 4
Temperance " 1
Cemetery " 1
Newspaper " 3
Express and Omnibus " 2
Pavement " 2
Water « 4
Social and Literary " 3
Bathing " 3
Brewery " 2
Engine " -2
Canal " 1
— 151
INSANE.
Number of Persons committed during the past year to the In-
sane Asylum, from this County 100
Whole number of Commitments on record since October, 1858 779
CORONER'S INQUESTS.
Number of Inquests filed during the last Fiscal Year 51
Whole number of Inquests on file 769
MILITARY MUSTER ROLLS.
Number of Military Muster Rolls filed during the last Fiscal
Year 62
WIDENING OF KEARNY STREET.
The Act, under which this great undertaking is being carried into
effect by the City, has imposed very severe and laborious duties upon
the already overtaxed County Court. The hearing of the objections
to the Assessments of the Kearriy Street Commissioners has seriously
interfered, and will for some time interfere, with the Civil and Crimi-
nal Business of that Court.
MAKRIAGE LICENSES. 103
Fifty-eight objections have been filed; seventeen of which have
been argued and submitted.
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
Number of Marriage Licenses issued as follows :
July, 1865 101
August, 18G5 96
September, 1865 127
October, 1865 115
November, 1865 123
December, 1865 . 129
January, 1866 108
February, 1866 90
March, 1866 86
April, 1866 148
May, 1866 121
June, 1866 104
Total 1,348
Fees for 1,348 Licenses paid into the City and County Treasury
$2,696.
During the last year fifty-two Licenses were issued with the consent
of parents or guardians, to minors — fifty-one females under eighteen
years, and one male under twenty-one years.
Number of Marriage Licenses issued :
During the year ending June 30th, 1864 1,376
During the year ending June 30th, 1865 1,417
During the year ending June 30th, 1866 1.348
104
COUNTY CLERK'S REPORT.
COUNTY COURT.
[CRIMINAL.]
INDICTMENTS FILED DURING THE LAST FISCAL TEAR.
DISPOSITION OF INDICTMENTS AND OF THE
DEFENDANTS THEREIN.
NATURE OF THE CRIMES CHARGED IN SAID INDICT-
MENTS.
Number of
Indictments.
Defendants
found
Guilty. . .
Defendants
not Tried.
e|
!==
• sf
Defendants
Discharged.
u*
£=!'
=•'£'£'
i P
Indictments
transmitted
to Dist. Courts
Assault to commit bodily injury
11
13
9
3
5
2
('»
8
....
2
....
Assault with deadly weapon
Arson
6
23
2
9
11
40
41
1
3
14
1
4
6
27
21
3
5
1
5
5
6
20
1
Burfflary
3
1
Conspiracy . . . .
Forsrerv
Felony . ...
Grand Larceny
6
....
1
Gamblm01
Libel
Murder
3
3
1
Manslaughter
1
Mayhem . .
1
1
Misdemeanor
4
1
1
2
1
1
Nuisance
Obtaining money by false pretenses
1
3
2
1
3
Petit Larceny
Perjury
1
1
-2
9
7
4
1
1
5
1
1
1
100
]
Robbery
3
1
3
1
5
Rape
Housebreakin0" in the day time
Incest
Totals..
71
19
1
3
4
198
FINES.
The aggregate amount of Fines inflicted by the County Court
during the year ending June 30th, 18G6, was $9,860, which were paid
into the County Treasury.
APPEALS FROM POLICE COURT. .
Number of Proceedings Appealed from the Police Court.
Of these are Undetermined 18
" Dismissed 7
" Reversed 1
26
26
PROBATE COURT. 105
PKOBATE COURT.
Whole Number of Estates 2,286
Estates upon which proceedings were commenced during
the year ending June 30th, 1866 255
These may be classified as follows:
Applications for Probate of Wills 85
Applications for Letters of Administration upon In-
testate Estates 121
Applications for Letters of Guardianship (minors) . . 47
Applications for Letters of Guardianship (insane) . . 2
255
Applications were granted and Letters issued as follows :
Letters Testamentary 66
Letters of Administration, with the Will annexed. . . 9
Letters of Administration . 100
Special Letters of Administration. 15
Letters of Guardianship (minors) 41
Letters of Guardianship (insane) 2
Applications still Pending :
For Letters of Administration, with the will annexed 10
For Letters of Administration. . 21
For Letters of Guardianship 6
VALUE OF ESTATES.
The Value of the Estates, upon which Letters were is-
sued during the last Fiscal Year, is $2,350,000 00
NON-PAYMENT OF FEES.
Number of Estates administered upon by the Public Ad-
ministrator, in which there was no Property, and in
which no fees were paid 20
8
106 COUNTY CLERK'S REPORT.
NUMBER OF ESTATES IN WHICH PROCEEDINGS WERE COMMENCED
DURING EACH FISCAL YEAR SINCE JULY IST, 1859.
During the year ending June 30th, 1860 87
During the year ending June 30th, 1861 107
During the year ending June 30th, 1862 148
During the year ending June 30th, 1863 172
During the year ending June 30th, 1864 234
During the year ending June 30th, 1865 214
During the year ending June 30th, 1866 255
RECORDS IN THE COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE ON THE FIRST
DAY OF JULY, 1866.
RECORDS OF ALCALDE GEARY.
Register, Nos. 1, 2, Geary .' 2
General Index , . 1
COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE.
Register, Nos. 1,2 2
General Index 1
Records, A, B, C 3
Plaintiffs' Index 1
General Index to Judgments 1
Criminal Record 1
General Index to Book A (Miscellaneous) 1
General Index to Book B 1
Record of Dismissed and Discontinued Cases . . 1
SUPERIOR COURT.
[Transferred to the Fourth District Court.]
Registers of Actions, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 10
Judgment Books, A, B, C, D, E 5
Minute Books, A, B, C, D, E, F 6
Docket No. 1 . . 1
DISTRICT COURT. 107
FOURTH DISTRICT COURT.
General Index (Plaintiffs') A, B 2
General Index (Defendants') A 1
Registers of Actions, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L 12
Judgment Records, A, B, C, D, E, F, G 7
Dockets, A, B, C, D ' 4
Minute Books, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H 8
Register of Criminal Causes, A 1
Execution Book, A 1
TWELFTH DISTRICT COURT.
Indices (Plaintiffs') A, B, C 3
Index (Defendants') A 1
Registers of Actions, A, L 12
Minutes of Court, A, F 6
Judgment Records, A, F 6
Judgment Dockets, A, E , 5
Execution Book, A 1
FIFTEENTH DISTRICT COURT.
Index (Plaintiffs') 1
Index (Defendants') 1
Registers of Actions, A, B 2
Minutes of Court, A 1
Judgment Record, A 1
Judgment Docket, A , 1
Execution Book, A 1
BOOKS OF NATURALIZATION.
Minutes of Naturalization (Fourth District Court) A 1
Minutes of Naturalization (Twelfth District Court) A 1
Minutes of Naturalization (Fifteenth District Court) A. ...... 1
Declarations of Intention, A, B, C, D, E, F 6
Certificates of Citizenship, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, 1 7
[C, F, I, belonging exclusively to the Fourth ; G, to the Twelfth ; and H, to the Fif-
teenth District Court]
General Index to Declarations of Intention, A 1
General Index to Certificates of Citizenship, A 1
108 COUNTY CLERK'S REPORT.
MISCELLANEOUS BOOKS IN THE COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE.
Record of School Land Warrants ? 1
Record of Deposits of Money in Court 1
Record of Filing of Delinquent Tax Lists 1
Record of Official Bonds 1
Great Register of Citizens, 2 volumes 2
Duplicate Report of Kearny street Commissioners 1
COUNTY COURT.
General Index of Actions (Civil) A 1
Registers of Civil Actions, 1, 2, 3 3
Register of Criminal Actions, 1 1
Minutes of Court (County) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 5
Judgment Dockets, A, B 2
Minutes of Court of Sessions, 1, 2, 3, 4 4
Register of Court of Sessions 1
Record of Bonds 1
Records of Incorporations, 1,2 2
Index of Incorporations 1
Index of Protests to Street Grades 1
Index of Oaths of Allegiance . . . 1
Index of Ordinance Stores, Receipts by Militia Companies 1
Index of Indentured Apprentices 1
Index of Coroner's Inquests 1
Index of Marriage Licenses (males) 1
Index of Marriage Licenses (females) 1
Applications for Marriage Licenses, 1, 2, 3, 4 4
Commitments to Insane Asylum 5
Final Report of Kearny Street Commissioners, 1 vol 1
PROBATE COURT.
Succession, A 1
Succession, B 1
Journal Probate Court 1
Minutes entitled " Record Probate Court," 2-10 9
Minutes entitled " Minutes Probate Court," 11-15 5
Letters of Administration, 1,2 2
PROBATE COURT. 109
Letters Testamentary 1
Letters of Guardianship 1
Bonds : 2
Record of Wills, 1, 2, 3, 4 4
Registers of Wills, 1, 2, 3 3
General Index, A 1
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COURT TAXES AND FEES.
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COURT TAXES AND APPEAL FEES.
The following amounts of Court Taxes and Appeal
Fees have been collected and paid to the District
Judges during the last fiscal year (which amounts
are deducted by the Controller of State from the
Judges' salaries).
To the Judge of the Fourth District Court
To the Judse of the Twelfth District Court. .
To the Judge of the Fifteenth District Court
Total
$1,941 00
1,992 00
2,625 00
$6,558 00
FINES.
Amount of Fines inflicted (by the County Court and
District Courts) which were deposited with the
County Clerk and by him paid into the Police
Fund, during the fiscal year ending June 30th,
1866.
Coin $9,870 00
DFPOSITS IN COURT.
Amount withdrawn during the last fiscal year by order
of Court :
Coin $5,383 12
Legal Tender Notes 61,552 50
Total ; $66,935 62
Amount on deposit in Court July 1st, 1866 (deposited
by the County Clerk with the County Treasurer) :
Coin $4,469 56
Legal Tender Notes 2,492 95
Total $6,962 51
112
COUNTY CLERK'S REPORT.
TABLE OF RECEIPTS OF FEES AND OF EXPENDITURES
IN THE COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE FROM JULY IST, 1859,
TO JUNE 30TH, 1866.
FeesKeceived.
Expenditures.
Keceipts over
Expenditures.
Fiscal Year endinf June 30th 1860
$21 684 30
$23 749 92
Fiscal Year ending June 30th, 1861. . . .
23 073 43
23 185 35
Fiscal Year ending June 30th, 1862
23,291 72
22,020 90
$270 82
Fiscal Year endin"- June 30th 1863
22 786 84
22 54'> 85
243 99
Fiscal Year ending June 30th, 1864
28,815 80
24,353 23
4,462 57
Fiscal Year ending June 30th, 1865
33,201 30
28,813 96
4,387 34
Fiscal Year ending June 30th, 1866
31,829 70
30,842 90
986 80
GENERAL REMARKS.
LITIGATION.
[See table of number of suits commenced since July 1st, 1859.]
Though it might seem at first glance at the number of suits com-
menced during the last year, that litigation is decreasing, the contrary
is certainly the fact. The decrease in the number of actions from the
years 1864-1865 is explained, when it is remembered that in May
1865, some two hjundred suits, exclusively for ejectment from outside
lands, were brought to avoid the operation of the statute of limitation.
If it be considered that the constitutional amendments of 1864 gave
Justices of the Peace jurisdiction over cases in which an amount up to
three hundred dollars is involved, and that this jurisdiction includes at
least one fourth of all cases formerly brought in the District Courts,
it will be apparent that the number of suits commenced in these Courts
during the last two years, as compared with the number of suits brought
previous to 1865, indicates a great increase of litigation, which cannot
be accounted for by the increase of population for the last two years.
REGISTRATION OF CITIZENS.
The Act known as the " Registry Act," approved March 19th, 1866,
has imposed very great and onerous duties upon the present incumbent
of the office of County Clerk. Registration alone, of the citizens of
GENERAL REMARKS. 113
this County, and the transfer of the Assessor's enrollments to the Great
Register, has employed the County Clerk and his specially appointed
assistants day and night, ever since the Act went into effect. For the
hearing of those applicants for Registration who have lost their Certifi-
cate of naturalization, or who claim citizenship under their father's
naturalization, the County Judge and the County Clerk were daily in
attendance together, from 4 to 6 P.M. These duties, together with
the making up of the Poll Lists for the next Election, and the alpha-
betical arrangement of the entire Register, for publication in July,
1867, are labors so great, that so far as this County is concerned, a
special commission should have been created by the Legislature, for
their performance. This would have been the more expedienj^ as even
to give information about the provisions of the Registry Act to the
masses of citizens who constantly apply for it at this office, has be-
come not an inconsiderable branch of its business.
However, no efforts have been spared in this office to carry the law
into effect promptly, and with as little inconvenience as possible to the
public. Besides a specially appointed deputy, (Mr. Paul Neumann)
and several assistants employed in transferring the Assessor's Enroll-
ments, my deputies generally have rendered valuable aid.
There are registered in the Great Register, this 31st day of July
1866, the names of 12,520 citizens of the United States, residing in
this County.
Of these there were registered on their personal application
to the County Clerk 6,853
Enrolled by the Assessor 5,667
Of this number, (12,520) are native citizens 7,400
Foreign born citizens 5,120
FEES.
The Fee system, applicable to this office previous to the last Legis-
lative session, was most confused and unsatisfactory. Acts of 1854>
establishing the fees in Sacramento County, though long ago repealed
as to that County, were construed as still governing the fees in San
Francisco. But for this construction, there was no statutory provision
for the collection of fees for the most of the Clerk's services, rendered
at individual request. At the last session of the Legislature I drew up
a complete Fee Bill for this office, which received the approval of the
Judges of the District, County, and Probate Courts of this County
114 COUNTY CLERK'S REPORT.
and which became a law. A new feature is a provision therein, which
gives Judges the power of remitting the fees, when parties are unable
to pay them, so that poverty need not be an obstacle to any one to
obtain a hearing in the State Courts of Record of this County.
FEES IN THE PROBATE COURT.
There is no public department in which it would be more just to
collect sufficient fees to pay the expenses of the public service, than in
the Probate Court, and yet there is no department in which the fees
charged are so far below the cost of maintaining it, and so inadequate
to the labor performed.
The fees collected in this Court during the past year amounted to
$3,125 50. During the same period, proceedings were commenced on
255 estates, and a great deal of clerical labor performed at individual
request, aside from that attending the administration of those estates.
The salaries of two deputies and one copyist in the Probate Court
amounted to $5,100. Other actual expenses of this Court, as station-
ery, &c., are therefore, entirely above the receipts. In the new Fee
Bill, I endeavored to cover this deficit as far as possible, without rev-
olutionizing the existing Fee system. That Act provides that after
recording 30 folios for an estate, the Clerk shall collect twenty cents
for every folio thereafter recorded. Heretofore, sometimes whole Rec-
ords had been filled for an estate without any compensation to the
County except the trifling fee at the commencement of the proceedings.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
WM. LOEWY,
County Clerk.
CHIEF OF POLICE'S REPORT.
POLICE OFFICE,
San Francisco, August 1st, 1866.
To the Honorable the Board of Supervisors
Of the City and County of San Francisco —
GENTLEMEN : I herewith submit my Report of the labors of the
Police Department for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1866.
Schedule " A " — an exhibit of the arrests made by the Police during
the year ending June 30th, 1866.
Schedule " B " — an exhibit of amount of property reported as stolen
or iost — and the amount recovered by the Police during the year ending
June 30th, 1866.
Schedule " C " — an exhibit of money, and cash value ' of articles
passed through the hands of the Police, taken for the most part from
persons intoxicated and otherwise unable to care for themselves at the
time of their arrest, and temporarily in the possession of the Chief of
Police, for the year ending June 30th, 1866.
Schedule " D " — is a table showing the number of witnesses subpoenaed
for the Police Judge's Court : Nuisances on private property abated ;
Street obstruction notices, and Lost Children restored to their parents
or guardians by the Police, for the year ending June 30th, 1866.
Schedule " E " — an exhibit of cash received from Sheriffs of other
counties ; masters of vessels and others, for the keeping of prisoners
in the City Prison, for the year ending June 30th, 1866.
Schedule " F " — List of Lost, Stolen, and Unclaimed Property, in
the possession of the Chief of Police, to June 30th, 1866.
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In rny annual reports in former years, I have endeavored to point
out the defects in the laws in force against gambling, and to exhibit the
cause why this crime is not suppressed.
My report to your Hon. Board in July 1864, gives full and complete
information on the subject.
I beg leave to repeat my language on that occasion :
EXTRACT OF THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CHIEF OF POLICE, TO THE
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, JULY 80m, 1864.
"I consider that the present is not an unfitting occasion to make some
remarks upon a subject which ought to receive the attention of every
parent among us, and of all who have at heart the welfare of our
youth. I allude to the crime of gambling.
" Prior to March 14th, 1851, gaming was conducted publicly, and was
unforbidden by law ; but upon that day the Legislature passed ' An
Act to License Gaming,' which continued in force for about four years,
and until repealed by * An Act to Prohibit Gaming,' passed April 17,
1855.
" This act made gambling a misdemeanor, and punishable by a fine of
not less than One Hundred nor more than Five Hundred Dollars for
the first offence, and double the penalty for each subsequent offence.
This law also makes the owners of gambling houses liable to punish-
ment.
"On the twenty-seventh of April, 1857, the Legislature passed 'An
Act to Prohibit Gaming,' which provided that the conductors of bank-
ing games should, upon conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the
State Prison, not exceeding two years, and by a fine not exceeding
Five Thousand Dollars.
" Also, that bettors at such games should be punished by a fine not
exceeding Five Hundred Dollars, and imprisonment in the County
Jail not exceeding six months, and excusing from criminality the bet-
tor who should be called as a witness for the people.
" This act was, what its title called it — ' An Act to Prohibit Gaming '
— and under its rigor the officers of the law had a right to break into
and enter, in a most summary manner, places where games were con-
ducted. Under the general power granted to officers in cases of felony,
arrests could be made in the night-time, or even upon bare suspicion,
and witnesses could be compelled to come and give evidence.
EXTRACTS FROM FORMER REPORT. 117
" Clothed with such authority, the faithful bfficer found it no difficult
task to extinguish a gambling house as soon as its existence became
known, and the result was that banking games were almost entirely
suppressed in San Francisco.
" The gambling energy thus restrained soon broke out in other forms
of vice, and a number of mongrel games were introduced, such as
rondo and propps. These for a few days were conducted openly ; and
when first arrested, it was claimed by their votaries that they were
games of skill, and not in violation of the law.
u The verdicts, however, of numerous juries of our citizens, who
were called by the defendants in these cases, set the matter at rest, and
the conductors of such games were punished under the law of 1855,
for conducting games of chance.
"On the 7th of March, 1860, the Legislature passed 'An Act to
Prohibit Gaming,' which abolished the felony penalty and made gam-
bling only a misdemeanor, punishable by fine not exceeding One
Thousand Dollars, nor less than One Hundred, and imprisonment in
default of payment.
" On the twenty-seventh of April, 1863, the Legislature passed anoth-
er Act which limits the imprisonment for non-payment of the fine by a
person convicted of gaming, and providing for the removal and punish-
ment of any officer who shall fail to do his duty in the suppression of
gambling.
" A subject which has received such varying treatment from the Leg-
islatures of our State, may well be considered a difficult question to
dispose of, and I am compelled to remark that the present law is not
such a one as can be satisfactory to the people of this City, nor to the
officers charged with its enforcement.
"• The Grand Juries of this County have frequently given this sub-
ject a very thorough investigation, and in this connection I beg leave
again to call your attention to the following reports of three successive
Grand Juries, who fully investigated the matter.
GAMBLING.
" The cause of its prevalence and manner of its prevention, as de-
veloped by three successive Grand Juries of the City and County of
San Francisco, who were especially charged by the Court of Sessions
to examine into the reason of its prevalence. The results of their
examinations are entitled to the fullest confidence, because they have
subpoenaed whatever witnesses they thought proper, and received none
but sworn evidence"
118 CHIEF OF POLICE'S REPORT.
REPORT OF GRAND JURY, NOV. 29TH, 1862.-(ExTRACT.)
" * The subject of gambling, which was especially referred to by the
Court in its charge to the Jury, has received their most earnest atten-
tion. The Grand Jury found that this great public evil was even more
wide-spread than they were led to believe from the suggestions of the
Court, and at once entered upon a thorough and serious investigation
of it. The results of that investigation will be found in the several
indictments for gambling, above enumerated.' (Thirty-six.)
"'The Grand Jury regret that their limited time prevented a more
searching and critical examination, and would respectfully recommend
to their successors a further pursuance of the subject. Gambling
houses were found to be located in the very heart of our City, and on
most of our principal thoroughfares. In some of these establishments
the business had been conducted on a most extensive scale, with numer-
ous gaming tables, a large corps of employees conducting the various
games, and a crowded assemblage of deluded victims.'
" * In endeavoring to account for the causes which have produced
this state of things, and the remarkable increase in the number of
gambling houses during the past year, the Grand Jury are led to be-
lieve that some portion of the evil has arisen from the inefficacy of the
existing law on the subject of gaming, and they would respectfully,
but urgently call the attention of our Senators and Representatives at
the coming session of the State Legislature, to this matter of such vast
importance to our community. The former law against gaming, and
which was repealed on the passage of the present statute, was a most
stringent one — making the offense a felony, and punishable by impris-
ment in the State Prison. During the prevalence of that law, gam-
bling was confined to comparatively prescribed limits, and was, there-
fore, much less of a public evil than at present.'
" ' If a law of a similar character could be re-enacted, with some
necessary and judicious amendments, it is believed that the practice of
public gambling which, perhaps, may never be entirely suppressed by
legislation, would be so narrowed down, and driven into such obscurity,
as to very materially mitigate the present evil. Prompt and energetic '
action should be taken by each succeeding Grand Jury, and an addition-
al appropriation should be permitted, if necessary, to the Police Con-
tingent Fund, to enable the Police Department to take such steps as
are necessary in the premises. Every good citizen who is jealous of
the fair fame of our beautiful City, should earnestly co-operate with
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the authorities in carrying out this good work, by rendering such infor-
mation as they may become possessed of as to the the locality of gaming-
houses in their immediate neighborhood, and as to the names of their
lessees, proprietors, employees and visitants. Gambling is a vice con-
fined to no particular class of the community. At its shrine may be
found worshippers from all ranks of society. It is, therefore, a matter
of direct interest to every citizen, that the evil should, if possible, be
eradicated.'
" ' Every merchant, every manufacturer, every banker, every em-
ployer, every head of a family, should give this subject his deep and
serious attention, and should do all in his power to assist the authori-
ties in suppressing an evil which is insiduously sapping the very
Foundation of our social system/
" ' The Grand Jury have been materially aided by the Chief of
Police, who has cheerfully and promptly responded to all their require-
ments.'
REPORT OF GRAND JUR^, JAN. 30TH, 1863.-(ExTKAOT.)
" ' As directed in the charge of the Court, the earnest attention of
the Grand Jury has been devoted to the subject of .gambling, with a
view to its suppression. The number.of true bills found against per-
sons charged with this offence, exhibits the alarming prevalence of this
evil practice in our community. The evidence sustaining the complaints
discloses a skillful and systematic effort to set the laws at defiance.
Extraordinary precautions have been taken by the proprietors of the
gambling saloons to prevent the entrance of the officers of the law.
The dealers and employees, by masks, false hair, and other contrivances,
are so disguised that when arrested, in many instances, their victims
are unable to recognize them.'
" ' Among the most serious crimes which have occupied the attention
of this Grand Jury, are two indictments caused by losses at the gaming
table. The victim in this case was a warehouse porter, enjoying the
confidence of an old established firm. To pay his losses at the gaming
table, he robbed his employer, and to conceal the continuous abstrac-
tion of large amounts, he fired the warehouse.'
" ' Other instances of ruined fortunes and reputations were brought
to the notice of the Grand Jury, and it has become painfully evident
that unless some more stringent laws are enacted on this subject, the
evil will increase. The proprietors of buildings in which prohibited
games are played, are liable, under the present act, to heavy fines, after
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notice that their property is so employed. Many had been notified
before the assembling of this body, and a mass of evidence has been
taken, which, with the recorded evidence of ownership of the buildings
in which gambling is carried on, will enable our successors to reach
parties amenable to this complaint. The attention of the next Grand
Jury is earnestly invoked to this subject ; this being a short term, want
of time to obtain from the County records evidences of ownership, has
been, to the regret of the present Grand Jury, the sole cause of this
reference.'
" ' In this matter, the services of the Chief of Police, Dr. Burke,
deserve high commendation. To eradicate an evil, however, having
so many votaries, he 'should be authorized to employ additional detec-
tives, and the necessary funds should be provided for that purpose.'
" ' The reports of previous Grand Juries have convinced this body
that the law now in force is very defective. The profits of gambling
are sufficiently large to form a fund to pay the fines of those who are
convicted under it.'
"'Several years ago a Justice of the Supreme Court drafted a bill
which became a law, and which did much to arrest this evil. That
act was repealed by the present defective statute, and this terrible vice
is how active among us in all its degrading influences. In view of
these facts, the Grand Jury would recommend to the Representatives
of this City and County in the Legislature, to have the previous law
re-enacted, with any amendments that may be necessary to make it
fully effective ; and would further recommend that, when convictions
are had under the present act, the severest penalty be inflicted.'
REPORT OF GRAND JURY, MARCH 28TH, 1863.— (EXTRACT )
"'On the whole, we can congratulate our City on the thorough and
faithful administration by its officers of their duty, and its general pros-
perity, with one exception, which is — GAMBLING. This, from all
we can learn, is carried on to almost an alarming extent ; the present
laws prevent our Police from arresting it materially, and our Legisla-
tors either have not the constitutional power, or disposition to enact
laws necessary to enable our Police to arrest its prosperity.'
" I will further remark that I have appeared personally before sev-
eral Grand Juries since these reports were made, and whenever they
were ready to examine into this class of crime, I have caused to be
subprenaed before them the frequenters and employees of houses where
it is suspected that gambling is carried on.
EXTRACTS FROM FORMER REPORT. 121
" In this way the Grand Jury has in some instances found sufficient
evidence to find a bill, and one Grand Jury on this kind of evidence
indicted over twenty persons, while another Grand Jury since, before
whom some sixty of the persons above described were subpoenaed,
found only one indictment on this sort of evidence.
" I remark with regret that as yet no convictions have followed in
these cases in the County Court, while quite a number have been re-
cently dismissed because the witness whose evidence supported the
indictment had not appeared at the trial ; nor is it to be wondered at,
that it should be so, when it is observed that in these cases the witness-
es testify by compulsion, and some have been sent to the County Jail
for contempt in refusing to answer questions.
" And if a gambler is indicted on the evidence of a companion of the
game, it is not surprising that the witness should absent himself at the
time of the trial and thus defeat the law in support of which he gave
involuntary testimony.
" I am not, therefore, able to commend this plan of action as pro-
ductive of the end sought to be obtained, namely, the suppression and
punishment of gambling, although I do thinkv it a fitting subject of
inquiry for each Grand Jury.
" However, the usefulness of a law which only harasses and annoys
the evil doer without bringing him to punishment may well be questioned,
and it may here be considered that under the remarkable condition of
our currency the heaviest fine which the present law allows to be in-
flicted on a person convicted of violating the gambling law, namely,
one thousand dollars, can be met by the convicted, by the expenditure
of about four hundred dollars in coin by purchasing therewith United
States legal tender notes. This condition of the currency did not exist
when the gaming law now in force was passed.
" The plan of hiring informers to enter these places and prosecute
gamblers has often been considered by this department, and in some
instances attempted, but it has not been found sufficient to meet the
evil, for many reasons, among which I may mention that none have
been found who were willing to undertake this duty for the sake of
vindicating the violated law, without the promise of pecuniary gain.
" The Department has no fund to draw upon sufficiently large to
compete successfully with the violators of the law in the purchase of
testimony.
" The Police Contingent Fund was not granted for this purpose, it
being intended solely for the payment of such expenses as are incurred
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in the capture of criminals who have escaped from the City, — in horse
hire, — telegraphic and sundry expenses connected with the efficient
administration of criminal law, and the conveyance of drunkards and
insane persons to the Hospital or Prison.
" It will be readily perceived, that it is only by the most rigid econ-
omy that this fund can be made adequate to the legitimate demands
upon it.
" Upon the 25th of April, 1863, the Legislature passed ' An'Act to
confer further power upon your Board which authorizes you to prohibit
and suppress, or exclude from certain limits, all houses of ill-fame, pros-
titution, and gaming?
" Soon after the passage of this Act, I submitted the question to Mr.
Saunders, the City and County Attorney : could not your Board pass
an order which would authorize police officers to enter any house where
they had reason to suppose that gambling was carried on ?
" Upon a cursory examination of the subject he agreed with me, that
your Board had power to do so ; whereupon I applied to the Grand
Jury to recommend its passage, but upon a subsequent examination
Judge Shepheard and Mr. Saunders concluded that no such power ex-
isted.
" Being convinced that if I had the power to enter those houses at
will I could break up gambling in this City, I went before our delega-
tion to the Legislature and urged upon them the necessity which exist-
ed for the passage of an Act giving power to the Police to enter houses
where they suppose gaming was conducted, and making it a misdemean-
or to oppose their entrance.
" A law upon this basis was presented in the Assembly and defeated.
" I would, however, suggest that the question of the power of your
Board to pass such an order be submitted again to some able criminal
lawyers, because I am confident that under the power of such an order
I could suppress all gambling in this City in ten days.
" The importance of this subject will doubtless appear to you a suf-
ficient excuse for the space devoted to its consideration.
" I may, however, remark that there is no public gambling carried
on in this City ; that there are few gambling houses here compared
with other cities ; that those houses where gambling is conducted are
guarded by watchful doorkeepers, and that some of the houses are
conducted as clubs, no one being admitted in any way unless all the
habitues of the house are satisfied that they will not aid the Police in
any way.
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"I am at the present time about to institute some prosecutions which
we expect will result in conviction, inasmuch as some of the recently
appointed Policemen have been able to procure testimony.
" In conclusion of this part of my Report, I may remark that the
Department under my control have been and are most desirous to en-
force the present law ; and that I have been most willing to avail myself
of any and every suggestion which might tend to lessen this evil."
During the past year the Police Department under my direction
have been diligent in seizing every opportunity to enforce the existing
law for the suppression of gambling, and in some instances they have
presented to the District Attorney information upon which that officer
has instituted prosecutions.
Upon the occasion of an increase of the Police force in October,
1865, the newly appointed officers, eighteen in number, were detailed
for about a week, as detectives, for the suppression of gambling, and
having been fully instructed in their duties, were directed to report in
writing every day. These reports are too numerous and too long to be
embodied in this paper, but they contain evidence that the condition
found by the Grand Jury which reported January 30th, 1863, remains
unchanged. I close this part of my report, by quoting from the MES-
SAGE OF GOVERNOR Low to the Legislature, December 9th, 1865.
GAMBLING.
" I desire to call your attention to the laws now in force intended to
prohibit gambling, by punishing those who engage in it, and to ask
such modifications as will accomplish the object sought. Tne workings
of the present law do not tend to suppress this vice, or even abate gt.
Indeed, persons best able to judge, affirm that gambling houses have
increased in number during the last two years. The evils resulting
from the continuance of these practices have become painfully appar-
ent in the ruined fortunes and reputations of many persons who have
heretofore borne good characters. The amount of secret misery and
sorrow caused by the existence of houses of this character is beyond
computation.
" That some well directed effort should be made by the Legislature
that will, as nearly as may be, prohibit and break up gambling games
is demanded, not only by all good citizens, but by the weak minded
persons who cannot resist the temptations that beset them. I therefore
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recommend either that the law of April 27th, 1857, be re-enacted,
declaring the crime a felony, punishable by imprisonment in the State
Prison, or that the penalties of the present law be materially increased.
If the latter course be adopted, authority should be given to officers of
the law to break into places where games are conducted, and arrest
parties suspected of being guilty of the offence ; in other words, should
the offence be classed as a misdemeanor, as at present, officers should
have the same power in making arrests, either day or night, upon well
grounded suspicion, as is now provided in cases of felony."
SANITARY.
Owing to the extensive apprehension of the spread of contagious
diseases, consequent on the appearance of cholera in Europe, precau-
tionary measures have been taken in this City, tending to prevent the
appearance or spread of epidemics. As early as April 3d, 1865, your
Honorable Board passed Order No. 626, establishing a Board of
Health. In carrying into effect these precautionary measures ordered
by the Board of Health, the Police Department have been zealous and
active. Each Policeman performing the duties of Health Inspector
on his own beat. For a detailed account of the number of nuisances
abated, and notices served, I refer to the report of the Health Officer.
CHINESE PROSTITUTES.
The presence and influence of several hundred Chinese women,
abandoned to vice, and existing in filthy, undrained, unventilated dwell-
ings, polluting the atmosphere near the center of the City, was an evil
long suffered, but never sanctioned by a great majority of our citizens.
•The Street Railroad cars having to pass through this infested
neighborhood for some years past, it became the duty of the Police, so
far as they were able, to suppress outrages to public decency by these
miserable unfortunates, and in pursuance of this purpose the effort was
made, by the Head of the Police Department, to induce the property
holders interested to erect and maintain near the mouths of those alleys
thus inhabited, screens, which should hide the vice and degradations of
those localities from the view of the women and children who patron-
ize the street cars, and of the multitudes who daily pass through our
public thoroughfares. Such regulations, however, were difficult to en-
force, and only tended to whitewash and hide from public view, the vice
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and filthiness of those localities, and in my report made to your Honor-
able Board a year ago, I suggested that measures be taken for the
removal of these women. After the organization of the Board of
Health, the necessity, for sanitary reasons, of abating this nuisance
became apparent to that body. The law of the State, prohibiting pros-
titution, made no discrimination against the Chinese, and any attempt
by the authorities to enforce it against the people of that nationality
exclusively, might be looked upon as unusual, and of doubtful proprie-
ty. After a careful consideration of the subject, your Honorable Board,
on the 9th of October, 1865, passed to print an Order to remove Chinese
women of ill fame from certain limits, which included the central por-
tion of the City, and the locality heretofore occupied by them. The
City and County Attorney being o'f opinion that the discrimination
made by the word Chinese, in the proposed order would vitiate its
force, that word was stricken out and the Order was numbered 666,
and passed on the 17th of October, 1865.
It was well understood by your Honorable Board and by parties
interested, that the object sought to be accomplished by the passage of
Order No. 666, was the removal of Chinese prostitution and its con-
comitants, disease and filth, from central portions of the City, and it
became the duty of the Police to make such efforts as they could to
carry out your wish.
Persons interested for the Chinese women were' informed of the
necessity and cause of their removal, and ample time being granted to
them, negotiations were made to obtain possession of some other locali-
ty removed from public view, where with greater space, and more
attention to cleanliness, their presence would not be regarded as great
a nuisance as it has proved to be in their old location. There appear-
ed a reasonable prospect of other dwellings being erected outside the
restricted limits for the Chinese women, about the time that the " Act
for the suppression of Chinese houses of ill fame " began to be agitated
in the Legislature, and on the passage of that bill the negotiations
of the Chinese were frustrated by the effect of the penalties o'f that
law on property holders who should violate its provisions.
The Police, therefore, commenced to arrest Chinese prostitutes, and
your Honorable Board must have become aware, from various petitions
and appeals which have been made to you, that vigorous and successful
measures have been taken by the Police, to compel the removal of
these women, until the passage by your Honorable Board of the follow-
ing Resolution placed the subject under the entire control of Doctors
126 CHIEF OF POLICE'S REPORT.
Elliott and McNulty, who have not as yet advised me of what plans
they intend to adopt.
RESOLUTION NO. 5,766.
Resolved, That all matters relating to the location and sanitary regulation of
Chinese women, so-called, in the City and County of San Francisco, be and here-
by are referred to the Health Officer and the Quarantine Officer, and that said
-officers be and hereby are authorized to make and carry out such arrangements in
reference to said matters as they shall deem advisable.
In Board of Supervisors, San Francisco, July 23d, 1866.
Adopted by the following vote :
AYES— Supervisors Clement, Rowell, Phelps, Ashbury, Clayton, Schreiber,
Shrader, McCoppin, Stanyan.
ABSENT — Supervisors Titcomb, Torrey, Reynolds.
JAS. W. BINGIIAM, Clerk.
Officer Hesse, who has been detailed by rae to enforce among the
Chinese your wishes as expressed in Order 666, reports to me that
from the 18th of December, 1865, to the 17th of June, 1866, the num-
ber of Chinese prostitutes arrested was 137, of whom 124 were con-
victed and sentenced, 6 forfeited bail, and 7 were discharged. The
same officer reports that pending these prosecutions over three
hundred of these women left the City, and that there remain here less
than two hundred at present.
POLICE TELEGRAPH.
The Police Telegraph has been in daily use during the year,
and has been found very convenient.
It may not be inappropriate to remark that during the past year,
certain individuals who had at one time held a limited connection with
the Department, endeavored to give extensive circulation to falsehoods,
prejudicial to the Police Force. These charges coming to the Grand
Jury of the last November term, they expressed the result of their
investigations as follows : " From divers insinuations against the Police
Department, made by sundry parties to this body, we made a thorough
examination of matters connected with the Department, which redounds
to the credit of Chief Burke and his Officers."
As Head of the Department, were it in my power to suppress this
espionage, I would wiot do so, because I have found that it has been
useful to me in keeping up the standard of discipline in the Depart-
ment ; the success of the Department in enforcing the laws for the pro-
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tection of life and property, has been proved in many instances during
the year, by the detection and arrest of many persons guilty of the
highest crimes known to our laws, several of whom have been convicted
and suffered the penalty of their offenses.
I have endeavored to reduce to system every branch of duty con-
nected with the Department, and would call your attention to the
expression of the last Grand Jury in relation thereto : " We found
in the office of the Chief of Police a very complete system for the
guidance of all subordinates, and do not propose any improvements in
the system of checks and balaaces which he has devised."
I consider the City fortunate in possessing the services of a number
of Officers whose long experience and skill greatly enhance the value
of their services.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
M. J. BURKE,
Chief of Police.
SCHEDULE A.
NUMBER OF ARRESTS MADE BY THE POLICE FOR THE YEAR ENDING
JUNE 30TH, 1866.
July, 1865 646
August 664
September 681
October 816
November 969
December ' 1,010
January, 1866 816
February 792
March 912
April 873
May. . . 807
June 722
Total , 9,708
128 CHIEF OF POLICE'S REPORT.
CLASSIFICATION OF AKRESTS MADE BY THE POLICE FOR THE TEAR END-
ING JUNE 30TH, 1866.
Arson 14
Arrested on Requisition 1
Attempt to Murder 3
Attempt at Bribery 1
Assault , 32
Assault and Battery 1,258
Assault with a Deadly Weapon . 108
Assault with Intent to Murder 12
Assisting Prisoners to Escape 1
Accessory to Murder 1
Abduction 1
Attempt at Illegal Voting 7
Attempt to circulate Counterfeit Money 1
Attempt to commit Grand Larceny 2
Attempt to commit Petit Larceny 6
Attempt to commit Robbery 17
Attempt to commit Burglary 5
Attempt to commit Rape 8
Arrested on Bench Warrants 45
Bigamy 1
Burglary 64
Common Drunkards 29
Common Prostitutes 136
Contempt 1
Cruelty to Dumb Animals 1
Conspiracy .26
Carrying concealed Weapons 107
Counterfeiting 1
Drunk 3,790
Desertion 130
Escape from Industrial School 7
Escape from Prison 5
Exhibiting Deadly Weapons 11
Exhibiting Obscene Pictures 2
False Pretenses 3
Forgery 20
Fraudulently selling and concealing Property 3
SCHEDULE A. 129
For Industrial School 60
Felony 9
Grand Larceny 200
Highway Robbery 5
Indecent exposure of Person 8
Illegal Voting 4
Insane 117
Incest 2
Kidnapping 1
Libel 5
Lodgers 464
Malicious Mischief 147
Manslaughter 4
Misdemeanor 512
Misdemeanor — Violating City Ordinances 1,203
Misdemeanor by Gambling 22
Mayhem 6
Murder 8
Obtaining Money by False Pretenses 21
Perjury 8
Peddling without a License 71
Petit Larceny 512
Passing Counterfeit Money 3
Riot 17
Robbery 31
Resisting Officers 20
Receiving Stolen Property 5
Rape 8
Refusing to enroll a Qualified Elector. 2
Swindling 2
Suspicion of Larceny 79
State Prisoners, en route 130
Surrendered by Bondsmen 5
Suspicion of Arson 2
Suspicion of Forgery 5
Suspicion of Burglary 3
Threats 58
Violating United States Revenue Laws 3
Vagrants 35
Witnesses detained in Prison .•. . . 51
130
CHIEF OF POLICE'S REPORT.
SCHEDULE B.
AMOUNT OF PROPERTY STOLEN AND LOST, AND ALSO AMOUNT RECOV-
ERED BY THE POLICE, FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30iH, 1866.
MONTHS.
Property Stolen.
Property Lost.
Amount
Recovered.
July 1865
$3 232 50
$2 194 00
$4380 50
August
2,465 00
665 00
1,254 50
September
1,821 10
4,285 00
4,264 45
October
2 257 00
35 00
4,471 00
November ....
29,783 40
155 00
1,864 15
December
3,669 00
306 50
1,583 90
January 1866
8549 50
525 00
3,460 00
February . .
3 953 00
187 00
16,500 00
March
11,837 92
215 00
11,362 10
April
2,470 50
15 00
999 75
May . . .
3 055 90
168 00
1,550 00
2,686 50
535 00
5,251 00
Totals ...
$75 781 32
$9 285 50
$56,938 35
SCHEDULE C.
MONEY AND MONEY VALUE OF ARTICLES PASSED THROUGH HANDS OF
POLICE, BEING TAKEN FROM PERSONS INTOXICATED AND OTHER WISE
UNABLE TO CARE FOR THEMSELVES AT THE TIME OF THEIR ARREST,
AND TEMPORARILY IN THE POSSESSION OF THE CHIEF OF POLICE,
FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30TH, 1866.
July, 1865 $6,543 10
August 5,621 10
September 6,538 20
October 7,800 60
November 9,963 85
December 12,269 15
January, 1866 8,807 35
February 7,432 25
March 5,098 45
April i 5,688 70
May 6,439 65
June 6,797 35
Total $88,999 75
SCHEDULE D.
131
SCHEDULE D.
i
NUMBER OF WITNESSES SUBPCENAED FOR THE POLICE JUDGE'S COURT;
NUISANCES ON PRIVATE PROPERTY ABATED; STREET OBSTRUCTION
NOTICES, AND LOST CHILDREN RESTORED TO THEIR PARENTS OR
GUARDIANS BY THE POLICE, FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30TH, 1866.
MONTHS.
No. of Witness-
es Subpoenaed.
Street
Obstruction
Notices.
Nuisances on
Private Prop-
erty Abated.
Restored
Lost Children
July, 1865
379
37
27
35
346
29
30
29
September
358
48
• 19
31
October
349
34
17
30
397
42
33
29
December
311
39
14
20
January, 1866
336
30
23
19
391
28
26
22
March . . .
402
41
28
26
.Aprj],
429
36
39
30
May
425
109
129
35
June . .
369
117
147
38
Totals
4,492
590
532
342
SCHEDULE E.
CASH RECEIVED FROM SHERIFFS OF OTHER COUNTIES, MASTERS OF VES-
SELS AND OTHERS, FOR THE KEEPING OF PRISONERS IN THE CITY
PRISON, FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE 30TH, 1866.
1865.
July 13. Sheriff J. N. Randolph, Amador County $2 00*
19. Sheriff Calderwood, Santa Cruz County 1 00
21. Deputy Sheriff Jerome Myers, San Joaquin
County , 1 00
22. French ship Bertha Louisa, requisition French
Consul 3 00
25. Sheriff Kirkpatrick of Downieville 1 00
25. Sheriff Crippen of Mariposa County 3 00
27. Sheriff Van Dorn, of Sacramento County 2 00
Carried forward.
$13 00
132 CHIEF OF POLICE'S REPORT.
Brought forward $13 00
Aug. 9. Sheriff Rogers, of El Dorado County 1 00
9. Russian ship Csesarowitch, requisition of Rus-
sian Consul 63 00
18. Deputy Sheriff Atkins, of Sacramento County. 1 00
19. Deputy Sheriff F. D. Van Horn, of Sacra-
mento County 2 00
Sept. 28. Deputy Sheriff Sparks, of Santa Barbara
County 1 00
Oct. 4. Deputy Sheriff J.B.Walden, of Napa County. 100
7. Deputy Sheriff T. W. Lathrop, of San Mateo
County 3 00
7. Sheriff Tryon, of Calaveras County 1 00
6. Sheriff Kirkpatrick, of Sierra County 3 00
6. Sheriff J. L. Bourland, of Tuolumne County . . 1 00
Nov. 2. Hamburgh bark Tony 30 00
7. Sheriff W. H. Rogers, of El Dorado County. . 1 00
12. Deputy Sheriff E. D. Eagan, of Alpine County 1 00
13. Deputy Sheriff G. A. Swain, of Contra Costa
County 1 00
14. Sheriff Gray, of Yolo County 1 00
16. Deputy Sheriff E. Latapie, of Sonoma County. 1 00
23. Sheriff F. W. Day, of Butte County 2 00
Dec. 5. Deputy Sheriff Maupin, of Solano County. ... 1 00
6. Sheriff Smith, of Tehama County 1 00
6. Deputy Sheriff Foulkes, of Siskiyou County. . 1 00
11. Sheriff Atkinson, of Yuba County 2 00
12. Ship John Rowland 5 00
12. Sheriff Rogers, of El Dorado County 1 00
16. Ship John Rowland 13 00
21. Sheriff L. B. Babb, of Siskiyou County 1 00
29. Sheriff J. R. de la Guerra, of Santa Barbara
County 1 00
1866.
Jan. 3. Sheriff Wright, of Colusa County 2 00
6. Deputy Sheriff S. Drennan, of Santa Cruz
County 1 00
8. James Campbell, United States Army 2 00
Carried forward $158 00
SCHEDULE E. 133
Brought forward $158 00
Jan. 25. Deputy Sheriff Clifford, of Trinity County. . . , 2 00
29. Sheriff P. Childers, of San Bernardino County , 2 00
Feb. 9. Sheriff W. H. Rogers, of El Dorado County. . 2 00
27. Deputy Sheriff D. H. Norris, of Sacramento
County 1 00
28. Police Officer Harvey, of Sacramento City 1 00
Mar. 3. Deputy Sheriff Van Horn, of Sacramento
County 3 00
10. Deputy Sheriff J. V. Parks, of Butte County... 3 00
29. Deputy Sheriff J. S. Haines, of San Joaquin
County 2 00
April 3. Deputy Sheriff J. F. Greeley, of Placer County 2 00
21. French ship Sophie 6 00
24. Italian ship Gen. Prim 11 00
26. Sheriff E. M. Burrington, of Downieville 1 00
May 5. Sheriff L. D. Atkinson, of Yuba County 5 00
17. Deputy Sheriff Leu Harris, of Sacramento
County 1 00
17. Deputy Sheriff Bost, of Merced County. .... 1 00
19. Deputy Sheriff Moore, of Sacramento County. 2 00
June 1. Sheriff J. L. Bourland, of Tuoluuine County. . 2 00
4. French ship Jean Pierre 9 00
5. Norwegian ship Progress 14 00
22. Ship Alene 13 00
27. French ship Jean Pierre 18 00
29. Ship Alene 20 00
Total $279 00
SCHEDULE F.
LIST OF LOST, STOLEN, AND UNCLAIMED PROPERTY IN THE POSSESSION
OF THE CHIEF OF POLICE, TO JUNE 30TH, 1866.
LOT A.
No. 1 . Fifty cents, purse, and pocket knife, A. P. McKenzie, January
1st, 1866.
134 CHIEF OF POLICE'S REPORT.
LOT A.
No. 2. Seventy-five cents and three keys, Garibaldi, January 2d,
1866.
3. Twenty-five and $> dollars, Ralph Smith, January oth, 1866.
4. One and j9050 dollars, one note for twenty-five dollars by P. J.
McKeamey, in favor of P. R. Duff, dated January 3d,
1866, and pocket knife, Robert Duff, January 7th, 1866.
5. Twenty cents, Jack Morgan, January 7th, 1866.
6. One dollar, John Nelson, Jannary 7th, 1866.
7. Three and ^ dollars and two pocketbooks, C. Curley, January
9th, 1866.
8. Fifty cents, Henry Smith, January llth, 1866.
9. Fifty cents, B. Needham, January 12th, 1866.
10. Two and /do dollars and Chinese paper, Ah Long, January
12th, 1866.
11. Two and & dollars, Felix Boylan, January 18th, 1866.
12. Soldier's discharge of John Smith, of First Lieutenant Benj.
A. Hill, of Company A, Seventh Connecticut Volunteers,
July 20th, 1865, John Smith, soldier, January 18th,
1866.
13. Soldier's cross, etc., Theodore F. Stromeyer, January 22d,
1866.
. 14. One and ^ dollars, one accepted order for five dollars by
Thomas Robinson, from C. C. Corey, in favor of M. P.
Robbins, April 2d, 1863, purse and pocket-knife, Thos.
Skully, January 25th, 1866.
15. Fifty-five cents, William Leroy, January 28th, 1866.
16. Thirty cents, Thomas O'Hara, January 28th, 1866.
17. Thirty-five cents, Charles Goodlin, January 30th, 1866.
18. Twenty-five cents, William Hastings, January 31st, 1866.
19. Fifteen cents, James Ferguson, January 31st, 1866.
20. Two dozen pocket-knives, three keys and razor, miscellane-
ous.
21. Ninety cents, Ah Kim, February 3d, 1866.
22. One and $ dollars, John Wilson, February 4th, 1866.
23. Fifteen cents, Alexander Abbott, February 6th, 1866.
24. One black enamelled gold ring, single white stone setting,
and pocket-knife, Thomas Crystal, February 7th, 1866.
25. Ten and & dollars, John Bond, February 9th, 1866.
26. Two and ™> dollars, John Dwyer, February llth, 1866.
SCHEDULE F. 135
LOT A.
No. 27. Twenty-five cents, Michael Kenney, February 15th, 1866.
28. Fifty cents, Jeremiah Shean, February 18th, 1866.
29. Eighty-five cents, Peter Peterson, February 18th, 1866.
30. Thirty-five cents and purse, Henry Bruns, February 18th,
1866.
31. Thirty-five cents, gold pencil case, one gold breastpin, four
white stones, cluster, one hunting case silver watch, " No.
16,641, Robt. Croskell, Liverpool," on movement, with
gold chain, secret link, attached, bunch of keys, pocket-
knife, and photographs, Thomas Stevens, February
19th, 1866.
32. Two and ^ dollars, Peter Fuller, February 19th, 1866.
33. Ten cents and two knives, Frank Slott, February 20th, 1866.
34. One open face silver watch, double case, "No. 28,407,"
" Geo. Thomson, Kilmarnock," on movement, Russian,
February 25th, 1866.
35. Two and ^ dozen pocket-knives, miscellaneous.
36. Eighty cents and pocket-knife, John Mulligan, March 12th,
1866.
37. Breastpin and purse, Annie Howard, March 12th, 1866.
38. Eighty-five cents and pocket-knife, Patrick McCarty, March
12th, 1866.
39. Sixty cents, Harry Black, March 16th, 1866.
40. One dollar and purse, Alexander Flaton, March 16th, 1866.
41. Fifty cents and pocket-knife, David Morris, March 16th,
42. One and **> dollars, Jay Clark, March 18th, 1866.
43. Forty-five cents and pocket-knife, Patrick Sheridan, March
18th, 1866.
44. Three and /$, dollars, key, and purse, Patrick D. Lewis
March 23d, 1866.
45. Seventy-five cents, John Gilmore, March 25th, 1866.
46. Sixty cents and key, Robert Mayer, March 25th, 1866.
47. Two and & dollars, O. B. Stotton, March 30th, 1866.
48. One and $ dollars, John Richardson, March 30th, 1866.
49. Two and £ dozen pocket-knives, one razor, and five keys,
miscellaneous.
50. Bill of sale of claims No. 54 and No. 55 of Silver Bow Creek,
Summit Mountain District, Montana Territory, to Peter
Miller, from M. L. Shrider and P. Nichol, of said Dis-
136
LOT A.
trict, dated August 1st, 1865, three account books, papers^
wallet, and purse, P. G. Miller, April 2d, 1866.
No. 51. Three and /£ dollars, Harry Fagan, April 8th, 1866.
52. One dollar, Henry Rollins, April 8th, 1866.
53. Fifty cents, Thomas Stephens, April 8th, 1866.
54. Five and ^ dollars, coin, one soldier's discharge of Benjamin
Marshall, Company E, Sixth Infantry, California Vol-
unteers, October 31st, 1865, and pocket-knife, Benjamin
Marshall, April 8th, 1866.
55. Forty cents, Daniel Murphy, April 12th, 1866.
56. Twenty-five cents, John Smith, April 12th, 1866.
57. Fifty cents, one cluster pin, green center stone, one single
white stone, pin, and purse, William Farren, April 15th,
1866.
58. Forty cents, Moran, April 16th, 1866.
59. Thirty-five cents and tailor's thimble, James Backe, April
16th, 1866.
60. Two and ^ dollars and brass key, Anne Dillon, April 17th,
1866.
61. Seventy cents, key, thimble, and purse, Ellen Nelson, April
18th, 1866.
62. Special discharge of James Hill from United States Marine
Corps, dated April 3d, 1866, at Mare Island, one order
on Bowery Savings Bank, New York, for one hundred
and ninety-six dollars, from James Hill to Cornelius
Lowery, dated at Acapulco, April 19th, 1865, Martin
Oats, April 18th, 1866.
63. Forty cents, fractional currency, and wallet, Michael Wall,
April 23d, 1866.
64. Ten dollars, Ah See, April 25th, 1866.
65. Ten cents, pocket-knife and purse, C. W. Leroy, April 25th,
1866.
66. Sixty cents, Peter Earle, April 25th, 1866.
67. Two dollars, two knives, and purse, Charles L. Cloid, April
25th, 1866.
68. Twenty-five cents, Thomas Case, April 25th, 1866.
69. Two and ^ dollars, Tom McCarty, April 25th, 1866.
70. One and ^ dollars, John Martin, April 25th, 1866.
71. One and •* dollars, William Bunnell, April 25th, 1866.
SCHEDULE F. 137
LOT A. »
72. Sixty cents, Daniel Hare, April 27th, 1866.
73. Six and {jjj, dollars and purse, Lewis Ryans, April 27th, 1866.
74. Fifteen cents, Leonard Watkin, April 29th, 1866.
75. Seven dollars and pocket-knife, George Tylor, April 30th,
1866.
76. One and ^ dozen pocket-knives, miscellaneous.
77. One and ^ dollars, coin, and purse, Benjamin Donnelly,
May 2d, 1866.
78. Twenty cents, Francis Miles, May 2d, 1866.
79. Twenty cents, G. B. McLelland, May 6th, 1866.
80. Thirty-five cents, John Hayes, May 6th, 1866.
81. One gold locket, ring, two knives, and five keys, William
Lynn, May 7th, 1866.
82. Forty cents, John Scott, May 7th, 1866.
83. Pocket diary, Charles Smith, May 8th, 1866.
84. Seventy -five cents and pocket-knife, James Roach, May»10th,
1866.
85. Sixty cents and pocket-knife, Thomas Moran, May 10th,
1866.
86. Forty-five cents, William Pickett, May llth, 1866.
87. Thirty-five cents, George Pear, May 13th, 1866.
88. One and $ dollars, William Ryan, May 13th, 1866.
89. Twenty cents and pocket-knife, Jas. Barry, May 13th, 1866.
90. Fifty cents and pocket-knife, Charles Gardner, May 16th,
1866.
91. Order of transportation of Private Daniel Murt, No. 10,282,
dated at San Francisco, May llth, 1866, and memoran-
dum book, pocket-knife, and spoon, Charles Daniels,
May 18th, 1866.
92. One and ^ dollars and pocket-knife, John Wilson, May 22d,
1866.
93. Thirty cents and pocket-knife, Indian Charley, May 27th,
1866.
94. Fifty cents, pocket-knife, and three keys, Peter Larney,
May 28th, 1866.
95. Four and f000 dollars, one ear-ring, set with three white stones,
one Chinese wash ticket, six keys, pocket-knife, and
purse, John Miller, May 29th, 1866. •
96. One and 72 dozen pocket-knives, miscellaneous.
10
138
No. 97, Ninety-five cents, William Baxter, June 22d, 1866.
98. Jet breastpin and key, Annie Howard, June 4th, 1866.
99. One and ^ dollars, coin, and memorandum book, A. B.
Smith, June 4th, 1866.
100. One dollar, John Delaney, June 6th, 1866.
101. Soldier's discharge, issued to John Morris, of Capt. Robert
C. Payne's Company E, First Battalion Cavalry, Neva-
da Volunteers, November 18th, 1865, John Morris, June
llth, 1866.
102. Thirty-five cents, H. Ross, June 12th, 1866.
103. Six and JJ dollars, coin, and pocket-knife, Gristol, soldier,
June 13th, 1866.
104. Fifty cents and silver thimble, Mrs. McCabe, June 14th, 1866.
105. One and ^ dollars, George Fisher, June 22d, 1866.
106. Twenty-five cents, John Wilson, June 22d, 1866.
107. Fifty cents, padlock and key, Caroline Phillips, June 22d,
1866.
108. Seventy-five cents, Ambrose Kelly, June 25th, 1866.
109. One and 7oo dollars, purse, papers, and pocket-knife, A. F.
Wolburn, June 25th, 1866.
110. One and £ dozen pocket-knives and one razor, miscellaneous.
LOT B.
No. 1. One light fur cape, one white merino undershirt, one black
silk dress, one white woolen knit shawl, one dark calico
dress, two table cloths, one sheet, one child's plaid silk
dress, one figured delaine waist, one child's calico dress,
one baby's ' waist, one child's flannel skirt, one fur cuff,
one pillow case, and one infant's dress, brought in by
Officer Mellers.
2. One figured damask table spread, three towels, three pillow
cases, one counterpane, and two sheets.
3. One cashmere shawl, left in City Prison, by Mrs. Richard-
son, sent to Home of Inebriates, November 18th, 1865.
4. One cashmere shawl, two pair of hose, and four articles of
women's underclothing, left in the new prison, October
27th, 1865.
5. One bed comforter and cover, taken from a thief.
6. Two pairs black ribbed cassimere pants and one pair black
doeskin pants and comforter.
SCHEDULE F. 139
No. 7. One cloth vest, evidence vs. William Lear, February 12th,
1866.
8. One infant's dress and flannel, Officer Con way, January
14th, 1866.
9. One plaid flannel overshirt, from William Lear, February
13th, 1866.
10. One sack containing garden hose, half inch, taken from
James White, by Officer G. F. Brown, March 22d, 1866.
11. (37) thirty-seven papers of smoking tobacco, by Officer Rose.
12. Nineteen cards and watch keys, from a Chinese thief, by
Officer Rose.
13. One box containing twenty-eight packages of side combs,
taken from Nabor Perez, by Officer Rose, January 27th,
1866.
14. One box containing two patent lamps and glass, found on
Montgomery street, near Jackson, by Officer Tucker
June 21st, 1866.
15. One double barreled gun, from Willis & Lorentzen, January
19th, 1866.
16. One Allen's six shooter from boy, John Bragg, February
24th, 1866.
17. One hand saw, sheep shears, hammer, drawing knife, and
chisel, from Madden's junk shop on search warrant,
Spiller, April 13th, 1866.
18. One dirk knife, scabbard, and belt, found at fire corner of
Pacific and Sansome streets, by Officer Coffey, June
2d, 1866.
18. One hammer and hatchet.
20. One Chinese dirk and four sheath knives.
21. One decanter and contents, from a soldier, by Officer Gales-
py, April 20th, 1866.
22. One small trunk and contents, one merino undershirt, socks,
three white linen handkerchiefs, one towel, two garments,
buttons, etc., saved from fire, by Officer Marsh, April
20th, 1865.
23. One sack salt, evidence vs. James Williams, March 5th, 1866.
24. Six towels, eight cards, black trimming, Officer Rose, Janu-
ary 8th, 1866.
140
No. 25. One dark damask table spread, one Japanese box, one Ger-
man silver pencil case, one volume, " Hawaiian Islands,"
one volume, " The Giant Judge," from August Ernest,
by Officers Poole and Young, May 26th, 1866.
26. Five fancy silk neckties, found in street, by Officer Lind-
heimer, October 5th, 1866.
27. 17 Ibs. boiler rivets, evidence vs. William A. Allen, January
6th, 1866.
28. Two vests, two pairs black pantaloons, one red silk banda,
one dirk knife, one pair suspenders, and one sash, evi-
dence against William Brooks, by Officer Forner, March
27th, 1866.
29. Two odd boots, thrown away by a thief, by Officer Miles,
May llth, 1866.
30. Fourteen half-pound plugs tobacco, taken from a thief.
31. One large brass faucet.
REPORT
OF THE
CITY AND COUNTY ATTORNEY.
OFFICE OF THE CITY AND COUNTY ATTORNEY, )
San Francisco, August, 1866. y
To the Honorable the Board of Supervisors
Of the City and County of San Francisco —
GENTLEMEN: In compliance with Resolution No. 5556 of your
Honorable Body, I submit herewith a succinct statement of City and
County Litigation since the date of my last Report.
PAKT FIRST
Comprises a statement of the present condition and disposition of all
cases undisposed of at date of last Report.
PART SECOND
Comprises a statement of the suits brought by and against the City
and County during the past year, and the condition of the same.
PART THIRD
Comprises a statement of the condition of the ls Pueblo" or City
Case, City Slip Cases, and other matters of general interest connected
with City and County litigation.
PART FOURTH
Comprises an Index to all the cases mentioned in my Reports, with
references to pages of City Reports.
142 REPORT OF CITY AND COUNTY ATTORNEY.
PART FIRST.
COMPRISING A STATEMENT OF THE DISPOSITION AND PRESENT CONDITION
OF ALL CASES UNDISPOSED OF AT DATE OF LAST REPORT.
City and County of San Fran- 1 12th District Court,
cisco I NO. 8,339.
V8m | J. H. Saunders,
Jonathan Hunt. City and County Attorney.
Complaint filed January 16th, 1861, to recover $25,000, moneys al-
leged to have been wrongfully demanded and received by Defendant,
as Tax Collector, from the City and County Treasury during the years
1859 and 1860. Demurrer and answer of Defendant was filed Feb-
ruary llth, 1862, and the case was continued from time to time, await-
ing the decision of the Supreme Court in the other case. That having
been rendered, the case is now ready for trial.
Robert S. Thompson
vs.
E. Fitzgerald,
Administrator, etc.
12th District Court.
No. 8,795.
E. Cook,
Plaintiff's Attorney.
Complaint filed May 31st, 1861, to quiet title to Lots 51, 52, 22, 23,
48, 26, 9, 54, 5, 10, 11, 31, 19, and 40, as per map on record, page 63
of Book of Maps ; being subdivisions of Blocks 292, 290, 288, 214,
and 213, Western Addition. In this case a disclaimer has been refused,
and the case put at issue by the City and County filing an answer Jan-
uary 31st, 1863, and stands ready for trial. At the last term of the
Court it was referred, but has not yet been brought to trial.
D. W. Perley
vs.
F. A. Hassey, The City and Coun-
ty of San Francisco, et al.
12th District Court.
No. 10,376.
Hall McAllister,
Plaintiff's Attorney.
Complaint filed January 7th, 1863, to quiet title to a large tract of
CITY LITIGATION.
143
land near " Mission Dolores." Case put at issue by filing answer May
22d, 1863. Was dismissed by the Court December 6th, 1864, but re-
instated December 10th, 1864, and stands ready for trial.
The Pacific Glass Works
12th District Court.
vs.
No. 10,409.
C. K. Garrison, The City and j Barstow,
County of San Francisco, et
nd |
al. J
Plaintiff's Attorney.
Complaint filed January 23d, 1863, to quiet title to tract of land of
nine hundred and fifty-two acres on the u Potrero Nuevo," westerly
from " Point San Quentin." This is not yet at issue, the City being
allowed until five days after notice to plead. The other defendants
filed demurrer January 18th, 1864. The case was transferred to the
Third District Court, Alameda County, February 1st, 1864. Nothing
has been done in it since.
Theodore LeRoy
vs.
The City and
Francisco.
County of San
4th District Court.
No. 10,441.
W. W. Stow,
Plaintiffs Attorney.
Complaint filed February 18th, 1863, to quiet title to Beach and
Water Lot No. 31, and northerly half of Lot No. 32. Defendant al-
lowed until five days after notice to plead.
William Rabe
vs.
The City and County of San
Francisco. .
4th District Court.
No. 10,298.
G. F. & W. H. Sharp,
Plaintiff's Attorneys.
Complaint filed December 10th, 1862, to quiet title to lot on south-
east corner of Folsorn and Thorne streets, two hundred and five feet
on Folsom by two hundred and twenty feet on Thorne. Defendant has
until five days after notice to answer.
144
REPORT OF CITY AND COUNTY ATTORNEY.
D. P. Belknap,
Administrator, etc., of the Estate
of D. C. Broderick, deceased,
vs.
Charles Whitney, et al.
12th District Court.
No. 7,470.
William Loewy,
Plaintiff's Attorney.
Complaint filed April 10th, 1860. Ejectment to recover Water Lot
No. 505, being part of the Market Gore, bounded by Market, Pine and
Front streets. The City and County intervened September 23d, 1861.
William R.. Garrison intervened June 5th, 1861, and has been substi-
tuted as Plaintiff Answer was filed by the City and County July
18th, 1863.
This case involves validity of dedication of Market places on Water
property, as against " Peter Smith " claimants. It was tried on the
twenty-fifth day of August, 1864, and Plaintiff was non-suited, upon the
ground of a valid dedication to the public, making the property inac-
cessible to judgment creditors of the City, or City and County. Plaint-
iff has filed notice of motion for new trial, which was denied on the 9th of
January, 1866. Judgment of non-suit entered January 24th, 1866.
Notice of appeal to Supreme Court filed February 8th, 1866. The
case is now pending in the Supreme Court.
D. P. Belknap,
, Administrator, etc.,
vs.
H. W. Byington et al.
12th District Court. '
No. 7,469.
William Loewy,
Plaintiff's Attorney.
Complaint filed April 10th, 1860. Ejectment to recover Water Lot
No. 506, being part of the Market Gore, bounded by Market, Pine, and
Front streets. Same points involved as in last case, and same proceed-
ings.
Lucas, Turner & Co,
vs.
12th District Court.
No. 6,639.
Baldwin, Whitcomb, Pringle, and
Felton,
Plaintiffs' Attorneys.
In this cause the appeal was submitted to the Supreme Court April
The City and County of San
Francisco.
CITY LITIGATION.
145
30th, 1864, and decided at the October Term, 1865. Judgment against
the City and County affirmed, with costs. Kemittitur filed November
2oth, 1865.
The People, etc., ex rel.
Jonathan Hunt,
vs.
The Board of Supervisors of the
City and County of San Fran-
cisco.
12th District Court.
No. 8,638.
Whitcomb, Pringle and Felton,
Plaintiff's Attorneys.
Complaint filed April 6th, 1861, to recover $561 89, commissions
and salary as Tax Collector, and for writ of mandamus to compel
Board to audit claim. Issue joined by answer filed October 24th,
1861. Cause ready for trial.
Edwin P. Whitmore
The City and County of San
Francisco et al.
12th District Court.
, No. 9,448.
S. H. Dwindle,
Plaintiff's Attorney.
Complaint filed January 2d, 1862, to quiet title to part of fifty-vara
Lot No. 588 — 55 by 137-J feet — northeast corner of Mason and Post
streets.
Defendant, City and County, allowed until five days after notice to
plead.
Felix Argenti
vs.
I 4th District Court.
No. 3,455.
The City of San Francisco.
The appeal to the Supreme Court was submitted February 18th,
1864.
146 REPORT OF CITY AND COUNTY ATTORNEY.
This case was lately decided in favor of the City and County. The
amount in controversy, and the principles involved, make the result one
of unusual importance to the City and County. Time to file petition
for rehearing has been granted, and the case has been reargued upon
rehearing allowed, but not yet decided.
The People, etc.,
On the relation of George T..
Bohen,
vs.
S. W. Holladay et al.
4th District Court.
No. 11,029.
John H. Saunders, City and Coun-
ty Attorney,
Porter & Holladay,
For Plaintiffs.
Defendants' Attorneys.
Complaint filed and injunction papers issued November 16th, 1863,
to restrain Defendants from fencing " Lafayette Square, etc." Defend-
ants answered November 27th, 1863, and on the 21st of April, 1864,
the cause was tried and submitted to the Court. Brief was filed June
15th, 1864, and on July llth, 1864, finding was ordered for Defendant,
dismissing the case and dissolving the injunction. Notice of motion for
new trial was served and filed July 21st, which motion is yet undeter-
mined. This case will probably not be further prosecuted, as the ques-
tions involved are raised in another case (City vs. Holladay) since
brought.
J. M. McDonald ] 12th District Court.
! No. 11,087.
vs. }•
Haight & Pearson,
John Wilson et al. Attorneys for Plaintiff.
Complaint filed November 13th, 1863, to quiet title to Blocks Nos.
318, 319, 267, 266, 241, 193, 194, 164, and 165, and Lots Nos. 4, 5,
and 6, of Block No. 240, of Western Addition. The answer of the
City and County was filed November 27th, 1863. Cause ready for
trial.
July 3d, 1865, James Slant-on, Administrator, was substituted for the
Plaintiff, deceased.
CITY LITIGATION.
14T
D. W. Perley
vs.
The City and County of San
Francisco.
12th District Court.
: No. 11,108.
McAllisters,
'Attorn eys for Pla in t iff.
Complaint filed November 20th, 1863, to quiet title to two tracts of
land near " Mission Dolores." Answer of City and County filed De-
cember 17th, 1863. Case stands ready for trial.
Jonathan Hunt
vs.
The City and County of San
Francisco.
12th District Court.
No. 10,283.
J. M. Taylor,
Plaintiff's Attorney.
Complaint filed December 8th, 1862. Action to recover $7,865 48
for services as Tax Collector, and interest from December 7th, 1860,
and costs. Time to answer has been extended from time to time, and
is still open.
Since the decision of the other case, this will be dismissed or brought
to trial.
Edward Brooks
vs.
David Calderwood, The City and
County of San Francisco, et al.
12th District Court.
No. 11,198.
R. C. & D. Rogers,
Plaintiff's Attorneys.
Complaint filed December 30th, 1863, to quiet title to subdivisions
28, 31, and 40 of 100-vara Lot No. 7, etc.^etc. Answer of City and
County filed January 29th, 1864. Cause' tried and submitted April
15th, 1864. Judgment for Plaintiff, June 25th, 1864. Motion for new
trial was overruled May 2d, 1865, and Decree to quiet title, etc., entered
June 19th, 1865, from which Defendant Calderwood has appealed.
Settled statement on appeal was filed January 2d, 1866. No decision
yet.
148 REPORT OF CITY AND COUNTY ATTORNEY.
The City and County of San
Francisco
are *
1st Township.
Justice's Court.
vs. »
Timothy Sargent et al.
Complaint filed April 8th, 1864 Action on street contract bond for
two hundred dollars. Cause still pending.
William C. Flint 1 4th District Court.
No. 11.408.
vs.
I Cook & Hittell,
B. R. Bedell et al. Plaintiff's Attorneys-
Complaint filed April 4th, 1864, to quiet title to Lots Nos. 3 and 4,
in Block 213 ; Lots Nos. 2, 3, 4, and 5, in Block 214 ; Lots 5 and 6,
in Block 289 ; and the whole of Block 215 in Western Addition, in-
cluding School Lot, etc.
Answer of City and County filed May 6th, 1864. The case has
been tried at the present term of the Court, and Decree entered for
Plaintiff.
Spring Valley Water Works
vs.
M. Lynch,
Administrator, et al. j
4th District Court.
No. 11,417.
E. Lies,
Plaintiff's Attorney.
Complaint filed April 6th, 1864, to quiet title to Block No. 292,
Western Addition. Answer of City and County filed June llth, 1864.
Answer of Defendant Lynch filed June 23d, 1864. Cause ready for
trial.
Mary Polack "] 4th District Court.
No. 11,491.
vs. }•
I Spencer, Reichert & Jarboe,
Isaac E. Davis et al. Plaintiff's Attorneys.
Complaint filed April 28th, 1864, to quiet title to four tracts of land
CITY LITIGATION.
149
known as " Koundtree or Mary Hart Tract," situate in Western Addi-
tion, being parts of Blocks 294, 295, 290, 291, including part of
Hospital Lot, and part of School Lot in vicinity.
Papers served August 24th, 1864. Answer of City and County
filed September 3d. Case was tried September 29th, 1865. Decision
rendered February 19th, 1866, dismissing cause without prejudice as
to liospital Lot, and quieting Plaintiff's title as to balance. Motion
for new trial pending.
Edward Tompkins
vs.
The City and County of Sari
Francisco.
4th District Court.
> No. 11,794.
Plaintiff in pro. per.
Complaint filed September 3d, 1864. Ejectment for southerly half
of Hamilton Square, four hundred and twelve and six-twelfths feet on
O'Farrell Street, by one hundred and thirty-seven and six-twelfths feet
on Steiner Street. Answer of City and County filed September 13th,
1864. Cause argued and submitted September 29th, 1865. Dismissed
without prejudice February 19th, 1866.. This case involves the same
question as in Polack vs. Davis.
William H. Jessup
vs.
The City and County of San
Francisco et al.
12th District Court.
No. 11,421.
R. H. Waller,
Plaintiff's Attorney.
Complaint filed April 14th, 1864, to quiet title to tract of land, part
of Mission Block No. 9, on easterly corner of Folsom and Twelfth
streets, one hundred and seventy-two feet nine inches on Folsom Street,
by one hundred and seventy-three feet nine inches on Twelfth Street.
Papers served on City and County, September 12th, 1864. Stipu-
lation filed waiving answer of City and County until called for.
150
REPORT OF CITY AND COUNTY ATTORNEY.
The People, etc., on the relation
of McKee,
VS.
Jeremiah Callahan et al.
12th District Court,
^ No. 10,933.
F. M. Pixley,
Plaintiff's Attorney.
Complaint filed September 16th, 1863, to restrain Defendants from
continuing the obstructions on the Public Plaza (triangular shape) at
intersection of Mission, Twelfth, and Thirteenth streets.
City and County was made a party defendant September 24th, 1864;
has put in an answer, and the case is ready for trial.
Levi B. Mastick et al., constitut-
ing Board of Education,
vs*
William H. Thorpe.
12th District Court.
No. 11,707.
J. H. Saunders,
Plaintiff's Attorneys.
Pixley, Smith & Hale,
Defendant 's Attorneys.
(EXTRACT FROM LAST REPORT.)
Complaint filed October 17th, 1864, to set aside a judgment of
Twelfth District Court in suit of W. H. Thorpe vs. Thos. Donnolly et
al., in favor of Thorpe, entered on the thirtieth of July, 1864, and
for an Injunction restraining further proceedings under said judgment,
which was for the possession of a School Lot on Broadway Street, oc-
cupied and claimed by the Board of Education. Undertaking in
$2,500, filed, and Injunction allowed. Answer filed October 22d, 1864.
In March, 1865, Defendant's motion to dissolve Injunction was argued
and submitted, and on the eighteenth, denied. Defendant has appealed
from said order to the Supreme Court, The case has been already
submitted in that Court, and awaits the briefs of Counsel, which are to
be filed in a few days. The property in controversy was purchased by
the Board of Education, pending the action of ejectment, (Thorpe vs.
Donnolly, in the 12th) the defendants in that case being the tenants of
the grantor of the Board ; and the above cause was instituted to re-
strain execution, set aside the judgment, and to procure new trial of
the action of ejectment, upon the ground of surprise, the attorney for
the Defendants not having appeared at the trial.
CITY LITIGATION. 151
On the 5th February, 1866, the Supreme Court rendered its decision,
remanding cause with direction to dissolve the Injunction.
This -case, after a decree favorable to the City and County in the
Court below, was taken to the Supreme Court upon appeal, and the
judgment reversed.
Since then the Board of Education have agreed to compromise the
clainl by accepting a deed for the lot actually occupied by the School
House, and to pay therefor and in settlement of all claims for damages
the sum of $2,500 in coin.
Samuel W. Holladay
No. 11,963.
The City and County of San
Francisco.
4th District Court.
Plaintiff in pro. per.
Complaint filed December 20th, 1864, to quiet title to two pieces of
land on Clay Street, between Gough and Octavia streets, each four
hundred and, twelve feet six inches on Clay, by one hundred and thirty-
seven feet six inches on the other streets, the whole being portion of
Lafayette Square.
Answer of the City and County was filed December 31st, 1864, and
the case was tried September 29th, 1865. Dismissed without prejudice
February 19th, 1866.
Thomas B. Valentine
No. 12,018.
vs.
Moses E. Flanagan et al.
4th District Court.
Brooks & Whitney,
Plaintiff's Attorneys.
Complaint filed January 10th. 1865, to quiet title to four pieces of
land, parts of the several Mission Blocks Nos. 66, 71, 72, and 73.
The City and County put in an Answer January 26th, 1865. An
amended Complaint was filed July 8th. Case ready for trial.
152 REPORT OF CITY AND COUNTY ATTORNEY.
Charles Godfrin ] 12th District Court.
vs. ! No. 11,827.
The City and County of San | Porter & Holladay,
Francisco. Plaintiff's Attorneys.
Complaint filed December 17th, 1864, to quiet title to a piece of land
irregularly shaped, and including portions of Blocks 341, 342, 343, 344,
397, 398, 399, and 400 of Western Addition. Answer of City and
County was filed March 6th, 1865. The cause was tried at the present
term of the Court, and judgment rendered for Plaintiff, August 2d,
1866.
George R. Bowles
vs.
The City and County of San
Francisco et al.
4th District Court.
No. 12,094.
Brooks & Whitney,
Plaintiff's Attorneys.
Complaint filed March 3d, 1865, to quiet title to Block No. 40 of the
Western Addition, bounded by Van Ness, Francisco, Polk, and Bay
streets. Answer of City and County was filed March 20th, 1865.
The cause was tried and judgment ordered for Plaintiff on same day.
Motion for new trial filed January 27th.
Nicholas T. Brownell
No. 12,102.
vs.
Charles L. Wilson et al.
4th District Court.
Brooks & Whitney,
Plaintiff 's Attorneys.
Complaint filed March 4th, 1865, to quiet title to 50-vara Lots Nos.
1 and 6, in Block 192, Western Addition, two hundred and seventy-
five feet front on Octavia Street, by one hundred thirty-seven and one-
half feet deep. Answer of City and County was filed March 20th,
1865, and the cause tried on the 18th January, 1866. Decision for
Plaintiff, and decree ordered February 5th, 1866.
Harvey Hall
CITY LITIGATION. 153
4th District Court.
No. 12,101.
vs.
Charles L. Wilson et al.
Brooks & Whitney,
Plaintiff's Attorneys.
Complaint filed March 4th, 1865, io quiet titles to 50-varaLots Nos.
3 and 4, in Block 165, Western Addition, two hundred and seventy-five
feet on Octavia Street by one hundred thirty-seven and one-half feet
deep. Answer of City and 'County was filed March 20th, 1865, and
the cause tried January 19th, 1866. Judgment and decree ordered for
Plaintiff same date.
Franklin D. Cottle ] 4th District Court.
I
vs. ' No. 12,103.
The City and County of San | Brooks & Whitney,
Francisco. J Plaintiff's Attorneys.
Complaint filed March 4th, 1865, to quiet title to part of Mission
Block No. 9.
Answer of City and County filed March 20th, 1865 ; cause referred
to T. G. Williams to take testimony. Report filed July 7th, 1865.
Cause submitted on testimony taken before Referee, January llth, 1866.
Decree for Plaintiff, January 13th, 1866.
James F. Dorland
vs.
The City and County of San
Francisco.
15th District Court.
No. 676.
James McCabe,
Plaintiff's Attorney.
Complaint filed March 6th, 1865, to quiet titles to portions of Mission
Blocks Nos. 78 and 79.
Defendant has until five days after notice to answer.
11
154
REPORT OF CITY AND COUNTY ATTORNEY.
Jose Ramon Valencia
vs.
The City and County of San
Francisco et al.
15th District Court.
No. 646.
James McCabe,
Plaintiff's Attorney-
Complaint filed February 24th, 1865, to quiet title to a portion of
Mission Block No. 38.
Defendant has until five days after notice to answer.
Cornelius Ludlum
vs.
The City and County of San
Francisco.
15th District Court.
No. 647.
James McCabe,
Plaintiff's Attorney.
Complaint filed February 25th, 1865, to quiet title to an irregular
shaped piece of land in the " Potrero Nuevo," probably including part
of Buena Vista Park and the adjacent streets.
Answer was filed March 20th, 1865, and the case is ready for trial.
E. BrGray
vs.
The City and County of San
Francisco.
12th District Court.
No. 11,958.
S. L. Cutter, Jr.,
Plaintiff's Attorney.
Complaint filed March 3d, 1865, to quiet title to Block 174, 50-vara
Lots 4 and 5 in Block 173, and 50-vara Lots 3 and 4 in Block 111, of
Western Addition.
Answer of City and County filed March 23d, 1865. June 8th,
1865, copy amended complaint served making J. C. Beideman party
defendant.
CITY LITIGATION.
155
Francis Blake et al.
vs.
North San Francisco Railroad and
Homestead Association et al.
4th District Court.
No. 12,097.
Campbell, Fox and Campbell,
Plaintiff's Attorneys.
Complaint filed March 3d, 1865, to quiet title to following property
in Western Addition, viz : Lot 4, Block 325 ; Lot 1, Block 326 ; Lot
4, Block 328 ; all of Block 340 ; Lots 1, 2, and 3, Block 186 ; part of
Lot 1, Block 171 ; part of Lots 1, 2, 5, and 6, Block 170.
The City and County has time to answer until five days after notice.
Robert Hamilton
vs.
The City and County of San
Francisco.
12th District Court.
No. 11,953.
Porter & Holladay,
Plaintiff's Attorneys.
Complaint filed March 1st, 1865, to quiet, title to portion of 100-vara
Lot No. 202. Commencing on southeast line of Minna Street, twenty-
five feet northeast from Andrew Street, ninety-two and one-half feet
on Minna by seventy-five feet in depth. Answer filed April 7th, 1865.
On 17th November, 1865, with the concurrence of the Judiciary
Committee, the answer of the City was withdrawn and a disclaimer
filed. Decree for Plaintiff, November 18th, 1865.
John Crummy
vs.
The City and County of San
Francisco.
15th District Court.
No. 757.
Shafter, Goold & Dwinelle,
Plaintiff's Attorneys.
Complaint filed April 6th, 1865, to quiet title to 50-vara Lots Nos.
1 and 6, in Block No. 41, Western Addition, two hundred and seventy-
five feet on Polk Street by one hundred thirty-seven and one-half feet
on Francisco and Chestnut streets. Answer was filed April 17th, 1865,
and the case tritd at the December term of the Court, and judgment
for Plaintiff, January 24th, 1866. Decree filed January 26th, 1866.
156
REPORT OF CITY AND COUNTY ATTORNEY.
City and County of San Fran-
cisco
vs.
D. Calderwood et al.
4th District Court.
No. 12,160.
J. H. Saunders,
Plaintiff's Attorney.
Defendant in pro. per.
Complaint filed April 7th, 1865. Ejectment for City Slip Lot No.
21, at southwest corner of Clay and Drumm streets. Service made
April 13th. Defendant filed a demurrer and moved to transfer the
cause, which was refused. Pending the demurrer Defendant filed his
answer, July 15th, 1865. The case was tried October 5th, 1865.
Decision for Plaintiff January 2d, 1866. A motion for new trial was
made and denied. The Defendant has appealed, and the case is now
in the Supreme Court, but has not yet been reached.
Franklin S. Poland
vs.
The City and County of San
Francisco.
4th District Court.
. No. 12,250.
Brooks & Whitney,
Plaintiff 's Attorneys.
Complaint filed May 4th, 1865, to quiet title to 50-vara Lots Nos.
1, 2, and 3, in Block 102, and 50-vara Lot No. 1 and portion of No.
2, in Block 111, Western Addition. Answer was filed May 15th.
The case was referred to T. G. Williams, to take the testimony, June
14th, and testimony taken July 13th. Report of Referee filed July
14th. Cause submitted January llth, 1866. Decree ordered for
Plaintiff January 13th, 1866. Decree filed January 18th, 1866.
Edward Barren
vs.
The City and County of San
Francisco.
12th District Court.
No. 12,123.
Byrne & Freelon,
Plaintiff's Attorneys.
Complaint filed May 4th, 1865. Ejectment for a piece of land
forming the southeast corner of Alamo Square, two hundred ninety-
CITY LITIGATION.
157
eight feet and eight inches on Steiner Street, by two hundred three
feet and ten inches on Hayes Street. Answer was filed July llth,
1865, and the case is on the Calendar for trial, but will probably not
be disposed of until the case of Polack vs. Davis is decided in the
Supreme Court.
Morris Carrinson
vs.
1 12th District Court.
No. 12,127.
The City and
Francisco.
County of San
W. C. Burnett,
Plaintiff's Attorney.
Complaint filed May 4th, 1865, to quiet title to Lot on northeast
corner of Buchanan and Green streets, two hundred and nine feet on
Green Street by one hundred four and one-half feet on Buchanan
Street, in Western Addition. Answer was filed May 22d, 1865.
Testimony was taken December 12th, 1865. Cause submitted en
December 14th, 1865. Decree for Plaintiff filed and entered January
6th, 1866.
Michael Kenny
vs.
The City and County of San
Francisco.
12th District Court.
No. 12,097.
A. B. Bates,
Plaintiff's Attorney.
Complaint filed May 3d, 1865. Ejectment for Lot on northeast
corner of Scott and Hayes streets, part of Alamo Square. Answer
was filed June 19th, 1865, and the case is ready for trial.
James Hancock
vs.
John A. Clark et al.
loth District Court.
No. 533.
F. H. Wells,
Plaintiff 's Attorney.
Complaint filed January 4th, 1865, to quiet title to part of 50-vara
158
REPORT OF CITY AND COUNTY ATTORNEY.
Lot No. 1,171, on north side of Ellis Street, fifty-seven and one-half
feet west of Leavenworth, eighty feet front by one hundred thirty-seven
and one-half feet deep, with alley of seventeen and one-half feet by
fifty-seven and one-half feet. Answer of City and County filed July
llth, 1865. September 9th, 1865, with concurrence of Judiciary
Committee, answer was withdrawn, and disclaimer filed. September
13th, decree entered for Plaintiff.
Henry Reich
vs.
The City and County of San
Francisco.
Justice's Court, 3d Township.
Haycock & Miller,
Plaintiff's Attorneys.
Complaint filed July 10th, 1865, claiming one hundred and twenty-
five dollars, alieged damages by Fire Department, in using Plaintiff's
casks, hoops, staves, etc., at a fire near corner of Green and Battery
streets, on the seventh of June, 1865, at 8 o'clock P.M. The case was
tried July 17th, and judgment rendered for Plaintiff in the sum of
eighty dollars. An appeal was taken to the County Court, where the
case was tried August 28th, and submitted. .September 25th, judg-
ment entered in County Court for Defendant.
J. T. Milliken
vs.
The City and
Francisco.
County of San |
j
15th District Court.
No. 770.
Haight & Pearson,
Plaintiff's Attorneys.
Complaint filed April llth, 1865, to quiet title to Lot on northwest
corner of Bay and Leavenworth streets, 50-vara Lot No. 429.
Answer filed July 28th, 1865. December 2d, 1865, with concur-
rence of Judiciary Committee, answer withdrawn, and disclaimer filed.
December 6th, judgment and decree ordered for Plaintiff. December
15th, decree entered and filed.
CITY LITIGATION. 159
Lewis W. Runk 1 15th District Court.
vs. I No. 1,103.
The City and County of San E. L. B. Brooks,
Francisco et al. Plaintiff's Attorney.
Complaint filed July 27th, 1865, to quiet title to a piece of land, part
of 50-vara Lot No. 1,284, southeast corner of Jackson and Hyde
streets.
August 22d, answer of City and County filed. The case awaits the
answer of other Defendants.
Edmond Brooks
vs.
W. I. Douglass et al.
12th District Court.
No. 12,2G2.
I D. Rogers,
Plaintiff's Attorney.
Complaint filed July 28th, 18G5, to quiet title to lot on southeast
corner of Jessie and Jane streets, twenty feet on Jane by fifty-seven
and one-half feet on Jessie, part of 100-vara Lot No. 7.
August 12th, 1865, answer of City and County filed. February
17th, 1866, order made transferring cause to Third District Court,
Alameda County. The cause has been tried and decree entered for
Plaintiff.
City and County of San Francisco
vs.
Martin Fulde et al.
12th District Court.
No. 12,312.
J. H. Saunders,
Plaintiff's Attorney.
Complaint filed August 19th, 1865. Ejectment for City Slip Lok
No. 43, on southwest corner of Commercial and Drumm streets.
Cause at issue, and ready for trial at present term.
160
REPORT OP CITY AND COUNTY ATTORNEY.
PAET SECOND.
STATEMENT OF THE DISPOSITION AND PRESENT CONDITION OF ALL CASES
COMMENCED BY, AND AGAINST THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRAN-
CISCO, SINCE LAST REPORT.
James F. Borland
vs.
The City and County of San
Francisco ct al.
4th District Court.
. Nos. 12,580, 12,585.
A. Rix,
Plaintiff's Attorney.
Summons served December 5th, 1865, to quiet title to piece of land
northeast corner of Falcon and Dolores streets, 448J feet on Eighteenth
or Falcon Street, by about 212 feet on Dolores Street, part of Mission
Block No. 79. Also, a lot on the east line of Church Street, eighty-
two feet four inches north of Corbett Street, seventy-three feet six
inches front by about one hundred and eleven feet deep ; part of Mission
Block No. 84. No city reservation covered by this claim.
December 8th, action dismissed, and new action commenced on De-
cember llth, for same land, changing parties Defendant. Summons
served December llth, 1865, and answer of City and County filed
January 26th, 1866.
The case was discontinued at request of Plaintiff's Attorney.
Elizabeth Douglas
15th District Court.
No. 1,497.
i
The City and County of San P. G. Buchan,
Francisco.
Plaintiff's Attorney.
Complaint filed January 3d, 1866, to quiet title to City Slip Lots
Nos. 21 and 43.
January 13th, 1866, answer of City and County was filed. The
case is not yet ready for trial.
*
CITY LITIGATION. % 161
Benjamin S. Brooks "1 15th District Court.
vs.
The City and County of San Fran- }• No. 1,509.
cisco and the Commissioners of I
the Funded Debt. Plaintiff1 in pro. per.
Complaint filed January llth, 1866, to quiet title to 50-vara Lot
No. 934, on northwest corner of Bay and Hyde streets.
January 27th, 1866, answer of City and County was filed.
II. W. Byington 1 15th District Court.
vs. [ No. 897.
The City and County of San Edward Tompkins,
Francisco. Plaintiff's Attorney.
Complaint filed.
Ejectment for lot of land, part of Hamilton Square, irregular shape,
fronting eighty-five feet on Steiner Street (one hundred and thirty-
seven feet north of O'Farrell, and also fronting two hundred and forty
feet on O'Farrell Street) four hundred and twelve feet west of Steiner.
February 17th, stipulation filed to abide by decision in Tompkins' case.
February 19th, dismissed without prejudice.
D. C. McCarthy
vs.
The City and County of San
Francis
CO.
12th District Court.
No* 12,590.
John W. Dwinelle,
Pla intiff 's Attorney.
Complaint filed.
To quiet title to City Slip Lot No. 118. This case is to be settled
by the sale of the city's interest in the lot to McCarthy, for $875, gold
coin.
162 REPORT OF CITY AND COUNTY ATTORNEY.
William C. Hoff et al. "] 15th District Court.
vs. I No. 855.
The City and County of San I Bennett, Cook & Clarke,
Francisco. Plaintiffs' Attorneys.
Complaint filed May 3d, 1865, to quiet title to lot of land in Block
No. 40, Western Addition, irregular shape.
April 5th, 1866, answer of City and County was filed, and deposition
taken. April 14th, the case was submitted on evidence taken, and on
August 26th, received notice of findings filed.
Chas. V. Stewart et al. ^ loth District Court.
vs. I No. 834.
City and County of San Fran- Bennett, Cook & Clarke,
cisco. j Plaintiffs1 Attorneys.
Complaint filed May 3d, 1865, to quiet title to portions of Blocks
Nos. 41 and 60, Western Addition. April 5th, 1866, answer of City
and County was filed, testimony taken, and on August 14th, the case
was submitted on evidence taken. August 17th, judgment rendered.
Charles V. Stewart ^ 4th District Court.
vs. { No. 12,207.
• f
City and County of San Fran- Bennett, Cook & Clarke,
cisco. J Plaintiff's Attorneys.
Complaint filed May 3d, 1866, to quiet title to Blocks Nos. 102, 130,
137, and 165, of the Potrero Survey. April 5th, 1866, answer of
City and County was filed, and on April 26th, received notice of find-
ings filed.
CITY LITIGATION. 163
L. W. Kennedy ^ 15th District Court.
vs' I No. 1,690.
Board of Supervisors of the City |
and County of San Francisco. J
This is an application for a mandamus to compel Defendants to ac-
cept Bush Street between Mason and Taylor streets, with the Nicolson
Pavement. Service was made on the Mayor April 2d, 18G6. April
30th, discontinued by Plaintiff, and on May 16th a stipulation washed
reinstating cause. June 6th, hearing and cause submitted. July 24th,
application for mandamus denied.
James Johnson ^ 12th District Court.
vs. ! No. 12,704.
City and County of San Fran- | John B. Felton,
Cisco. ) Plaintiff's Attorney.
Complaint filed April 4th, 1866. This action was brought aginst the
City and County of San Francisco, to recover $625, with interest at
ten per cent, per annum, alleged balance of purchase money due
Plaintiff for El Dorado building.
T. J. A. Chambers ^ 12th District Court.
vs. ! No. 12,703.
City and County of San Fran- | John B. Felton,
cisco. J Plaintiff's Attorney.
Complaint filed April 4th, 1866. This action was brought against
the City and County of San Francisco to recover $1,250, with interest
from April 4th, 1864, at ten per cent, per annum, alleged balance of
purchase money due Plaintiff for El Dorado building.
164 REPORT OF CITY AND COUNTY ATTORNEY.
D. J. Williamson "") 4th District Court.
vs. I No. 12,177.
City and County of San Fran- | Bennett, Cook & Clarke,
cisco. J Plaint ff's Attorneys.
Complaint filed April, 1866, to quiet title to Lot No. 1, Block No.
80, on the Beideman tract.
Answer of City and County filed May 3d, 1866.
City and County of San Fran- ^ loth District Court,
cisco
No. 1,658.
vs. ?
I Sharp & Lloyd,
Julia Walter et als. J Defendants' Attorneys.
Complaint filed March 21st, to quiet title to Engine Lot No. — , on
Pacific Street. Defendants all served in the city. Case not yet
ready for trial.
E. H. Wilkie ^ 4th District Court.
vs. I No. 12,241.
City and County of San Fran- Bennett, Cook & Clarke,
cisco. ) Plaintiff's Attorneys.
Complaint filed May 4th, 1865, to quiet title to lot southeast corner
of Polk and Turk streets. May 7th, 1866, answer of City and County
was filed.
Julius Bandmann and H. Neilsen >
No. 1,733.
vs.
Martin J. Burke.
15th District Court.
Wm. M. Pierson,
Plaintiffs' Attorney.
This was an action brought against Martin J. Burke to obtain an
CITY LITIGATION. 165
injunction restraining him from destroying nine hundred pounds of
Nitre-Glycerine, the property of Plaintiffs. Complaint filed April
18th, 1866. April 25th, answer of City and County filed. July 23d,
cau*e dismissed on motion of Plaintiffs.
Martin Prag ^ 4th District Court.
vs. I No. 12,911.
City and County of San Fran- I Grey & Brandon,
cisco et al. ) Plaintiff's Attorneys.
Complaint filed June 4th, 1866. This action is brought to cause
Defendants to disclose title to Beach and Water Lots Nos. 469, 470,
and 471. June 22d, answer of City and County filed, and the case is
ready for trial.
City and County of San Fran- ^ 12th District Court.
cisco
I No. 12,736.
vs. >
E. A. Lawrence,
H. R. Reed et al. j Defendants' Attorney.
Complaint filed April 30th, 1866. Ejectment suit for City Slip Lot
No. 92. Service made May — . May 17th, received answer of De-
fendants. The case now stands upon the Calendar of the present term
for trial.
City and County of San Fran- ^ 15th District Court,
cisco
vs. ( No. 1,780.
Ventura Sanchez.
Filed complaint May 5th, 1866, to quiet title to part of 50-vara Lot
No. 27. Engine Lot No. — .
166 REPORT OP CITY AND COUNTY ATTORNEY.
John L. Smith ^ 15th District Court.
vs. I No. 1,873.
Edward Ford and City and Coun- | James Mee,
ty of San Francisco. ) Plaintiff's Attorney.
Summons filed June 15th, 1866. Action to recover $81, with in-
terest from November 18th, 1865, for street assessment on Market
Reservation on Spear Street. Case settled by city paying.
John P. Gallagher ^ 4th District Court,
f' No. 12,923.
A. Drouo,
Plaintiff's Attorney,
Complaint filed June 13th, 1866, to quiet title to 50-vara Lot No.
1,297. July 11 th, answer of City and County filed. The case now
stands upon the Calendar of the present term for trial.
The People ex rel. the Nicolson ^ 4th District Court.
Pavement Company I No. 12)950.
VS. >
Board of Supervisors of the City I Casserley & Barnes,
and County of San Francisco. ) Plaintiffs' Attorneys.
This is an application for a mandamus to compel the Defendants to
accept the Nicolson Pavement. June 26th, affidavit for mandamus
filed. June 27th, affidavit of service filed. July 12th, the case was
argued and submitted, and the application subsequently denied.
CITY LITIGATION. 167
Simon Lazard ^ 12th District Court.
vs. I No.
City and County of San Fran- | Clark & Carpentier,
cisco. ) Plaintiff's Attorneys.
Complaint filed July 20th, 1866, to quiet title to Mission Block No.
33. August 2d, answer of City and County filed.
Donald McLennan et al. ^ 12th District Court.
vs. ! No.
f
City and County of San Fran- | Clark & Carpentier,
cisco. J Plaintiff's Attorneys.
Complaint filed July 20th, 1866, to quiet title to Mission Block No.
48. August 2d, answer of City and County filed.
Jacob Browning ^j 12th District Court.
vs. I No.
City and County of San Fran- | Haight & Pierson,
cisco. ) Plaintiff's Attorneys.
Complaint filed August 2d, 1866, to quiet title to 50-vara Lot No,
948. This case is not yet ready for trial.
Sidney L. Johnson ^ 12th District Court.
No.
City and County of San Fran- Chas. S. Johnson,
cisco. ) Plaintiff's Attorney.
Complaint filed August 2d, 1866, to quiet title to Beach and Water
Lot No. 323. This case is not yet ready for trial.
168 REPORT OF CITY AND COUNTY ATTORNEY.
Edward I. Delanev ^ 15th District Court.
vs. i No.
City and County of Sau Fran- j H. & C. McAllister,
Cisco. J Plaint i/'s Attorneys.
Complaint filed August 8th, 1866, to quiet title to portion of Lafay-
ette Park. This case is not yet ready for trial.
PART THIRD.
•
COMPRISING A' STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF THE "PUEBLO" OK
OITY CASE, CITY SLIP CASES, AND OTHER MATTERS OF GENERAL
INTEREST CONNECTED WITH CITY AND COUNTY LITIGATION.
PUEBLO CASK.
At the last session of the Supreme Court of the United States" and
since the Municipal Reports of last year, a mandamus was issued to
the Circuit Court here, directing the allowance of an appeal to the
Supreme Court from the decree of the Circuit Court; and prepara-
tions are now in progress to send up the transcript upon appeal. Since
the passage of the act of Congress divesting the United States of all
claim of title to the Pueblo lands of San Francisco, it seems improbable
that there will be on the part of the Government a serious revival of
the proceedings in the Court below, confirming the City title.
For reasons connected with the origin and history of our titles here,
it seems to me important to procure either a formal affirmance of the
Decree of the Circuit Court, or a dismissal of the appeal by stipulation
leaving the decree as it now stands.
PUBLIC SQUARES.
The Case of Polack vs. Davis has been tried, and a decision
rendered substantially adverse to the City and County. The state-
ment upon motion for new (rial is in course of preparation with the
view to an appeal, and the questions involved will be, it is expected,
finally determined by the Supreme Court at the next term. The other
cases, affecting the Public Squares, and enumerated at pages 200-201,
KEARNY STREET WIDENING. 169
of last year's Municipal Reports, depend upon the same principles
involved in Polack vs. Davis et al., and will abide the result of that
case. .
KEARNY STREET WIDENING.
Judge Campbell, Special Counsel for the City, has furnished me
with the following Report of the progress of this matter since last
October.
John H. Saunders, JEsq.,
City and County Attorney.
SIR : In reply to your request to be informed of the condition of
the proceedings for widening Kearny and Third Streets, and what has
been done since October last therein, I report —
That on the 2d of September, 1865, E. N. Torrey, C. 'C. Webb, and
A. B. Forbes were duly qualified as Commissioners of Appraisal and
Assessment ; that their report in duplicate was filed on the fifth day of
April, 18 66.
That on the first day of May, 1866, oppositions to the confirmation
of the Report were filed by H. S. Dexter, TV. A. Piper, TV. Hood,
North Beach and Mission Railroad, R. "Williams, J. E. Jorgeson, Abel
Guy, (2 case.-) J. Dusoll, A Lefevre, D. Vanhove, J. P. Tompson, V.
Rolleau, M. Ruse, S. Gordon, TV. B. Dolan and twenty-four others, J.
& R. Tobin, Mary Blave and three others, C. F. Glin, E. J. Baldwin,
J. Lick, J. F. Borbe, H. Josephs, (3 cases) Joseph and Brooks, C.
Schwartz, Stirlan & Ackerman, Adams and Kibbe, K. F. Swift, J. B.
Manciet, C. S. Hastings, S. P. Dewey, J. C. Jonghsanet, J. Cunning-
ham.
In twelve of the above cases the opponents did not appear, and they
were submitted to the Court on the part of the City. The remaining
cases have been submitted on testimony and argument, except those of
Cunningham and A. Lefevre.
In Cunningham's opposition, the testimony has been all taken, but
the case has not yet been argued. In Lefevre's case, the testimony is
not all submitted on the part of the opponent.
No decision in any case has yet been rendered by the County Court ;
the Court reserving all its decisions until the testimony and arguments
in all the cases have been presented.
Respectfully yours,
A. CAMPBELL,
12 Special Counsel for City.
170 REPORT OF CITY AND COUNTY ATTORNEY.
CITY SLIP CASES.
In the cases of Herzo vs. The City of San Francisco, Neivhaus vs.
The City of San Francisco, and Des Farges vs. The City of San Fran-
cisco, in which the judgments in the Court below were in favor of the
City, those judgments have all been affirmed by the Supreme Court, on
appeal.
In the cases of HofF vs. The City of San Francisco, and Buckley vs.
The City of San Francisco, I think the judgments in the Court below
were against the City ; the judgments were on appeal reversed by the
Supreme Court, and the Court below decided to enter judgment for
defendants.
In all these cases, the parties adverse to the City have filed or have
obtained time to file petitions for rehearing, which I suppose will be
disposed of in the first week of the next October Term of the Supreme
Court.
The Cases of Prag vs. The City of San Francisco, and Ainsi vs.
The City of San Francisco, still remain pending in the Twelfth Dis-
trict Court, and can probably be easily disposed of on motion, in case
the Supreme Court adheres to the decision it has already announced,
and I have no reason to believe they will recede from it.
WIDENING MERCHANT STREET.
This proceeding has gone into the County Court, and the Report of the
Commissioners is filecjl. Opposition has been made by Mr. Winter, the
owner of the land sought to be taken, and the matter is ready for argu-
ment before the County Judge, but has thus far deferred to the Kearny
Street proceedings, and the consequent pressure of business in that
Court.
INDEX TO CITY CASES.
171
PART FOURTH.
COMPRISING AN INDEX TO ALL THE CASES MENTIONED IN MY REPORTS,
WITH REFERENCES TO PAGES OF CITY REPORTS.
Title.
Court.
No.
11
l§*
if
eLS
?*•
Wo
!|
c v.
W o
11
O.^H
«<0
Allan vs City and County
Superior
4361
pap.
107
pag.
pag-
pag.
pag.
Ayres vs. City and County
Argeoti 0* The City
4th District. .
4th District.
9,828
3455
109
no
....
Argenti vs The City
4th District
'•', 455
117
159
153
167
145
Ainsa rs The City. ,
12th District.
1,537
118
16fl
169
Amedee i's City and County
4th District
152
Allen vs. Mast
4th District. .
10,460
153
147
163
Aldersey vs City and County
4th District
153
Bryan vs City and County
4th District
9 076
108
Berghofer vs. City and County
12th District.
9,786
109
Board of Education vs Fowler .. ..
Justice's
110
Bryan vs. City and County
113
Burton vs. City and County
4th District .
8270
115
Belknap vs Bvin^ton
12th District
7 469
115
157
151
1H5
144
Belknap vs. Whitney
12th District.
' 7'470
115
157
150
164
144
Bd of Education vs Dommctt and Fowler
4th District
7 738
116
Baker vs. Doane
12th District.
9246
116
158
Buckley vs The City
12th District
118
161
169
Brusac vs. Temple
4th District. .
9991
151
146
Bradford vs. Hossefross ....
4th District
7 653
154
Bears vs. City and County
4th District. .
8 147
154
Baldwin vs. City and County
4th District
11 056
157
Brooks rs. Calderwood
12th District.
11 198
158
169
147
Bohen vs. Holladay
170
Board of Education vs. Riordan
1st Justice's. .
176
Bracken vs. Coon
4th District
11947
177
Bowles vs. Citv and County
4th District
12 094
180
152
Brownell vs. Wilson
4th District
12 102
181
152
Brady vs. City and County ....
15th District
679
182
Blake vs. N. S. F. R. R. Homestead Ass'n. . .
Barron vs. City and County . . .
4th District. .
12th District
12^97
12 123
....
184
186
155
156
Brooks vs. Douglass
12th District
12 262
189
159
Buckingham vs. Gutierrez
12th District
146
Brooks vs. City and County ,
15th District.
1519
161
Bvington vs. City and County
15th District
897
161
Bandmaim et al. vs Burke
15th District
1 733
164
Browning vs. City and County
12th District
167
Coit vs. City and County. . .
12th District
7 427
108
Campbell vs. City and County
City and County vs. S. F. Gas Works. . .
City Slip Cases
4th District. .
12th District.
9.654
5,750
109
109
m
....
159
i<39
202
170
City and County vs. S. F. Gas Works
119
("lark vs. Citv and County.
12th District
9 236
116
157
152
Calderwood vs. City and County
U. S. C. C. ..
112
143
Calderwood vs. City and County
U. S. C. C. . . .
113
143
141
Calderwood vs. City and County
Calderwood vs. City and County
u. s.c. c....
U S. C. C. . . .
111
116
143
143
....
141
Calderwood vs. City and County
12th District
144
City and County vs. Jessup
12th District
150
City and County vs. Carter
Cowell vs. Citv and County
,12th District.
12th District.
10,047
150
151
....
146
Callaiyhan vs. Lennon
4th District
152
City and County vs. Heany
list Justice's
154
City and County vs. Kehoe
( ity and County vs. Hamilton .".
1st Justice's. .
1st Justice's
154
154
...
( ity and County vs. Donohue
1st Justice's. .
154
City and County vs. Moors
1st Justice's .
154
Citv and County vs. Lawton
4th District
155
City of San Francisco vs. Heydcufeldt
12th District.
26
154
172
INDEX TO CITY CASES.
Title.
Court.
No.
11
M'O
*«
2«
&
II
£<$
II
t •
X o
"fiS
I2
Mo
1th District.
12th District.
12th District,
1st Justice's. .
1st Justice's. .
1st Justice's
1,551
1,548
11,172
pay.
pag.
"fti
pa,-.
pag.
City of /San Francisco vs. Walker
Cobb vs Callaghan
154
168
City and County vs. Purcell
159
159
....
City and County vs. Gaffrey
City and County vs Moors & Co
169
City and County vs. Hawkett
Carroll vs City and County
1st Justice's..
4th District. .
160
11,264
....
160
162
163
163
170
'i48
City and County vs Whitman
4i h District..
6th Justice's
11,459
Connolly vs Calderwood et al
Central Pacific R. II. Co. vs. Bd. of Superv's.
Cammet vs C'ity and County
1 :4 ....
4th District. .
4th District..
15th District.
4th District..
2d Justice's. .
12th District.
12th District.
12th District.
12th District.
15th District,
12th District.
15th District,
Superior
Superior
Superior
4th District. .
4th District..
4th District .
Superior
12th District.
4th District..
1st Justice's
11,691
12,103
757
12,160
136 ....
. 1S1
. . 135
.. 185
18fi
'i&3
155
156
Crummy vs City and County
City and County vs. Calderwood
Carrinson vs City and County
12,127
12,312
8,339
12,703
1,658
12,736
1,780
4,350
4,360
4,399
9.148
189
L«
157
159
142
163
164
165
165
City and County vs. Fulde
City and County vs Hunt
Chambers vs. City and County
City and County vs Walters
....
City and County vs. Sanchez . .
107
107
107
1C9
and
lit]
111
JDe Rochprs vs City and County.. . . .
De Rochers vs. City and County
De Rochers vs City and County
Dean vs. City and County ....
158
152
Des Farges vs. City and County
Dana vs City and County
7,480
4,949
10,730
10,624
114
117
Des Farges vs. City
Delaney vs. Wilson ....
149
153
154
145
148
Dtehon vs Moses
Dougherty vs. City and County
Dougherty vs. Reed
De Rochers vs. County of San Francisco. . .
De Rochers vs. County of San Francisco. . .
Des Farges vs. The City
1st Justice's. .
4rh District. .
4th District, .
12th District.
12th District.
4,350
4,300
....
154
156
....
156
161
165
169
Delaney vs Johnson
11.010
167
Des Farges vs. The City
Dreschfeld vs. City and County
4th District, .
15th District,
loth District.
15th District.
4th District. .
12th District,
12th District.
11,9(57
67«
1,497
9,841
10,585
10,600
10,583
540
184
9,656 j
....
177
182
'153
160
168
Dorland vs. City and County
Douglas vs. City and County
Delaney vs. City and County
Ellis vs. City and County
109
Easterley vs. Wilson
III
148
143
144
'isi
154
....
Easterley vs Wilson
Eggleston vs. City and County
Expert vs. Mayor of San Francisco
Earl and Mclntosh vs. Alcalde, etc
Faulhaber vs. City and County
4th District. .
4th District. .
:th District. .
2th District.
12th District.
12th District.
2th District.
4th District, .
4th District..
21 h District.
12th District.
12th District.
12th District.
109
Ferguson vs. City and County
147
148
French vs. Tesctiemacher.
Frank vs. Coon
149
Falkner vs. Hunt
6,213:
10.880 j
11,408
11,666
12,021
12,189:
9,200
154
155
l!v]
168
'l71
174
184
187
'us
Field vs. City and County .
108
and
116
....j
Flint vs. Bedell
Feagan vs. City and County
Fischer vs. City and County
Ferguson vs. City and County
144
Green vs. City and County
INDEX TO CITY CASES.
173
Title.
Court.
No.
ll
r
11
C*I-H
Mo
Mo
M'O
#o j tfo
Guy vs. City and Countv
12th District.
12th District.
12th District.
4th District..
4th District. .
4th District. .
4th District. .
12th District.
4th District. .
4th District..
4th District. .
12th District.
12th District.
4th District. .
4th District. .
4th District. .
4th District. .
12th District.
12th District.
12th District.
4th District. .
12th District.
15th District.
|
9,509
pag
109
anc
117
pag.
158
147
pag
pag
pag.
Grisar, M. M. M., vs. City
Grisar, E , v.s City..
147
Galligaii vs City
9,952
151
153
146
Garwood, Adm., vs. City and County
Gray vs City and County
10,807
10,813
9,200
541
11,241
11,744
11,827
11,958
12,923
9,845
154
154
157
148
149
i54
Greene, Anne E , vs. City
Gillespie vs. Mayor of San Francisco
Grisar r.9. Wilson
Garwood vs Hi«'orins
160
....
166
172
180
183
'152
154
166
Godfrin M. City and County
Gray vs City and County
Gallagher vs. Gutierrez
Hayes vs. City and County
109
111
Herzo r.x City and County
Hentsch vs. City and County
9,002
2,427
116
118
'iei
144
'l89
....
Herzo vs. City and County
Hahn vs Citv and County
Hoff V*. City and County
"578
10,283
62
11,983
12 lOl
161
169
154
Harris vs. City of San Francisco
Hunt vs. Citv and County
158
165
169
147
Heni-lcy vs Stone
Holladay vs. City and County. . .
178
181
184
187
189
151
153
155
157
Hall vs. 'Wilson . . ...
Hamilton vs. City and County
11,953
Hancock r«. Clark
15th District.
15th District.
15th District.
4th District. .
4th District. .
12th District.
4th District..
12th District.
12th District.
12th District.
12th District.
4th District. .
L2th District.
12th District.
12th District.
12th District,
loth District.
County
533
1,143
855
9,836
Holland vs. City and County
Hoff «s. City and County
162
Janes vs. City and County
109
Jones vs. City and County
151
James vs. City of San Francisco
Jessup vs. Citv and County
310
11,794
12,704
154
167
'l73
'l49
163
167
Johnson vs. City and County.
Johnson, Sid. L., vs. City and County
Killey vs. Wilson
10,604
10,603
539
11,426
11,705
12.097
1,690
148
148
iii
157
ind
162
145
152
162
144
145
154
162
'in
151
'iii
170
Killey vs. Wilson
Kessing vs. Mayor of San Francisco
Kenney vs. City and County
170
175
187
20i
165
i62
las
isi
l63
169
144
l43
i54
167
Kenney vs. City and County
Kenney vs. City and County
Kehoe vs. City and County
Kennedy vs. Board of Supervisors . . ..
Kearny Street Widening
Lucas Turner vs. The City
12th District.
6,639
115
116
iis
Lee vs. Denman
Lent vs. Citv and County
12th District.
4th District. .
12th District.
15th District.
12th District.
Superior
12th District.
2th District.
County
4th District. .
u. s. c. c. ..
' 10,441
2,431
647
4,359
7,425
9232
2,147
"'91
Le Roy vs. City and County
Leighton, Executor, vs. Garrison
Ludlum vs. City and County
Lazard -on. City and County
Myrick vs. City and County
107
108
110
110
am!
114
111
IIS
....
Morse vs. Citv and County
Minton vs. Williams
156
'lR7
149
Minton vs. Burr
Macy, Administrator, vs. City and County. .
Mumford vs. Jarboe. . .
1T4
INDEX TO CITY CASES.
i 1
Title. Court. i No.
11 ill
££< ftS
11
11 I!
Mo Mo
mo
Mo Mo
Myrick vs. County of San Francisco
4th District. .
4th District, .
12th District.
12th District,
12th District.
12th District,
15th District,
12th District.
12th District.
4,359
2,593
11,087
11.075
11,707
770
12,590
pag.
iis
pag.
156
161
pag.
pag.
pag.
Munson vs Citv of San Francisco.
154
166
157
'ies
'l75
188
'202
'i46
'150
158
161
167
170
McDonald vs Wilson
Mastick vs Thorpe
McCarthy vs City and County.
McLennan vs City and County
Merchant Street widening
Nye vs Brooks
12th District,
4th District, .
12th District.
121h District.
4th District, .
4th District..
4th District. .
Superior
Superior
Superior
12th District.
12th District,
12th District.
12th District.
41 h District. .
4th District, .
4th District..
9,728
9.181
2^425
7,733
11,043
109
111
117
118
Newhaus vs. City and County .'
Noonan vs City and County
161
169
154
....
Newton vs. Patch
Nelson vs City and County
....
156
....
O'Connell vs. City and County
Pioche T,S. City and County
4,541
4,599
4,400
9,841
9,813
8,287
6,070
9.832
7,806
107
107
107
109
109
108
109
an <i
114
110
111
111
156
156
....
Perry vs. City and County
P. W. Factory vs. City and County
Prince vs. City and County
Phelan vs City and County
156
People ex rel. Burr vs. Dana
People ex rel. Teschemacher vs. Dennis
Parsons vs City and County
Pimental vs. City and County
Partridge vs. City and County
4th District. .
Supreme
12th District.
12th District.
12th District.
4th District,.
12th District.
12th District,
12th District.
12th District,
12th District,
12th District.
12th District.
12th District,
12th District
12th District.
12th District
111
. . .
6,070
8,637
9,l69i
2,700
5,229
1,53(5
10239
113
116
116
116
117
118
118
118
156
157
157
158
161
1R2
1C2
145
145
14(
14P
147
152 166
'109 !!'.!
169'!"!
'ill ' 160
142, 161
142! 161
'145
'i42
143
People ex rel 'Burr vs. Dana
People ex rel. Hunt vs. Bd. of Supervisors. .
People ex rel. Hunt vs. Bd. of Supervisors. .
People ex rel. Hall vs. Bd. of Supervisors. . .
Pimental vs City and County
Partridge vs. City and County
People ex rel. Frank vs. City and County.. .
Paul vs City and County
Perley vs. Hasscy
10.37*1 . .
10,409 1. ..
Pacific Gla^s Works vs Garrison
Pringle vs. City
People ex rel. Teschemacher vs. Galloway. .
People ex rel. Reed vs, Bd. of Supervisors. .
People ex rel. Crane vs. Bd. of Supervisors.
People ex rel Sharp vs Hale
149
149
15'
ir>2
166
156
162
171
'190
'ies
147
148
'ies
150
165
166
4th District. .
4th District..
4th District..
4,400
4,541
' 4,059
6,344
11.029
11,108
11,389
11,491
Pioche vs County of San Francisco
People ex rel Woods vs. Hooper
12th District.
12th District.
4th District. .
12th District,
12th District,
4th District. .
Justice's
People ex rel. Folsom vs. Mickle
166
157
166
17'
161
'lR8
170
172
174
176
178
178
185
People ex rel. Bohen vs. Holladay
Perley vs City and Countv
Parker vs. City and County
Polack vs. Davis. ...
Partridge vs Ha^en
Public Squares
People ex r<->! McKee vs Callaghan ....
12th District.
Supreme
Supreme
Supreme
4th District, .
4th District. .
4th District. .
4th District. .
10,933
' 12,250
12.911
12950
11,263
'.'. :
People ex rel. Harris vs. Hale
People ex rel. C. P. R. R. Co. vs. Bd. of Sup's.
Central Pacific R, R vs. Bd. of Supervisors.
Poland vs. < ity and County
Pragg vs. City and County
People ex rel. Nicolson Pavement Co. r*. )
Bd. of Supervisors of the City and County )
Quinn vs. City and County. . .
INDEX TO CITY CASES.
175
Title.
Court.
No.
II
=-s
a22
K'O
ii
^
t^ *o
c.S
PHO
n
a^
tf'o
4th District. .
4th District..
4th District. .
12th District
12th District.
4th District. .
9,652
8.275
9239
6,063
' 10,298
pas?.
109
115
117
117
pag.
pag.
pag
pag.
Roles *V8 Washburn.
158
159
144
153
....
Ritter w City and County ......
Rabe «?*. City and County.
...
152
155
147
162
143
IJiM'so AS. Washburn
12th District.
4th District. .
3d Justice's . .
15th District.
12th District.
4th District. .
4th District. .
Justice's
8,848
11,580
i,io3
9,030
9,653
9,655
154
165
'in
188
188
'158
159
Koich vs. City and County
Hunk vs City and County
S. F & M. D. P. R. Co. vs. City and County.. .
Smith vs City and County.
108
109
109
110
Smith vs City and County
Spencer vs Burke
Satterlee vs. City and County
12th District.
12th District.
12th District.
9,353
8.620
9,030
111
and
118
115
115
161
157
157
144
150
164
....
S. F. & M D I* R Co vs Houston. . . .
Sharon vs. City and County
1th District. .
4th District. .
4th District..
15th District.
12fh District.
15th District.
15th District.
15th District.
12th District.
12th District.
12th District.
12th District.
12th District.
152
Sime VK. County of San Francisco
Spring Valley W. W. vs. Lynch, Adm
Sullivan vs. City and County . .
4,399
11.417
680
1,525
834
1
1,873
7.426
8,795
'Us
156
'i<33
'in
182
'i«
Satterlee vs. Garrison
Stewart vs City and County
162
162
166
Stewart vs. City and Comity
Smith tM Ford
108
Thomas vs. City and County
Thompson vs Fitzgerald
146
146
142
160
142
Termon vs. City and County
10.459
10,551
10,600
143
149
153
is5
145
148
154
165
167
'1(32
163
'172
173
'149
Thompson vs Kierulff
Tennant vs. Bancroft
Thomas vs City of San Francisco
12th District.
4th District..
4th District. .
1,878
11.568
11,794
Tompkins vs City and County
Taxes on Consigned Goods
Valentine vs. Flannagan
4th District. .
15th District.
Superior
12th District.
4th District. .
12th District.
.2th District.
12th District.
4th District. .
12,018
646
4.398
7,908
9,162
9,448
10,527
107
115
116
117
156
'.'.'.'.
180
183
151
154
Valencia vs City and County
Ward vs. City and County
Woodbury vs. City and County
Wade vs. City and County
158
158
145
146
153
163
i53
'143
i
'iw
145
Whitmore vs. City and County. ... ....
Wells vs. City and County
Williams vs. City and County
Walter vs. Story
Wharves
Webb vs. City and County
4th District. .
12th District.
8,132
11,303
154
161
171
'iro
...
Wells vs. Lynch, Administrator
Widening Kearny Street
Williamson vs. City and County
rth District. .
4th District. .
4th District. .
12th District.
12,177
12,241
7,244
164
164
Wilkie vs. City and County
Zottman vs. City and County
Zottman vs. City and County
107
163
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN H. SAUNDERS,
City and. County Attorney.
CHIEF ENGINEER'S REPORT.
CHIEF ENGINEER'S OFFICE, FIRE DEPARTMENT, )
SAN FRANCISCO, July 23d, 18G6. )
To the Honorable Board of Supervisors:
GENTLEMEN: — In accordance with the requirements of Resolution
No. 5,556 of your Honorable' Body, I herewith present my Annual
Report on the condition and expenses of the Fire Department, for the
Fiscal Year ending June 30th, 1866.
Trusting that the recommendations herein contained will receive
your attention, I remain
Very Respectfully Yours,
DAVID SCANNELL,
Chief Engineer.
F I E E S.
During the past year the number of fires have not been as great as
in the year preceding, but the loss from them has been more than
doubled, being estimated at $593,000, against $276,000 last year.
The most destructive fire of the year occurred July 17th, 1865, at the
Pacific Warehouse, located at the northeast corner of Broadway and
Battery streets, where starting in the night and in a tight building
filled with a variety of goods — some of them being of the most com-
bustible character, it had gained such headway and spread through the
FIRES. 177
stock to such an extent by the time the Department arrived on the
ground and got the doors open, as to prevent them from gaining the
mastery over it.
For nearly two days it raged with fury, notwithstanding the greater
part of the time it was deluged with water from hand and steam
engines and hydrants, but all to little purpose, owing to the large quan-
tity of coal oil, camphene, etc., stored within its walls, which served to
prevent it from being subdued. The damage resulting from this fire
alone has been estimated as high as $343,000.
The impropriety of storing such combustible articles as coal oil,
camphene, and alcohol in warehouses where other goods are stored,
must become apparent from the result of this fire, for had nothing of
this kind been stored there, it is quite probable that the fire would have
been extinguished before the entire building and its contents were
destroved. The origin of this fire is unknown, and it was probably
caused by spontaneous combustion.
The Department has been called out about two hundred and twenty
times during the year ; a number of incendiary fires have taken place
in the same period, and the most suspicious circumstances in connection
with them is, that the property thus destroyed generally had more or
less insurance on it. Out of the two hundred fires that took place,
thirty-three were undoubtedly caused by the match of the incendiary,
and the loss from these fires originating in premises covered by insur-
ance amounted to about $75,000, while the loss from incendiary fires
originating in premises not insured, did not exceed $3,500. Nearly
the same observations will apply to the attempts to set fire ; for of the
fourteen attempts made, fully two-thirds of the places were insured to
a greater or less extent. Unoccupied buildings, particularly if setting
alone, always serve as an invitation for the incendiary to apply his
torch, and we therefore see that of the thirty-three incendiary fires, ten
took place in unoccupied buildings.
A number of arrests on charges of arson have been made by the
Fire Marshal during the past year, some of whom have been tried and
convicted, and others are awaiting trial.
HYDRANTS.
The number of Hydrants set on the first day of July was four hund-
178 CHIEF ENGINEER'S REPORT.
red and forty-eight, of which forty were set during the past year, and
the one at the northwest corner of Teharaa and First streets was taken
up by order of the Fire and Water Committee. A list of the Hydrants
with their location, will be found hereafter in this report.
I will again call your attention to the necessity of having larger
mains laid along the lower part of the City front, to which Hydrants
can be attached, so as to afford in case of emergency an abundant
supply of water — one or two steam engines taking suction from Hy-
drants attached to small mains, if fully enabled to supply themselves,
will leave nothing for hand engines or hose carriages, and are more
likely to be short of a supply themselves than otherwise.
CISTERNS.
There are forty-two Cisterns in the City in good order, ranging in
capacity from 15,000 to 51,000 gallons ; and there are eight in bad
order, being nearly worthless. These latter should be put in good
condition without delay.
The expense of building good Cisterns is large, but when well built
they will last for years without additional cost, and the security they
afford against extensive conflagrations under contingencies which might
arise, will, in my opinion, warrant the outlay for their construction.
The water in the mains is frequently shut off in different parts of
the City for the setting of hydrants, laying of pipes, and other pur-
poses incident thereto, thus at times leaving certain sections for a period
entirely without protection. To guard against accidents from this
source, as well as to be prepared for any emergency that may occur
from a lack of water in the hydrants, caused either from a scarcity of
supply, or accident to the pipes or flumes conveying it to the City, it is
deemed necessary that more Cisterns should be provided. As a rule
also, steam engines can do better service from Cisterns than from
hydrants, the supply from them being uniform and constant, while it
sometimes happens that from the latter it is fitful and inadequate.
FIRE ALARM TELEGRAPH. 179
HOSE.
There is in use by the different companies 'of the Department about
10,800 feet of Hose, of which only about one-third can be considered
in first rate condition, the remainder being of an ordinary character
and not at all to be relied on in case of severe work.
Owing to the fact that soon hereafter the Department will be sup-
plied with Steam Engines of a more powerful character than any we
have yet had, it is necessary that a full supply of strong new Hose
should be provided for them, so that at all times when in service,
accidents from the bursting of Hose, and the delay consequent upon
requiring the replacing of a defective length, oftentimes at the most
critical moment of the fire, may be avoided. I therefore recommend
that 10,000 feet of the best quality of new Hose be purchased at your
earliest convenience.
FIRE ALARM TELEGRAPH.
I am pleased to be able to say, that the Fire Alarm Telegraph,
during the past year has been kept in better working order than
formerly, and has not as often been imposed upon by ringing false
alarms. It is now working in a very satisfactory manner, and with
due care and precaution* on the part of those having it in charge, it
will prove of great importance to the welfare of the City.
LOCATION OF FIRE COMPANY HOUSES AND DISTRICTS
FOR SERVICE.
The force of the Department as at present organized, is distributed
in a very judicious manner throughout the city, and since they have
been confined to certain districts within which to perform duty, their
services have been of a less arduous character yet quite as efficient as
formerly.
However, the new organization which will have less companies, and
which in a few months will supersede the present one, will require a
change in some instances for the proper location of some of them.
180 CHIEF ENGINEER'S REPORT.
Under the act creating the Paid Department, your honorable body
have the power to direct the sale of the houses and lots at present
occupied by the Fire Companies, and secure others in suitable loca-
tions for the new companies, and I doubt not you will take timely
measures to provide for their accommodation.
FIRE LIMIT BLOCKS.
Since my last report the line of the Fire Limit Blocks has been
materially altered, and considerably curtailed, but it is yet extensive
enough to eventually prove of benefit "in securing the erection of fire-
proof buildings on many of our prominent streets whenever it shall
become necessary to substitute others for the frame structures now in
existence.
The violations of the Fire Ordinance during the past year have not
been as numerous as heretofore — if we except the line of Kearny
street — owing probably in part to a fear of consequences instilled into
the public mind by the arrest and punishment of a number of persons
for like offenses, through the efforts of the Fire Marshal and Fire
Wardens.
Along the line of Kearny street, between Sacramento and Geary,
that part affected by the widening, a number of palpable violations of
the ordinance have taken place ; yet owing to the passage of a special
order for the benefit of property owners on that line, by your honora-
ble body, and the adoption of resolutions granting special privileges,
no action could be taken by the Fire Wardens.
While every reasonable privilege should be given to those who had
buildings that were interfered with by the order widening that street,
compelling them to cut off a portion when the lot was not of sufficient
depth to permit of their removal back, or removing them to the rear
of the lot they were on when sufficiently large to allow of it, yet in
neither case should they be allowed to overhaul and remodel them
with new material to such an extent so as to make new structures of
them. Permits for alterations and repairs on wooden buildings within
the Fire Limit Blocks, should be granted only after proper examina-
ion, and where the necessity of the case absolutely demands it, and
then in conformity with the spirit of the ordinance itself.
VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT. 181
THE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT OF SAN FRANCISCO.
It is well known that during the session of the Legislature of last
winter, a bill was passed abolishing the present Volunteer Fire De-
partment, and authorizing the establishment of a paid one in its place.
As this will be the last opportunity I shall have of submitting a
report under the law governing the present Department, I may be
allowed the privilege of saying a few words in commemoration of the
noble, energetic and faithful institution, soon to be numbered with
the things that were.
This Department, now so soon to go out of existence, that has done so
much for the protection and prosperity of the city, was organized in
the year 1850, by some of our best citizens and business men, includ-
ing merchants, mechanics, lawyers, clerks and laborers, many of whom
had been active firemen in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Balti-
more and other eastern cities, and some of whom since have not only
performed the active duty of firemen here, but have also filled offices
of honor and profit amongst us where ability and integrity were
required, and as exalted as that of Mayor of our city, and United
States Senator.
During that and the preceding year, the population of the city had
increased with unprecedented rapidity, and to afford them accommoda-
tions for living, as well as for business purposes, buildings of wood and
cloth, and canvas tents were hurriedly erected with at that time scarcely
an exceptional structure of brick or stone. The town being con-
structed of such combustible materials, and no organized provision
made for the extinguishment of fires, we are not surprised to learn of
the devastating conflagrations that took place here in early times, and
compelled the inhabitants to perfect an organization among themselves
for the protection of their own as well as neighbors' property and
households.
On the twenty-fourth of December, 1849, occurred the first of
these great calamities, though by no means comparing in magnitude
with those that occurred in 1850 and 1851.
However, it was the inauguration of the fiery ordeal through which
the city was to pass ere she should reach the proud eminence of per-
manent prosperity which she at this time has attained.
From an early history of San Francisco, we learn "that on the
morning of that day, Dennison's Exchange on the east side of the
plaza, was discovered to be on fire at about six o'clock. Nearly all
182 CHIEF ENGINEER'S REPORT.
the block bounded by Kearny, Washington, Montgomery and Clay
streets, was destroyed. The loss was estimated at one million of dol-
lars. With no organized Fire Department, and the inflammable
nature of the buildings being considered, it was wonderful that the
conflagration did not make still more general devastation."
The great destruction of property by this fire, fully impressed the
citizens with the necessity of creating an organization to combat
the fiery element, and consequently we find that early in the succeed-
ing year steps were taken by those whose property and interests were
identified with the growth and prosperity of the city, to perfect and
put in operation an organization which though then small in numbers,
and poorly equipped, did most excellent duty when called upon, and
which has continued to grow with the growth and requirements of
the city, until it numbered fourteen Engine Companies, three Hook
and Ladder Companies, and three Hose Companies, with one thou-
sand and fifty members.
The first election for Chief Engineer took place on the nineteenth
day of October, 1850, when Frederick D. Kohler was elected to that
office. From that period the history of the Fire Department may be
said to date, and in a few years, through the efficiency of its officers and
the promptness and fidelity of its members, who worked not for pay,
but for glory and honor, it obtained a reputation for efficiency and
order equal to that of any of the old Departments in eastern cities,
and it has kept on in the march of advancement until its fame was
world-wide as it deserved to be, since in my opinion, I do not say too
much when I say it was excelled by none either on this or the eastern
continent.
At last the march of progress and improvement, ever on the advance,
seized the minds of some of our people, and for a few years past the
question of creating a paid department in place of the present volun-
teer one, was agitated both by the press and legislative bodies, until at
last a bill was presented to the Legislature, which meeting with favor,
become a law, and is to go into operation on the first Monday of
December of this year.
Thus passes from ouc midst, an institution that has acquired honor
and fame, as well as a history that will be read and talked of for
years in the distant future.
The duty its members have performed for the people of San Fran-
cisco for the past sixteen years without other pay or emolument than
that flowing from a consciousness of having performed their oner-
VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT. 183
ous and self-imposed task faithfully, is beyond computation in mere
dollars and cents. There was something higher and nobler that actu-
ated those who turned out at the 'first tap of the bell at any hour of
the day or night, in fair or stormy weather, than the mere wish to
earn a livelihood from the necessities and misfortunes of their fellow
men.
They can be looked upon in no other light than that of philanthro-
pists, whose noble deeds and acts of daring in endeavoring to save
life and property when combatting the march of the devouring ele-
ment on many a hotly contested field, deserve ever to be held in
grateful remembrance by the people of San Francisco, for whom as
a body they have done so much, and for whom many of them have
sacrificed both their health and their lives.
But a new order of things is now about to succeed them, and we
trust that it will realize all the expectations that its friends entertain
for it, and have advanced in its favor. And in this connection I
desire to call particular attention to the magnanimous action of the
officers and members of the Department in falling into the support
of the new undertaking the moment it became a law, and their prompt
and efficient performance of duty pending the time the new Depart-
ment shall be fully organized and in working order.
It illustrates again, and in a new light, the character of the men
composing the Fire Department. Although quite unanimous in their
opposition to the passage of a law which would break up their organ-
ization, and in its stead place a paid Department, and notwithstanding
the unnecessary misrepresentations against their character and con-
duct made during the time the question was under agitation, and the
acrimonious debate indulged in by the friends of the measure, reflect-
ing on the Companies and members of the Department, we find that
no sooner is the matter settled by becoming a law, than with general
accord they agree to withdraw further opposition, and perform their
accustomed duty faithfully until such time as the authorities having
the matter in charge, shall be able to get it organized, and in perfect
working order.
Thus again are the enemies of the Department, those who pre-
dicted riot and disorder, and a refusal to do duty after the passage of
the bill, rebuked. The members of the Department since the passage
of the bill have done their duty well, and there is no reason to sup-
pose that they will fail to continue doing it as long as their services
are required.
184 CHIEF ENGINEER'S REPORT.
EXPENSES OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT FOR THE YEAR
ENDING JUNE SOxn, 1866.
The total amount of demands audited and allowed out of the Fire
Department Fund during the past year, as shown below, was
$65,248.21. This sum, however, includes a deficit of about $15,000,
which existed at the close of last year, and could not be provided for
out of the annual appropriation for the expenses of the Department
as allowed untfer the statutes of 1863, page 168.
The power necessary to authorize the payment of these demands
was secured at the last session of the Legislature, and hence they are
brought forward and placed with the expenses of the Department
for the present year, though not properly belonging to it.
The following demands have been allowed during the past year, to
wit.
FIRE DEPARTMENT EXPENSES.
Salaries :
Chief Engineer, 1 year $4,000 00
3 Assistants, 1 year, $50 per
month each 1,800 00
Secretary, 1 year 1,800 00
Telegraph Operators, 2, 1
year, and 1, 11 months
and 29 days, at $100 per
month each 3,593 54
Repairer, 71 months, at $100 750 00
Stewards, 20 at $40 per
month each, June 1st,
1865, to July 1st, 1866,
13 months 10,400 00
Engineers, 4 at $60 per
month each, June 1st,
1865, to July 1st, 1866,
13 months... 3,120 00
Carried forward $25,463 54
FIRE DEPARTMENT EXPENSES. 185
Brought forward
Corporation Yard Keeper,
11 months, at. $30 per
month 330 00
$25,793 54
Other expenses :
Repairs to Engines, etc 17,044 29
Hose, and freight on same. . 7,741 76
2 Hose Carriages, and freight
on same 3,123 44
1 Hose Carriage, and 500
feet Hose, purchased of
South Park Hose Co 1,000 00
Freight on Engine for No. 5 928 83
Brake, Copper Jacket, and
Pipe for Steam Engine
No. 6 325 00
Lanterns, 3J dozen 160 00
Wood and Coal 263 50
Oil, Fluid, etc 632 87
Consulting Engineer, pur-
chase of No. 12 Engine. 50 00
Implements for Corporation
Yard 36 52
Rent of Corporation Yard
to June 1st, 1866, 14
months, at $100 per
month 1,400 00
Cleaning Vaults, 2 months
at S30, and 10 months at
$40 per month 460 00
Carting 390 25
Filling Cisterns 292 50
Work on Cisterns 27 00
Cleaning, Oiling Hydrants,
and Cleaning around 1
Hydrant 87 50
Expense Fire Alarm and
Police Telegraph, after
Carried forward. , $33,963 46
13
186 CHIEF ENGINEER'S REPORT.
Brought forward $33,963 46
allowance of $25,000 was
exhausted, and before new
allowance 325 85
Arrest of Persons found
tampering with Fire
Alarm and Police Tele-
graph.. 100 00
Telegrams regarding Paid
Department 145 36
Lighting Buildings, at $20 per
month each :
20 Houses (Engine, Hook
and Ladder, and Hose)
for year 4,800
6 Houses, June, 1865 120
4,920 00
39,454 67
$65,248 21
CISTERNS AND HYDRANTS.
Extra for constructing Cistern corner Cali-
fornia and Davis streets 800 00
Constructing Cistern corner Fremont and
Mission streets 1,150 00
Repairs to Cisterns 53 47
2,003 47
Setting 64 Hydrants, at $60 3,840 00
Resetting 5 Hydrants, at $40 200 00
Resetting 39 Hydrants, at $30 1,170 00
Repairs to Hydrants, examination of and
oiling Hydrants 523 89
50 Hydrants 1,750 00
Part payment of bill of $573 80, for set-
ting, resetting Hydrants, etc., to close
appropriation for the Fiscal Year 512 64
7,996 53
Total . $10,000 00
ENGINE COMPANIES. 187
COMPANY HOUSES AND LOTS.
\
ENGINE COMPANIES.
BRODERICK ENGINE COMPANY, No. 1. — House and Lot on the
north side of Bryant Street, west of Third. Two-story wooden build-
ing ; City property, in good order.
MANHATTAN ENGINE COMPANY, No. 2. — House and Lot on
O'Farrell Street, north side, between Dupont and Stockton streets.
Three-story brick building ; City property, in good order.
HOWARD ENGINE COMPANY, No. 3. — House and Lot on the south
side of California Street, between Sansome and Battery. Three-story
brick building ; City property, in good order.
CALIFORNIA ENGINE COMPANY, No. 4. — House and Lot on north
side of Market Street, between Sarisome and Battery. Two-story
brick building ; City property, in bad order, requiring to be entirely
overhauled.
KNICKERBOCKER ENGINE COMPANY, No. 5. — House and Lot on
the north side of Sacramento Street, between Montgomery and San-
some. New three-story brick building ; City property, in good order.
MONUMENTAL ENGINE COMPANY, No. 6. — House and Lot on
west side of Brenham Place, between Washington and Clay streets.
Two-story brick building ; City property, in good order.
VOLUNTEER ENGINE COMPANY No. 7. — House and Lot south side
of Sutter Street, west of Jones. Two-story brick building ; City
property, in good order.
PACIFIC ENGINE COMPANY, No. 8. — House and Lot on north side
of Jackson Street, between Front and Davis. Two-story brick build-
ing ; City property, in good order.
VIGILANT ENGINE COMPANY, No. 9. — House and Lot on west side
of Stockton Street, between Broadway and Pacific. Two-story brick
building ; City property, in good order.
CRESCENT ENGINE COMPANY, No. 10. — House and Lot on the east
188
side of Stockton Street, north of Greenwich. Two-story brick build-
ing ; City property, in good order.
COLUMBIAN ENGINE COMPANY, No. 11. — House and Lot on north
sids of Bush street, between Dupont and Kearny. Two-story brick
building ; City property, in bad order and requires overhauling.
PENNSYLVANIA ENGINE COMPANY, No. 12. — House and Lot on
the east side of Sixth Street, south of Folsorn. Two-story frame
building ; City property, in good order.
YOUNG AMERICA ENGINE COMPANY, No. 13. — House and Lot
on north side of Center Street, between Valencia and Guerrero streefs.
Two-story brick building ; City property, in good order.
TIGER ENGINE' COMPANY, No. 14. — House and Lot on west side
of Second Street, between Natoma and Howard. Three-story brick
building ; City property, in good order.
HOOK AND LADDER COMPANIES.
ST. FRANCIS, No. 1. — House and Lot on west side of Dupont, be-
tween Sacramento and Clay streets. Three-story brick building ; City
property, in good order.
LAFAYETTE, No. 2. — House and Lot on south side of Broadway,
between Stockton and Dupont streets. Two-story brick building ; City
property, in good order.
INDEPENDENCE, No. 3. — House and Lot on the west side of Fourth
Street, between Jessie and Market streets. One-story frame building ;
Company property, in good order.
HOSE COMPANIES.
WASHINGTON HOSE COMPANY, No. 1. — House and Lot on the
west side of Dupont Street, between Vallejo and Green streets. New
two-story brick building ; City property, in good order.
LIBERTY HOSE COMPANY, No. 2. — House and Lot on the east side
of Fourth Street, near Howard. T wo -story frame building ; Company
property, in good order.
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EUREKA HOSE COMPANY, No. 4. — House and Lot on the south
side of Geary Street, near Mason. Two-story frame building ; City
property, in good order.
EXEMPT FIRE COMPANY. — House and Lot on south side of Jackson
Street, east of Kearny. Two-story brick building ; City property, in
good order.
INDEPENDENT COMPANIES.
RINCON HOSE COMPANY. — House on the south side of Folsom
Street, between Fremont and Beale streets. One-story frame building;
Company property.
HAYES VALLEY HOSE COMPANY. — House located on the north side
of Grove Street, east of Laguna. One-story frame building ; owned
or rented by Company.
WEST END ENGINE COMPANY. — House on Union Street, near
Larkin. One-story frame building ; Company property.
CENTRAL HOSE COMPANY. — House located on Brannan Street, near
Eighth. Frame building ; rented by the Company.
FIRE APPARATUS IN POSSESSION OF THE DIFFERENT COMPANIES.
BRODERICK. No. 1. — Second-class Engine, James Smith, New
York, builder ; City property. A two-wheeled Hose Cart, Folsom,
builder, San Francisco; City property.
MANHATTAN, No. 2. — Second-class Engine, Cowing & Co., builders,
Seneca Falls, N. Y. Also, a two-wheeled Hose Cart ; all City prop-
erty.
HOWARD, No. 3.— Third-class Engine, Hunneman, builder, Boston ;
and two-wheeled Hose Cart ; both City property.
CALIFORNIA, No. 4. — Second-class Steam Engine, Button & Co.,
builders, Waterford, N. Y. ; City property. A two- wheeled Hose Cart ;
City property.
KNICKERBOCKER, No. 5. — Second-class Engine, Jeffers, builder,
Pawtucket, R. I., and a two-wheeled Hose Cart ; both City property.
190
MONUMENTAL, No. 6. — First-class Steam Engine, built by Lee &
Lamed, N. Y., owned by the City ; and a two-wheeled Hose Cart,
Company property.
VOLUNTEER, No. 7. — Second-class Engine, built by Hunneman &
Co., Boston, and a two-wheeled Hose Cart ; both City property.
PACIFIC, No. 8. — Second-class Engine, Jeffers, builder, Pawtucket,
R. I., and a two-wheeled Hose Cart ; both owned by the City.
VIGILANT, No. 9. — Second-class Jeffers Engine, and a two-wheeled
Hose Cart ; both owned by the City.
CRESCENT, No. 10. — Second-class Engine, Cowing & Co., builders,
Seneca Falls, N. Y., and a two-wheeled Hose Cart ; both owned by
the City.
COLUMBIAN, No. 11. — Second-class Engine, built by Van Ness &
Torboss, New York, and a two-wheeled Hose Cart ; all City property.
PENNSYLVANIA, No. 12. — Second-class Steam Engine, built by
Neafie & Levy, Philadelphia, City property ; and a four-wheeled Hose
Carriage, owned by the Company.
YOUNG AMERICA, No. 13. — Second-class Engine, Cowing & Co.,
builders, Seneca Falls, N. Y., a fine four-wheeled Hose Carriage ; both
Company property ; also, a two-wheeled Hose Cart, owned by the City.
TIGER, No. 14. — Second-class Steam Engine, Button & Co., build-
ers, Waterford, N. Y., and a four-wheeled Hose Carriage ; both City
property.
HOOK AND LADDER COMPANIES.
ST. FRANCIS, No. 1. — Truck, with the usual number of Hooks,
Ladders, etc., built by J. L. Berry, San Francisco, in good order ; City
property.
LAFAYETTE, No. 2. — Truck, with a good supply of Hooks and
Ladders, J. L. Berry, builder, San Francisco, in good order ; City
property.
INDEPENDENCE, No. 3. — Truck, with fair supply of Hooks and
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Ladders ; was purchased by the Company from a Company in Marys-
ville ; in fair condition.
HOSE COMPANIES.
WASHINGTON, No. 1. — Four-wheeled Hose Carriage ; City proper-
ty ; in good order.
LIBERTY, No. 2. — Four-wheeled Hose Carriage ; City property ; in
good order.
EUREKA, No. 4. — Four-wheeled Hose Carriage ; Company proper-
ty ; in good order.
INDEPENDENT COMPANIES.
RINCON HOSE COMPANY. — Four-wheeled Hose Carriage ; Com-
pany property.
HAYES VALLEY HOSE COMPANY. — Two-wheeled Hose Cart and
five hundred feet of Hose, City property ; and three hundred feet of
Hose owned by the Company.
WEST END ENGINE COMPANY. — The Engine and Hose in use by
this Company are City property, and the Hose Cart, Company prop-
erty.
CENTRAL HOSE COMPANY. — Two-wheeled Hose Cart, and three
hundred and fifty feet of Hose ; City property.
LIST OP HYDRANTS.
1. Southwest corner of Broadway and Front.
2. Southeast corner of Broadway and Battery.
3. Southwest corner of Broadway and Sansome.
4. Southeast corner of Broadway and Montgomery.
5. Northwest corner of Broadway and Kearny.
6. Northwest corner of Broadway and Dupont.
7. Southwest corner of Broadway and Stockton.
8. Southwest corner of Broadway and Powell.
9. Northeast corner of Broadway and Mason, on Broadway.
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10. Northeast corner of Broadway and Mason, on Mason.
11. North side of Broadway, between Front and Davis — California
Steam Navigation Company's Yard — private.
12. Southwest corner of Bush and Battery.
13. Northwest corner of Bush and Battery.
14. Southwest corner of Bush and Sansome.
15. Northeast corner of Bush and Montgomery.
16. Southwest corner of Bush and Montgomery.
17. Southwest corner of Bush and Kearny.
18. Northwest corner of Bush and Dupont.
19. Northeast corner of Bush and Dupont.
20. Northwest corner of Bush and Stockton.
21. Northeast corner of Bush and Powell.
22. Northwest corner of Bush and Powell.
23. Northwest corner of Bush and Mason.
24. Northwest corner of Bush and Taylor.
25 Southeast corner of Bush and Taylor.
26. Northwest corner of Bush and Jones.
27. Northeast corner of Bush and Jones.
28. Southeast corner of Bush and Leavenworth.
29. Northwest corner of Bush and Leavenworth.
30. North side of Bush, at House of Engine Company No. 11.
31. Northwest corner of Bush and Larkin.
32. Northwest corner of Bush and Franklin.
33. Northwest corner of Bush and Laguna.
34. Northeast corner of Bryant and Rincon Place.
35. Northwest corner of Bryant and Second.
36. North side of Bryant, between Second and Third.
37. Southeast corner of Bryant and Third.
38. North side of Bryant, between Third and Fourth.
39. North side of Bryant, at House of Engine Company No. 1.
40. Northeast corner of Bryant and Fourth.
41. Northeast corner of Bryant and Park Avenue.
42. Northeast corner of Bryant and Garden.
43. Northwest corner of Brannan and Second.
44. Northeast corner of Brannan and Third.
45. Northeast corner of Brannan and Fourth.
46. Northeast corner of Brannan and Fifth.
47. Southeast corner of Brannan and Sixth.
48. Northeast corner of Brannan and Seventh.
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49. North side of Brannan, between Seventh and Eighth.
50. Northeast corner of Brannan and Ninth.
51. North side of Brannan, between Sixth and Seventh.
52. Northwest corner of Brannan and Eighth.
53. Southwest corner of Commercial and Montgomery.
54. Southeast corner of Commercial and Kearny.
55. North side of Chestnut, between Powell and Mason.
56. Southwest corner of Chestnut and Stockton.
57. Southeast corner of Chestnut and Mason.
58. Northwest corner of Clay and Davis.
59. Northeast corner of Clay and Battery.
60. Southwest corner of Clay and Stockton.
61. Southwest corner of Clay and Powell.
62. Southwest corner of Clay and Powell, on Powell.
63. Southeast corner of Clay and Mason.
64. Northeast corner of Clay and Mason.
65. Northwest corner of Clay and Taylor.
66. Southeast corner of Clay and Taylor.
67. Northwest corner of Clay and East.
68. South side of Clay, east of Montgomery.
69. Northwest corner of Commercial and Battery.
70. Southeast corner of Commercial and Battery.
71. Southwest corner of Commercial and Sansome.
72. Southwest corner of California and Dupont.
73. Southeast corner of California and Battery.
74. Southeast corner of California and Sansome.
75. Southwest corner of California and Montgomery.
76. Southeast corner of California and Dupont.
77. Northwest corner of California and Dupont.
78. Northeast corner of California and Powell.
79. Northwest corner of California and Powell.
80. Southeast corner of California and Taylor.
81. Southeast corner of California and Leaven worth.
82. Northwest corner of California and Stockton.
83. Southeast corner of California and Larkin.
84. Southwest corner of Clementina and First.
85. Southeast corner of Clementina and Second.
86. Northeast corner of Clementina and Third.
87. South side of Clementina, between First and Second.
88. North side of Clementina, between First and Second.
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89. North side of Clementina, between Third and Fourth.
90. North side of Clementina, between Fifth and Sixth.
91. Northwest corner of Clementina and Fifth.
92. Northeast corner of Clary and Fourth.
93. North side of Clary, between Fifth and Sixth.
94. North side of Clary, between Fourth and Fifth.
95. East side of Ritch, opposite Clary.
96. East side of Dupont, between Pacific and Jackson.
97. Northwest corner of Ellis and Stockton.
98. Northeast corner of Ellis and Powell.
99. Northwest corner of Ellis and Mason.
100. Northeast corner of Ellis and Taylor.
101. Northeast corner of Ellis and Hyde.
102. Northeast corner of Ellis arid Larkin.
103. North side of Ellis, between Powell and Mason.
104. Northwest corner of Eddy and Leavenworth.
105. Southwest corner of Eddy and Powell.
106. Southwest corner of Eddy and Mason.
107. Northeast corner of Eddy and Hyde.
108. Northwest corner of Everett and Third.
109. Southeast corner of Everett and Fourth.
110. Southwest corner of Essex Place and Essex Street.
111. Southwest corner of Francisco and Dupont.
112. Southwest corner of Francisco arid Stockton.
113. Northwest corner of Francisco and Powell.
114. Southwest corner of Filbert and Battery.
115. Southwest corner of Filbert and Dupont.
116. Northeast corner of Filbert and Stockton.
117. Northeast corner of Filbert and Powell.
118. Southwest corner of Filbert and Mason.
119. Northeast corner of Filbert and Mason.
120. Southwest corner of Filbert and Hyde.
121. East side of Fremont, between Folsom and Howard.
122. East side of Fremont, between Howard and Mission.
123. East side of Fremont, between Mission and Market.
124. Northwest corner of Folsom and Stewart.
125. Southeast corner of Folsom and Main.
126. Southeast corner of Folsom and Beale.
127. Northwest corner of Folsom and First.
128. Northeast corner of Folsom and First.
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129. Northwest corner of Folsom and Second
130. Northeast corner of Folsom and Third.
131. Southwest corner of Folsom and Fourth.
132. Northwest corner of Folsom and Fourth.
133. Northeast corner of Folsom and Fifth.
134. Northwest corner of Folsom and Sixth.
135. Southeast corner of Folsom and Sixth.
136. Northwest corner of Folsom and Rausch.
137. Northeast corner of Folsom and Ninth.
138. Northwest corner of Folsom and Eleventh.
139. Northeast corner of Folsom and Fremont.
140. Northwest corner of Folsom and Eighth.
141. North side of Folsom, between Second and Third.
142. North side of Folsom, between Fifth and Sixth.
143. North side of Folsom, between Fourth and Fifth. s
144. East side of Folsom, opposite Mission Woolen Mills.
145. Southwest corner of Greenwich and Dupont.
146. Northwest corner of Greenwich and Stockton.
147. Northeast corner of Greenwich and Powell.
148. Southeast corner of Greenwich and Mason.
149. Northeast corner of Greenwich and Jansen.
150. Northeast corner of Greenwich and Jones.
151. Northwest corner of Green and Kearny.
152. Southeast corner of Green and Dupont.
153. Southeast corner of Green and Stockton.
154. Southwest corner of Green and Powell.
155. Northwest corner of Green and Mason.
156. Northwest corner of Green and Calhoun.
157. Northwest corner of Green and Hyde.
158. South side of Geary Street, in front of house of Eureka Hose
Company.
159. Northwest corner of Geary and Kearny.
160. Northeast corner of Geary and Dupont.
161. Northwest corner of Geary and Stockton.
162. Southwest corner of Geary%and Powell.
163. Northwest corner of Geary and Mason.
164. Northwest corner of Geary and Taylor.
165. Northeast corner of Geary and Jones.
166. Southeast corner of Geary and Hyde.
167. South side of Guy Place, near First.
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168. Northeast corner of Grove and Laguna.
169. Southeast corner of Harrison and Main,
170. Northeast corner of Harrison and Beale.
171. Northeast corner of Harrison and Fremont.
172. Southwest corner of Harrison and First.
173. Southeast corner of Harrison and Second.
174. Northeast corner of Harrison and Essex.
175. Southwest corner of Harrison and Stanly Place.
176. Northwest corner of Harrison and Third.
177. North side of Harrison, between Third and Fourth.
178. Southwest corner of Harrison and Fourth.
179. Northeast corner of Harrison and Fifth.
180. North side of Harrison, between Fifth and Sixth.
181. Southeast corner of Harrison and Sixth.
182. Northwest corner of Harrison and Seventh.
183. North side of Harrison, between Fourth and Fifth.
184. Northeast corner of Howard and Fremont.
185. ' Southwest corner of Howard and First.
186. Southwest corner of Howard and Second.
187. Northwest corner of Howard and Third.
188. Northwest corner of Howard and Fourth.
189. Southeast corner of Howard and Sixth.
190. Southeast corner of Howard and Seventh.
1^)1. Southeast corner of Howard and Eighth.
192. Southeast corner of Howard and Langton.
193. Southeast corner of Howard and Russ.
194. Southeast corner of Howard and Rausch.
195. Northeast corner of Howard and Twelfth.
196. Northwest corner of Howard and Thirteenth.
197. Northwest corner of Howard and Sixteenth.
198. South side of Howard, between Second and Third.
199. North side of Howard, between Third and Fourth.
200. South of Howard, near Fifth, in Gas Company's Yard. Pri-
vate.
201. South side of Howard, between Third and Fourth (Union Hall).
Private.
202. North side of Howard, between First and Second.
203. Northeast corner of Hayes and Laguna.
204. Northwest corner of Hayes and Octavia.
205. Northwest corner of Hayes and Gough.
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206. Northwest corner of Hayes and Franklin.
207. Northwest corner of Hayes and Van Ness Avenue.
208. Northwest corner of Hayes and Polk.
209. Northwest corner of Jackson and Drumra.
210. Southeast corner of Jackson and Front.
211. Northwest corner of Jackson and Front.
212. Northwest corner of Jackson and Battery.
213. Northeast corner of Jackson and Sansorae.
214. Northeast corner of Jackson and Montgomery.
215. Southwest corner of Jackson and Montgomery.
216. Southwest corner of Jackson and Kearny.
217. Southeast corner of Jackson and Dupont.
218. Northwest corner of Jackson and Dupont.
219. Northwest corner of Jackson and Stockton.
220. Southeast corner of Jackson and Powell.
221. Southwest corner of Jackson and Powell.
222. Northwest corner of Jackson and Virginia.
223. Northeast corner of Jackson and Mason.
224. Northwest corner of Jackson and Mason.
225. Southeast corner of Jackson and Mason.
226. Northeast corner of Jackson and Taylor.
227. Southwest corner of Jackson and Taylor.
228. North side of Jackson, west of Kearny.
229. North side of Jackson, between Front and Davis. At House of
No. 8.
230. South side of Jackson, between Montgomery and Kearny. At
Exempt Company's House.
231. Southwest corner of Jessie and First.
232. Northwest corner of Jessie and Ecker.
233. Northeast corner of Jessie and Annie.
234. Northwest corner of Jessie and Fourth.
235. North side of Jessie, between Third and Fourth.
236. North side of Jessie, between Fourth and Fifth.
237. North side of Jessie, between Fifth and Sixth.
238. West side of Kearny, between Pine and California.
239. West side of Kearny, between Sacramento and California.
240. South side of King, near Second.
241. North side of King, near Third. Private.
242. Northwest corner of Lombard and Kearny.
243. Southwest corner of Lombard and Dupont.
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244. Southwest corner of Lombard and Stockton.
245. Southwest corner of Lombard and Powell.
246. Southeast corner of Lombard and Mason.
247. Northeast corner of Lombard and Taylor.
248. Northeast corner of Lombard and Jones.
249. Southeast corner of Louisa and Fourth.
250. Northwest corner of Louisa and Fourth.
251. Southeast corner of Laurel Place and Essex.
252. Southeast corner of Market and Beale.
253. Southwest corner of Market and First.
254. Southwest corner of Market and Fourth.
255. Southwest corner of Market and Third.
256. South side of Market, between Second and Third.
257. South side of Market, between First and Second.
258. North side of Market, in front of Engine House, No. 4.
259. South side of Market, between Third and Fourth.
260. Southeast corner of Market and Fifth.
261. Southeast corner of Market and Fremont.
262. Southeast corner of Market and Eleventh.
263. Southwest corner of Mission and Srewart.
264. Northeast corner of Mission and Beale.
265. Southwest corner of Mission and Fremont.
266. Northeast corner of Mission and Fremont.
267. Southwest corner of Mission and First.
268. Northwest corner of Mission and First.
269. Southwest corner of Mission and Second.
270. Northeast corner of Mission and Fourth.
271. Southeast corner of Mission and Fifth.
272. Southeast corner of Mission and Sixth.
273. Northeast corner of Mission and Ninth.
274. Northeast corner of Mission and Eleventh.
275. Southeast corner of Mission and Twelfth.
276. Northwest corner of Mission and Sixteenth.
277. Northwest corner of Mission and Ridley.
278. North side of Mission, between First and Second.
279. North side of Mission, between Second and Third.
280. North side of Mission, between Fourth and Fifth.
281. North side of Mission, between Fifth and Sixth.
282. Northwest corner of Minna and First.
283. Southeast corner of Minna and Second.
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284. Northwest corner of Minna and Third.
285. Southwest corner of Minna and Fourth.
286. North side of Minna, between First and Second.
287. North side of Minna, between First and Second.
288. South side of Minna, between Second and Third.
289. South side of Minna, between Fourth and Fifth.
290. Northwest corner of McAllister and Fillmore.
291. Northwest corner of McAllister and Buchanan.
292. Southwest corner of Natoraa and First.
293. Northeast corner of Natoma and Jane.
294. Northwest corner of Natoma and Fifth.
295. North side of Natoma, between First and Second.
296. Northwest corner of O'Farrell and Dupont.
297. Northwest corner of O'Farrell and Stockton.
298. Northeast corner of O'Farrell and Mason.
299. Northeast corner of O'Farrell and Jones.
300. Northeast corner of O'Farrell and Hyde.
301. Northeast corner of O'Farrell and Larkin.
302. East side of Park Avenue, between Harrison and Bryant.
303. Northwest corner of Pacific and Battery..
304. Northwest corner of Pacific and Battery, on Battery.
305. Southeast corner of Pacific and Sansome.
306. Northeast corner of Pacific and Montgomery.
307. Southwest corner of Pacific and Montgomery.
308. Northwest corner of Pacific and Dupont.
309. Southwest corner of Pacific and Powell.
3JLO. Northeast corner of Pacific and Mason.
311. Northeast corner of Pacific and Taylor.
312. Southwest corner of Pacific and Taylor.
313. Northwest corner of Pacific and Jones.
314. Southwest corner of Pacific and Jones.
315. Northwest corner of Pacific and Leaven worth.
316. Northwest corner of Pacific and H)de. Broken.
317. Northeast corner of Pacific and Larkin.
318. North side of Pacific, opposite Virginia.
319. North side of Pacific, between Dupont and Stockton.
320. South side of Pacific, at old Engine House of No. 10.
321. Southeast corner of Pine and Battery.
322. Southwest corner of Pine and Sansome.
323. Southeast corner of Pine and Montgomery.
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324. Southwest corner of Pine and Kearny.
325. Southeast corner of Pine and Dupont, on Pine.
326. Southeast corner of Pine and Dupont, on Dupont.
327. Northeast corner of Pine and Stockton.
328. Northwest corner of Pine and Powell.
329. Northwest corner of Pine and Jones.
330. Southwest corner of Pine and Mason.
331. Southeast corner of Pine and Larkin.
332. North side of Pine, east of Montgomery.
333. Northwest corner of Post and Montgomery.
334. Southwest corner of Post and Montgomery.
335. Northwest corner of Post and Kearny.
336. Northwest corner of Post and Mason.
337.- Southwest corner of Post and Taylor.
338. Southeast corner of Post and William.
339. Southeast corner of Post and Jones.
340. Southwest corner of Post and Leaven worth.
341. Northeast corner of Post and Hyde.
342. Southeast corner of Post and Powell.
343. Southeast corner of Perry and Fourth.
344. North side of Perry, between First and Second.
345. North side of Perry, between Second and Third.
346. West side of Potrero Avenue, south of Bran nan Street Bridge.
347. Southeast corner of Richmond and Battery.
348. Southwest corner of Sacramento and Drumm.
349. Southwest corner of Sacramento and Market.
350. Southeast corner of Sacramento and Davis.
351. Southeast corner of Sacramento and Front.
352. Northwest corner of Sacramento and Front.
353. Northeast corner of Sacramento and Battery.
354. Southwest corner of Sacramento and Sansome.
355. Northeast corner of Sacramento and Sansome.
356. Northeast corner of 'Sacramento and Leidesdorff.
357. Southeast corner of Sacramento and Kearny.
358. Southwest corner of Sacramento and Powell.
359. Northwest corner of Sacramento and Taylor.
360. Southeast corner of Sacramento and Taylor.
361. Southwest corner of Sacramento and Jones.
362. South side of Sacramento, at What Cheer House.
363. South side of Sacramento, opposite Waverly Place.
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364. Southwest corner of Sacramento and Dupont.
365. Southeast corner of Sacramento and Larkin.
366. Southeast corner of Sacramento and Leavenworth.
367. Northwest corner of Sutter and Sansome.
368. Southwest corner of Sutter and Montgomery.
369. Northwest corner of Sutter and Montgomery.
370. Southwest corner of Sutter and Kearny.
371. Northeast corner of Sutter and Dupont.
372. Northwest corner of Sutter and Stockton.
373. Southwest corner of Sutter and Stockton.
374. Northwest corner of Sutter and Mason.
375. Southeast corner of Sutter and Taylor.
376. South side of Sutter, at House of Engine Company No. 7.
377. Northwest corner of Sutter and Taylor.
378. Southeast corner of Sutter and Larkin.
379. Southwest corner of St. Mark Place and Dupont.
380. Southwest corner of Stevenson and First.
381. Northeast corner of Stevenson and Second.
382. Northwest corner of Stevenson and Third.
383. Northeast corner of Stevenson and Seventh.
384. Southeast corner of Shipley and Fifth.
385. Southeast corner of Shipley and Sixth.
386. South side of Shipley, between Fourth arid Fifth.
387. Southwest corner of Silver and Second.
388. Southwest corner of Silver and Third.
389. North side of Silver, between Third and Fourth.
390. Northeast corner of Sixteenth and Dolores.
391. Northwest corner of Sixteenth and Guerrero.
392. Northwest corner of Sixteenth and Valencia.
393. North side of Sixteenth, between Guerrero and Dolores.
394. North side of Sixteenth, in front of Engine House of No. 13.
395. Northwest corner of Sixteenth and First Avenue.
396. Northwest corner of Sixteenth and Potrero Avenue.
397. Northeast corner of Seventeenth and Valencia.
398. Northeast corner of Seventeenth and Dolores.
399. Northwest corner of Seventeenth and Second Avenue.
400. East side of Sixth, between Folsom and Harrison.
401. South side of South Park Avenue, between Second and Third.
402. Northwest corner of Second Avenue and Seventeenth Street.
403. Northwest corner of Turk and Mason.
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404. Southeast comer of Turk and Taylor.
405. Southeast corner of Turk and Jones.
406. Southeast corner of Turk and Leavenworth.
407. Northeast corner of Turk and Hyde.
408. Northwest corner of Tehama and First.
409. Southeast corner of Tehama and Second.
410. Northwest corner of Tehama and Fifth.
411. Northeast corner of Tehama and Sixth.
412. North side of Tehama, between First and Second.
413. South side of Tehama, between First and Second.
414. North side of Tehama, between Third and Fourth.
415. Southeast corner of Townsend and Third.
416. Southwest corner of Union and Montgomery.
417. Southwest corner of Union and Kearny.
418. Southwest corner of Union and Dupont.
419. Northeast corner of Union and Dupont.
420. Southwest corner of Union and Stockton.
421. Southeast corner of Union and Stockton.
422. Southeast corner of Union and Stockton.
423. Southeast corner of Union and Powell.
424. Southwest corner of Union and Mason.
425. Southeast corner of Union and Jones.
426. Northwest corner of Union and Hyde.
427. Southeast corner of Union and Larkin.
428. Southwest corner of Vallejo and Front.
429. Southwest corner of Vallejo and Battery.
430. Northwest corner of Vallejo and Kearny.
43.1. Southwest corner of Vallejo and Dupont.
432. Southwest corner of Vallejo and Stockton.
433. Southwest corner of Vallejo and Powell.
434. Southeast corner of Vallejo and Mason.
435. Northwest corner of Vallejo and Hyde.
436. Southeast corner of Washington and Battery.
437. Southeast corner of Washington and Sansome.
438. Northwest corner of Washington and Sansome.
439. Southeast corner of Washington and Montgomery.
440. Southwest corner of Washington and Kearny.
441. Southwest corner of Washington and Brenham Place.
442. Northwest corner of Washington and Dupont.
443. Southwest corner of Washington and Stockton.
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444. Southwest corner of Washington and Powell.
445. Southeast corner of Washington and Mason.
446. Southeast corner of Washington and Mason, on Mason.
447. Northwest corner of Washington and Taylor.
448. Northeast corner of Washington and Leaven worth (suction).
CISTERNS.
The following is the number and condition of Fire Cisterns :
Built of Location. Capacity. Remarks.
Brick, Powell corner Filbert 20,000, arched, in good order.
Brick, Powell corner Green 30,000, arched, in bad order.
Brick, Powell corner Broadway 30,000, in good order.
Brick, Powell corner Pacific 30,000, in bad order.
Brick, Powell corner Jackson 30,000, in good order.
Brick, Powell corner Washington 30,000, in good order.
Brick, Powell corner Bush 60,000, in bad order.
Brick, Stockton corner Union 30,000, arched, in good order.
Cement, Stockton corner Green 21,000, arched, in bad order.
Brick, Stockton corner Vallejo 20,000, arched, in good order.
Brick, Stockton corner Broadway 20,000, arched, in good order.
Brick, Stockton corner Pacific 25.000, arched, in good order.
Brick, Stockton corner Washington .... 20,000, arched, in good order.
Brick, Stockton corner Clay 20,000, arched, in good order.
Brick, Dupont corner Union 20,000, arched, in bad order.
Brick, Dupont corner Green 32,000, arched, in good order.
Brick, Dupont corner Vallejo 30,000, arched, in good order.
Brick, Dupont corner Broadway 35,000, arched, in good order.
Brick, Dupont corner Pacific 31,000, arched, in good order
Brick, Dupont corner Jackson 25,000, arched, in good order.
Brick, Dupont corner Washington 25,000, arched, in bad order.
Brick, Dupont corner Clay 15,000, arched, in good order.
Brick, Dupont corner California 30,000, in good order.
Brick, Dupont corner Bush 29,000, in good order.
Brick, Kearny corner Pacific 30,000, arched, in bad order.
Brick, Kearny corner Merchant 30,000, arched, in good order.
Brick, Kearny corner Sacramento 30,000, arched, in good order.
Brick, Kearny corner California 20,000, arched, in good order.
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Brick, Kearny corner Bush 27,000, arched, in good order.
Brick, Kearny corner Post 30,000, arched, in bad order.
Brick, Montgomery corner Pacific 30,000, arched, in good order.
Brick, Montgomery corner Washington . 30,000, wooden cover, in good
order.
Brick, Montgomery corner Commercial . 32,000, arched, in good order.
Brick, Montgomery corner California.. .32,000, arched, in good order.
Brick, Montgomery corner Bush 25,000, in good order.
Brick, Sansome corner Pacific 25,000, in good order.
Brick, Sansome corner Bush 30,^000, in bad order.
Brick, Battery corner Bush 30,000, in good order.
Wood, First corner Jessie* 25,000, in bad order.
Brick, Folsom corner First 29,000, arched, in good order.
Brick, Third corner Mission 30,000, in bad order.
Brick, Stevenson corner Ecker 27,000, in good order.
Brick, Broadway corner Ohio 40,000, in good order.
Brick, Folsom corner Second 51,000, arched, in good order.
Brick, Clay corner Taylor 45,000, arched, in good order.
Brick, Powell corner Ellis (filled by a
spring) , 2^,000, arched, in good order.
Brick, Center corner Mission 28,000, arched, in bad order.
Brick, Dolores corner Center 42,000, arched, in good order.
Brick, corner Davis and California 40,000, arched, in good order.
Brick, corner Fremont and Mission .... 40,000, arched, in good order.
PROPERTY IN THE CORPORATION YARD.
One Relief Engine, in good order.
Two Relief Engines, in bad order.
Three Relief Hose Carriages.
Two condemned Hose Carriages.
Two condemned Engines, one small.
One small Portable Forge, and lot of necessary tools.
* This Cistern is not worth repairing.
OFFICERS OF EXEMPT FIRE COMPANY. 205
MEMBERS OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Broderick Engine Company, No. 1 31 members.
Manhattan Engine Company, No. 2 49 members.
Howard Engine Company, No. 3 51 members.
California Engine Company, No. 4 51 members.
Knickerbocker Engine Company, No. 5 53 members.
Monumental Engine Company, No. 6 46 members.
Volunteer Engine Company, No. 7 30 members.
Pacific Engine Company, No. 8 , 36 members.
Vigilant Engine Company, No. 9 41 members.
Crescent Engine Company, No. 10 46 members.
Columbian Engine Company, No. 11 45 members.
Pennsylvania Engine Company, No. 12 41 members.
Young America Engine Company, No. 13 63 members.
Tiger Engine Company, No. 14 35 members.
St. Francis Hook and Ladder Company, No. 1 27 members.
Lafayette Hook and Ladder Company, No. 2 51 members.
Independence Hook and Ladder Company, No. 3 25 members.
Washington Hose Company, No. 1 19 members.
Liberty Hose Company, No. 2 18 members.
Eureka Hose Company, No. 4 17 members.
Active Members . . . . 775
OFFICERS OF THE EXEMPT FIRE COMPANY.
President WM. McKiBBiN.
Vice President M. E. FITZ GIBBON.
Secretary WM. MARTIN.
Treasurer JAMES H. CUTTER.
Number of Members.. . .382.
206 CHIEF ENGINEER'S REPORT.
TRUSTEES OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT CHARITABLE
FUND.
President WILLIAM McKiBBiN
Secretary EDWARD S. SPEAK.
Treasurer JAMES H. CUTTER.
Louis COHN, M. G. SEARING.
OFFICERS OF THE SAN FRANCISCO FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Chief Engineer DAVID SCANNELL.
First Assistant CORNELIUS MOONEY.
Second Assistant THOMAS FINERTY.
Third Assistant CHARLES McCANN.
President A. J. HOUGIITALING.
Secretary MICHAEL LYNCH.
Treasurer JOHN STRATMAN.
MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DELEGATES.
BRODERICK, No. 1. — John Stratman, James G. Carson.
MANHATTAN, No. 2. — Chas. C. Wilson, James Price.
HOWARD, No. 3. — James L. Fink, P. Edward Dalton.
CALIFORNIA, No. 4. — John J. Conlin, Alexander Hertz.
KNICKERBOCKER, No. 5. — Timothy McCarthy, S. Bunner.
MONUMENTAL, No. 6. — Wm. G. Olwell, Joshua J. Creery.
VOLUNTEER, No. 7. — Thos. J. Shields, John Ryan.
PACIFIC, No. 8. — T. B. Robinson, R. W. Brannan.
VIGILANT, No. 9. — John Brougham, Eugene Casanova.
CRESCENT, No. 10. — Jas. E. Connolly, Samuel Rainey, jr.
COLUMBIAN, No. 11. — Wm. E. Duffey, Jer. J. Kelley.
OFFICERS OF FIRE DEPARTMENT. . 207
PENNSYLVANIA, No. 12. — John H. Gardiner, Isaac D. Barnard.
YOUNG AMERICA, No. 13. — M. Lynch, Edward Ewald.
TIGER, No. 14. — A. J. Houghtaling, George B. Hudson.
ST. FRANCIS HOOK AND LADDER, No. 1. — George H. Baker, Henry
A. Chase.
LAFAYETTE HOOK AND LADDER, No. 2. — Dr. Joseph Haine, Paulin
Huant.
INDEPENDENCE HOOK AND LADDER, No. 3 — Fred. Roskarap, D.
J. Slicer.
WASHINGTON HOSE, No. 1. — Richard Chute.
LIBERTY HOSE, No. 2. — Thomas Sawyer.
EUREKA HOSE, No. 4. — Daniel Bigley.
BOARD OF FOREMEN.
President WILLIAM B. FAIRMAN.
Secretary M. LYNCH.
Treasurer MARK HARRIS.
Broderick, No. 1 MARK HARLOE.
Manhattan, No. 2 , A. C. IMBRIE.
Howard, No. 3 H. W. BURCKES.
California No. 4 JAS. K. COADY.
Knickerbocker, No. 5 WILLIAM B. FAIRMAN.
Monumental, No. 6 W. D. L. HALL.
Volunteer, No. 7 WM. MOORE.
Pacific, No. 8 P. H. DALY.
Vigilant, No: 9 DANIEL T. BROWN, Jr.
Crescent, No. 10 SAMUEL NEWMAN.
Columbian, No. 11 HENRY J. HUSSEY.
Pennsylvania, No. 12 JOHN HANNA.
Young America, No. 13 ISAAC V. DENNISTON.
Tiger, No. 14.. J. E. MITCHELL.
St. Francis Hook and Ladder, No. 1 MARK HARRIS.
Lafayette Hook and Ladder, No. 2 PAULIN HUANT.
Independence Hook and Ladder, No. 3 FRED. ROSKAMP.
Washington 'Hose, No. 1 JAMES S. ALLEN.
Liberty Hose, No. 2 THOS. H. Fox.
Eureka Hose, No. 4 M. J. DOLAN.
208 CHIEF ENGINEER'S REPORT.
STAFF OF DEPARTMENT PHYSICIANS.
President
Secretary ARTHUR B. STOUT.
Dr. S. B. Harris, Dr. William H. Bruner,
Dr. Charles Bertody, Dr. Isaac Rowell,
Dr. H. H. Toland, Dr. A. J. Bowie,
Dr. William Hammond, Dr. F. H. Holman,
Dr. John Hastings, Dr. A. F. Sawyer,
Dr. Joseph Haine, Dr. C. M. Hitchcock,
Dr. J. R. Boyce, Dr. James Murphy,
» Dr. L. J. Henry,
OFFICERS FIRE DEPARTMENT— 1850 TO AND INCLUDING
1866.
CHIEF ENGINEERS.
FREDERICK D. KOHLER — Elected October 19th, 1850; term ex-
pired November 3d, 1851.
FRANKLIN E. R. WHITNEY — Elected November 3d, 1851; resigned
November 17th, 1851. Reflected December 1st, 1856;
term expired December 1st, 1857. Reflected Decem-
ber 1st, 1857; term expired December 3d, 1860.
GEORGE H. HOSSEFROSS — Elected December 6th, 1851 ; term ex-
pired December 6th, 1852. Reflected December 6th,
1852; resigned October 1st, 1853.
CHARLES P. DUANE — Acting Chief from October 1st, 1853, to De-
cember 5th, 1853. Elected December 5th, 1853 ; term
expired December 4th, 1854. Reflected December 4th,
1854; term expired December 3d, 1855.
JAMES E. NUTTMAN — Elected December 3d, 1855 ; term expired De-
cember 1st, 1856.
DAVID SCANNELL — Elected December 3d, 1860 ; term expired De-
cember 7th, 1863. Reflected December 7th, 1863, for
a term of three years.
ASSISTANT ENGINEERS.
T. K. Battelle, J. Capprise, C. Walsh,
OFFICERS OF FIRE DEPARTMENT.
209
E. A. Ebbetts,
C. L. Case,
W. McKibbin,
J. A. Huntsman,
G. P. Kingsland,
C. P. Duane,
A. R. Simons,
E. A. Ebbetts,
F. L. Jones,
Florence Mahoney,
C. S. Simpson,
W. Free,
F. Wheeler,
A. Devoe,
D. T. Van Orden,
W. O. Smith,
L. H. Robie,
PRESIDENTS.
C. S. Biden,
SECRETARIES.
S. S. Gordon,
E. F. Stewart,
J. G. Corson,
Frank Evans,
C. D. Connell,
Cornelius Mooney,
Thomas Finerty,
Charles McCann.
A. J. Houghtaling.
William Rabe, J. Ezekiel, Thomas H. Flanagan,
J. L. Van Bokkelen, W. O. Farnesworth, Michael Lynch.
M. D. Boruck,
TREASURERS.
John McCarthy,
James H. Cutter,
R. H. Bennett,
H. A. Cobb,
E. B. Tompkins,
C. M. Plum,
M. Heverin,
John Stratman.
Respectfully submitted,
DAVID SCANNELL,
Chief Engineer.
REPORT
CITY AND COUNTY SURVEYOR,
CITY AND COUNTY SURVEYOR'S OFFICE, |
San Francisco, July 31st, 1866. j
To the Honorable Board of Supervisors
Of the City and County of San Francisco —
GENTLEMEN : In compliance to Resolution of your Board, No.
5556, I beg to make the following report :
During the past year I have finished the Block Book, explaining the
location of the streets as now built upon in that part of the city east
and north of Larkin and Ninth streets, as per Resolution of your
Board, No. 4120. The cost of making the above Book, to me, has
been thirteen hundred dollars, ($1300) which amount has not been
refunded by the city.
I wish again to call the attention of your Honorable Board to the
fact that at present there is no officer whose duty it is to see that no
encroachments are made upon the streets by the erection of buildings.
All of which is respectfully submitted,
GEO. C. POTTER,
City and County Surveyor.
CORONER'S REPORT.
OFFICE OF THE CORONER, , ")
San Francisco, July 1st, 1866. j
To the Honorable the Board of Supervisors
Of the City and County of San Francisco —
GENTLEMEN : In conformity with Resolution No. 5556 of your
Board, I respectfully submit the following Report of the number of
dead that came under my supervision as Coroner, from July 1st, 1865,
to June 30th, 1866.
Also, the number and character of inquests and autopsies held by
me during the same period.
SUICIDES.
August
3
February
September . .
1
March
October
2
April
^November
3
IVIay
December
5
Total. .
0
1
3
0
1
4
24
SUICIDES COMMITTED IN THE FOLLOWING MANNER.
Drowning 2
Hanging 1
Fracture of the Skull 1
Laudanum 1
Carried forward 5
212
Brought forward 5
Musket Shot : 1
Morphine 1
Opium 1
Oxalic Acid 1
Pistol Shots 11
Phosphorus 1
Potassii Cyanuretum 1 1
Razor Cuts (Throat) 1
Strychnine 1
In all, as above 24
ACCIDENTAL DEATHS.
1865— July 7
August 10
September 4
October 2
November 2
December 2
I860— January 8
February 3
March .3
April 14
May 3
June . . 1
Total.. 59
ACCIDENTAL DEATHS CAUSED IN THE FOLLOWING MANNER.
Crushed by Railroad Car (San Jose) 1
Crushed by Machinery (Foundry) 1
Crushed by Machinery (Steamboat) 1
Crushed by Beer Barrel 1
Crushed by Wood 1
Drowning 19
Explosion of Boiler 1
Explosion of Nitro-Glycerine 12
Fire 1
Falling from Building 1
Falling Down Stairs 2
Falling in Sewer 1
Carried forward 42
SUDDEN DEATHS.
213
Brought, forward 42
Falling on the edge of a Keg 1
Gun Shots 2
Morphine 1
Pistol Shots 2
Run over by Railroad Cars
Run over by Railroad. Sprinkler 1
Run over by Fire Engine 2
Run over by Truck 1
Run over by Steamer 1
Run over by Beer Wagon 1
Strangulation 1
Thrown from Buggy 1
In all, as above 59
SUDDEN DEATHS FROM OTHER CAUSES.
1865— July 3 1866— January 3
August 0 February 3
September 0 March 1
October 0 April 1
November 1 May 1
December 0 June 1
Total 14
Murders 4
Infanticide
Stillborn 4
Homicide (Justifiable)
In all, as above 14
214
OTHER CAUSES OF DEATH.
Brain — Apoplexy of 4
Congestion of 3
Effusion of 2
Heart — Organic Disease of 3
Aneurism Ascending Aorta of 6
Aneurism Arch Aorta of 4
Aneurism Abdominal Aorta of 5
Hypertrophy of 1
Dropsy of 1
Lungs — Apoplexy of 2
Congestion of 9
Hemorrhage of 6
Phthisis Pulmonalis 9
Hydrothorax ! . 2
Hydrocephalus 2
Convulsions 8
Congestion of Liver 2
Caries of Spine 1
Dropsy 3
Enteritis 2
Paralysis 1
Stricture of the Urethra 1
Mania a Potu 2
In all, as above 79
WHOLE NUMBER OF CASES DURING THE YEAR.
Inquests 57
Autopsies 84
Cases in which neither Inquests or Autopsies were held 35
Totyl 176
Cases in which both Inquests and Autopsies were held 30
AGES.
NATIVITY.
215
UNITED STATES.
California
28
FOREIGNERS.
Ireland
31
Maine
5
England
9
Vermont
1
Scotland
3
Massachusetts
5
. 13
Connecticut
3
10
New York
16
Finland
1
New Jersey . . .
2
Russia
1
Pennsylvania
3
Sweden . ....
3
Maryland
2
China
6
District of Columbia
1
Canada
3
Virginia
1
Italy
2
South Carolina . . .
1
Prussia
3
Alabama . .
1
Peru
1
Illinois ...
2
71
. 71
Chili
1
United States
Spain
1
Poland
1
Mexico
4
Australia
1
Denmark
1
Foreigners
. 96
Victoria . . ...
1
Unknown
9
96
17
11
3
26
58
35
11
5
10
Under 1 year
176
AGES.
From 1 to 10
" 10 to 20
" 20 to 30
" 30 to 40
" 40 to 50
" 50 to 60
" 60 and over
Unknown
Total . ,
176
S. R. HARRIS, M. D.,
Coroner.
FIRE ALARM AND POLICE TELEGRAPH REPORT.
To the Honorable the Board of Supervisors
of the City and County of San Francisco ;
GENTLEMEN: In compliance with Resolution No. 5556, of your
Honorable Body, I herewith submit my first Annual Report of the
Condition and Workings of the " Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph,"
for the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1866.
All the Signal Boxes, Wires, and Instruments of the " Fire Alarm
Telegraph " have worked with remarkable regularity during the year.
There have been four (4) new Signal Boxe i erected, located as follows :
No. 75, at the corner of Kearny and Union ; No. 76, corner of Mont-
gomery and Green ; No. 78 corner of Folsom and Tenth ; No. 79,
corner of Polk and Broadway. Signal Box No. 5, has been removed
to the corner of Battery and Union Streets; No. 12, to the corner of
California and Kearny. By these arrangements, several additional
localities were provided with Signal Boxes.
The following new regulations have been adopted : " Upon an alarm
being struck the second time for the same fire, it will be a signal that
more Engines are wanted. Upon a third alarm being received for the
same fire, a general alarm will be struck in the following manner :
The number of the Box from which the alarm came will be struck
twice, followed by twenty blows in succession." By this arrangement
every one will know, when a general- alarm is struck, that there have
been two previous alarms for the same fire.
The Signal Boxes are all tested once in every two weeks. The
striking machinery of the Bells is carefully examined two or three
times a week, so that it is scarcely possible that any serious derange-
ment of the apparatus can occur.
REMARKS. 217
From July 1st, 1865, to June 30th, 1866, there were 181 alarms
given by means of the Telegraph. Of this number, 109 were actual
fires. The balance were as follows: Second Alarms, 11 ; Rekindled,
8 ; Bonfires, 3 ; General Alarms, 4 ; Chimneys, 17 ; False, 29. Of
this number, 105 were for the first half of the year; against 76, for the
last half. The monthly average for the year has been 15. The
largest number of alarms given during any month were in the months
of September and October last, when 22 were given in each. The
smallest number was given in February, when only 6 occurred.
The days of the week on which alarms were given are as follows :
Sunday, 30 ; Monday, 25 ; Tuesday, 21 ; Wednesday, 15 ; Thursday,
26 ; Friday, 42 ; Saturday, 22. Sunday and Friday have been the
most fruitful of alarms, while Wednesday has been the most free.
A careful examination reveals the following facts as to the hours of
the day when alarms have occurred: Between 11, P.M, and 1, A.M.,
alarms have been most frequent; while between 7 and 11, A.M., has
been most free. The next highest number comes between 8 and 9,
P.M., while from 8 to 9, A.M., no alarms have been struck for the year.
This is the only hour of which this can be said.
•
The boxes from which the largest number of alarms have been
received during the year, are numbers 13, 18, 27, 61, and 62. Out of
the 65 Signal Boxes, alarms have been turned in from all but 11.
With the exception of the above named, the alarms have been pretty
generally distributed among the remaining Boxes.
Judging from the number of alarms for the last half of the year,
as compared with the first half, it is fair to presume, that the number
of alarms for the next year will be greatly diminished. One thing
which will tend to bring about this anticipated result, will be a reduc-
tion in the number of false alarms. That there will be less of these in
the future arises from two facts : First, justice has overtaken some who
have been engaged in this nefarious practice, which will have a ten-
dency to deter others. Secondly, the operators at the Central Office
have become so accustomed to the workings of the instruments, that
they are generally able to detect a false from a genuine alarm, and
hence do not strike such alarms.
The Police Telegraph has been completely remodeled during the
past year, by which change the Batteries are dispensed with at the
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218 FIRE ALARM AND POLICE TELEGRAPH REPORT.
different stations. All are now worked by one Battery at the City
Hall. New stations have been erected at Hayes Park, and Jones,
and Pacific Streets.
A careful observation during the year reveals the fact, that out of
the 109 actual fires that have occurred, fully two-thirds of the alarms
have been struck before any appearance of the fire could be seen from
the top of the City Hall. That the Telegraph has fully met the expecta-
tions of its friends, and as completely dissipated the fears of those who
first opposed it, is generally conceded.
The expenses of this Department have been as follows :
Office expenses $ 28 87
Repairs and extensions 353 19
Batteries 371 06
Tools - . . 25 07
Three relay magnets 85 00
Six Police magnets 60 00
1,200 feet covered wire, at six cents per foot 72 00
Freight on porous cups, from Boston 104 25
Freight on eight signal boxes, from Boston. . . *: 51 15
Lettering signs, and paints 27 02
Printing cards and instructions 51 50
550 porous cups 65 90
52 new keys 23 10
Total $1,318 11
Respectfully submitted.
M. GREENWOOD,
Sup't Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph.
HARBOR MASTER'S REPORT.
HARBOR MASTER'S OFFICE, ^
San Francisco, July 31st, 1866. }
To the Honorable, the Board of Supervisors
Of the City and County of San Francisco —
+
GENTLEMEN : In accordance with your directions, I have the hon-
or to submit the following report :
During the year, four wharves have been built, as follows : One
at the foot of Harrison street, one at the foot of Beale street, including
blocks five and six, one from Long Bridge, and India Wharf rebuilt,
which, with the new wharf just commenced by the Pacific Mail S. S.
Co., will give ample accommodation for some time.
Eight docks have been dredged out to a sufficient depth of water
for the largest vessels, viz : India, Vallejo, Broadway, Pacific, Market,
Mission, Folsom and Stuart street. The other docks will be dredged
out as fast as the Harbor Commissioners have the money to do so.
You will perceive by the tabular statement herewith annexed, that
although 44 more vessels have arrived from foreign an d domestic ports
(exclusive of whalers and vessels employed in the coasting trade) this
year than last, the amount of tonnage has decreased 17,649 tons
owing to the fact that the vessels have been of a smaller class than last
year.
There has been a considerable decrease in the number of vessels
engaged in the Coasting and Bay Trade on account of loss and with-
drawal.
The Whalers, as compared with last year, have decreased 3 in num-
ber, and 2,585 tons. The Harbor dues, collected and paid into the
City and County Treasury amount to $20,136 75. The expenses for
printing and stationery amount to $48 09. For rent of office and boat
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hire, (authorized by law, last winter) $150. Salary, $3,000. Show-
ing a net income to the City and County of $16,938 G6.
Respectfully submitted.
MARCUS HARLOE,
Harbor Master.
* VESSELS IN THE COASTING AND BAY TRADE.
36 Steamers - 18,323 Tons.
6 Ships 4,176 "
41 Barks 15,785 "
25 Brigs 6,586 "
282 Schooners 10,985 "
107 Sloops 1,910 "
Total 497 57,765
* The tonnage is considerably reduced on account of the new measurement.
VESSELS ARRIVED.
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HEALTH OFFICER'S REPORT.
To the Honorable the President and Board of Supervisors
Of the City and County of San Francisco —
GENTLEMEN : I have the honor to submit the following Sanitary
and Mortuary Report, for a portion of the fiscal year ending June
30th, 1866.
The Order of the Board of Supervisors creating the Health Office,
and authorizing the Recording of Deaths, went into effect November
8th, 1865 ; since that time, a correct record of the deaths and inter-
ments in the City have been kept in this office.
There is no Ordinance of the Board of Supervisors requiring a
record of Births and Marriages — these are kept by the County Clerk
and the County Recorder ; consequently, they will not appear in this
Report.
The duties of the Health Officer are prescribed by your Honorable
Board in the following language :
[Order 697, Chapter 11.]
SECTION 10. The Health Officer shall keep an office in some con-
venient location, and shall keep the same open for gratuitous vaccina-
tion during certain hours of each day, except Sundays, of which he
shall give public notice, by advertisement, from time to time, in two
daily newspapers. He shall give his personal attention and services
whenever practicable, to the work of gratuitous vaccination, selecting
and preserving the vaccine virus with his utmost care and skill, and
shall so perform his duties as to promote the physical well being of all
who shall apply at his office. ,
REMARKS. 223
SEC. 11. Every parent, guardian, or other person, having in his or
her charge any infant child, who shall either neglect or refuse to have
such infant child duly vaccinated for a period of more than six months
from its birth, unless prevented by sickness, or other reasonable cause,
duly certified to by a respectable and competent physician, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be punished
by a fine of not less than fifty dollars, nor more than two hundred
dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than ten days,
nor more than twenty days.
SEC. 12. Every person except children under twelve (12) years of
age, who, never having been vaccinated, shall either neglect or refuse,
for the space of six months after the final passage and approval of this
order, to be duly vaccinated, unless prevented by sickness or other
reasonable causes duly certified to by a respectable and competent
physician, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction
shall be punished as prescribed in Section eight of this Order.
SEC. 13. It shall be the duty of the Health Officer in every prac-
tical way to impress upon the citizens of the City and County of San
Francisco the importance and duty of re-vaccination in the case of all
persons who have passed a period of more than seven years since their
first vaccination. The Health Officer, in addition to the duties specially
mentioned in this Order, shall be prompt and active in seeing that all
the orders of the Board of Health are properly executed, shall of his
own motion be vigilant and active in detecting and removing all causes
of disease, and shall see that all persons violating the orders of the
Board of Supervisors, or the Board of Health, in relation to the pre-
servation of the public health are duly prosecuted.
SEC. 14. It shall be the duty of the Health Officer, to keep a
" Mortuary Record " of all deaths occuring in the City and County of
San Francisco, in books duly prepared for the purpose, which shall be
deposited, when filled, and duly preserved for public inspection, in the
office of the County Recorder. Said Mortuary Record shall contain
as nearly as possible the names of all persons who shall die in said
City and County, their sex, the date and place of their birth, the date
and particular locality of their death, the cause of their death, place
of interment, and such other remarks as the Health Officer shall see
fit to make in the margin of the record.
SEC. 15. It shall be the duty of the County Recorder to cause to
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be prepared a proper Index of the names of all persons contained in the
said Mortuary Record, as soon as the first volume shall be deposited
in his office.
SEC. 16. Every Sexton, Undertaker, Superintendent of a Ceme-
tery, or other person who shall inter, or cause to be interred, any
human body, without having first obtained and filed with the Health
Officer, a Physician's certificate, or the Coroner's certificate, or the
certificate of some reliable person acquainted with the facts, setting
forth as nearly as possible the name, sex, and date, and place of birth,
date and locality of death, and cause of death of the deceased, shall
be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be punished
as prescribed in Section eight of this Order, unless in any case it shall
be shown to the satisfaction of the Court that it was actually beyond
the power of such person to comply with the requirements of this
section. It shall be the duty of the Health Officer carefully to examine
the certificates filed in his office, and if in any case he shall have reason
to believe the cause of death has been falsely stated, or that death has
been occasioned by, criminal means, he shall forthwith notify the Cor-
oner, that due inquest may be had, and the guilty party dealt with
according to law.
SEC. 17. Every Sexton, Undertaker, Superintendent of a Ceme-
tery, or other person, who shall inter or cause to be interred any
human body, or who shall remove or cause to be removed from the
City and County of San Francisco any human body, without having
first obtained a permit in writing for the same from the Health Officer,
or who, having interred or caused to be interred, any human body
under said permit, shall neglect, for the space of three days, to report
the place of interment to the Health Officer, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be punished as prescribed in
Section eight of this Order.
There are obvious reasons why this Report will not be as compre-
hensive and elaborate as desired :
1st. The office has been recently established, and is not yet in good
working order ; it is only by experience that we learn what books and
forms are required for keeping the proper records.
2d. The impossibility of getting the correct percentage of deaths to
the population. We can only approximate.
The following estimate is taken from Langley's Directory, published
SUMMARY OF DEATHS. 225
August 1st, 1865, and is believed to be as fair an estimate as can be
made, without an official and accurate census.
White males over 21 years 40,500
White females over 18 years 27,000
White males under 21 years, and white females under 18 yrs. 36,800
Chinese, males and females 3,000
Colored, males and females 2,800
Floating population 9,000
119,100
Increase during the last year 1,900
Total 121,000
This floating population adds materially to our bills of mortality.
We have representatives from almost every clime, with every variety
of habits, and were it not for our invigorating climate, the death rate
would be largely increased. Again, a large proportion of our Hospital
cases are late arrivals from the country, and along the seaboard — per-
sons who have come to this city for medical treatment. These deaths
are not properly chargeable to our climate.
The following table will show the number of Interments from
November 8th, 1865, to June 30th, 1866, being a period of seven
months and twenty-two days.
<*
GENERAL SUMMARY OF DEATHS.
Total number of Interments, from November 8th, 1865,
to June 30th, 1866 1592
White 1438
Colored . 154
Total , . 1592
Males 1037
Females 555
Total 1592
Adults 878
Minors 714
Total . — — 1592
226
HEALTH OFFICER'S REPORT.
Deaths from registered
Deaths from suicide . . .
Deaths from hanging ,
Casualties
Total .
diseases 1519
11
2
60
1592
TABLE I.
CAUSES OF DEATHS.
18
65.
L 8 6
6.
CAUSE OF DEATH.
"3
"o
H
From 8th
to 30th
November.
December.
January.
February.
a
2
rt
m
•"3
>>
eS
£
I
fl
Aneurism of the Aorta
Aneurism of Arch of the Aorta
19
4
2
2
1
3
2
3
2
3
3
1
1
Aneurism of Descending Aorta
2
1
1
Aneurism of Axillary Artery ...
1
1
Aneurism of the Heart. . .
1
1
Aneurism of the Arteria Innom-
inata
1
1
Angina Maligna
2
2
Atrophia
8
1
2
1
1
1
2
Asphyxia
8
3
1
2
1
1
Apoplexy
22
3
1
2
7
2
4
3
Anemia
8
1
2
1
2
1
1
Atresia Rectus y>
1
1
Albuminuria
3
1
1
1
Abscess
2
1
1
Abscess of the Brain
5
4
1
Abscess of the Liver.
3
1
2
Abscess of the Throat
1
1
Acetate of Lead
1
1
Bronchitis . . .
15
1
2
8
3
3
1
1
1
Bilious Colic
1,
1
Burns
2
1
1
Bright's Disease
5
3
2
Concussion of Brain
1
1
Consumption of Lun^s . .
223
21
22
27
22
35
32
40
24
Croup
39
8
5
7
5
8
3
3
Cyanosis
2
1
1
Chorea
1
1
Congestive Chills
1
1
Childbirth
.1
1
Convulsions
3
1
1
1
Convulsions, Infantile
86
11
14
14
13
7
7
7
13
Convulsions, Puerperal
1
1
Cancer
5
2
1
1
1
Cancer of the Throat. .
1
1
CAUSES OF DEATHS.
227
CAUSE OF DEATH.
3
o
EH
1865.
1866.
From 8th
to 30th
November.
December.
January.
February.
A
E
si
1
£
i
i
oj
Cancer of the Stomach
5
4
1
3
73
9
2
1
1
1
13
Cancer of the Uterus
1
1
1
Cholera Morbus
2
10
Cholera Infantum
12
10
1
6
4
8
1
14
4
1
11
2
3
1
12
Congestion of the Liver
Congestion of the Brain
22
29
43
10
79
13
23
. 17
3
3
19
2
1
20
26
52
6
2
3
2
13
1
4
4
32
"4"
1
12
2
2
1
4
7
10
1
12
2
3
3
1
6
3
to to to
4
1
8
1
6
2
2
5
2
5
4
3
5
3
3
7
3
4
14
3
8
4
Congestion of the Lun^s ....
Debility General
Delirium Tremens
Diptheria . . .
8
2
1
1
8
Dentition
Dysentery
"2'
2
Diarrhoea
Dyspepsia
Diabetes
1
1
1
3
Dropsy General
1
2
2
4
3
3
3
Dropsy of the Chest
1
6
3
6
1
1
Disease of the Liver ....
1
o
4
2
8
10
2
1
1
9
3
6
7
10
1
1
2
2
6
2
3
4
"3"
Disease of the Brain
Disease of the Heart
Disease of the Kidney
Disease of the Hip Joint
Disease of the Spine
....
1
•v
....
.....
... .
Disease of the Blood Vessels. .
Drowning
1
2
1
1
4
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
....
Erysipelas
1
2
Enteritis
7
2
3
1
4
2
4
3
10
Enteritis, Gastro
Effects of Intemperance
4
3
4
5
2
3
6
6
5
1
4
9
33
5
16
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
2
Empyemia
1
2
1
2
1
Exposure
1
1
1
Fever Continued . . .
1
1
2
3
1
....
Fever Remittent
4
Fever Intermittent
2
1
1
1
1
Fever Puerperal
2
1
2
3
1
1
"7*
Fever Typhus
3
6
2
1
5
3
2
2
6
1
2
1
2
Fever, Typhoid
2
2
Fever Scarlet
"l"
2
5
2
1
Fever Congestive
Fibrous Tumor in Abdomen. . .
Fracture of Neck
1
1
1
Fatty Degeneration of Heart . .
Gangrene . .
1
1
1
228
HEALTH OFFICER'S REPORT.
CAUSE OF DEATH.
Total.
1865.
1866.
From 8th
to 30th
November.
December.
January.
February.
March.
1
B
A
-<
2
1
®
c
1-5
Gastritic
12
2
7
3
38
2
9
1
1
2
1
Gout . . .
2
1
Gunshot Wound
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
7
Hydro thorax
Hydrocephalus .
4
1
5
6
5
6
1
3
Hemorrhage
Hemorrhage of Femoral Artery
Hemorrhage of the Lungs ....
Hemorrhage of the Intestines.
Hemorrhage Internal
1
6
' 2
1
1
2
1
1
2
5
1
1
1
1
76
24
2
1
2
2
1
12
1
1
1
1
2
1
24
7
2
1
19
3
1
7
1
10
11
14
7
6
A
1
I
1
....
3
9,
1
1
1
1
Hemorrhage Uterine
1
Hypertrophy of the Heart ....
Hypertrophy of the Prostate. .
Hemiple^ia . . .
1
1
1
1
Hanging (execution of sentence)
Inanition
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
Intussusception
Influenza
1
Internal Piles
1
1
8
3
Inflammation of the Lungs ....
Inflammation of the Brain ....
Inflammation of the Bladder. .
Injuries from Paddle-wheel of
Steamer
3
3
15
3 .
1
11
3
10
4
12
2
9
1
8
5
1
1
Injuries from Railroad Cars . . .
Injuries from Fall
1
1
1
1
Injuries from being Run over.
Injuries from Explosion
Injuries from Machinery
Injuries of Head
1
...
12
1
1
Jaundice
....
1
1
Lithotomy
Laryngitis
1
1
1
Mortification
Meningitis
2
1
1
3
1
2
1
3
4
2
6
6
Meningitis Tubercular
Meningitis Acute
1
Meningitis, Cerebro-Spinal ....
Marasmus
1
3
3
2
2
1
1
3
1
1
5
Morphine
Malignant Pustule
1
1
Old Ao-e ... ....
1
1
1
3
Obstruction of the Bowels. . . .
Premature Birth
r
1
2
1
2
3
2
1
2
1
3
3
1
3
1
2
2
1
2
1
Paralysis
2
3
2
2
1
2
2
2
Pyemia .
Pericarditis
Peritonites
Peritonites Puerperal
1
1
Phosphorus Matches
1
Pleurisy . .
1
'
CAUSES OF DEATHS.
229
CAUSE OF DEATH.
1
1865.
1866.
From 8th
to 30th
November.
December.
January.
February.
March.
1
•^
£
^
aj
^
Paraplegia
1
2
2
1
1
2
1
1
11
18
8
2
7
3
1
1
1
1
1
1
4
1
1
Rheumatism . . . . ....
1
1
Rupture of Blood Vessel
Rupture of the Uterus . .
1
1
1
....
Rupture of the Lungs
1
Rupture of the Heart
2
Rachitis . .
1
Scirrus of the Pancreas
1
Suicide
....
2
4
2
"s
1
2
4
1
5
3
1
4
3
2
Scrofula . .
Syphilis
Syphilis Secondary
2
Syphilis Tertiary . ...
2
5
Softening of the Brain
2
1
Scurvy
1
Strangulated Hernia . .
1
Spinal Irritation
1
Small Pox
1
Strangulation . . .
1
Suffocation . . .-
1
Tumor
1
3
Tumor of the Brain . • .
1
Tumor of the Pelvis
'I
4
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
21
28
1
Tumor of the Abdomen
4
Trismus ...
2
Trismus Nascentium
1
1
Tonsilitis
2
1
Tetanus
Tetanus, Fraumatic
1
Tubercles in Brain
1
Thrown from Horse
1
Ulcerated Throat
1
Ulcerated Stomach
1
Uremia
1
1
1
2
Unknown
8
3
1
6
3
2
7
4
903
1
2
\Vhooping Cou^h
4.
5
Total. .
1592
157
9,34
222
177
189
199
811
Table II will show the number of Deaths in the various Hospitals
and Public Institutions in the City.
The figures representing the number of those who have died in the
City, does not include the Hospitals, for the reasons set forth in the
introductory remarks.
230
HEALTH OFFICER'S REPORT.
TABLE. II*.
LOCALITIES OF DEATHS
LOCALITY OF DEATH.
3
"o
H
1865.
1866.
From 8th
to 30th
November.
1
1
P
194
21
1
9
5
4
b
5
i
hi
180
18
6
8
3
1
b
cj
B
o
to
140
20
"7"
4
4
1
a
138
28
3
8
2
9
I
03
X
142
18
2
17
3
7
i
Hj
173
17
1
6
4
3
Died in the City Wards
City and County Hospital
United States Marine Hospital.
St Mary's Hospital
1262
148
17
74
24
32
1
1
16
2
10
2
1
2
131
11
1
6
3
2
104
1
13
o
1
French Hospital
German Hospital
Presidio Hospital
Small Pox Hospital r . . .
1
1
R C Orphan Asylum
3
1
1
1
1
6
4
Protestant Orphan Asylum. . . .
Home for the Inebriate
1
2
1
1
1
1
3
1
2
1
211
Bv Hancringf
In County Jail
Found in the Bay
....
1
Total . .
1592
157
234
222
177
184
203
199
Table III represents the Deaths in the different Districts.
The Census of the Districts has not been taken, and it is impossible
to compare their mortality one with the other.
TABLE III.
PROPORTION OF DEATHS IN THE DIFFERENT DISTRICTS.
DISTRICTS.
9
i
H
1865.
1866.
fll
H
,0
I
n
19
17
4
26
6
4
12
20
12
47
8
8
51
b'
05
!3
*-5
19
13
10
21
6
9
13
13
13
32
13
7
53
>,
es
3
h
7
16
3
19
5
6
17
17
7
20
11
4
45
jj
g
03
»
•"3
•<
14
12
4
26
5
7
17
12
3
35
14
9
55
203
B?
3
oi
c
&
<->
First
105
114
38
184
29
50
101
121
68
242
97
50
349
9
17
8
6
2
6
10
15
7
30
15
3
29
10
10
5
24
2
8
10
14
7
26
9
6
58
189
15
11
2
35
2
3
11
6
6
32
9
6
62
12
18
2
27
1
7
11
24
13
30
18
7
41
Second
Third
Fourth
Fifth
Sixth
Seventh
Eighth .
Ninth
Tenth
Eleventh
Twelfth
Hospitals and Casualties
Total
1592
157
234
222 |l77
199
211
TABLES.
231
TABLE IV.
AGES AND DEATHS IN THE DIFFERENT MONTHS. •
AGES.
jl
3
EH
1865.
1866.
id Si
£g|
Is!
38
25
10
2
4
23
30
15
10
1
o
p
38
34
13
5
2
30
42
34
36
>>
•
3
>*
b
1
a
g
03
8
A
<<
36
36
10
6
4
20
40
33
17
1
6
46
23
6
2
8
35
31
33
15
199
i
i-s
65
37
8
3
6
16
33
23
18
2
Under 1 year of a^e
325
252
74
23
40
216
279
223
156
4
26
40
14
2
7
37
42
32
22
46
30
4
2
3
28
24
23
17
30
27
9
1
6
27
37
30
21
1
From 1 to 5 years of age ....
From 5 to 10 years of age. . . .
From 10 to 15 years of age. . . .
From 15 to 20 years of age. . . .
From 20 to 30 years of age. . . .
From 30 to 40 years of age. . . .
From 40 to 50 years of age. . . .
Over 50 years of age
Age unknown
Total. .
1592
157
"34
222
177
189
?m
211
It will be seen by the foregoing Table, that seven hundred and four-
teen (714) are under twenty years of age, and out of this number
five hundred and seventy-seven (577) were under.five years.
TABLE V.
SEX, RACE AND NATIONALITY OF DECEASED PERSONS.
SEX, EACE AND NATIVITY.
9
i
h
1865.
1866.
IFrom 8th
to 30th
November.
1
January.
February.
March.
t
fl
£
•
£
i
"a
SEX — Male
1037
555
99
58
150
84
136
86
120
57
177
162
11
4
130
59
189
170
14
5
189
100
89
139
64
136
63
127
84
211
191
14
6
211
138
71
2
211
Female
Total
1592
157
234
222
205
9
8
203
176
22
5
203
116
87
199
RACE — Caucasian
Mongolian
1438
107
47
138
10
9
217
12
5
179
15
5
199
114
85
African
Total . . .
1592
928
659
5
1592
157
94
63
157
234
135
97
2
234
222
118
103
1
222
177
113
64
NATIVITIES — United States . . .
Foreigners
Unknown
Total
177
189
203
199
232
RECAPITULATION.
Total number of Deaths, from November 8th, 1865, to
June 30th, 1866 1592
White 1438
Colored 154
Total - 1592
Males 1030
Females 555
Total - 1592
Adults 878
Minors 714
Total - 1592
Deduct Casualties 60
Suicide 11
Hanging 2
73
Leaving deaths from registered diseases 1519
Not included in the above :
Stillborn 141
Interments from country
Taking the net deaths at one thousand, five hundred and nineteen
(1,519), and the population at one hundred and twenty-one thousand
(121,000), we find the rate of mortality for seven months and tvventy-
two days to be about one and a quarter (1^) per cent. — from which we
extract the following Table :
Mortality, per day 6J
Do. per month 19&2
Do. per year 2357
Or, per diem 1 in 18,6151
per month 1 in 616
per year 1 in 51 J
REMARKS. 233
There are a few diseases that require special mention.
Aneurism. We have twenty-eight (28) cases reported, and if a
history of these could be obtained, I doubt not but the majority of
them would be found to have been miners, men who have labored in
water, and have been exposed to extremities of heat and cold. An-
other reason, perhaps, is the exciting life men lead in the pursuit of
wealth, and pleasure, and in many cases dissipation.
There were two hundred and twenty-three (223) cases of Consump-
tion of the Lungs reported. From this number, it would appear that
our climate is fatal to Lung disease.
A large proportion of these occurred among the Chinese ; these
people have seldom other medical advice or attendance than their
own native doctors, and whatever may have been the cause of death,
the certificates are generally signed Consumption ; hereafter their cases
will be laid before the Coroner for the cause of death.
Of Cholera Infantum we have seventy-three (73) cases. Convul-
sions Infantile, eighty-six (86). Diptheria, seventy -nine (79).
The annexed table will show the different localities of death from
Diptheria, together with their ages ; I regret that I cannot get the
population of the different districts, in order that I might compare
their mortalities from this disease. It will be observed by this table,
that the largest mortality was in the Tenth District. This is a large
district and thickly populated, and beyond this, in my opinion, is its
locality, the want of proper drainage, low grades, and filled-in ground ;
again, this district is to the leeward of the City, and necessarily the
atmosphere is less pure.
Next to the Tenth District, is the First. This District is on the
water front, the grade low, drainage imperfect, and the atmosphere
infected from the emptyings of the sewers. This portion of the City
is made ground, and a large proportion not yet filled in.
16
234
HEALTH OFFICER'S REPORT.
DIPTHERIA.
SHOWING THE DEATHS IN THE DIFFERENT DISTRICTS.
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o
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DISTEICTS.
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20 year
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First
8
9:
0
4
1
o
1
o
0
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Second
5
1
0
0
1
i
1
1
0
0
Third
4
1
1
0
0
o
2
o
o
o
Fourth
6
1
0
1
1
1
1
1
0
o
Fifth
2
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
o
Sixth
5
0
3
1
1
o
0
o
o
o
Seventh
6
4
1
0
1
o
o
o
0
o
Eighth
8
3
1
0
9,
0
2
0
0
o
Ninth
6
0
o
1
2
2
1
o
o
o
Tenth
17
3
4
1
4
1
3
o
o
1
Eleventh
1
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i
J
0
0
1
0
0
o
Twelfth
5
1
o
2
1
1
o
o
o
o
Total. .
79
19
13
12
14
~T
17
2
0
1
Small-Pox. During the past eight months, only eight (8) cases of
this disease occurred in the City and County, and of this number but
one proved fatal.
The admirable location of the Small-Pox Hospital enables us to
control this disease without difficulty. The Hospital is under the con-
trol and management of Doctor William T. Garwood, Resident Phy-
sician of the City and County Hospital.
In connection with this disease, I regret to say that there is great
difficulty in getting the people to understand the importance of vaccin-
ation, notwithstanding the law requiring it, free vaccination, efforts
made by advertising, and other means ; still they are insufficient.
Fever. There were nine (9) cases of Typhus and thirty-three (33)
of Typhoid fever reported. I am convinced that many of these cases
were not correctly described,, It is a well known fact that pure Typhus
and "typhoid fevers are seldom met with in the climate of San Fran-
cisco. Physicians are often careless in discriminating the approxima-
ting from the true disease ; by this negligence, certificates of death are
not carefully signed.
REMARKS. 235
The City is not in as clean a condition as could be desired, and
were it not for our invigorating climate, the rate of mortality would
be largely increased. San Francisco contains a population of about
one hundred and twenty-one thousand (121,000), This has been the
accumulation of a little over sixteen years, and in the rapid construc-
tion of buildings to contain this number of people, without any regard
to drainage in many cases, it is to be expected that filth will accumu-
late ; the general system of drainage now being introduced throughout
the City, will soon correct this defect.
The close proximity of the Slaughter Houses and Hog Ranches to
the City, is a serious annoyance and public injury. Although many
improvements have recently been made in drainage, and the removal
of offal, still they are and will be, so long as they remain in the present
locality, a great nuisance ; I would strongly urge their removal at the
expiration of the time allowed them by law — August 1st, 1866. The
locality selected for them possesses fewer objections than any other
portion of the County, being as it is to the leeward of the City, and
sufficiently removed to allow us to escape the effluvia arising from
them.
Another prolific source of disease, is the crowded and filthy condition
of our Chinese population. So long as- they are permitted to occupy
the miserable and rickety old shanties in the very heart of the City,
this will be an injury to public health, and a shock to decency.
Respectfully submitted,
J. M. McNULTY,
Health Officer.
236 ' HOSPITAL REPORT.
HOSPITAL REPORT.
CITY AND COUNTY HOSPITAL,
SAN FRANCISCO, July 1st, 1866.
To the Honorable the Board of Supervisors
Of the City and County of San Francisco —
GENTLEMEN : I have the honor to present the annual report of the
Hospital, from July 1st, 1865, to June 30th, 1866, inclusive.
Patients in Hospital July 1st, 1865.. ., 330
Patients admitted 1,439
To be accounted for 1,769
Patients discharged cured 1,084
Patients discharged by request 127
Patients died 243
1,454
Patients remaining July 1st, 1866 315
Average number of patients 341
Outside treatments 4,625
Children born— Girls 9
Boys 10
Respectfully submitted.
WM. T. GARWOOD,
Resident Physician.
NATIVITY OF PATIENTS.
237
NATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES.
Maine
27
Mississippi
6
Louisiana
18
Ohio
57
Indiana
Connecticut . ...
8
Illinois
Rhode Island ...
4
Iowa
New York
139
Michigan
New Jersey
10
Wisconsin
Pennsylvania
47
Missouri
Delaware
2
Kentucky
Maryland . .
15
Tennessee
2
Arkansas
Virginia
8
California
North Carolina
9
Nevada
South Carolina
2
Total
Algiers
FOREIGNERS.
. . . . 1 Island of Manilla.
Ascension Island
2
Italy
3
Jamaica
Austria
2
Mexico
Azores
2
New Brunswick
Bavaria
1
New Granada
Bolivia . . . . .
1
Norway
Brazil
. . .. 3
Nova Scotia
Canada
15
Peru
Cape de Verde
6
Poland
Chili
12
Portugal
China
..... 8
Prussia
Chincha Islands
....'. i
Denmark
21
Russia
East Indies
2
Sandwich Islands
England
78
Feiee Islands
1
Finland
4
France
84
Switzerland
74
Tahaiti
4
Wales
Hanover
.. . . 1
West Indies
Holland
9
Western Islands
Hungary
1
Total
Ireland .
460
2
2
29
9
15
1
4
1
5
8
4
1
21
2
458
1
10
4
16
2
4
15
5
3
5
11
13
1
1
4
36
6
26
9
2
5
1
5
981
238
HOSPITAL REPORT.
CAUSES OF DEATH.
Abscess of Brain
1
1
1
2
8
3
1
11
2
1
8
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
01
1
3
9
3
1
1
1
1
1
3
3
1
ire
Fever Continued
" " Chest
" Typhoid
" Lumbar
Fracture of Base of Scull
Anemia
Gangrene
Hamatemisis
" " Abd'l
Hemorrhage, Intestinal
" Cardiac
Heart disease of
Apoplexy
Hydrocephalis
" Pulmonary . .
Intemperence effects of
Brain disease of . .
" Softening of
" Tubercles of
Liver disease of
Bladder disease of
" and Pancreas disease of. .
Paralysis
" rupture of
Cancer of Anus .
Peritonitis
" Face
Pleuro Pneumonia
Stomach
Pneumonia
Cancerous Tumor of Abdomen. .
Consumption . ...
" Typhoid
Premature Birth •
Croup Membranous . .
Pyemia
Diabetis . .
Old age
Diarrhea Chronic
Run over by Rail Road
Dropsy
" " Steamboat
" of Chest
Scrofula
Spine Injury of
Dystochia
Stillborn
Enteritis
Syphilis
Epiglotis ^Edema of
Variola
" Confluent
Explosion Injuries from . . .
Total
P. S. Two of the above, Infants, £
not entered upon the Register.
DISEASES
Abscess of Brain
0]
7
F PATIENTS.
" Groin
Abscess of Le**
" Gluteal
" Neck
" Hand
" Perenium
" Jaw
" Shoulder
Knee Joint
" Thigh
Carried forward. .
I
7
1
1
1
1
17
1
4
3
1
12
1
12
1
1
9
1
1
2
1
2
1
5
1
1
17
1
2
245
7
1
2
1
1
1
13
DISEASES OF PATIENTS.
239
Brought forward
13
Brought forward
257
Abscess of Throat
1
Convulsions . . .
1
Amaurosis .
9
Cripple
3
Amenorrho3a
1
Croup Membranous
I
Amputation, result of
4
Debility, General
18
Anemia
1
u Nervous . .
1
Aneurism of Aorta
6
Delirium Tremens
4
" " Thoracic
2
Destitution
29
" " Abdominal
]
Diabetis
3
" • " Femoral
1
Diarrhoea
7
" " Subclavian
1
" Chronic
12
Ankle, Anchylosis of. ... ...
1
Dislocation of Clavicle
1
u Disease of joint
2
" Elbow
1
" Sprain of
8
Humerus
5
" Ulceration of
4
" Scapula
1
Aphonia
1
" Tarsal Bones
1
Asthma
6
Ulna
1
Bladder Disease of
2
Result
1
" Inflammation of
1
Drowning, Rescued from
> %
" Rupture of
1
Dropsy
16
Blast Injury by
I
4
Brain Abscess of
1
Dyspesia
5
Brain Congestion of
6
Elbow, Disease of
2
" Softening of
3
Enteritis
2
" Tumor of
I
Epilepsy .
10
Bronchitis
19
Epistaxis
2
1
Erysipelas .
7
Car Injured by . .
2
Explosion, Injured by
7
Carditis
2
Eye, Cataract of
2
Clavicle necrosis of
|
Fall, Injured by
8
Conjunctivitis
18
92
Constipation
1
" Remittent
17
" Chronic
2
" Typhoid
5
Consumption
105
" Debility from
11
Contusion of Arm
1
Fistula of Anus
7
" Ankle
1
" Groin
1
" Chest
1
3
" Elbow
2
" Urethra
5
" Face
•f
Foot, Frostbitten
2
Fingers
1
" Inflammation of.
" Foot
|
2
" Hand
2
Foot Ulcer of
1
" Knee
1
" Scald of
1
" Leg
1
Fracture of Ankle joint
1
" Scalp
1
" Arm
1
" Side
7
Clavicle
2
257
Carried forward. .
566
240
HOSPITAL REPORT.
Fracture of Fibula . .
I
Lungs Gangrene of
1
" Jaw
3
Masturbation Effects of
2
" Les
6
Miscarriage Result of
1
" Ribs
5
Necrosis of Scapula . .
1
" Result of
1
Femur
1
" Skull
1
Frontal bone
1
" Spine
1
" Tibia
1
" Thigh . .
2
Neuralgia
10
Ununited
2
" Syphilitic .
3
Fumncula of Knee
1
Old Age . . .
4
Gout Rheumatic
1
Opthalmia
8
Glands, Cervicle Enlargement of.
3
" Syphilitic
2
" Prostate Inflammation of
1
Orchids
18
Gravel
1
Paralysis
79
Hoamoptisis
4
Paralysis of Bladder ....
1
Hemorrhoids
1
Paronachia
1
Hand, Ulceration of
1
Pericarditis
1
" Burnt
1
Pleurisy
16
" and Face Burnt
1
Pneumonia
21
Head Injury of
3
" Double
I
Heart Disease of
5
" Chronic
2
" Hypertrophy .
12
" Pleuro
3
" Valvular Disease of
i
Poisoned by Toxicodendron . . .
5
Hernia . ...
2
Pregnant f
19
" double
1
Rectum Prolapsus
1
Hydrocele
4
Rheumatism
115
Hydrothorax
4
" Syphilitic
54
Injured by Steamboat
1
" Inflammatory
29
Intemperence Result of
22
" Chronic . . . .
5
Insanity . .
14
Salivation
3
" Syphilitic
1
Scalp, Irritation of
1
Iretis Syphilitic . ...
3
Scald of Hands
1
Jaundice
2
" Foot
1
Kidneys Disease of
5
Scrofula
9
Knee, Injury of joint
2
Scroctum, Ulcer of
2
" Injury of
1
Shoulder, Sprain of
1
" Sprain of
1
Staphyloma
2
Leg Contusion of
2
Stomach Cancer of
3
49
Stricture
16
" Varicose veins of
1
Suicide attempted
3
Lepra
1
Syphilis
61
Liver, Disease of
1
" Secondary . . .
87
" Hypertrophy . .
4
" Tertiary
21
Lungs, Disease of
3
Tape \Vorm .
1
" Congestion of
1
Testes Disease of i . .
2
Carried forward. .
757
Carried forward. .
. 1.377
DISEASES OF PATIENTS.
241
Brought forward 1,377
Throat, Ulceration of . . .- 6
Tumor of Axilla 1
" Groin 3
Neck 1
Side 1
Urine, Non Retention of 5
Varicocele 1
Variola 17
" Confluent 4
Vertigo 1
Womb, Ulceration of neck 2
Wound of Arm, Knife 1
" Cheek, Knife 1
Wound of Chest, Gunshot 1
Carried forward.
Brought forward 1,422
Wound of Face, Knife 1
" Foot, Gunshot 1
" " Axe 1
" Hand, Bitten by dog. 1
" " Gun Shot 2
" Knee, Knife 1
Leg, " 1
" Neck, Bayonet 1
Scalp 2
" Side, Knife 1
" Shoulder, Gun Shot. 1
Thigh, " " . 1
Wrist, Anchylosis of 1
" Sprain of 2
1,422 Total 1,439
REPORT
OF THE
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
OFFICE OF THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL DEPARTMENT, )
San Francisco, August 1st, 1866. f
' To the Honorable the Board of Supervisors
Of the City and County of San Francisco —
GENTLEMEN : Responding to Resolution No. 5,556, passed by your
Honorable Body June 4th, 1866, I respectfully present for your con-
sideration the report of the President of this Department to the Board
of Managers, together with those of the Secretary and Auditor.
Your obedient servant,
JAS. S. THOMSON,
Secretary Industrial School Department.
PRESIDENT'S REPORT.
To the Board of Managers
Of the Industrial School Department, San Francisco —
GENTLEMEN : From the accompanying Report of the Secretary,
it will be seen that the School is largely on the increase, and will be
likely to continue so while vice unfolds her seductive charms and
244 INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL REPORT.
allures the young from the paths of virtue to those of crime and deg-
radation. I need not refer you to* the many places of infamy in this
city, where youths are to be found just entering upon that path which is
to end in their ruin.
The present appropriation is inadequate to carry on the institution.
The presence of so many young and innocent children as are to be
found in this School is greatly to be regretted ; and the City should
make some provision for the support of this class, independent of the
Industrial School.
The Act by which this School was established did not contemplate
the receiving of children other than those committed by the Police
Judge, the County Court, and Court of Sessions, for being vagrants, or
leading an idle and dissolute life, or who should be duly convicted of
any crime or misdemeanor. With the present means at our command,
it will be impossible to carry out the requirements so much needed in an
institution of this kind. Still, under our able and efficient Superinten-
dent, Col. Wood, the School is under good discipline, never stood
higher than it does to-day, and reflects the greatest credit upon the
Superintendent and other officers.
I wish the whole city of San Francisco could look in upon these
children, and hear them in their exercises ; could see their deportment,
and be with them in their devotions ; for in this way their warmest
sympathies would be enlisted in their behalf. Our city should be justly
proud of such an institution, for it has reached out after these boys and
girls, and snatched them from disgrace, misery, destitution, and villainy,
and placed them in the paths of honor and virtue. Such a school as
this is to-day, would reflect the greatest credit upon any city in the
world. There are many noble spirits among them, who have been left
in an evil hour to fall into temptation, and having no kind, parental
hand to guide them, have yielded. Many, very many have been com-
pletely reformed, and have left the Institution, and are filling situations
with great credit to themselves ; kind words have been spoken to them,
words of encouragement have been given, which has saved them and
caused them to respect themselves and become an ornament to society.
We cannot fail to recognize the obligations of the public to those gentle-
men who have so earnestly labored with the children, from week to
week, in the Sunday School. God bless them. They will have their
reward in seeing these dear children entering that bright and shining
path which leads to the mansions of eternal bliss.
WM. G. BADGER,
President.
SECRETARY'S REPORT. 245
SECRETARY- 'S REPORT.
OFFICE OF THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL DEPARTMENT,")
San Francisco, June 6th, 1866. )
To the President and Board of Managers
Of the Industrial School Department —
GENTLEMEN : Herewith please find statistical tables, showing the
progress of the institution during the year ending this day.
Since the opening of the institution, May 3d, 1859, there have been
committed as follows, viz. :
Boys 419
Girls 118
537
Of this number there have been recommitted —
Boys 19
Girl 1
20
Making the whole number of commitments since May 3d,
1859—
Boys 438
Girls 119
557
Remaining in the institution, June 6th, 1865 153
Committed during the year ending June 6th, 1866 —
Boys 62
Girls 18
80
Recaptured —
Boys 3
Returned, who had been absent on leave —
Boys 24
Girls 9
33
Returned, who had been indentured —
Boys 3
Girls 4
7
To be accounted for 276
246
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL REPORT.
Absent on leave —
Boys 59
Girls 16
75
Indentured —
Boy 1
Girls 3
4
Discharged —
Boys 23
Girls 13
36
Escaped —
Boys 7
Died —
Boy 1
123
Remaining in the institution, June 6th, 1866 —
Boys 128
Girls , 25
153
276
NATIVITY.
Maine 1 England 1
Massachusetts 14 Australia 1
Connecticut 1 Vancouver Island 1
New York 17
New Jersey 1 Great Britain and Dependencies . 3
Pennsylvania 4
South Carolina 1
Georgia 1
Louisiana 4 France 1
Texas 1 Germany 2
Ohio 1 I Mexico 1
Michigan 1 Central America 1
Missouri 1 New Granada 1
Iowa 2 Chili 1
California 16 China 2
District of Columbia 1
Territory i
Total from United States ... 68 Total Foreigners 12
Total ~
SECRETARY'S REPORT.
247
AGES.
1
5 " "
2
13 " " .
6 " "
3
14 " "
7 " "
4
15 " "
8 " "
3
16 " "
9 " "
5
17 " "
10 " "
6
18 " "
11 " "
Total. . .
11
10
8
5
G
1
80
CAUSES OF COMMITMENT.
Leading an idle and dissolute life 49
Leading an idle life 14
Dissolute and untruthful 1
Manifesting vicious tendencies 1
Grand larceny 1
Petit larceny 11
Arson in second degree 1
Assault and battery 1
Misdemeanor . . 1
Total.
80
TABLE I.
SHOWING THE NUMBER OF COMMITMENTS FOR EACH MONTH DURING
THE PAST YEAR AND PREVIOUSLY.
MONTHS.
PAST YEAR.
PREVIOUSLY.
Total.
Boys.
Girls.
Boys.
31
37
29
34
33
37
20
36
26
27
34
32
Girls.
June, 1865
5
5
4
2
3
6
1
8
6
6
5
11
1
1
2
0
3
1
2
3
1
0
3
1
9
19
6
10
1
7
6
5
1
5
9
23
46
62
41
46
40
51
29
52
34
38
51
67
557
July.
August
September ... . ...
October
November
December
January, 1866
February
March
April
May .
Totals . ,
62
18
376
101
248
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL REPOKT.
TABLE II.
SHOWING THE NUMBER OF DISCHARGES FOR EACH MONTH DURING THE
PAST YEAR AND PREVIOUSLY.
MONTHS.
PAST YEAR.
PREVIOUSLY.
Total.
9
9
14
8
14
5
16
17
9
10
13
25
Boys.
Girls.
Boys.
7
3
6
5
9
5
7
12
8
7
10
18
Girls.
June, 1865 ...
0
0
2
. 2
4
0
5
4
1
2
1
2
I
4
4
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
2
1
2
2
1
1
0
3
1
0
1
1
3
July . J
August .
September
October
November . .
December
January, 1866
February
March
April . ,
May..
Totals. . ,
23
13
97
16
149
TABLE III.
SHOWING THE DISPOSAL AND EMPLOYMENT OF THOSE WHO LEFT DUR-
ING THE PAST YEAR AND PREVIOUSLY.
DisrosixioN.
PAST YEAR.
PREVIOUSLY.
Total.
122
15
1
4
157
24
26
2
1
3
3
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
2
1
1
2
2
1
2
Boys.
18
5
0
0
36
0
4
0
0
2
1
0
a
0
0
0 '
i
0
i
i
i
2
2
1
2
Girls.
Boys.
83
0
1
4
71
0
22
2
1
1
2
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
Girls.
Discharged—Delivered to friends
" Attained their majority. . . •
3
10
0
0
7
9
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
18
0
0
0
43
15
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
" Sent to Deaf, Dumb & B. Asy.
" Sent to Protest. Orphan Asy.
Absent on leave, with relatives
" " placed at Housewifery
" " with Farmers. . .
" " Carpenters
" " Undertaker ....
" " Wire-workers . .
" " Merchants
" " Milliner
" " File-cutter
" " Tinsmith
" " Expressman.. . .
Glass-blower...
" " Plasterers
« " Cooper
" " Butchers
Iron- worker ....
" " Marble-cutter . .
Plumbers
Shoe-makers...
" " Baker..
as Errand-boys.. ..
SECRETARY'S REPORT.
249
DISPOSITION.
PAST YEAR.
PREVIOUSLY.
Total.
16
15
3L
10
26
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
18
1
3
39
6
552
Boys.
Girls.
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
0
Boys.
Girls.
Abs. on leave at sea (Merchant service)
(Whaling " ]
" (Naval " )
" in U. S. Army
Indentured to Farmers
0
5
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
7
1
91
16
10
31
10
25
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
0
32
5
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
15
0
3
0
0
95
il Dairyman
" Brewer
" Tailor
" Tinsmith
" Broker
" Barber
" Machinist
" Carpenter
" Engineer
" placed at Housewifery.. .
Removed to City and County Hospital
" Magdalen Asylum
Escaped
Deceased
Totals . .
32
334
TABLE IV.
SHOWING THE AGES OF THOSE COMMITTED DURING THE PAST YEAR AND
PREVIOUSLY.
AGES.
PAST YEAR.
PREVIOUSLY.
Total.
1
4
6
10
22
13
32
36
45
41
57
57
72
62
53
36
9
1
557
Boys.
Girls.
Boys.
Girls.
1
1
3
2
6
2
4
8
10
8
4
4
7
16
16
9
0
0
101
Less than one year
0
0
1
1
2
4
3
3
6
5
7
10
5
7
2
5
1
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
2
0
2
1
1
5
1
3
1
0
0
0
3
2
6
13
7
25
23
29
26
45
42
55
38
32
21
8
1
376
Three years old ....
Four "
Five "
Six "
Seven "
Eight "
Nine "
Ten »
Eleven "
Twelve '
Thirteen '
Fourteen '
Fifteen '
Sixteen '
Seventeen
Eighteen ' ....
Unknown '
Totals
62
18
17
250
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL REPORT.
TABLE V.
SHOWING THE NATIVITY OP THOSE COMMITTED DURING THE PAST
YEAR AND PREVIOUSLY.
NATIVITY.
PAST YEAR.
PREVIOUSLY.
Total.
6
1
1
52
2
3
108
10
20
1
5
3
3
2
2
5
23
3
5
1
6
1
4
2
4
2
2
106
3
1
5
Boys.
Girls.
Boys.
Girls.
Maine .
1
0
0
11
0
1
12
1
4
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
4
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
14
0
1
1
0
0
0
3
0
0
5
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
1
1
0
1
2
0
0
0
3
1
1
31
2
1
78
7
13
1
4
3
2
1
2
5
17
2
5
1
4
1
4
1
3
2
0
75
2
0
3
2
0
0
7
0
1
13
2
3
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
0
0
. 1
0
0
0
0
0
0
15
1
0
1
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
New York . . ....
Delaware .
Virginia . .
South Carolina
Alabama . .
Mississippi
Louisiana .
Texas '
Tennessee
Ohio
Illinois
Michigan
"Wisconsin ...
Iowa
California
Oregon .
District of Columbia
Territories
Natives
53
15
275
49
392
England „ - ...
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
13
11
2
20
4
0
1
0
0
1
1
3
2
3
1
6
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
3
16
14
3
27
4
1
1
1
1
1
1
7
Ireland
Scotland
Australia
Canada
New Brunswick
Newfoundland
Nova Scotia
Vancouver Island
Jamaica
British Guiana ....
France. . . .
SECRETARY'S REPORT.
TABLE V— Continued.
251
NATIVITY.
PAST YEAR.
PREVIOUSLY.
Total.
Boys.
Girls.
Boys.
Girls.
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
0
2
0
9
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
1
6
1
1
0
1
14
1
0
4
1
5
1
1
0
1
0
0
1
0
1
0
0
0
0
31
0
12
1
7
1
1
1
1
16
2
1
5
1
38
1
Italy
Prussia
Poland
Switzerland
Turkey
Mexico
New Granada
Central America
Chili
Peru
China
Macquarie Islands
Foreigners ,.
3
101
52
165
Totals . ,
62
18
376
101
557
TABLE VI.
SHOWING THE CAUSES OF COMMITMENT OF THOSE KECETVED DURING
THE PAST YEAR AND PREVIOUSLY.
CAUSES OP COMMITMENT.
PAST YEAR.
PREVIOUSLY.
Total.
45
408
1
1
1
1
1
1
5
73
1
3
4
1
4
7
557
Boys.
Girls.
Boys.
Girls.
Leading an idle life
12
35
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
11
0
0
1
1
0
0
2
14
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
21
277
0
0
0
1
1
0
4
59
1
3
3
0
4
3
10
82
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
0
0
4
Leading an idle and dissolute life ....
Leading an idle, criminal and dissolute
life
Dissolute and untruthful
Manifesting vicious tendencies
Burarlarv .
Former v. . . .
Arson in second degree
Grand larceny
Petit larceny
Attempt to commit grand larceny . . .
Attempt to commit petit larceny ....
Misdemeanor
Assault and battery
For protection
Totals
62
18
377
100
252
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL REPORT.
TABLE VII.
SHOWING THE DOMESTIC CONDITION OF THOSE COMMITTED DURING
THE PAST YEAR AND PREVIOUSLY.
DOMESTIC CONDITION.
PAST YEAR.
PREVIOUSLY.
Total.
Boys.
Girls.
Boys.
Girls.
Lost father
18
5
11
18
11
0
6
3
4
2
2
0
106
53
32
137-
44
6
11
7
11
51
17
2
99
141
68
58
208
74
8
557
Lost mother
Lost both parents
Parents living
Unknown
Totals
63
17
378
Deserted by father . .
8
3
6
2
2
6
1
2
1
2
1
2
1
3
2
2
1
2
34
5
0
5
17
15
1
0
6
11
0
0
4
' 11
2
3
0
0
55
9
8
12
33
25
7
3
9
Deserted by mother
Deserted by both parents
Father intemperate ...
Mother intemperate
Have step-fathers
Have step-mothers
Father insane . .
Mother insane. .
TABLE VIII.
SHOWING HOW LONG THOSE WHO WERE DISCHARGED, INDENTURED,
ESCAPED, AND DIED, HAD BEEN IN THE INSTITUTION.
TIME.
PAST YEAR.
PREVIOUSLY.
Total.
Boys.
Girls.
2
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
1
0
3
0
0
1
0
Boys.
17
6
9
10
11
10
6
3
6
5
3
3
6
10
6
7
Girls.
T
0
0
1
0
1
0
2
1
2
3
0
0
0
One month or less . ...
0
2
0
0
0
2
1
0
0
2
0
0
0
0
1
2
26
12
12
10
11
13
7
10
4
8
9
10
8
11
Two months
Three months
Four months
Five months
Six months.. .
Seven months ...
Eight months.. .
Nine months
Ten months
Eleven months
Twelve months. .
Thirteen months
Fourteen months
Fifteen months
Sixteen months . .
SECRETARY'S REPORT.
253
TABLE Vlll-Continued.
TIME.
PAST YEAR.
PREVIOUSLY.
Total.
Boys.
Girls.
Boys.
Girls.
Seventeen months
1
1
0
0
0
3
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
0
1
2
0
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
0
1
1
0
0
0
2
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
3
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
3
4
3
.2
1
4
3
2
1
3
2
1
3
2
1
2
0
1
1
0
1
1
0
1
0
1
2
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
1
0
0
2
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
6
5
4
4
2
4
9
3
3
3
3
3
1
3
3
3
3
1
2
1
1
2
2
1
1
1
2
2
1
1
2
1
7
I
Eighteen months
Nineteen months
Twenty-one months
Twenty-two months
Twenty-three months
Twenty-four months
Twenty-five months
Twenty-six months
Twenty-seven months
Twenty-eight months . . .
Twenty-nine months
Thirty months
Thirty-one months.. . .
Thirty-two months
Thirty-three months
Thirty-four months ..
Thirty-five months
Thirty-six months
Thirty-seven months
Thirty-eight months
Thirty-nine months
Forty months
Forty-four months
Forty-five months
Forty-six months ....
Forty-eight months
Fifty months
Fifty-one months
Fifty-seven months
Sixty months.
Sixty-two months
Sixty-four months
Sixty-seven months . .
Totals
32
16
169
31
248
TOTAL — Average period of detention — fifteen months, thirteen days.
PAST YEAR — Average period of detention — twenty-four months, twenty days.
254
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL KEPORT.
TABLE IX.
SHOWING THE WEEKLY REPORT OF THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN IN THE
INSTITUTION, WITH THE AVERAGE NUMBER, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR
ENDING JUNE 6rn, 1866.
DATE.
Boys.
Girls.
Total.
DATE.
Boys.
Girls.
Total.
June 7, 1865
127
26
153
Dec. 13, 1865
119
21
140
" 14, «
125
23
148
" 20, «
113
22
135
" 21, "
125
24
149
" 27, "
114
20
134
" 28, "
126
21
147
Jan'y 3, 1866
111
19
130
July 5, "
124
20
144
" 10, "
115
19
134
" 12, u
125
20
145
« 17> «
109
19
128
« 19, "
117
18
135
" 24, "
115
18
133
" 26, "
119
20
139
" 31, «
114
23
137
Aug. 2, «
121
19
140
Feb. 7, ><
116
23
139
" 9, "
124
18
142
" 14, "
113
22
135
" 16, "
123
18
141
" 21, «
114
22
136
« 23, "
121
18
139
" 28, «
113
22
135
« 30, "
123
16
139
March 7, "
115.
22
137
Sept. 6, "
123
15
138
« 14> «
112
22
134
" 13, "
128
15
143
" 21, "
116
22
138
" 20, "
126
15
141
" 28, «
118
22
140
" 27, «
122
15
137
April 4, "
120
23
143
Oct. 4, "
121
15
136
" 11, "
120
23
143
« 11, «
125
15
140
" 18, "
121
25
146
" 18, "
125
16
141
" 25, «
122
25
147
« 25, «
125
16
141
May 2, "
123
24
147
Nov. 1, «
125
17
142
" 9, "
127
24
151
" 8, "
128
17
145
" 16, "
128
25
153
" 15, "
124
19
143
" 23, "
130
24
154
" 22, "
124
19
143
" 30, "
131
25
156
" 29, "
120
19
139
June 6, "
128
25
153
Dec. 6, "
122
21
143
Yearly average, 141 J.
Respectfully, etc.,
JAS. S. THOMSON,
Sec'y Ind. Sch. Dept.
255
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE AUDITOR, JUNE, 1866.
OFFICE OF THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL DEPARTMENT, ")
San Francisco, August 1st, 1866. )
To the Honorable the Board of Supervisors
Of the City and County of San Francisco :
GENTLEMEN : I beg leave to submit the following Report of the
receipts into, and demands on the Treasury, for the year ending June
6th, 1866.
RECEIPTS IN TREASURY.
Cash on hand, June 7th, 1865 $207 64
Received from City and County Treasury, as .
authorized by Act approved April 6th,
1863:
General Fund $9,216 56
School Fund • . 1,920 58
11,137 14
Received from City and County Treasury,
am't appropriations of $2,000 per month,
for 3 12-30ths months, as authorized by
Act approved March 20th, 1866 6,387 10
Received from Bank of California, on account
of appropriation of $14,000 made by the
State 12,000 00
Received from First Unitarian and Mariners'
Churches 229 65
Received from sale of 2 3-100 acres land to
S. F. & S. J. R. R. Co 1,500 00
Received donations 37 50
Received dividend from S. F. Savings Union 6 64
Received from sales sundries 176 70
Received from members 1,050 00
Total Receipts $32,732 37
256 INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL REPORT.
DEMANDS ON THE TREASURY.
Groceries and Provisions $8,635 65
Clothing 4,305 82
Furniture 1,667 34
Improvements and Repairs 1,975 36
Farm 2,708 90
Shoe Shop ... 705 37
Printing and advertising 305 90
Books and Stationery 320 76
Fuel and Lights 1,490 31
Salaries 8,954 21
Miscellaneous . 986 40
Total demands audited $32,056 02
Cash on hand this date. . 676 35
$32,732 37
Respectfully submitted,
JAS. S. THOMSON,
Sec'y and ex officio Auditor Ind. Sch. Dept.
OFFICERS OF THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
President, 1866-7 WILLIAM G. BADGER.
Vice President, 1866-7 JACOB DEETH.
Managers, 1866-7
Managers, 1866-8,
L. B. BENCHLEY,
CHARLES D. CARTER,
GEORGE H. PECK,
JACOB SCHREIBER,
JOHN H. TITCOMB,
GUSTAVE TOUCHARD.
WILLIAM H. L. BARNES,
HENRY L. DAVIS,
BENJ. D. DEAN, M. D.,
ALFRED F. DURNEY,
L. W. KENNEDY,
MORRIS MAYBLTJM.
OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES. 257
-r, , f 0 ( CHARLES H. STANYAN,
Appointed from Board of Supervisors, I
1866-7 i MONROE ASHBURY,
( JAMES H. REYNOLDS.
Treasurer . JOHN ARCHBALD.
Secretary JAMES S. THOMSON.
OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.
Superintendent JOSEPH WOOD.
Principal Teacher and Deputy Supt. . . THEODORE C. SMITH.
»
( NATHAN J. STONE.
Assistant Teachers < , , T
( Miss JANE HUTCHINSON.
Matron . MRS. R. A. WOOD.
Janitor THOMAS T. HALE.
Assistant Janitor WILLIAM HASTY.
Farmer JOHN D. PHELPS.
Assistant Farmer EPHRAIM WOOD.
Watchman JAMES P. STILL.
Foreman of Shoe Shop THOMAS COLEMAN.
Nurse and Seamstress MRS. E. H. WEST.
Cook Miss MARIA BYRON. *
Laundress Miss ALMIRA HUNTOON.
Physician BENJ. D. DEAN, M. D.
258 INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL REPORT.
ADDRESS OF WILLIAM G. BADGER, PRESIDENT OF THE INDUSTRIAL
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT, AT THE CELEBRATION OF THE SEVENTH ANNI-
VERSARY OF THE INSTITUTION, MAY 17TH, 1866.
Kind friends, we have met here to-day to celebrate the seventh anniversary of
this school. Many of you present have been deeply interested in its welfare, from
its organization down to the present time. Some years before the school was es-
tablished there were noble spirits who conceived the idea of providing a home for
the neglected boys of our city. As early as 1856 a Sunday School was established
under the care of the Young Men's Christian Association ; prominent among the
founders of that Sunday School were William R. Wadsworth and Samuel Pillsbury.
Too much praise cannot be awarded these gentlemen for their zeal in so good a
cause.
The necessity of establishing such a school as this, whose object is to gather
together in a convenient place, for instruction on Sunday, all the news-boys, as well
as the poor ragged youths of the city, was obvious to every Christian man or
woman who had observed the character of a large portion of the youths residing
in populous communities, particularly on the seaboard. These boys were different
from any other class of youths ; their habits and manner of life were peculiar to
themselves ; some had overcome the authority of their parents ; others had been
abandoned by their natural protectors. Under these circumstances they associated
themselves together, and in many instances adopted an out-door life, not only in the
day but in the night also.
Living in the streets, sleeping in old boxes, casks, or under sidewalks ; they were
brought in contact with all manner of evil. It is unnatural to suppose that their
minds, continually exercised to their fullest extent in procuring a subsistence, should
not become shrewd and acute, and that when hard pushed for their living, they
might be tempted beyond their strength to resist, and having once yielded, enter
that path which leads to destruction. In this school there are some noble girls and
boys, that would do credit to any city ; and I do not hesitate to say, taking into
consideration the advantages they have had, it would be hard to find better boys
and girls anywhere. Great credit is due Col. Wood, the Superintendent, and other
officers of the School, but time will not permit more than an honorable mention of
them.
As presiding officer of this institution, I feel the greatest satisfaction in the re-
sults accomplished, and look forward to the future with the most sanguine hopes of
a long career of usefulness for the Industrial School. From a small beginning it
has already grown into a large, successful, and beneficent enterprise, diffusing its
benign and kindly influences over a large circle, where such influences are most
needed. The objects of its bounty are poor, helpless children, whom it rescues
from vicious ways, from evil associations, from degradation and want, and seeks to
educate into good, upright, intelligent, and useful men and women. No human
effort can accomplish higher or nobler ends than these. Instead of seeking to re-
form or punish criminals already grown old in the ways of vice and crime, it is our
mission, by kind and gentle influences and affectionate appeals to the heart, to
snatch the young from the paths of vice, and train them up in principles of morality
and virtue. We do not seek to punish, but to persuade, to enlighten, to convince,
259
and thus to rescue from shame and ruin, large numbers of young, thoughtless,
and unfortunate boys and girls, who, by some misfortune or by the neglect of their
parents, have been exposed, in their helpless condition, to great temptations to vice
and crime. Instead of a prison for malefactors, we intend this institution to be, as
its name imports, a " school," where the young are not only educated in the learn-
ing of books, but are taught the higher principles of morality and virtue. It takes
the young boy or girl under its fostering care, not to degrade, but to elevate them ;
not to punish, but reform them ; not to restrain them of their liberty, but to teach
them how to enjoy their liberty ; not to put a stain upon their characters, but to
enable them, in future life, to maintain spotless reputations ; not to support them in
idleness, but to stimulate them to regular, systematic industry, and thus fit them
for the duties of life. We strive, my young friends, to make you feel that these are
the noble ends at which we aim. It is, therefore, no reproach to you to have been
an inmate of the Industrial School ; and we hope that in future years, instead of
feeling ashamed that you have been here, you will have cause to be grateful to us,
as kind friends, who have watched over your youth and given you a fair start in
life, with good habits and an untarnished name. This is all we can hope to do for
you. The rest will depend upon your future conduct after you shall have left these
walls. If you shall grow up as industrious, temperate, honest, and virtuous men
and women, there is no position of honor or distinction to which you may not justly
aspire. In this glorious land of ours, where all men are equal before the law, the
poorest and most obscure boy, by energy, honesty, and natural capacity, may attain
to the highest distinction in any calling. The humblest little girl may justly hope,
by modesty, virtue, industry, and amiable conduct, to reach the highest station in
society. I need not say with what solicitude we shall watch your future career, and
if we shall hear of you hereafter as upright, respectable, and useful men and women,
we shall thank God that we have been able to give you a fair start, and aid you
when you most needed kind friends to protect you. So long as you remain here,
all that we require of you is honest, upright conduct, reasonable industry, an
amiable deportment, and obedience to our regulations and rules. In return for this,
we will maintain you comfortably, treat you kindly, educate you to the best of our
ability, and in all respects endeavor to promote youj^ happiness and welfare ; and
after you shall have left us, you can still count upon us as friends, who are watch-
ing over you with affectionate solicitude. I trust that both you and we will have
"cause to thank God for the good you will have derived from the Industrial School.
My dear children, I have visited you early in the morning, at noon, and late in
the evening, and I have ever received from you the kindest reception. All the
gratitude of my heart flows out to you. We have sung, talked, and prayed to-
gether ; and to me, and I think to you, these have been green spots in the Sahara
desert of life. I will not detain you longer. You hear from me so often that what
I say will be to you like a familiar story ; but, in conclusion, let me say, that as
long as I shall live you will have my warmest, deepest affection. God bless you all ;
and my prayers shall ever be that you may live long and die happy.
LICENSE COLLECTOR'S REPORT.
OFFICE OF THE COLLECTOR OF LICENSES, )
San Francisco, July 23d, 1866.
To the Honorable the Board of Supervisors
Of the City and County of San Francisco —
GENTLEMEN : In compliance with Resolution No. 5556, passed by
your Honorable Body June 8th, 1866, I respectfully submit the follow-
ing Report of Quarterly and Annual Municipal Licenses sold during
the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1866.
Very respectfully,
E. P. BUCKLEY,
Collector of Licenses.
261
GENERAL FUND.
Quarterly Licenses.
5 Shooting Galleries $ 37 50
12 Shipping Offices 115 00
10 Expresses 120 00
6 Races 130 00
37 Laundries 132 00
22 Hand Organs and,Street Musicians 180 00
82 Real Estate and House Brokers 205 00
28 Assayers 280 00
61 Powder and Pyrotechnics 427 50
13 Merchandise Peddlers 750 00
63 Dances 1,190 00
572 Market Stalls 1,430 00
127 Slaughter Houses 1,490 60
1,009 Meat shops and Bakeries 2,138 00
1,087 Hotels, Restaurants, and Lodging Houses 2,214 25
449 Meat, Fish, and Produce Peddlers 8,300 00
3,583 $19,139 85
STREET DEPARTMENT FUND.
Annual Licenses.
95 Licensed Drivers $ 95 00
91 Laundry Wagons, Sprinklers, and Hand
Carts '. 108 25
164 Coaches, Hacks, Omnibuses, and Coupes. 1,010 00
1,107 Grocery, Milk, Baker, and Market Wagons 1,121 65
398 Double Wagons and Trucks 1,203 00
1,846 Single Wagons, Trucks, Drays, and Carts 3,014 25
248 Street Railroad Cars (paid quarterly) . . . 3,100 00
3,949 $9,652 15
Total Amount $28,792 00
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR'S REPORT.
OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR,)
San Francisco, July 1st, 1866. )
To the Honorable the Board of Supervisors
Of the City and County of San Francisco :
GENTLEMEN : Herewith I submit my Annual Report for the year
ending June 30th. 1866, and respectfully request that the same be
published in the Municipal Reports.
Respectfully yours,
J. W. BRUMAGIM,
Public Administrator.
ESTATES SETTLED AND DISTRIBUTED.
The following named Estates, mentioned and included in my last
Annual Report, have, since the rendering thereof, been settled and
distributed :
John Gorman. Sarah Mack.
Peter Reynolds. Charles Deady.
Thomas Jones. Lloyd Magruder.
William R. O'Reilly. Walter Pratt.
Peter Barcelona. James Willis.
James Morrow. James McCready.
John Wietz. Charles M. Nelson.
J. H. Feldhus. Clara Clifford.
M. A. Langdon. William Hempsill.
UNSETTLED ESTATES. 263
Edmond D. Hammond. G. T. Fouque.
Jeremiah Mead. Mary B. Smith.
Charles H. Raymond. John O. Neil.
Henry M. Oliver. Michael Boucher.
C. J. Theis. H. R. Rowland.
John Higgins.
UNSETTLED ESTATES.
The following named Estates, mentioned and included in my last
Annual Report, remain unsettled. The condition of each is as follows :
James McLaughlin. Money Received $1,938 25
Money Disbursed 251 98
Balance on hand 1,686 27
Fees of Administrator . 77 53
Patrick Hughes. Balance money on hand 22 75
Fees of Administrator 1 84
Ready for Distribution.
Andre Joinny. Value of Estate $102 00
Money Received 102 00
Money Disbursed 91 80
Balance on hand 10 20
Fees of Administrator 4 08
Ready for Distribution.
John Hayes. Value of Estate $324 30
Money Received 324 30
Money Disbursed 192 06
Balance on Hand 132 24
Fees of Administrator 12 96
Annual Account filed.
264 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR'S REPORT.
A. J. King. Partial Distribution of Estate made to heir.
Balance on hand $657 11
Estate ready for final distribution.
G. A. Muller. Appraised value of the Estate $990 00
Money Received 240 00
Money Disbursed 135 00
Balance on hand 105 00
Fees of Administrator . , 39 60
Thomas Thomas No. 2. Balance of Money on hand $143 90
Fees of Administrator 20 00
Final Account filed, and Estate ready for distribution to heirs.
John Davis. Money Received $175 35
Money Disbursed 83 00
Balance on hand 92 35
Fees of Administrator 7 00
Estate ready for Distribution.
Thomas Flanagan. Appraised Value of Estate $2,597 00
Money Received 463 50
Money Disbursed , . . 571 00
Advanced to the Estate by the Administrator 107 50
Fees of Administrator 104 00
Accounts filed and proceedings pending to sell Real Estate, to pay
creditors and close Estate.
Thomas Moore. Value of Estate , $43 17
Money Received 43 17
Money Disbursed 2 12
Balance on hand . 41 05
Fees of Administrator 1 72
Estate ready for Distribution to Heirs.
UNSETTLED ESTATES. 265
Bartholomew W. Lynch. Appraised Value of Estate $1,500 00
Money Received 276 00
Ifoney Disbursed 207 71
Balance on hand 68 29
Fees of Administrator . 60 00
Caroline M. Robb. Appraised Value of Estate $1,244 00
Money Received 337 24
Money Disbursed ... , 439 02
Advanced by Administrator 101 78
Fees of Administrator, 4 per cent, on final settlement.
Proceedings pending to sell Real Estate to pay creditors.
John Logan. Appraised Value of Estate $1,055 15
Money Received 965 12
Money Disbursed 588 35
Balance on hand 376 80
Fees of Administrator '. . . 38 60
Annual Account filed.
William Lobb. Appraised Value of Estate $975 20
Money Received 975 20
Money Disbursed. 222 50
Balance on hand 752 70
Fees of Administrator 39 00
Annual Account filed.
William Fitzgerald. Appraised Value of Estate $50 00
Money Received 32 00
Money Disbursed 7 00
Balance on hand 25 00
Fees of Administrator 2 00
Estate ready for Distribution to heirs.
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266 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR'S REPORT.
William Cowen. Appraised Value of Estate $40 00
Money Received 40 00
Money Disbursed 2 00
Balance on hand 38 00
Fees of Administrator 1 60
Estate ready for Distribution to heirs.
James Pearson. Appraised Value of Estate $2,924 65
Money Received 1,168 08
Money Disbursed 1,312 79
Advanced to Estate by Administrator 144 71
Fees of Administrator Not ascertained.
Estate in litigation. Real Property claimed adversely to Estate.
Alexander Thompson. Appraised Value of Estate $50 00
Money Received 50 00
Money Disbursed 3 00
Balance on hand 47 00
Fees of Administrator 2 00
Estate ready for Distribution to heirs.
John Berry. Value of Estate $80 00
Money Received 80 00
Money Disbursed 4 20
Balance on hand 75 80
Fees of Administrator 3 20
Estate ready for distribution to heirs.
Andre Soulier. Appraised Value of Estate $1,462 25
Money Received 1,462 25
Money Disbursed 269 74
Balance on hand 1,192 51
Fees of Administrator 68 49
Proceedings pending for Distribution to heirs.
UNSETTLED ESTATES. 267
Nicholas H. Wyse. Appraised Value of Estate $4.474 00
Money Received 473 00
Money Disbursed 504 65
Advanced by Administrator 31 65
Fees of Administrator Not ascertained.
The property of the Estate consists of Real Estate, on which
nothing has been realized.
Mary A. Greenwood. Value of Estate $2,847 69
Money Received 347 69
Money Disbursed 392 18
Advanced by Administrator 44 49
Fees of Administrator 4 per cent, on final settlement.
John Heron. Value of Estate $182 50
Money Received 132 50
Money Disbursed 46 00
Balance on hand 86 50
Fees of Administrator 7 28
James Irwin. Appraised Value of Estate $5,893 85
Money Received ^ 3,945 01
Money Disbursed 1,849 66
Balance on hand 2,095 35
Fees of Administrator 4 per cent, on final settlement.
Morgan O'Rourke. Value of Estate $173 10
Money received 173 10
Money Disbursed ' 78 50
Balance on hand 94 60
Eees of Administrator 692
Estate ready for Distribution.
268 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR'S REPORT.
DIETRICH NARHWOLD.
Appraised value of Estate $1,721 40
Money Received 1,748 40
Money Disbursed 159 75
Balance on Hand 1,588 65
Fees of Administrator 63 52
Final account filed and Estate ready for distribution.
JOHN S. TIGHE.
Appraised value of Estate .' . . . $2,493 05
Money Received. 2,492 00
Money Disbursed 657 53
Balance on Hand. 1,834 47
Fees of Administrator 99 68
Final account filed and Estate ready for distribution.
ESTATES ADMINISTERED UPON AT REQUEST OF WIDOWS,
HEIRS, AND OTHERS HAYING THE PRIOR RIGHT TO
ADMINISTER.
In the following named Estates the widows, heirs and others having
the prior right to administer have specially requested me to administer
in their place and stead :
ALEXANDER L. BARNES.
Appraised value of Estate $54,373 23
Real Estate 10,000 00
Personal Property 44,373 23
Money Received 40,882 35
Money Disbursed 39,539 44
Balance on hand 1,392 91
Fees of Administrator commuted by special agreement with widow.
ESTATES ADMINISTERED UPON. 269
PETER LECARIE.
Appraised value of Estate $1,000 00
No Money or other Property received. Property of Estate
claimed by parties adversely to Estate.
GEORGE PECK.
Appraised value of Estate $46,465 13
Real Estate 34,000 00
Personal Property 12,465 13
Money Received 29,383 34
Money Disbursed 25,859 91
Balance on hand 3,523 43
Fees of Administrator commuted by special agreement with widow.
ELLEN NERAC.
Appraised value of Estate .... $3,256 15
Money Received 3,256 15
Money Disbursed 1,710 73
Fees of Administrator. . 130 24
ROSA 'CALLA.GHAN.
Appraised value of Estate, Personalty $609 65
Money Received 609 65
Money Disbursed 208 00
Balance on hand 401 65
Fees of Administrator 24 00
Heirs of Deceased all in this city.
THOMAS THOMAS, No. 1.
Appraised value of Estate $14,951 03
Money Received 3,951 65
Money Disbursed 3,881 22
Balance on hand 70 43
Fees of Administrator Four per cent, on final settlement.
Accounts filed. Daughter of Deceased residing in this city.
2TO PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR'S REPORT.
FRANCIS ESFELD.
No money received.
The property of Estate consists of a judgment against the Estate of
F. P. Schafer, deceased, for $9,460 28. Nothing has been realized
on said judgment, the Schafer Estate being insolvent, and no payments
having been yet made to creditors.
MAURICE HARTNET.
Appraised value of the Estate $620 00
Personal Property 20 00
Real Property 600 00
Money Received 34 00
Money Disbursed 20 50
Balance on Hand 13 50
Fees of Administrator — Four per cent, on final settlement.
Estate unsettled — one year not expired.
Son of deceased in this city.
SAMUEL HINCHCLIFFE.
Appraised value of Estate $251 00
Personal Property All.
Money Received 251 00
Money Disbursed 189 50
Balance on Hand 61 50
Fees of Administrator— Four per cent, on final settlement.
Estate unsettled — ten months unexpired.
CHRISTIAN RASMOSSIN.
Appraised value of Estate $700 00
Personal Property All.
Money Received 710 00
Money Disbursed 562 50
Balance on Hand 147 50
Fees of Administrator — Four per cent, on final settlement.
Estate unsettled — ten months unexpired.
Widow residing in this city.
ESTATES ADMINISTERED UPON. 271
EDMOND O'LOUGHLEN.
Appraised value of Estate $965 87
Personal Property All.
Money Received 503 00
Money Disbursed 175 10
Balance on Hand 327 90
Fees of Administrator — Four per cent, on final settlement.
Estate unsettled — ten months unexpired.
Daughter of deceased residing in this city.
JOSEPHINE M. DUVAL.
Special Administration.
Value of Estate S300 00
Personal Property All.
Special Administration closed and settled.
No charge made for fees of Administrator.
Brother of deceased residing in this city.
STELLA WALLS.
Appraised value of Estate $700 00
Personal Property All.
Money Received 700 00
Money Disbursed 388 25
Balance on Hand 311 75
Fees of Administrator — Four per cent, on final settlement.
Estate unsettled — ten months unexpired.
Sister of deceased residing in this city.
BERNARD O'CONNELL.
Appraised value of Estate . . $152 99
Personal Property All.
Money Received 152 99
Money Disbursed 152 99
No charge for fees made. Estate closed and money paid to widow
in this city.
272
GABRIEL MALDONADO.
Appraised value of Estate $12,000 00
Personal Property All
Money Received 8,495 00
Money Disbursed 8,291 45
Balance on Hand 203 55
Fees of Administrator — Four per cent, on final settlement.
Accounts filed and settled.
Widow of deceased residing in this city.
JOSEPH BUTLER.
Special Administration. General Administration petitioned for.
Money Received $340 50
Money Disbursed 244 00
Balance on Hand 96 50
Fees of Administrator — Four per cent, on final settlement.
GEORGE F. WOODWARD.
Appraised value of Estate $956 91
Personal Property All.
Money Received 935 23
Money Disbursed 585 34
Balance on Hand 349 89
Fees of Administrator — Four per cent, on final settlement.
Letters with will annexed issued. Ten months unexpired. Estate
unsettled.
AMELIA Moss.
Appraised value of Estate $6,448 15
Money Received 2,250 61
Money Disbursed 1,616 18
Balance on Hand 634 43
Fees of Administrator — Four per cent, on final settlement.
Annual account filed.
LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION. 273
S. P. GOODALE.
Appraised value of Estate , $6,145 00
Money Received 4,500 00
Money Disbursed 3,954 00
Balance on Hand 545 17
Fees of Administrator 180 00
Accounts filed and Estate ready for distribution. Heirs represented
in this city by Messrs. Falkner, Bell & Co.
JAMES C. GARNER.
Appraised value of Estate $1,600 00
Money Received 200 00
Money Disbursed 197 00
Balance on Hand 3 00
Fees of Administrator commuted by agreement with widow in this
city.
Proceedings pending to close Estate.
GEORGE E. PATTERSON.
Appraised value of Estate $1,038 60
Money Received 1,038 60
Money Disbursed 68 37
Balance on Hand 970 23
Fees of Administrator. . . 41 32
LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION ISSUED.
Letters of Admisnistration have been issued on the following named
Estates, since the rendering of my last report :
Name of the Estate Cornelius Rickter.
Nativity of Deceased Germany.
Appraised value of the Estate $297 15
Personal Property 277 15
274 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR'S REPORT.
Real Property $ 20 00
Money Received ... 194 15
Money Disbursed 150 26
Balance on Hand 43 89
Fees of Administrator Four per cent, on final settlement.
Condition of the Estate v . Unsettled — one year unexpired.
Residence of Heirs . . Unknown.
Name of the Estate Mary Troy.
Nativity of Deceased Ireland.
Personal Property $20 00
Real Property None.
Money Received 20 00
Money Disbursed 18 00
Balance on Hand 2 00
Fees of Administrator Four per cent, on final settlement.
Condition of the Estate Unsettled.
Residence of Heirs Unknown.
Remarks No other property received.
Name of the Estate. Edward M. Devany.
Nativity of Deceased Ireland.
Appraised value of the Estate $310 00
Real Property All.
Money Received None.
Money Disbursed 34 00
Advanced by Administrator. . '. 34 00
Fees of Administrator Four per cent, on final settlement.
Condition of the Estate Unsettled. Proceedings pending to sell
Real Estate.
Residence of Heirs . . . Unknown.
Name of the Estate Constant Hubert.
Nativity of Deceased . France.
Appraised value of the Estate $1,853 90
Personal Property All.
LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION. 275
Money Received $1,972 45
Money Disbursed 601 70
Balance on Hand 1,370 75
Fees of Administrator Four per cent, on final settlement.
Condition of the Estate Unsettled — ten months unexpired.
Name of the Estate William Fell.
Nativity of Deceased Denmark.
Personal Property $317 10
Real Property. ..,..., None.
Money Received 317 10
Money Disbursed 317 10
Fees of Administrator 25 00
Condition of the Estate .... Closed. Special Administration only had.
Estate passed over to G. O'Hara Taaffe, attorney for heirs.
Name of the Estate John F. Quailey.
Nativity of Deceased Vermont.
Appraised value of the Estate $577 50
Personal Property 77 50
Real Property 500 00
Money Received 93 50
Money Disbursed 137 45
Advanced by Administrator 44 05
Fees of Administrator Four per cent, on final settlement.
Condition of the Estate . . . Unsettled. Proceedings pending to sell
Real Estate to pay creditors.
Residence of Heirs Unknown.
Name of the Estate Otto W. Beckman.
Nativity of Deceased Germany.
Appraised value of the Estate $510 80
Personal Property All.
Money Received 510 80
Money Disbursed 179 75
Balance on Hand. . . 331 05
276
Fees of Administrator Four per cent, on final settlement.
Condition of the Estate Unsettled — one year unexpired.
Residence of Heirs Germany.
Name of the Estate Charles Degan.
Nativity of Deceased Unknown.
Appraised value of the Estate $225 00
Personal Property All.
Money Received 225 00
Money Disbursed 187 25
Balance on Hand 37 75
Fees of Administrator Four per cent, on final settlement.
Condition of the Estate Unsettled — one year unexpired.
Residence of Heirs.. . .Unknown.
Name of the Estate Cornelius Desmond.
Nativity of Deceased Ireland.
Appraised value of the Estate $454 60
Personal Property All.
Money Received (in U. S. Legal Tenders) 454 60
Money Disbursed 155 00
Balance on Hand (in U. S. Legal Tenders) 299 60
Fees of Administrator Four per cent, on final settlement.
Condition of the Estate .... Unsettled — ten months unexpired.
Residence of Heirs . . Ireland.
Name of the Estate Charles C. Foster.
Nativity of Deceased , •. Maine.
Appraised value of the Estate $2,620 00
Personal Property All.
Money Received 2,620 00
Money Disbursed 548 90
Balance on Hand 2,071 10
Fees of Administrator Four per cent, on final settlement.
Condition of the Estate Unsettled — ten months unexpired.
Residence of Heirs. . . . Maine
LETTERS OP ADMINISTRATION. 277
Name of the Estate F. L. Fehren.
Nativity of Deceased Illinois.
Appraised value of the Estate $2,055 97
Personal Property All.
Money Received, (in U. S. Legal Tenders) 1,165 00
Money Disbursed 316 96
Balance on Hand 848 04
Fees of Administrator Four per cent, on final settlement.
Condition of the Estate .... Unsettled. Partial distribution made to
widow in Illinois.
Residence of Heirs. . . Illinois.
Name of the Estate Robert Adler.
Nativity of Deceased Germany.
Appraised value of the Estate $609 60
Personal Property .*. . All.
Money Received 609 60
Money Disbursed 421 10
Balance on Hand 188 50
Fees of Administrator Four per cent, on final settlement.
Condition of the Estate Unsettled — ten months unexpired.
Residence of Heirs Germany.
Name of the Estate L. Mullen.
Nativity of Deceased Unknown.
Appraised value of the Estate $26 75
Personal Property All.
Money Received 26 75
Balance on Hand "... 26 75
Fees of Administrator Four per cent, on final settlement.
Condition of the Estate Unsettled — ten months unexpired.
Residence of Heirs. . . . Unknown.
Name of the Estate H. McFadden.
Nativity of Deceased Ireland.
Appraised value of the Estate , $12 00
278 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR'S REPORT.
Personal Property All.
Money Received , $12 00
Money Disbursed 12 00
Fees of Administrator , No charge made.
Condition of the Estate .... Closed, and money paid over for funeral
expenses.
Name of the Estate Henry Fagan.
Nativity of Deceased Massachusetts.
Appraised value of the Estate $58 25
Personal Property All.
Money Received 58 25
Money Disbursed 15 00
Balance on Hand 43 25
Fees of Administrator Four per cent, on final settlement.
Condition o^f the Estate Unsettled — ten months unexpired.
Residence of Heirs . . Unknown.
Name of the Estate Edward Fitz Maurice.
Nativity of Deceased Unknown.
Appraised value of the Estate $41 00
Personal Property All.
Money Received 41 00
Money Disbursed 2 00
Balance on Hand 39 00
Fees of Administrator Four per cent, on final settlement.
Condition of the Estate Unsettled — ten months unexpired.
Residence of Heirs Unknown.
Name of the Estate Ann C. Richardson.
Nativity of Deceased England.
Personal Property $80 00
Real Property Consisting of a house and lot on Stockton Street.
Money Received $80 00
Money Disbursed 13 50
Balance on Hand . 66 50
Fees of Administrator Four per cent, on final settlement.
LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION. 279
Condition of the Estate .... Special Letters only issued. Application
for General Adminstration contested ; case still pending.
Residence of Heirs Australia.
Name of the Estate John McLean.
Nativity of Deceased Unknown.
Appraised value of the Estate $19 85
Personal Property All.
Money Received 19 85
Money Disbursed
Balance on Hand 19 85
Fees of Administrator Four per cent, on final settlement.
Condition of the Estate Unsettled.
Residence of Heirs , . . Unknown.
Name of the Estate George W. Carpenter.
Nativity of Deceased Connecticut.
Appraised value of the Estate $300 00
Real Property All.
No Money Received.
Money Disbursed 72 00
Advanced by Administrator 72 00
Fees of Administrator Four per cent, on final settlement.
Condition of the Estate .... Unsettled — one year unexpired. Pro-
ceedings pending to sell Real Estate.
Residence of Heirs . . Unknown.
Name of the Estate John J. Durgin.
Nativity of Deceased Massachusetts.
Appraised value of the Estate $296 95
Rersonal Property All.
Money Received 295 95
Money Disbursed 52 50
Balance on Hand 243 45
Fees of Administrator Four per cent, on final settlement.
Condition of the Estate Unsettled — ten months unexpired.
Residence of Heirs . . . . Massachusetts.
280 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR'S REPORT.
Name of the Estate Theresa Pooler.
Nativity of Deceased Unknown.
Appraised value of the Estate $537 80
Personal Property All.
Money Received 537 80
Money Disbursed 265 03
Balance on Hand 272 77
Fees of Administrator Four per cent, on final settlement.
Condition of the Estate Unsettled — ten months unexpired.
Residence of Heirs California.
Name of the Estate Thomas Mercer.
Nativity of Deceased Scotland.
Appraised value of the Estate $4,572 00
Real Property 4,250 00
Personal Property 322 00
Money Received . 314 00
Money Disbursed 304 00
Balance on Hand 10 00
Fees of Administrator Four per cent, on final settlement.
Condition of the Estate Unsettled — ten months unexpired.
Residence of Heirs . . . . Scotland.
Name of the Estate Nelson P. Warling.
Nativity of Deceased Denmark.
Appraised value of the Estate $779 70
Personal Property j All.
Money Received 779 70
Money Disbursed 263 16
Balance on Hand : . 516 54
Fees of Administrator Four per cent, on final settlement.
Condition of the Estate Unsettled — ten months unexpired.
Residence of Heirs . . Denmark.
Name of the Estate '! William Byatt.
Nativity of Deceased England.
LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION. 281
Appraised value of the Estate . . $475 00
Personal Property All.
Money Received 255 50
Money Disbursed 219 60
Balance on Hand 3590
Fees of Administrator Four per cent, on final settlement.
Condition of the Estate Unsettled — ten months unexpired.
Residence of Heirs.. . .Unknown.
Name of the Estate Henry Torrey.
Nativity of Deceased New York.
Appraised value of the Estate $510 75
Personal Property All.
Money Received .' 428 75
Money Disbursed 115 00
Balance on Hand 313 75
Fees of Administrator Four per cent, on final settlement.
Condition of the Estate Unsettled — ten months unexpired.
Residence of Heirs. . . Unknown.
Name of the Estate M. Horton.
Nativity of Deceased Scotland.
Appraised value of the Estate $1,237 65
Personal Property All.
Money Received 1,237 65
Money Disbursed 65 00
Balance on Hand 1,1 62 65
Fees of Administrator Four per cent, on final settlement.
Condition of the Estate Unsettled.
Residence of Heirs . . . Scotland.
Name of the Estate Patrick Ryan.
Nativity of Deceased Ireland.
Appraised value of the Estate $500 00
Personal Property All.
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282 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR'S REPORT.
Money Received $500 00
Money Disbursed 404 50
Balance on Hand 95 50
Fees of Administrator Four per cent, on final settlement.
Condition of the Estate k . Unsettled — one year unexpired.
Residence of Heirs . . . . Unknown.
Name of the Estate Frederick Mahler.
Nativity of Deceased Germany.
Appraised value of the Estate $1,200 00
Real Property. All.
No money received.
Money Disbursed 83 68
Advanced by Administrator % 83 68
Fees of Administrator Four per cent, on final settlement.
Condition of the Estate .... Unsettled. Proceedings pending to sell
Real Estate.
Residence of Heirs Germany.
Name of the Estate Daniel Sullivan.
Nativity of Deceased Ireland.
Appraised value of Estate $173 50
Personal Property . All.
Money Received 173 50
Money Disbursed
Balance on Hand 173 50
Fees of Administrator Four per cent, on final settlement.
Condition of the Estate Unsettled — ten months unexpired.
Residence of Heirs Brother in this city.
Name of the Estate , . Georgiana Mathews.
Nativity of Deceased Ireland.
Appraised value of the Estate $900 00
Personal Property 93 00
Real Property ' 900 00
Money Received 93 00
LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION. 283
Money Disbursed 120 60
Advanced by Administrator
Fees of Administrator Four per cent, on final settlement.
Condition of the Estate Unsettled.
Eesidence of Heirs Daughter in this city.
Name of the Estate G. B. Wood.
Nativity of Deceased Massachusetts.
Appraised value of Estate $78 75
Personal Property All.
Money Received 75 00
Money Disbursed 75 00
Fees of Administrator No charge made.
Condition of the Estate .... Estate closed. Amount of Estate paid
over for funeral and other expenses.
ESTATES UPON WHICH LETTERS OP ADMINISTRATION
HAVE BEEN ISSUED, BUT NO PROPERTY RECEIVED.
Letters of Administration have been issued on the following Estates,
but no money or other property has come into the possession of the
Adminstrator, nor any fees received thereon. The property of several
of said Estates consists of claims to land not yet determined :
Robert Dyson, Charles S. Norris,
T. B. McManus, Huling Major,
John J. Coombs, Horace Cole,
C. E. Trask, % James E. Calhoun,
Wm. F. Hamilton, . J. W. Phipps, ,
Julia W. Burns.
The foregoing report includes all the Estates administered upon by
me during the year ending June 30th, 1866.
As a number of the Estates are still unsettled, the amount of fees
cannot be stated, but the same will, on final settlement, be four per
cent, upon the amount administered in each Estate.
All of which is respectfully submitted,
J. W. BRUMAGIM,
Public Administrator.
POUND MASTER'S REPORT.
POUND MASTER'S OFFICE, )
San Francisco, July 31st, 18GC. f
To t/i.e Honorable the Board of Supervisors
Of the City and Count if of San Francisco —
GENTLEMEN : In compliance with Resolution No. 3449, I herewith
submit to you the following statements of the Public Pound, from July
14th, 1865. to June 30th, 1866.
July, 1865 $59 00
August, " 85 00
September, " 62 50
October, " 18 00
November, " , 31 00
December, " 16 00
January, 1866 29 00
February, " 52 00
March, " 33 00
April, « 40 00
May, " 35 00
June, " 29 00
Total receipts from July 14th, 1865, to June 30th, 1866.. .$489 50
POUND MASTER'S REPORT.
285
REPORT OF THE DOG POUND.
I herewith submit to you the following report of the Dog Pound,
from July 14th, 1865, to June 30th, 1866:
MONTHS.
Impounded.
Redeemed.
Killed.
Cash Kec'd.
July,
August,
September,
October,
November,
December,
January,
February,
March,
April,
May,
June,
Tota
1865
46
299
341
255
199
208
75
179
168
154
246
190
9
46
48
19
15
14
5
14
11
9
13
11
37
253
293
236
184
194
70
165
157
145
233
179
$ 45 00
230 00
240 00
95 00
75 00
70 00
25 00
70 00
55 00
45 00
65 00
55 00
K
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U
u
U
1866
a
a
u
u
«
Is..
2,360
214
2,146
$1,070 00
JOHN SHORT, JR.,
Pound Keeper
REPORT
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
To the Honorable the Board of Supervisors
Of the City and County of San Francisco —
GENTLEMEN : In compliance with the request of your Hon. Body, I
have the honor of submitting the following report of the more important
transactions of the Department of Public Schools, during the fiscal year
ending June 30th, 1866. Accompanied with miscellaneous statistics
exhibiting the development and general progress of the Public Schools
of this city during the past and several preceding years.
BOARD OF EDUCATION— 1865-6.
JOS. W. WINANS, 604 Merchant Street . President.
DIRECTORS.
L. B. MASTICK, Pier 10, Stewart Street 1st District.
H. T. GRAVES, 412 Clay Street 2d District.
WASHINGTON AYER, 408 Kearny Street 3d District.
Jos. W. WINANS, 604 Montgomery Street 4th District.
BOARD OF EDUCATION. 287
W. A. GROVER, 27 Post Street 5th District.
A. C. NICHOLS, Battery Street 6th District.
W. G. BADGER, 411, 413, and 415 Battery Street 7th District.
GEO. C. HICKOX, northeast cor. Mont, and Sac. streets . 8th District.
S. B. THOMPSON, 373 Brannan Street 9th District.
S. C. BUGBEE, 73 and 74 Montgomery Block 10th District.
M. LYNCH, No. 2, third floor, City Hall llth District.
CHAS. M. PLUM, 22 Montgomery Street 12th District.
J. C. PELTON, 22 City Hall. . . Superintendent of Public Schools.
D. LUNT, 22 City Hall Secretary.
On the 5th of July, 1865, the Board of Education convened at the
rooms of the Department, City Hall, and elected Joseph W. Winans
President ; also, confirmed the Superintendent's appointment of Daniel
Lunt as Secretary. At the next meeting of the Board, in July, the
Standing Committees were proposed by the President, and confirmed
as follows :
Examination and Election of Teachers — Messrs. LYNCH, AYER,
and HICKOX.
Rules and Regulations — Messrs. BADGER, THOMPSON, and GROVER.
Classification and Course of Instruction — Messrs. AYER, BUGBEE,
and GRAVES.
Text Books and Music — Messrs. THOMPSON, NICHOLS, and BADGER.
High Schools — Messrs. GROVER, BADGER, and HICKOX.
Evening Schools — Messrs. THOMPSON, NICHOLS, and MASTICK.
School Houses and Sites — Messrs. MASTICK, BUGBEE, and PLUM.
Furniture and Supplies — Messrs. BUGBEE, PLUM, and GRAVES.
Salaries and Judiciary — Messrs. HICKOX, MASTICK, and LYNCH.
Finance and Auditing — Messrs. NICHOLS, AYER, and PLUM.
288 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT.
Grammar Department — Messrs. GRAVES, AYER, GROVER, THOMP-
SON, LYNCH, and BUGBEE.
Primary Department — Messrs. PLUM, MASTICK, BADGER, HICKOX,
NICHOLS, and GROVER.
At the meeting of the Board of Education of July 10th, 1866, Jos.
W. Winans was reflected President, and the above Standing Commit-
tees continued without change.
REPORT OF FINANCE AND AUDITING COMMITTEE.
The following elaborate and carefully prepared report of the Finance
Committee of the Board of Education exhibits the present and pros-
pective financial condition of the Public School Department of this
city. This report was adopted in Board of Education, August — , 1866.
To the Honorable Board of Education —
GENTLEMEN : Your Finance and Auditing Committee herewith submit the
annual report of the financial condition of the Public School Department, embrac-
ing a summary of the receipts and expenditures of the past.year, and an estimate
of the revenue and expenditures of the present fiscal year.
The receipts of the past fiscal year, as shown by the books of this office, are as
follows :
Balance on hand July 1, 1865, after payment of outstanding audited
demands $ 828 52
Received for Taxes 240,582 04
Received for rent of School Property 1,225 50
Received from State School Fund 43,043 55
Received for fines in Police Court 25 00
Received for Poll Taxes 2,214 75
Proceeds of Sale of Fairmount School Lot 400 00
Received from Insurance on Spring Valley Building 333 35
Received from Evening Schools 200 00
Transferred from Sinking Fund of Bonds of 1854 2,806 36
. Demands of Francis Holmes canceled 59 06
Received of the Industrial School Department 77 40
Transfer from Street Department Fund 50,000 00
Received for Sale of Tehama Building 425 00
Received for Sale of $75,000 Bonds of 1866 61,000 00
Total $403,270 53
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fiscal year, about $16,000 ; making a total for disbursements and transfers for the
past fiscal year of $427,688 84 — ($53,840 52 of which was for liabilities in addi-
tion to Transfers for Interest and Sinking Funds, incurred previous to first July,
1865).
The total receipts for the past year, including a balance of $828 52 in the School
Fund at the beginning of th year, and $50,000 transferred from the Street De
290 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT.
partment Fund, and $61,050 realized from the sale of School Bonds, amount to
$403,270 53.
Total disbursements for the year, including return of $50,000 to the Street De-
partment Fund, and transfers to Sinking and Interest Funds, amount to $427,668 84,
being in excess of receipts by $24,398 31.
ESTIMATED SCHOOL REVENUE 1866-67, AS PER STATEMENT OF THE CITY
AND COUNTY AUDITOR.
From taxes on an assessment roll of $72,000,000 at 35 cents on each
$100, gives $252,000 00
From other years (delinquent) 8,000 00
From Poll Taxes 2,500 00
From Kent of School Property 1,500 00
From Dog Tax 800 00
From Evening Schools 200 00
From State School Fund, as per statement of State Superintendent. . 57,000 00
Total Amount Revenue for Current Expenses $322,000 00
BUILDING FUND.
In addition to the above revenue, the Department will have a Building Fund,
derived from the proceeds of the sale of School Bonds authorized by the last
Legislature :
Amount of Bonds authorized $275,000
This amount at 80 cents will give $220,000 00
From this amount of proceeds there will be required to make
up the deficiency of the past year, and for buildings al-
ready erected, about 85,448 31
Leaving for a Building Fund, about $134,551 69
ESTIMATED CURRENT EXPENDITURES FOR 1866-7.
For Salaries of Teachers $208,000 00
For Salaries of Janitors 14,000 00
For Marshals, same as past year 730 00
For Insurance, estimated at 3,500 00
For Clerks, fixed 1 ,800 00
For Carpenters, fixed 2,400 00
For Lights, estimated at 1,200 00
For Water, estimated at 400 00
For Furniture, estimated at 20,000 00
For Books and Supplies, estimated at 9,970 00
For Rents, estimated at 10,000 00
For Fuel, estimated at 3,500 00
Camed forward $275,500 00
TEACHERS' SALARIES.
291
Brought forward $275,500 00
For Kepairs, estimated at 5,000 00
For Incidentals, limited to 2,500 00
For Grading of Streets, estimated at 4,000 00
For Transfers to Sinking and Interest Funds, fixed 35,000 00
Estimated current expenses of present year $322,000 00
To estimated receipts for current expenses 322,000 00
The Committee recommend that the Board keep the current expenses within the
sums named above.
A. C. NICHOLS, j
WASHINGTON ATER,
CHAS. M. PLUM,
Finance and Auditing Committee.
AUGUST 20th, 1866.
Some of the estimates in the above report, that in regard to furni-
ture, at least, may, I think, be in excess of what at the end of the ydfer
will be found to have been the necessary expenditures of the Depart-
ment ; other estimates may be slightly less than thus they might have
been, but the general conclusion is undoubtedly correct, viz : That the
expenses of our School Department may, with strict economy, be
brought within its current resources.
RECAPITULATION OF SUNDRY DISBURSEMENTS.
TEACHERS' SALARIES (1866-1866).
The monthly salaries of Teachers for the current fiscal year ending
June 30th, 1866, have been as follows :
MONTHS.
Total Salaries.
Increase.
MONTHS.
Total Salaries.
Increase.
July
$13,091 53
.145
January.
$15,844 08
024
August ....
September. .
October.. . .
14,021 62
14,749 07
15,306 65
.075
.051
.039
February. .
March ....
April
16,073 03
16,160 37
16,480 93
.008
.005
013
November . .
December. .
15,254 05
15,469 16
.003
.014
May
June . .
16,467 17
16.617 42
.0008
.009
Total for the year $185,535 08
292 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT.
Average Salaries for 12 months $15,461 25
Average Salaries for last 6 months 16,273 82
The monthly increase of salary for the year has been an average of
three per cent. (.03) per month upon the amount of the preceding
month ; but the monthly increase during the last six months has been
only 9-1000 per cent, (less than one per cent.) per month, or less than
one-third the average increase during the whole twelve months of the
year.
The total increase for the year, in the annual total of salaries it will
be seen, has been $50,835 20, or over 37 per cent. It will be seen
that most of the increase in salaries, during the current year just
closed, was during the first half of the year. The rates of increase in
the number of Teachers employed being much less during last half of
the year. I believe the necessary increase during the coming year
wj.ll be much less than during the past year.
The salaries of Teachers for the last month of last fiscal year,
1864-65, (June) amounted to $11,278 73, while for the corresponding
month of present year the amount was $16,617 42, an increase of
$5,338 69, or over 47 per cent. Teachers' salaries for the first month
(July) of the present fiscal year (1865-66) were $13,091 53 ; for July,
the corresponding month of ensuing fiscal year, (1866-67) $17,234 15,
or an increase of $4,142 73.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON SALARIES AND JUDICIARY.
The following report will exhibit the present rates of salaries as
fixed by our Board for the first four months of the year, viz : from
July 1st to December 1st, 1866 :
To the Honorable President and Members
Of the Board of Education —
GENTLEMEN : Your Committee on Salaries and Judiciary have, in compliance
with the Manual, had under consideration the Schedule of Salaries to be paid to
Teachers the ensuing year, and respectfully recommend adoption of the following
TEACHERS7 SALARIES.
293
SCHEDULE OF SALAKIES.
TEACHERS.
Per Month.
Per Annum.
Principal of Boys' High School. . .
$208 33
2,500 00
Teacher of Mathematics
175 00
2 100 00
Teacher of Modern Languages
150 00
1,800 00
Teacher of Belles Lettres t .
100 00
1,200 00
Principal of Girls' Hi"~h School
208 33
2 500 00
Assistants of Girls' High School
100 00
1 200 00
Teacher of French School.
100 00
1,200 00
Principal Latin School ...
208 33
2,500 00
Assistants Latin School
150 00
1 800 00
175 00
2,100 00
Sub-Masters
125 00
1,500 00
Male Assistant Mission School. . ....
100 00
1 200 00
Head Assistants Grammar Schools
83 33
1 000 00
Special Assistants Grammar Schools
80 00
960 00
Assistants 2d Class Grammar Schools
75 00
900 00
Assistants 2d Class Grammar Schools. .
67 50
810 00
Principal Primary Schools 12 Classes
115 00
I 380 00
Principal Primary Schools 6 Classes . .
100 00
1,200 00
Principal Primary Schools 4 Classes
85 00
1 020 00
Principal Outside Schools, 2 Classes or more
75 00
900 00
Principal Outside Schools, 1 Class. ....
70 00
840 00
Principal Colored School.
100 00
1 200 00
Principal Chinese School
80 00
960 00
Assistants Primary School each
67 50
810 00
Teacher of Music. . ....
150 00
1 800 00
Teachers of Penmanshin and Drawing. .
150 00
1,800 00
They further recommend that all persons hereafter elected shall be regarded as
probationary for the period of six months, and the salary fixed at time of election
be at the following rates :
To Assistant Teachers of experience of one year and upwards in this State, $55
per month for first six months. To Assistant Teachers of experience of one year
and upwards in this State, $60 per month for second six months ; and thereafter
full salary of Assistant Teacher. To Assistant Teachers of less than one year's
experience, $50 per month for first six months, and $55 per month for second six
months, with increase to full Assistant's salary thereafter. These rates to remain
unchanged, irrespective of any transfers during the probationary year, except by
special action of the Board at the time the transfers take place.
Respectfully submitted,
GEO. C. HICKOX,
M. LYNCH,
Committee on Salaries and Judiciary.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 24th, 1866.
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PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT.
RANK AND SALARY OF TEACHERS FOR THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR
1866-67*.
TEACHERS.
Number.
Salary pe
r Month.
Principils of Hi0*!! Schools
3
$208 33
$ 625 00
Teacher of Mathematics
1
175 00
175 00
Teacher of Belles Lettres. .
1
100 00
100 00
Male Assistant in Latin School
2
150 00
300 00
Female Assistants in Girls' High School
2
100 00
200 00
Teacher Modern Languages
1
150 00
150 00
1
100 00
100 00
Grammar Masters
7
175 00
1 995 00
Sub-Masters
4
125 00
500 00
Head Assistants
5
83 33
416 65
Special Assistants Grammar
4
80 00
320 00
" " Primary
5
72 50
362 50
First Assistants Grammar
2
75 00
150 00
Primary Principals 1st Grade
8
100 00
800 00
« « 2d "
0
85 00
170 00
" " 12 Classes
1
115 00
115 00
Male Assistants
2
100 00
200 00
Principals Outside Schools 2 Classes .
2
75 00
150 00
" " " 1 Class
5
70 00
350 00
" Model School
1
100 00
100 00
Head Assistants Primary
2
50 00
100 00
Probationary Teachers, 1st Grade
6
55 00
330 00
2d "
20
50 00
1 000 00
Principal Colored School
1
100 00
100 00
Assistants " "
2
75 00
150 00
Chinese School *.
1
80 00
80 00
Teachers of Music
2
150 00
300 00
Penmanship and Drawin01
2
150 00
300 00
1
125 00
125 00
it t(
1
35 00
35 00
Assistants (Female)
116
67 50
7 830 00
Teachers in Evening Schools
6
62 50
375 00
Totals . .
219
S3.239 16
$17.234 15
* The present rates, and these will probably be maintained, with but slight modifications, during
the year.
NOTES REGARDING DISBURSEMENTS OF PAST AND EN-
SUING YEARS.
Teachers' salaries, it will be seen, form the important item of our
disbursements. This is to be expected. Teachers must be well paid,
and the present liberal rates of salaries should be maintained, except,
perhaps, as to inexperienced teachers during their probationary term.
295
The remuneration paid to our middle and lower grades of teachers, as
compared with the ordinary rates paid in Eastern or Western cities, is
indeed liberal ; the salaries paid to probationary teachers extremely so.
Local circumstances compel us to pay rates which elsewhere might be
regarded as exorbitant ; but while every class of salaries or wages,
every kind of professional or other personal service, remain correspond-
ingly high, and while local circumstances effecting such also remain as
at present in this city, it will be impossible, as well as unjust, to dis-
criminate against the teachers of our Public Schools by materially re-
ducing the present rates of compensation allowed to them. The pres-
ent number of teachers, July 31st, is 219. The total paid for teachers'
salaries during the past current year has been unusually large. This
has resulted from extraordinary causes, viz : The unusual increased
number of schools, and consequently a correspondingly increased num-
ber of teachers employed as compared with other years. As will be
observed elsewhere, the number of our teachers has increased during
the past year from 144 at the beginning, July 1st, 1865, to 206 at the
close of the year, June 30th, 1866. The number of pupils has also
increased during the year, from less than 8,000 to 10,103. This should
be regarded not as an indication of a lack of sound economy in the
disbursement of our funds, but as an encouraging proof of the pros-
perity of our Department — the success of our Public School system.
Other items of expenditures have also been unusually but unavoidably
large.
Much increase in school accommodations have been required and
provided by our Department during the year.
To meet the just demand upon our Department, accommodations for
pupils have been provided whenever and wherever actually required,
for we have felt that the Public Schools were equally open and free to
all. We have not felt ourselves at liberty to provide for the larger
portion of our pupils merely not content, when most of even a large
majority, but when all were provided for. We have considered all
who desired to enter Public Schools as having equal claims upon us,
equal rights to a common enjoyment of our Public School funds. In
short, while we have professed that our Public schools were open and
free to all, we could not, with propriety or justice, suffer the doors of
our schools to be closed on any ; and these necessary efforts to meet
the just demands of all have rendered it necessary to improvise a large
number of temporary school houses and class-rooms in the various
districts of the city, and the procuring of the great number of these
296 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT.
rooms has added greatly to our salaries and rents, as well as to all other
current expenses of the Department. Besides, the constant alterations
and " repairs " rendered necessary by occupying temporary accommo-
dations, have been very large during the past year.
Our furniture expenses for the past year have also been very large,
for there have been paid from the past year's funds, not only the
ordinary expenses of the present year, but nearly $20,000 for the
furniture of buildings erected during the previous years. $17,000 have
been paid*by the present Board under a contract 'of the preceding year,
for the furniture of the Lincoln School House alone, and about $1,800
for the Denman School.
The furniture thus secured, however, is in the nature of permanent
property of the Department, and will last as long as the buildings which
contain it.
When, by the employment- of the funds now at our disposal, we have
succeeded in erecting the several school houses at present contemplated,
these items of " Rents " and t; Repairs " will nearly disappear from our
accounts. And when our schools (rather the detached classes which
form many of them) are collected and consolidated in our new build-
ings, the janitorial expense of our Department will also be diminished
rather than increased.
BUILDING DISBURSEMENTS.
The large apparent amount of past expenditures for building
($59,216 82) is noticeable ; but it should be remembered that a large
portion of these disbursements have been paid on contracts of last
year, to wit :
On Lincoln School $32,412 25
On Fairmount 2,668 00
On Hayes Valley 2,590 00
. $37,670 25
This sum deducted from the total of disbursements for building,
and, as shown in the report of the Finance Committee, we have left
$21,546 57 as the actual amount of building disbursements, for which
the present Board is strictly accountable, and this amount, though small,
compared with similar disbursements of last and preceding years,
nevertheless has secured accommodations for a larger number of pupils
than has ever before been provided, for the same outlay of funds, since
the organization of the Department, The return of taxes illegally
REVIEW OP THE CONDITION OF THE DEPARTMENT. 297
collected has occasioned a large and unexpected disbursement of cur-
rent funds. The payment for Teachers at the Industrial School will
not hereafter be paid from the School Fund. Our expenditures for
books and printing have been much greater during the past year than
such expenses need be during the coming current year. The transfers
to the Sinking and Interest funds for the payment of interest on, and
the redemption of School Bonds, will for the present year and hereafter
be somewhat in excess of past years, as we have to meet and provide
for the payment of Interest and Sinking Fund of new bonds, as au-
thorized by the last Legislature.
It is apparent from the present condition of the schools, and the
general circumstances of our Department, that we may with good
reason hope that the coming current year, with little increase in our
gross expenditures over those of last year, will be one of great pros-
perity and substantial success to the Public School Department.
REVIEW OF THE GENERAL CONDITION OF THE PUBLIC
SCFIOOL DEPARTMENT, AND STATISTICS RELATING TO
THE SAME.
There are other considerations affecting the efficiency of our De-
partment, its general prosperity, and success, of equal, if not greater
importance, than those relating to its finances, and although the latter
should, doubtless, form the prominent topics to be presented in this re-
port to your Honorable Body, still, a brief reference to and consider-
ation of other questions may not be inappropriate.
PRESENT CONDITION OF THE SCHOOLS.
It will be admitted by all who have taken careful note of the affairs
of our Department during the past year, that our Schools have enjoyed
a very high degree of prosperity ; our Department, as a whole, a success
gratifying to friends, and it is to be hoped, satisfactory to all.
In the choice of Teachers the Board of Education has been exceed-
ingly fortunate during the past year. We have in our Schools the
most zealous, faithful, and intelligent professional Teachers — those who
appreciate the responsibility of their positions, and KNOW how to per-
form their duties. Nearly one-third of our Teachers have been edu-
20
298 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT.
cated in our Normal School, with direct reference to their profession.
The general spirit prevailing in our Department, controlling the man-
agement of its affairs and the discharge of its important trust, is that
of harmony, good-will, and mutual confidence. The future, we believe,
is full of promise to us.
During the year our School facilities have been greatly increased,
and our Schools have not only been multiplied in number, but improved,
if not perfected, in classification arid discipline, in efficiency and useful-
ness. Not only have several thousands of pupils been added to the
Schools of the Department, but the general character of scholarship
and deportment of those attending our Schools has been improving
throughout the year — the standard of every merit has been raised
higher and higher, till we feel that our Public Schools may safely be
compared with those of any State or country, or be judged from any
known and attainable standard of excellence. But it must also be
admitted that at the commencement of the year just closed, our affairs
were attended with embarrassments neither few nor trifling. These
resulted partly from a serious deficiency in the funds of the Depart-
ment, and also in part from a want of correct appreciation on the part
of the community of the circumstances under which we were com-
pelled to labor. There has been too often exhibited in the community
a feeling not confidential or friendly to the general administration of
the Public School Department, or those connected therewith — a dispo-
sition to criticise sharply, rather than to commend or even candidly
examine and discuss our measures. The best efforts we have been
able to make for the improvement of the Schools and for the general
good of the Department, have often been met by unnecessary and un-
just distrust, rather than by a spirit of proper and generous encourage-
ment. The whisper of extravagance, want of economy, and wasteful-
ness, if not of absolute malfeasance in the administration of our affairs,
has sometimes been indulged in, with little thought and less justice or
discrimination.
During last year, and the early part of the present, many parents
were becoming discouraged from making further efforts to gain accom-
modation for their childeren, and were transferring their patronage and
support to private instead of to Public Schools. Irritation and annoy-
ance to all parties, under these circumstances, has been a matter of
course, and caused no surprise.
A disposition of general fault-finding and ungenerous criticism and
complaint may, perhaps, under these circumstances, have been some-
REVIEW OF THE CONDITION OF THE DEPARTMENT, 299
\vhat excusable, but certainly very unjust where manifested and indulged
in toward the present Board of Education. But though unjust and
misapplied, it has had to be borne patiently, while a reasonable remedy
could be sought and applied. This remedy was sought by our Board
at once at the beginning of the present year, in an immediate increase
in our School accommodations, especially for the Primary Schools, of
which we found, one year ago, thirty-six classes, containing 2,156 pupils,
in rented buildings and room?, inconvenient and in almost every respect
unsuitable. Some were in basements and other tenements belonging
to the Department utterly unfit to be accupied, if not disgraceful to the
city. I may be pardoned for here adverting to the fact that in my first
report to the Board of Education, I brought these facts prominently to
its attention and urged immediate action in the premises ; but so chronic
and unreasonable had become the spirit of distrust, fault-finding, and
complaint, that my most obviously just and judicious recommendations,
urged with the very purpose of remedying the evils so generally exist-
ing and so impatiently complained of, were, strange as it may appear,
opposed, rather than encouraged, by one or two of our city papers. I
had urged in my report that immediate efforts should be made for the
accommodation of the 1,142 applicants, as returned per census, and for
at least 1,997 more, who would, as I thought, attend Public Schools if
suitable provisions were made for them. I need not state in what
manner these calculations, since proved to have been so correct, (see
statistics on page six) were met by some. It was indeed industriously
attempted to be shown that my calculations were entirely erroneous ; that
only trifling, if any, additional Public School facilities were necessary ;
that few, if any, children, were unprovided for ; that any scheme of build-
ing, such as had been proposed, was quite unnecessary, if not extrava-
gantly absurd.
However, a committee (on School Accommodations) was raised in
the Board of Education, to which was intrusted the matter of devising
means for meeting the then pressing demands upon our department for
increased School facilities. With what success the efforts of that com-
mittee have be?n attended during the past year, may be justly inferred
not only from the enlarged School accommodations of to-day, as com-
pared with those of one year ago, but from the scheme of improvements
now in progress.
Though honest and well-intended efforts had been made during
several years preceding the present, in providing for the rapidly in-
creasing wants of the city ; and though large sums had been devoted
300 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT.
to building School houses, still, at the beginning of last year; of the
16,586 children and youths returned by the Census Marshals, (of the
proper ages to attend Public Schools) only 7,952 were in actual attend-
ance. There were reported as attending private schools 5,450. There
were applying, and not able to gain admission, 1,142 ; and several
hundreds were reported as not attending any school, or seeking to do so.
I beg to call attention to the condition of our Public School statistics
of to-day, as compared with the foregoing, and I would ask if ought
therein can be found otherwise than encouraging to friends of the
Public School system of this city. From the late Census returns (the
canvass being made only eleven months later than that from which the
foregoing figures have been taken) and also from our School reports of
last months, July, the following facts appear. And it should be re-
membered that this improved condition of our Department has resulted
from no unusual means placed at our disposal, but from an economical
and judicious use of those in hand.
Number of pupils enrolled in the Public Schools 11,552
Increase during the year 3,552
Per cent, of increase 30
Number returned as attending private schools 4,403
Decrease during the year 1,047
Per cent, of decrease 23
Number returned per census as applying for admission to the
Public Schools (and these have now been admitted) 55
Decrease 1,087
Last year there were two High Schools, this year there are three.
Last year there were six Grammar Schools, this year there are seven.
Last year there were twenty-two Primary Schools, this year there are
thirty-one.
During the present year ninety-one pupils have been added to the
High Schools, 1,206 have been added to the Grammar, and 2,021 to the
Primary Department ; and eighty-three additional Teachers have been
employed over the average of the previous year.
The per cent, of increase in the number of Teachers in the Public
Schools during the past year is forty-three. The per cent, of increase
in pupils added to the Public School Department is forty -two and three
tenths. Two-thirds of the increase in pupils has occurred in the
Primary Schools.
The above ratios and per centages of increase and decrease should
REVIEW OF THE CONDITION OF THE DEPARTMENT. 301
be attentively examined. They form the best possible and only needed
defense against the thoughtless charges of misapplication of School
funds. Truly, a most eloquent appeal is here found for public con-
fidence, encouragement, and support. These figures may be safely re-
garded as a sure indication not merely of a permanent and encouraging
growth of our Public Schools, but as an unmistakable evidence of an
increasing and earnest interest in the same on the part of our citizens ;
and this increase of interest is per consequence followed by a cor-
respondingly increased sympathy, confidence, and good-will, insuring to
us a corresponding accession to the permanent support and solid strength
of the Public School system of San Francisco. And before the
thoughtless and unreflecting renew their charges of misapplication of
funds and extravagance, they should at least attentively consider the
number of our schools, the extent of our Department, the magnitude
of its interest, and the importance to the city of its just and generous
support. While the debit side of our accounts are so critically exam-
ined, the over-balancing credits should not be overlooked.
Economy, strict and positive, should of course be exercised at all
times, under all circumstances, in the management of the public funds.
None can appreciate or act more constantly and conscientiously under
a sense of its importance than have the officers of our Department
during the past year. This cannot be successfully denied. But econ-
omy must be intelligently understood and judiciously exercised, or it
will, in school or educational matter especially, be the very reverse of
what the word economy should imply. It may be asked if it is econo-
my to allow hundreds of our children to ramble through our streets, to
acquire idle and vicious habits ? to cultivate and encourage vagrancy
by restricting or limiting Public School facilities ? if it is economy to
lessen the number and the compensation of our Public School Teach-
ers, and increase the number and enrolments of our city Police ? if
it is economy to build churches, found asylums and hospitals, and es-
tablish colleges, and erect our homes of charity and benevolence, and
neglect the substantial care and education of our Public School children ?
The verbal answer to these questions will be readily given in the
negative by all, yet should we seek an answer in the actions and the
deeds of some, rather than from their lips, a very different answer would
often be received.
NEW SCHOOL BONDS OF 186G.
One of the first as well as one of the most important efforts of the
present Board of Education, as elsewhere remarked, was the maturing
302 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT.
of a scheme of building embraced in the subjoined report of our
Committee on School Accommodations. It was, however, early dis-
covered that the financial resources of the Department had been
seriously crippled by the building disbursement and other contracts of
the preceding year — that the funds of the present current year had
been encroached upon in nearly the sum of 352,000, and that thereby
we were not only deprived of the means necessary for the carrying out
of the proposed improvements, but had also in prospect the alternative
of closing the Schools for several months before the end of the year, or
providing for an inevitable deficiency in our current funds to an amount
at least equal to the above $52,000 overdrawn.
To meet this deficiency and avoid closing the Schools, and also to
procure the means of carrying out our projected improvements, the
Board of Education conceived the plan of issuing School Bonds. A
statement of .'the condition and wants of our Department was accord-
ingly prepared by our Committee on School Accommodations in Feb-
ruary last, and forwarded to the Legislature ; and this appeal was
followed by the personal efforts of the members of said Committee.
The relief sought was obtained, and Bonds were authorized to be
issued to the amount of $275,000. Of this sum there has been already
issued $125,000, and of the proceeds of this latter amount there has
'been appropriated $82,454.55, to meet the deficiency of last year, and
for buildings erected and in progress of erection, under the approval of
your Honorable Body. The remaining $150,000 of the Bonds author-
ized by the Legislature should be issued in time to meet the require-
ments of this Department. But our building improvements need not
and should not be delayed for the sale of these remaining Bonds. The
current funds soon to be, or already in the treasury, from the payment
of taxes, may and should be employed in immediately hastening for-
ward the projected improvements, so imperatively demanded. The
amount thus drawn from the current funds can be restored from the
sale of Bonds when issued. By this means the issue of the Bonds
may be postponed for some time, and thus a considerable amount be
saved the Department in the item of interest. Unless this course be
pursued, the money necessary to be employed, as above suggested, will
remain unused in the treasury, while meantime we shall be forced to
continue on paying our present high rents ; the two or three thousand
children now in unsuitable and unwholesome tenements meantime com-
pelled to suffer on through the approaching rainy season, and the
officers of our Department be forced to endure unnecessary mortifica-
tion, and we fear unmerited reproof.
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON SCHOOL ACCOMMODATIONS. 303
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON SCHOOL ACCOMMODATIONS.
The following report to the Board of Education, from the Committee
on School Accommodations, will show the projected building improve-
ments complete, in progress, and contemplated, during the present and
coming years :
To the Honorable the Board of Education,
City and County of San Francisco —
GENTLEMEN : The undersigned, Committee on School Accommodations, beg leave
to present the following report, and respectfully recommend the same for adoption
by the Board as an entire and complete plan for erecting, procuring, and improving
School Houses during the years 1866 and 1867, which said improvements, it is
believed, will amply provide for the wants of the Department, and should be made
from time to time in the order herein named.
First, (a) The erection of a one-story twelve-class room building, at the corner
of Fifth and Market streets, for Primary classes, at a cost not to exceed, say $6,000.
Second, (b) The erection of a seventeen class room building on the Tehama
Street Lot, in accordance with plans donated by S. E. Bugbee, Esq., and presented
by your Committee, the same to be of brick, two stories high, with French attic,
and at a cost not to exceed, say $27,000.
Third. To construct a two-class room from the south end of the Assembly Hall,
in the Lincoln Grammar School building, for the use of the Latin School, at an
estimated cost of $300.
Fourth. To raise the new school house on Broadway, near Larkin, and add one
story thereto, thus doubling its present capacity, at a cost of about $4,000.
Fifth, (c) To procure the conveyance of the Synagogue on Broadway in exchange
for certain portions of the one hundred-vara lot coraer of Fourth and Harrison
streets, said portions as designated on the map made by Messrs. Dore & Co., and
marked with a red cross, and estimated by them at a valuation of $18,100.
Sixth, (d) To convert the Synagogue so obtained into an eleven or twelve class
room building, at once, in order to provide for the immediate and pressing wants of
the First, Second, and Fourth Districts, which said improvements it is believed can
be made for an amount not to exceed $9,000.
Seventh. To procure a lot, by purchase or exchange, near the corner of Broad-
way and Montgomery streets, for the prospective need and erection of a Primary
School building, for the accommodation of that immediate neighborhood ; the cost
of said lot not to exceed $4,000.
Eighth. To erect a ten or twelve class room building on the lot corner of
Filbert and Kearny streets, to be of wood, not less than two stories high, and at a
cost of $18,000.
Ninth, (e) To grade the school lot on Greenwich Street, and erect thereon a
ten or twelve class room wood building, so as to conform as nearly as may be with
the grade of the street, at an estimated cost, for grading and building, of $20,000.
Tenth, (f) To construct a suitable addition to the Riricon Grammar School
304 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT.
building, for the accommodation of that District ; such addition to comprise eight
class rooms, at a cost say $10,000.
Eleventh, (g) To procure, by exchange of land now belonging to the Depart-
ment, the lot and building on Post Street, near Dupont, now owned and occupied
by Dr. Cohn, for school purposes ; the value of the land to be exchanged not to
exceed the sum of $20,600. '
Twelfth, (h) To procure the property on and near the corner of Larkin and
Pine streets, on the terms heretofore proposed, $4,750, (or failing in that, then some
other lot), and the erection thereon of a twelve class room building of wood, for a
Primary School, at a cost not to exceed $18,000.
Thirteenth. The erection of a ten or twelve class room building, for Primary
School, on the lot on Harrison Street, near Tenth, to be built of wood, and at a cost
not exceeding $18,000.
Fourteenth. To add to the Mission Grammar School building four class rooms,
at a cost of about $3,500.
Fifteenth. To erect a one class room building at or near the Ocean House, at a
cost of about $1,000.
Sixteenth. The erection of a two class room building near the corner of Mission
and Twenty-Second Streets, or midway between the San Bruno and Fairmount
Schools, to be of wood, and at a cost not to exceed $2,000.
Seventeenth. To erect a one class room building on the West End lot, for what
is known as the Six Mile or West End School, long since organized and at present
occupying a miserable garret ; the cost of such building to be about $1,000.
Eighteenth. To erect a similar building near Steiner and Turk streets, and at
about the same cost, $1,000.
Nineteenth. The erection of a building of the same character and capacity on
Filmore Street, near Union, $1,000.
Twentieth. To procure a new lot for the Rincon Grammar School, the wants of
that District requiring further land accommodations, most certainly in the immediate
future, if not at the present time, $10,000.
Lastly, the Committee would earnestly recommend the adoption by the Board, in
the erection of these and all future structures, of a plan or plans as nearly as pos-
sible approaching uniformity, subject only to such variations as may be unavoidable
and necessary from the nature of the land to be built upon, and the capacity of the
building to be erected.
It will be observed that nearly the entire amount of the proposed expenditures
is for the accommodation of Primary Schools. Your Committee, after bestowing
much care, thought, and labor upon this subject, and carefully consulting, from
numerous and intelligent sources, the public desire, have presented a uniform and
complete plan of improvements, which will not only meet the wants of the Depart-
ment for the ensuing two years, but will also save the expenditure of an aggregate
amount of about $15,000, now disbursed for rents, besides large sum now expended
for repairs, and will also furnish better facilities for the accommodations of the
pupils now belonging to the Department, as well as those who may hereafter be re-
ceived therein.
All of which is most respectfully submitted, together with the suggestion that
the order of time proposed for the foregoing improvements may be so far varied as
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON SCHOOL ACCOMMODATIONS. 305
that any or all of them, so far as circumstances may permit, may be simultaneously
prosecuted, in the 'discretion of the Board.
JOSEPH W. WINANS, Prest. Board Education,
J. C. PELTON, Superintendent Public Schools,
GEORGE C. HICKOXT
H. T. GRAVES,
W. A. GROVER.
The following notes on the above report will show to what extent
the foregoing programme of improvements have already been completed
or commenced :
(a) The building corner Fifth and Market streets was completed
on the first of last month, July, and immediately occupied with twelve
Primary classes. The cost of this building, and the planking and other
improvements of the premises, was $6,723 35 ; yet it affords commodious,
neat, and pleasant accommodations for 720 pupils. The convenience
and economy of this structure must commend itself to all. The inter-
est on the amount here disbursed, $6,723 35, at one per cent., would
be about six dollars per class room per month — one-fifth or one-sixth of
the ordinary rents for inferior class rooms, which our Board now finds
itself compelled to occupy in various parts of the city.
(b) A contract for the erection of this building was entered into by
our Board with Messrs. Kimball Bros., for the sum of $25,850. This
does not include about $1,500 which they are to bring in for extras ;
nor does it include school furniture, the cost of which will be about
$1,000 to $1,500 additional. The second floor of this building is al-
ready laid, and by the terms of the contract the structure is to be com-
pleted on the 15th of November next. This improvement will suffi-
ciently accommodate this southeastern section of the city for many
years to come. When occupied, this building will at once save our
Department $380 per month, now paid for rents in the vicinity. This
building will contain seventeen class rooms, and will accommodate 1,020
pupils. The cost of this school edifice, compared with similar brick
buildings heretofore erected by the Department, will be noticeable.
The inconsiderate charge of extravagance in the disbursement of
moneys for the erection of school buildings is here at once well
answered.
(c) The purchase of the Synagogue has been completed on the
terms above proposed, $19,100.
(d) Plans and specifications have been adopted and contract entered
into with Mr. Samuel McCullough for its reconstruction at a cost of
306 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT.
$12,627. This improvement, when completed, will furnish to our De-
partment a fine, substantial brick building, having twelve large, well
ventilated, well lighted, and airy class rooms, each having seats for
sixty pupils, or a total capacity of 720 seats. The Synagogue school
will relieve the Department from a monthly rental of $215, now paid
for small and unsuitable rooms, corner of Montgomery and Broadway
streets. It will, besides, greatly relieve the pressure upon the crowded
schools on Mason, corner Washington, and also the still more over-
filled classes of the Primary School near the corner of Jackson and
Powell streets.
For suitable, good accommodations for this school, additional grounds
should be secured as soon as practicable. This will cost some $4,000 or
$5,000, not included in the above estimated expenses for securing
Public School accommodations during the present and coming years.
The furniture of this building was not included in the above estimates
of the Committee, and will cost some $800 or $1,000.
(e) The project of grading and rebuilding of the Greenwich Street
School has been abandoned, and instead of these improvements another
lot has been secured, as a donation from the city, on Filbert Street
above Taylor. Plans have been adopted for a new twelve class room
building upon this lot, which will cost about $15,000, so that another
and perhaps better location, and new building thereon, will be obtained
for a less sum than proposed to be expended in grading the lot and re-
building the Greenwich School house. Plans have also been proposed
and will probably be adopted, in accordance with the above recom-
mendations of our Committee.
(/) The contemplated addition of eight class rooms will double the
capacity of this (Rincon) school, and respectably and very conveniently
accommodate this portion of our city for several years. When these
proposed improvements are completed, the Rincon School House will
contain sixteen fine class rooms, and accommodate 960 pupils, with two
additional class rooms in basement, which may, if necessary, seat 120
pupils, giving a total capacity of 1,080 seats ; about one-half of these
accommodations are for primary pupils.
(g) This property has been secured on the terms proposed by our
Committee, and plans have been adopted for a suitable enlargement of
the present accommodations on these premises. These improvements
contemplate an addition to the present building of six convenient class
rooms, and a new building on the front portion of the lot, which will
contain four class rooms and two small recitation rooms. This building
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON SCHOOL ACCOMMODATIONS. 307
is designed for the Latin school. The present building in the addi-
tion thereto will probably be occupied by the "Cosmopolitan School" —
the school in which pupils are taught in the German, French, and
Spanish languges. These additions and improvements, for which we
have already adopted plans, will cost about $12,000, exclusive of
furniture.
(h) This proposition is before the Honorable Board of Supervisors,
and should be approved and consummated. In addition to the above
enlargement of the accommodations of our Public School Department
during the present and coming year, we may include the expected re-
turn to us of the North Beach School House, now and for a number
of years past occupied by the city — the City and County Hospital.
This building, with those contemplated and in progress north of Broad-
way, will afford the northern portion of the city the most ample ac-
commodations— sufficient for many years to come.
That the merits of the exchanges of property by which we obtained
the Synagogue property, on Broadway, and the estate of Dr. Cohn, on
Post Street, may be understood and appreciated, it is only necessary
that the facts in the case should be well known.
The property on Harrison Street was useless to the Board of Edu-
cation, unsuitable as a location for a school, and unproductive. That
which we obtained in exchange is exceedingly well located for school
purposes in both instances, the sites being just where we required them.
For our property exchanged we obtained the highest market rates,
more than could have been otherwise realized, and more than the
property could now be sold for. While the property obtained by the
exchange was acquired at extremely low rates in both instances, the
price of the Post Street property being especially favorable to the
Board. * No real estate agent in this city will put the price of the Post
Street lot, exclusive of the building upon the same, at less than
$12,500. This would leave about $7,000 as the price of the school
house, a good, substantial brick school of six quite convenient, and one
small class room. This amount of school accommodations was never
before obtained for so small an amount of money. Wood buildings,
during the past several years, of about the same capacity, have cost
more than this superior brick building.
The real estate (half 50-vara lot) on Broadway, exclusive of the
building, (the Synagogue) will not by any estate broker, be valued at
less than $7,000 or $8,000 ; deducting the less sum ($7,000) from the
amount paid for the property, and we have left the price of the build-
308 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT.
ing, $12,000 — $12,000 for a good, strong, heavy walled and substan-
tially constructed brick building, which, only a few years since cost, we
believe, about $40,000. When $12,000 are expended upon the re-
construction of the Synagogue, we shall have obtained, for less than
$25,000, a first class, convenient, and substantial brick school house of
twelve rooms ; a school house of a greater capacity and a more con-
venient arrangement of class rooms than has ever before been obtained
by the School Department for the same outlay of funds.
Had we had cash in hand with which to have made the above pur-
chases, we could not have secured the property in question (which we
very much needed, and felt to be almost indispensable to our Depart-
ment) at lower rates. This we knew. Had we placed our real estate
in the market and sold it at current rates, we should almost certainl}*
have realized less than the prices we succeeded in obtaining in the ex-
change of property ; besides, had we sold for cash, the terms of the
recent law authorizing the issuing of School Bonds, would have re-
quired us to place one-half of the whole amount of which have not
even yet been issued only one-half the moneys realized from sales of
the property, would in this case have been avoidable.
We leave an intelligent community, whose faithful servant we would
be, to pass upon the merits of those and other transactions of our De-
partment during the fiscal year just closed.
Respectfully submitted,
J. C. PELTON,
Superintendent Public Schools.
The Special Committee on the Annual Report of the Superintendent
have examined the same, and find that it is very full and has been
carefullv prepared, much care and labor having been bestowed upon
the preparation of valuable statistical tables ; that it contains much in-
formation relative to the School Department not before presented in a
condensed form, and that it meets the views and hearty approval of
the Committee.
H. T. GRAVES,
WM. G. BADGER.
W. A. GROVER.
SAN FRANCISCO, September llth, 18GG.
PRESENT ORGANIZATION.
309
PRESENT ORGANIZATION OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF
SAN FRANCISCO.
The following table exhibits the Class, Organization, Names of
Teachers, and the Grades of their Certificates, Salaries, Terms of
Service, etc.
BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL.
Location Corner Clay and Powell Streets.
Names of Teachers.
Grade of Certificate.
Grade
of
Class.
No. in
Class.
Length of
time in
Departm't
Monthly
Salary of
Toucher.
Theodore Bradley
State Diploma
1
5 yr 4m
$208 33
Thomas C Leonard
1 0*
11 " 6 "
175 00
Mrs. C. TJ. Atwood
ITi<yh School Assistant
\ w
2 " 4 "
100 00
Paul Pioda
Eni>-. Span. Fr. & Italian
}
1 year.
150 00
Ellis H. Holmes
Hio'h School Principal
12 years
208 33
Miss M. L Bodwell
Hi<j"h School Assistant
100 00
Miss M F Austin
IK
115
2 "
100 00
Mine- V. Prizac...
2 "
100 00
SAN FRANCISCO LATIN SCHOOL.
Location Tost Street, north side, between Stockton and Dupont.
George W Bunnell
Teach')1 Classics St Dip
^
208 33
Wni K Rowell
(73
150 00
A. L. Mann . .
\
150 CO
LINCOLN DISTRICT.
LINCOLN GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
Location. . . . . Fifth Street near Market
Ira G. Hoitt
P W J. Holbrook
H.S. Gr. Mast., St. Dip.
Gr. Mast and State Dip
1st
2d
5(5
62
2 years
1 yr lOrn
$175 00
125 00
Philip Prior
( Teacher German, P
it
58
1 year
125 00
Mrs. Ira G. Hoitt
I Gr. Mast. & St. Dip. $
11. S. Asst. & State Dip
1st
2 vrs. 1 m
83 33
Miss A. M. Manning
Miss L B. Jewett
Principal Primary
1 sr, Grade Sfate
4th
3d
55
52
l"u 6 u
2 " 1 u
80 00
67 50
Miss II A. Willard
Hi^h School Ass:stant
51
11 months
67 50
Mi-^s Ij T fowler
Pr Prim Vice Pr Gram
u
5°
67 50
Miss P M Stow ell .
Special Assist Gramni'ir
tt
55
67 50
Miss Mai™'ie McKeuzie...
Miss Lizzie F. Hitchinga..
Miss S L Hobart
First Grade State
Vice Princ. Grammar..
4th
<t
48
50
52
3"' 2 "
3 ' 6 "
O i
67 50
67 50
67 50
Miss Ij S. Swain
^ it
u
45
o s i it
67 50
Miss M. T. Kimball
it U
u
57
-> t
67 50
Miss C. L. Smith
Miss S. G. Bunker
Special Gram. Assistant
Principal Primary
tt
5th
50
62
4 ' 4 "
2 ' 10 "
67 50
72 50
Miss M. J. Ledlie
First Grade
63
4 >i
67 50
Miss S M Gunn
(<
61
1 " 1 "
67 50
Miss E F Eaton
Hi°"h School Assistant
u
61
11 "
67 50
310
PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT.
FOURTH STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL.
Names of Teachers.
Grade of Certificate.
Grade
of
Class.
No. in
Class.
Length of
time in
Departm't
jMonthlv
Salary of
Teacher.
Mrs L A Morg'an
Principal Primary
5th
5 & 6th
6th
7th
8th
6th
9th
10th
52
50
58
57
57
70
66
62
57
71
12 yr. 6 m.
1 year
I yr. 1 m.
7 " 9 '
I " 6 •
L " 1 <
4 "
1 " 1 '
8 '
10 •<
$100 00
72 50
67 50
67 50
67 50
67 50
67 50
67 50
67 50
55 00
55 00
Miss S A Burr
Miss Mnry J. Bra^i;
Miss Julia C. Haehnlen...
Miss Surah 11 Clark
Head Assist. Grammar
Priu.Priin.&Asst.Gram.
u u
Grammar Assistant
Principal Primary
Primary
Miss Sadie Davis
Miss Annie M. Jordon
Miss E Gush in"
Miss Evelyn Mosse
Mifs Theodosia J. Carter .
Second Grade
MARKET STREET PRIMAf
Location Corner I
Y SCHOOL,
ifth and Market Streets.
Miss Kate Sullivan
Principal Primary
6th
7th
8th
7th
10th
9th
8th
10th
10th
9th
10th
7th
64
40
65
50
62
60
54
60
60
67
60
53
3 yr. 9 m.
7'" 6 "
1 " 1 "
4 " 6 "
3 "
7 "
1 " 1 "
I " 1 "
New.
1 year.
8 months.
•2 yr. 1 m.
'New.
$115 00
72 50
67 50
67 50
67 50
67 50
67 50
67 50
50 00
67 50
67 50
67 50
50 00
Miss Carrie L Hunt. .
Primary Assistint
Miss Helen S. Arey
Miss Jennie M. A. Hurley.
Miss Maggie L. Jordan...
Miss Nellie A. Littlelield..
Miss Ellen Holmes
Principal Primary
Second Grade "
Primary Assistant
Fifth Grade
Miss Clara J. Neal
Miss Kate B. Childs
Primary Assistant
H.S.Awst. and First Gr.
Fifth Grade
Miss Lydia A. Cle^tr
Miss Bessie Malloy. i
Grammar Assistant
Primary Assistant
Fifth Grade
Miss M. A. Salisbury
Miss Philena Sherman ;
RINCON DISTRICT.
RINCON GIRLS' GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
A.B.,A.M.,N.G.Col.D£.
jq
Helen M Thompson
St. Dip. 6yrs.,Gr.Mast,
Prin Prim &. Gram Assc
1st
48
1 year.
5 "
83 33
Helen Milliken Clark
Frances A. Lynch
Mary Elizabeth Stowell ..
L. Maria Scotchler
Mary Amanda E. Phillips.
Anna Maria L)ore
State Diploma, 1st Gr..
Grammar Assistant
Primary Principal
Cal. Normal Sen. Dip..
Principal Primary
Primary Assistant
2d
3d
4th
4th
4th
5th
51
64
56
60
66
68
3 «
3 "
5 yr. 6 m.
3'' 6-"
3 ' 3 «
O '
75 00
67 50
67 50
67 50
67 50
67 50
Maryaret \Vade .. ....
H S & S N S. Diploma
6th
46
2 '
67 50
Lizzie Brewer Easton
S. N. S. Dip., 2d Grade
6th
47
2 '
67 50
PRESENT ORGANIZATION.
311
STEVENSON STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL.
Names of Teachers.
Grade of Certificate.
Grade
of
Class.
No. in
Class.
Length of
time in
Departm't
Monthly
Salary of
Teacher.
Mrs. Kli/.abeth C. IJurt ...
Principal Primary
5th
36
12 years.
100 00
Mrs. Li/./Je Green Deetkeu
Special Gram. Assistant
6th
50
2 yr. 6 m.
67 50
Miss .Jennie Smith....
H S & S N S Diploma
6 &7th
68
2' 2
67 50
Miss Mary Frances Smith.
Grammar Assistant
7th
60
1 6
67 50
Mrs. Sarah Noble Joseph.
8th
67
2 6
72 50
MiesJulia Rebecca Clayton
Mu-s Helen Aiken Grant..
S. N. S. Dip., 2d Grade
Sp. Gr.Asst. & Pr. Prim.
8th
9th
30
54
1 6
3 8
67 50
67 50
Miss Fanny A. E. Nichols.
S. N. S. Dip., 2d Grade
10th
64
1 1
67 50
MISSION STREET
PRIMARY SCHOOL.
Salome Sylvi
Eusebia Nevi
Lydia Wales
Elizabeth Wl
v Knapp
lie Campbell
Derby
Principal Prim
1C U
State Diploma,
arv
6&7th
8th
9th
10th
55
60
47
50
5 years.
1 yr. 6 m.
1 " 6 "
1 "
85
67
67
67
00
50
50
50
3d grade
lite
NATOMA STREET
PRIMARY SCHOOL.
Sarah Abbie
Mary Jane P
Rocg
Primary A ssist
St. Normal Sch.
ant
10th
10th
56
50
4 months.
4
50
50
00
00
ciscoe
Diploma
THIRD STREET
PRIMARY SCHOOL.
Hattie Amelia Lyons
Grammar Assistant
8th
65
1 year.
67
50
PERRY STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL.
Mrs. Rowena J. Cochrane. Primary Assistant
10th 110
4 months.
50 00
SILVER STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL.
Augusta
Sophia
Cameron .
Grammar Assistant
9th
60
1 year.
67
50
BRANNAN STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL.
Eva Gardner Smith
primary Assistant 10th j 53 4 months. 67 50
312
PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT.
FRANKLIN DISTRICT.
DEN MAN GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
Location Corner Bush and Taylor Streets.
Names of Teachers.
Grade of Certificate.
Grade
of
Class.
No. in
Class.
Length of
time in
Departm't
Monthly
Salary of
Teacher,
1st
53
$175 00
Mrs E M Banmgardner
Grammar Assistant
1st
1 \*r 1 m
83 33
Miss Margaret Keith
Mies Nettie Dond
Principal Primary
Normal School Diploma
3d
3d
58
57
5'"
6^ mos.
75 00
67 50
Miss C M. Pattee
Principal Primary- «...
3d
58
4 years.
67 50
State Certificate
3d
Miss Alice Kenny
3d
V
6 yr 6 m
67 50
Miss JeFsie Smith
Miss Ada C Bowen
Principal Primary
Gram Asst & 2d grade
4th
4th
58
53
3 " 4 "
11 "
67 50
67 59
Miss Clara C. Bo wen
Miss N. M. Chad bourne. ..
Mrs. E. A. Wood
Principal Primary
Grammar Assistant..
4th
4th
5th
55
55
56
1 "
3 " 2 "
4 " 2 "
67 50
67 50
67 50
Mrs. L. A. Clapp
IIi"'h School Assistant .
5th
39
13 years.
80 00
Miss A. T. Flint
Normal School, 2d yr..
6th
55
l\ mo.
50 00
Miss Mary J Little
(ith
54
1 r, mo
50 00
Miss Lilli'e L. Glimmer . . .
Normal School, 2d gr..
7th
50
1 5 mo.
50 00
HYDE STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL.
Location Corner Bu; li and Hyde Streets.
Miss H Cooke
I lead Assistant Gram
6th
52
1 vr 6 m
85 00
Miss A. B. Chalmers
Miss D Hvmann
Prin. Prim. & Gram. Asst.
Primary Assistant
7&8th
8th
65
69
•>"" 7 "
6 "
67 50
55 00
11 U
9th
61
11 "
67 50
TOLIv AND AUSTIN STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL.
Miss C
T
Ehlin
10th
41
3 months.
55
no
HYDE AND GEARY STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL.
Miss L
A
10th |
34
7
vears.
67
50
Miss F.
M.
Benjamin
High
School
Diploma -.
10th 1
52
New.
50
CO
UNION DISTRICT:
'
Thomas S Myrick
lst&2d
49
10 vr. 6 m.
$175 00
J D Littlefield
St Dip & Gram Master
2d
50
2 years.
125 00
Mrs. P. C. Cook..
He;id Assistant Gram.
3" "
83 33
Miss P Palmer
3d
56
New
55 00
Miss S Sherman
3d 4th
50
2 vears
67 50
Miss A. F Aldrich
4th
63
4 yr. 6 in.
80 00
MissE. M. Tilbey
Miss A. L. Eschenburg ...
Primary Assistant
Second 'Gr Normal Sch
4 & 5th
5 & 6th
6th
64
60
62
4 " 6 "
I "
•2 u
67 5!)
67 50
C7 50
Miss C P Field
7th
53
I " 6 "
67 50
PRESENT ORGANIZATION.
313
UNION AND MONTGOMERY STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL.
Names of Teachers.
Grade of Certificate.
Grade
of
Class.
No. in
Class.
Length of
time in
Departm't
Monthly
Salary of
Teacher.
Mrs A Griffith
Primary Principal
7th
8th
9th
10th
«
64
55
57
57
40
40
2 2 "
2 6 "
1 7 "
1 4 "
2 1 "
7 "
6 "
100 00
67 50
67 50
67 50
67 50
67 50
67 50
Miss J. M. Drummond
Miss N. S. Baldwin
Second Gr. Normal Scb.
Primary Assistant
Miss L. M. Drummond
Miss A E Grant
Miss M. E. Estabrook
Miss M. Noves
it n
Primary Principal
BROADWAY AND MONTGOMERY STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL.
Mrs. A. S. Dnane
Principal Primary.. -.
5th
6th
7th
8th
9th
9th
10th
50
54
66
64
60
57
98
4 years.
4 yr. 8 m.
1 <• 7 "
3 «
1 " 1 "
5 ';
10 "
100 00
67 50
67 50
67 50
67 50
50 00
67 50
Miss E Overend
Grammar Assistant
It U
First Assistant Primary
Principal Primary
Miss A. E. Hucks
Miss H F Parker
Miss H. A. Satterlee . .
Miss F. Holmes
Primary Assistant
Miss M. A. Kraut h. . .
Second Gr. State Certif.
WASHINGTON DISTRICT.
6
•Tames Stratton .
State Diploma
1st
2d
3d
2d
3d
4th
4th
61
51
"eo"
46
60
64
63
5 yr. 6 m.
1 " 6 "
1 « 6 "
8 «
new.
5 years.
1 '
$175 00
125 00
83 33
80 00
67 50
67 50
67 50
67 50
H. E. McBride
Sub-Master
Mrs. H. L. Weaver
H._S. Asst. & 1st grade..
Principal Primary
Grammar Assistant
Special Gram. Assistant
Principal Primary
Grammar Assistant
Miss D. S. Prescott
Miss Jean Parker
Miss S J White
Miss E Barker .
Miss M. E. Cheney
FOTfi
Location
^ELL STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL.
Powell Street, between Washington and Jackson.
Miss Carrie V. Benjamin..
Miss E. A. Shaw
Principal Primary
High School Diploma..
Grammar Assistant
Principal Primary
Grammar Assistant
Principal Primary
5th
«
6th
7th
8th
7th
8th
58
59
60
60
62
34
60
39
8 years.
new.
2 years.
2 "
8 «
2yr. 6m.
100 00
67 50
67 50
67 50
67 50
67 50
72 50
67 50
Miss M. E. Morgan
MissM E Very
Miss S. E Thurton
Miss M. E. Tucker . . .
Mrs. E. S. Forester
Mrs. M. W. Phelps
BROADWAY STREET PRIMJ
Location Broadx
LRY SCHOOL.
vay Street, near Powell.
Miss C. Comstock
Gram. Asst. & 1st grade
Primary Assistant
tt n
9th
9th
10th
30
44
28
62
9 months.
1 yr. 6 m.
3 months.
3
67 50
67 50
50 00
50 00
Miss M E Gates
Miss L W Burwell
Mrs. B Hurlbut
21
314
PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT.
MISSION DISTRICT.
MISSION GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
Location ......... Mission Street, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth.
Names of Teachers.
Grade of Certificate.
Grade
of
Class.
No. in
Class.
Length of
time in
Departm't
Monthly
Salary of
Teacher.
1st
8
1:2 years.
$175 00
« u
2d
38
6 months.
100 00
Mrs F E Reynolds
Principal Primary
3d, 4th
56
5 years.
67 50
Mi«s A A Hill
4th
60
5 yr. 6 m.
67 50
\ssistant Primary
5&6th
60
1 "
67 50
6 & 7th
55
2 "
50 00
Principal Primary
7 & 8th
61
5 " 6 "
72 50
Assistant Primary
8&9th
62
3 weeks.
50 00
MissM. O'Connor...
l()th
67
6 mos.
67 50
HAYES VALLEY PRIMARY SCHOOL.
Miss L J Mastick
Principal Primary
5th
41
6 vr. 6 m.
85 00
6 & 7th
50
2"" 7 "
67 50
Miss F Stowell
a n
8&9th
48
3 " 3 "
67 50
Miss Annie Younger
Primary Assistant
10th
35
1 " 1 ' '
67 50
EIGHTH STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL.
Miss A E Slavan
Principal Primary
Primary Asssitant
« «
5th
6&7th
8&9th
9th
10th
10th
45
66
65
52
53
44
8 vr. 2 m.
4"" 10m.
4 u
6 "
5 "
1 "
100 00
67 50
67 50
67 50
67 50
50 00
Miss M .A. Humphreys . . -
Miss A M Murr)hy
Miss A E Frisself - -
Miss May Williams
Miss M Brady
STEINER STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL.
Miss Annie Jewett
Primary Assistant
5—10
47
9 mos.
67 50
SAN BRUNO SCHOOL.
Sheldon
Grade
3,
4,
7
44
4 vr
6 m
70
on
i
By
1 y
FOLSOM STREET SCHOOL.
Mrs. Treat
Mixed
56
5 years.
70 00
FAIRMOUNT SCHOOL.
Mr. E. D. Humphreys.... [Mixed > ,o
Miss B. Hallowell | | " JC52
New.
3 mos.
PRESENT ORGANIZATION.
POTRERO SCHOOL.
315
Names of Teachers.
Grade of Certificate.
Grade
of
No. in
Class.
Length of Monthly
time in Salary of
Departm't Teacher.
Mr. F. J. Leonard High School Diploma.. 4ff0'9 62 3 years. | 7000
WEST END SCHOOL.
Mrs. Louisa Carter Istgr. Pr. Pr. &Gr.Asst. 4 to 10 1 20 1 year. | 7000
OCEAN HOUSE SCHOOL.
Mrs. M. M'Gilvray | Mixed 25 New. 70 00
SPRING VALLEY DISTRICT.
SPRING VALLEY GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
Location Broadway Street, near Larkin.
Mr.B. Marks State Diploma > , . „ , ™ , $17500
Mrs. E. D. Marks Grammar Assistant.. $ Ui&2d 5t3 5 years" 67 50
Mr. L. D. Allen Sub-Master 3d 72 1 " 10000
Miss M. J. Norton Slate Normal School... 4th 66 2 " 6750
Miss A. VanReynegan Principal Primary 5th 64 1 " 6750
SPRING VALLEY PRIMARY SCHOOL.
Miss H. A. Haneke Principal Primary 6th 53 14 years. 85 00
Miss P. A. Fink Grammar Assistant 7th 53 2 " 6750
Miss J. V. Barkley Primary Assistant 8&9th 54 3 " 6750
Miss M. Murphy " " 10th 63 New. 5500
GREENWICH STREET SCHOOL.
Location Greenwich Street near Jones.
j
Miss K. Kennedy Principal Primary 4th 46 11 years. 10000
Miss Fannie Cheney High School Certificate 5th 46 1 yr. 3 m. 6750
Miss Annie Champb'ell State Normal School... 6th 42 2" 5000
Miss Agnes Chalmers High School Diploma.. 7th 53 1 '• 3" 6750
Miss Fannie Mitchell Grammar Assistant 8&9th 58 2" 6750
Miss Fannie Soule State Normal School. .. 10th 73 10 mos. 5500
MODEL SCHOOL.
.Location Market Street, near Fifth.
Mrs. C. H. Stout Principal Primary 7,8,9 } 4 yr. 2 m. 10000
Mrs. M. L. Swett A sst. in High School... & 10 j ) 11 mos. 10000
316
PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT.
PINE STREET SCHOOL.
•Names of Teachers.
Grade of Certificate.
Grade
of
Class.
No. in
Class.
Length of
time in
Departm't
Monthly
Salary of
Teacher.
Miss L. A. Pritchard 5 to 10
COSMOPOLITAN SCHOOL.
Mrs. U. Eendsberg 1 year. 100 00
Mrs. Chas. Morel' 1 " 6750
Miss L. Dejarlais 1 " 6750
Mrs. Foster 67 50
Miss Graff 6750
Miss Holmes 5000
Miss Coulou 50 00
Miss Siegermuna 50 00
MissLunt 5000
Miss York 50 00
BROADWAY STREET COLORED SCHOOL.
S. D. Simouds Grammar Master Mixed 30 1 year. 100 00
Mrs. G. Washburn Primary Assistant 7 51 2 " 75 °°
FIFTH STREET COLORED SCHOOL.
J. B. Sanderson Primary Mixed 27 8 years. 75 00
CHINESE SCHOOL.
B.Lanctot Mixed) 52 3 years. 8000
GENERAL STATISTICS.
317
TABLE II.
NUMBER OF CLASSES AND THEIR SEVERAL GRADES IX PUBLIC SCHOOLS
OF SAN FRANCISCO.
*
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04
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inth Grade
mih Grade
asses having 1 Gr
asses having 2 Gr
asses having 3 Gr
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§
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.
GRAMMAR SCHOOLS.
Union
1
2
9
8
9
9
1
,5
4
280
"Washin f^ton
1
9
9
9
7
Denrnan . ....
1
1
3
4
9
9
1
1
18
1
378
Lincoln
1
9
5
6
4
18
427
1
1
1
8
1
2
9
289
S priii0" Valley.
1
1
I
1
1
8
1
132
Mission
1
1
I
9
1
9
9
1
1
1
8
5
284
PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
1
1
1
1
1
3
1
89
Greenwich Street.
.
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
4
2
Union and Mont. Sts . .
2
1
1
8
7
226
Fourth Street
1
2
2
2
1
2
10
890
Powell Street
'->
2
2
9
8
Hyde Street
1
1
2
1
3
1
191
Market Street
1
8
2
2
4
12
313
JVIontfornery Street
1
1
1
2
1
7
339
Hayes Valley ....
1
1
1
1
1
2
V
154
Steiner Street
1
1
1
1
1
Second Street
1
1
1
4
Third and Perry Streets.
1
1
9
4
229
Eighth Street
1
1
1
1
2
5
1
149
Fairrnount
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
San Bruno . ...
Stevenson Street
1
1
2
8
1
1
4
3
415
Potrero
1
1
1
1
1
Pine Street
1
1
1
1
1
1
Polk and Austin Sts.. . .
1
1
37
Hyde and Geary Sts
2
2
33
Natorna Street
9
9,
Broadway Street
1
2
3
Folsom and 22d Sts
Ocean House
1
1
1
1
Cosmopolitan .
1
1
1
2
X
1
1
9
8
5
5
Model..
1
1
1
1
4
318
PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT.
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No. of children under 18 years of
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GENERAL STATISTICS.
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TABLE VII.
COMPARATIVE SCHOOL STATISTICS, EMBRACING THE YEARS FROM 1849-50
TO 1865-66, SHOWING THE NUMBER OF TEACHERS AND THE NUMBER
AND PER CENT. OF THE INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN AT-
TENDING THE SCHOOLS ; THE NUMBER AND PER CENT. OF INCREASE IN
NUMBER OF CHILDREN BETWEEN 4 AND 18 YEARS OF AGE; THE NUMBER
AND PER CENT. OF INCREASE IN NUMBER OF CHILDREN ATTENDING
PRIVATE SCHOOLS; ANNUAL CURRENT SCHOOL FUND, AND PER CENT.
OF INCREASE, ETC.
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2,132
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1859-60
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1860-61
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1861-62
82
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3,139
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134,567 00
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1862-63
94
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16,208
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4,552
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1863-64
108
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4,823
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1864-65
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20,581
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5,450
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1865-66 206
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* Averaged from the figures of 1857 and 1859, as the actual figure was not reported.
t The Ward Schools were this year withdrawn from the Public School Department.
t These figures show the total number of pupils that were enrolled during the respective
years, and not those enrolled for a month, as are shown by the other figures. Were the
transfers deducted, the actual number of pupils in the Department could be seen.
§ 17,223 are between five and fifteen years of age.
326
PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT.
TABLE VIII.
COMPARISON OF SCHOOL EXPENDITURES FROM 1857 TO 1866.
Financial
Year.
Salaries of
Teachers.
School Houses
and Sites.
Sinking Fund
and Interest.
General
Expenses .
Total.
1857-58
$62,300 13
$21,000 36
$9,331 25
$17,176 69
$109,800 43
1858-59
73,559 12
12,800 82
9,382 11
15,958 50
111,700 55
1859-60
74,476 75
39,981 05
19,188 95
19,428 25
152,985 00
1860-61
72,656 94
67,906 60
22,059 22
24,341 42
186,964 18
1861-62
77,787 77
12,811 10
27,131 66
16,837 82
134,568 35
1862-63
86,282 71
42,134 71
24,953 08
25,458 97
178,929 47
1863-64
90,717 80
73,815 17
25,260 77
36,218 13
228,411 87
1864-65
134,699 88
112,054 27
24,379 73
78,679 38
349,813 26
1865-66
185,535 08
78,850 61
17,124 65
94,159 74
375,270 08
TABLE IX.
BUILDINGS AND ALTERATIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN COMPLETED UNDER
THE SUPERVISION OF WM. CRAINE, ARCHITECT, FROM FEBRUARY, 1861,
TO OCTOBER, 1865.
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Character of Works.
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Fifth and Market streets. .
Mason and Washington sts
Powell street
Fcb'y, 1861
June, 1861
June, 1861
$ 8,399 94
17,117 00
690 00
304
468
258
New frame building, etc.
do do do.
Alterations and repairs.
Hayes' Vallev
Aug., 1862
4,130 25
104
New frame building, etc.
Mason and Washington sts
Powell street
Sept., 1862
Owt'r. 1862
646 00
1,700 00
"86
New walls, fences, etc.
Now frame addition, etc.
do do
Nov'r, 1862
795 00
NOAV wall, fences, etc.
Mar., 1863
5.883 00
'198
New basement and first story.
Fourth and Clary streets. .
Colored School, Broadway
Fifth and Market streets. .
Union street . .
May, 1863
April, 1864
May, 1864
July, 1864
3^25 50
4.435 24
1,400 00
1,734 00
346
120
Alterations, additions, and repairs.
New frame building, etc.
Removing building.
Alterations and repairs.
Bush and Taylor streets. . .
Utah street
July, 1864
Aug., 1864
52,8 54 Si
3,517 25
'960
60
New brick building, etc.
New frame building, etc.
City Hall.
Sept., 1864
1 260 00
New furniture in rooms of Board.
Greenwich street
Sept., 1864
783 00
New bulkhead.
Kentucky and Napa sts. . .
Feb'y, 1865
2,180 15
"60
Now frame building.
Boys' High School
Fifth street, near Market.
Mar., 1865
July, 1865
1.247 25
93,949 53
1440
Alterations and repairs.
New brick building, etc.
Hayes' Valley
Sept., 1865
2,677 75
to
Newaddition, etc.
Fairmount Tract. .
Ocfr, 1865
2 698 50
60
New frame buildin^ etc.
Pine St., Western Addition
Oct'r, 1865
2167 84
60
New frame building,' etc.
Total expenditure.
8214 201 55
NOTE.— This sum does not, of course, include Street Work nor General Repairs; a very
large annual expenditure, which will be increased, rather than diminished, while the De-
partment is compelled to occupy temporary and unsuitable buildings.
GENERAL STATISTICS. 327
TABLE X.
REAL ESTATE OF SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
LOTS DEEDED BY COMMISSIONERS OF FUNDED DEBT.
*Fifty vara No. 301, corner of Bush and Stockton streets.
Fifty vara No. 462, corner of Kearny and Filbert streets.
Fifty vara No. 663, corner of Vallejo and Taylor streets.
*0ne hundred vara No. 128, corner of Market and Fifth streets.
*Lot on Fourth street, 80 feet by 125 feet, portion of one hundred
vara No. 174, corner Harrison and Fourth streets.
LOTS OBTAINED BY EXCHANGE.
Part of one hundred vara No. 274, 115 feet on Eighth street by 275
feet deep ; received in exchange for one hundred vara No. 258, corner
Folsom and Seventh streets.
Dinner portion of one hundred vara No. 76, fronting on Vassar
Place, (Harrison, near Second street) 100 feet by 180 feet; received
in exchange for fifty vara No. 732, corner of Fremont and Harrison
streets.
*Fifty vara No. 482, on Greenwich street ; received in exchange for
fifty vara No. 695, corner of Stockton and Francisco streets.
*Part of fifty vara lot No. 157, on Broadway street, near Powell,
69 J feet by 137-J feet ; received in exchange for portion of one hundred
vara lot No. 174, corner of Fourth and Harrison streets.
*Part of fifty vara lot No. 581, on Post street, between Dupont and
Stockton streets ; received in exchange for portion of one hundred vara
lot No. 174, corner of Fourth and Harrison streets.
LOTS OBTAINED BY PURCHASE.
*Part of fifty vara No. 1,320, 97J feet on Bush street by 137J feet
on Hyde street.
*One-half of fifty vara No. 159, on Powell street, near Jackson.
^One-half of fifty vara lot No. 121, on Powell street, near Clay.
*Fifty vara No. 602, corner of Mason and Washington streets.
*Fifty vara No. 418, on Union street, near Montgomery.
*Lot on Mission street, (200 feet by 182 feet) in Block 35.
*Fifty vara No. 1,023, corner of Bush and Taylor streets.
328 PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT.
*Lot on Broadway street, (39f feet by 91 § feet) portion of fifty vara
lot on northwest corner of Powell street.
*Lot on Tehama street, (90 by 75 feet) numbered on the official map
of the city of San Francisco, as lots Nos. 46 and 47 of the Hundred
Vara Survey
LOTS OBTAINED BY DONATION.
Nos. 11 anil 12, in Block No. 15, Fairmount Tract.
*Nos. 13. 14, 15, 16, 26, 27, and 28, in Block No. 85, Potrero
Nuevo.
*No. 4, in Block No. 23, Bernal Ranch, West End Map, six miles
out, County road.
(One hundred feet by one hundred feet) southwest corner Kentucky
and Napa streets — Potrero. 50 feet by 100 feet adjoining, purchased
by the Board.
Lot on Vermont street, (120 feet by 200 feet) being a portion of
Block No. 127, Potrero Nuevo.
Lot on Bernal Ranch, (80 feet by 180) designated on West End
Map No. 2, as lot No 4, Block No. 27.
Lot on Filbert street, between Taylor and Jones, (100 feet front)
portion of fifty vara lot No. 446 ; donated to the School Department
by the Board of Supervisors.
LOTS OBTAINED BY VAN NESS ORDINANCE.
Mission Slocks.
Fifty vara lot in Block No. 8.
Fifty vara lot in Block No. 21.
Fifty vara lot in Block No. 34.
Fifty vara lot in Block No. 61.
Fifty vara lot in Block No. 93.
Fifty vara lot in Block No. 104.
Western Addition.
*Fifty vara lot No. 2, in Block No. 3.
Fifty vara lot No. 6, in Block No. 14.
Fifty vara lot No. 5, in Block No. 21.
Fifty vara lot No. 5, in Block No. 29.
Fifty vara lot No. 2, in Block No. 62.
Fifty vara lot No. 5, in Block No. 111.
GENERAL STATISTICS.
329
Fifty vara
Fifty vara
Fifty vara
Fifty vara
Fifty vara
Fifty vara
Fifty vara
Fifty vara
J^ifty vara
Fifty vara
Fifty vara
Fifty vara
Fifty vara
lot No.
lot No.
lot No.
lot No.
lot No.
lot No.
lot No.
lot No.
lot No.
lot No.
lot No.
lot No.
lot No.
5, in
5, in
2, in
2, in
5, in
5, in
2, in
2, in
6, in
2, in
2, in
2, in
2, in
Block
Block
Block
Block
Block
Block
Block
Block
Block
Block
Block
Block
Block
No. 117.
No. 123.
No. 136.
No. 158.
No. 281.
No. 289.
No. 318.
No. 325.
No. 374.
No. 419.
No. 431.
No. 460.
No. 465.
Potrero Nuevo.
Lot in Block No. 39— (100 feet by 200 feet).
Lot in Block No. 46— (100 feet by 200 feet).
Lot in Block No. 163— (100 feet by 200 feet).
NOTE.— Lots marked with an * are occupied by school houses; those not marked are
vacant. %
TABLE XI.
SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL BONDS.
TOTAL ISSUED SINCE THE ORGANIZATION OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL DE-
PARTMENT (1849).
Date of
Issue.
Amount
Issued.
Amount
Redeemed.
Amount
Outstanding.
Rate of
Interest.
Annual
Interest.
Annual Sinking
Fund.
1854. .
$60,000
$60,000
I860. .
1861..
1866-7
75,000
25,000
125 000
19,500
7,000
$55,500
18,000
125 000
10 per ct
10 per ct
7 per ct
$5,550
1,800
8,750
$5,000
2,500
(8,333 ?)
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Totals.
$285,000
$86,500
$198,500
$16,100
$15,833
$275,000 authorized.
22
330
PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT.
TABLE XII.
FOEMER MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SAN
FRANCISCO.
Names of Members front
1851 to 1856.
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DISTRICTS.
1856-'57.
1857-'58.
C. J. Brenham
1st District
R. W. Fishbourne
R. O'Neil
C.L. Ross
Jos F Atwell ....
•
2d District
J.C.Mitchell
A. S. Edwards
Henry E. Lincoln. . . .
3d District
Wm. Sherman
Wm. Sherman
N.Holland
J
4th District
Wm. Hooper
S. B. Stoddard
W. H. Bovee
R. K Waller .
5th District
W W Estabrook
A Taudler ....
C. O. West
W. H. Talmage
H. I. Wells
J. K. Rose
6th District
J. Hunt
C L.Taylor
7th District
Wm. Pearson
Wm Pearson
C. K. Garrison
S. P. Webb
8th District
E . B Goddard
E B Goddard
J. B. Moore
F. Billings
J. P. June
9th District
P. M. Randall
J. O. Eldridge
W. A. Piper.. .
10th District
Geo M. Blake
C. C. Knowles
J. P. Buckley
J. S. Benson .
'
llth District. . . .
Geo. Leger
E. Judson
F. C. Ewer
Elisha Cook
12fh District
James Van Ness
T. J. Nevins, Superir
and Secretary, 185
and 1853.
W. H. O'Grady, Supei
intendent 1853-18&
-
2
*.
L
J. C. Pelton, Superin-
tendent and Sec'y.
W. H. O'Grady, Super-
intendent and Sec'y.
E. A. Theller, Supt.
B. Macy, Secretary.
J. C. Pelton, Superin-
tendent and Sec'y.
H. P. Janes, Secretary.
MEMBERS OP THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
331
TABLE XII .—Concluded.
DISTRICTS.
1858-'59.
1859-'60.
1860-'61.
1861-'62.
1st District
R. O'Neil
ft. O'Neil
E. Donnelly
E Donnelly
2d District
J. H. Widber. . . .
J.H. Widber....
J.H. Widber....
J. H. Widber ....
8d District
I. B. Purdy
Wm. M. Hixon . .
H. D. Ellerhorst. .
H. D. Ellerhorst .
4th District
Wm. Bartling...
Wm. Bartling . . .
Wm. Bartling...
Wm. Bartling....
5th District. . . .
J. H. Brewer
J. H. Brewer
G. W. Beers
A. L. Hathaway .
6th District. . . .
H. B. Janes
H. B. Janes
H. B.Janes
Jas. Bowman. . . .
7th District. . . .
Wm. Pearson
Wm. Pearson. . . .
Wm. Pearson
Wm. Pearson
8th District....
George Coiran...
George Cofran.. .
Francis Blake
Geo. Cofran
9th District
J. 0. Eldridge....
J.O. Eldridge....
W. L. Palmer. . . .
W. L. Palmer. . . .
10th District. . . .
llth District
C. C. Knowles . . .
E Judson. . .
C. C. Knowles . . .
E Judson
C. C. Knowles. . .
M. Lynch
C. C. Knowles . . .
M. Lynch
12th District. . . .
J. S. Dungan ....
J. S. Dungan
J. S. Dungan
Jos. M. Wood....
H. P.Janes,
Superintendent
Sam'l Barkley,
Secretary.
H. P. Janes,
Superintendent
Jas. Denman,
Superintendent
Jas. Pearson,
Secretary.
Jas. Denman,
Superintendent
Jas. Pearson,
Secretary.
Jas. Denman,
Superintendent
Jas. Pearson,
Secretary.
DISTRICTS.
1862-'G3.
18G3-'64.
1864-'65.
1885- W.
1st District
L. B. Mastick. . . .
L. B. Mastick. . . .
L. B. Mastick. . . .
L. B. Mastick. . . .
2d District
J. H. Widber ....
John F. Pope. . . .
John F. Pope
H. T. Graves
3d District
J. W. Dodge
J. W. Dodge
Washington Ayer
Washington Ayer
4th District. . . .
Wm. Bartling... .
G. B. Hitchcock.
G. B. Hitchcock..
Jos. W. Winans..
6th District....
Lafayette Story. .
Lafayette Story. .
W. A. Grover... .
W. A. Grover
6th District. . . .
Jas. Bowman. .. .
Erwin Davis
Giles H. Gray. ...
A. C. Nichols
7th District. . . .
W. G. Badger....
Wm. G. Badger. .
Wm. G. Badger. .
Wm. G. Badger. .
8th District. . . .
Geo. Cofran
E. D. Sawyer
J. L. N. Shepard .
Geo. C. Hickox. .
9th District. . . .
W. L. Palmer. . . .
J. N. Eisdon.. ...
S. B. Thompson..
S. B.Thompson..
10th District. . . .
C. C. Knowles.. . .
J. H. Widber. . . .
J. H. Widber. . . .
S. C. Bugbee
llth District. . . .
M. Lynch
M. Lynch
M. Lynch
M. Lynch
12th District. . . .
Jos. M. Wood....
Daniel Lunt
Abner Doble
Chas. M. Plum.. .
Geo.Tait,
Geo. Tait,
Geo. Tait,
John C.Pelton,
Superintendent
Superintendent
Superintendent
Superintendent
D. H.Whittemore
D. H.Whittemore
Daniel Lunt,
Daniel Lunt,
Secretary.
Secretary.
Secretary.
Secretary.
SHERIFF'S REPORT
OFFICE OF THE SHERIFF OF THE )
CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO. )
To the Honorable the Board of Supervisors
Of the City and County of San Francisco —
GENTLEMEN: In compliance with resolution No. 5,556 of your
Honorable Board, I submit the following Report for the fiscal year
ending June 30th, 1866.
The civil business of this Department would not subserve the inter-
ests of the public by publishing its details.
RECEIPTS.
Paid into the Treasury, from July 1st, 1865, to June 30th,
1866, inclusive, as per Monthly Statements filed with
the Auditor $13,022 55
EXPENDITURES.
Books, Stationery and Printing $275 62
Transportation of 84 Insane to State Asylum, exclusive of
bills of the California Steam Navigation Company . . . 349 00
Total $624 62
SHERIFF'S REPORT. 333
COUNTY JAIL.
PRISON STATISTICS OF THE COUNTY JAIL FOR THE FISCAL YEAR END-
ING JUNE 30TH, 1866.
Prisoners in Jail July 1st, 1865 118
Received for Murder 3
" Attempt to commit Murder 2
" Manslaughter 1
" Mayhem 1
" Arson 6
" Assault with deadly weapon 11
" Burglary .. 35
" Rape 5
" Incest 3
" Grand Larceny 62
" Threats 2
Forgery 11
" Felony 5
" Conspiracy 3
" Robbery 19
Malicious Mischief 11
" Obtaining Money falsely 3
" Fraud 1
" Embezzlement 1
" Insane 5
" ' Illegal Voting 1
" Assault and Battery 114
Petit Larceny , 196
Misdemeanor and Vagrancy 285
" Common Prostitutes 91
" Safe Keeping 84
" Civil Suits . 6
Total 1,085
Males, 936 ; Females, 149.
334
DISPOSED OF AS FOLLOWS.
Executed 2
Conveyed to Insane Asylum 5
Delivered to Sheriffs of other Counties 44
Transported to State Prison 58
Legally discharged and expiration of sentence ... 855
Escaped from Chain-Gang and Jail 2
Died 1
Number remaining in Jail July 1st, 1866 118
Total 1,085
NUMBER OF PRISONERS UNDISPOSED OF.
CRIMES. — Murder 4
Accessory to Murder 1
Assault with a deadly weapon 5
Grand Larceny 6
Burglary
Felony 2
Robbery 2
Arson . .C 1
Mayhem 1
Conspiracy 1
Threat 1
Obtaining Money falsely 1
Assault and Battery ? . . . 8
Petit Larceny 34
Common Prostitutes 3
Misdemeanor and Vagrants 46
Total 118
Males, 107; Females, 11.
Respectfully submitted,
HENRY L. DAVIS
Sheriff.
RT
OF THE
SUPERINTENDENT
OF
PUBLIC STREETS AND HIGHWAYS
SAN FRANCISC^ August 13th, 1866.
To the Honorable Board of Supervisors —
GENTLEMEN : I herewith submit the following report of the amount
and cost of work completed for the year ending July 1st, A.D. 1866,
and the location of the same ; together with a summary of the cost of
all street work done, during each year, from July 1st, 1856, to July 1st,
1866, and the total length of all the sewbjrs.
Respectfully submitted,
GEO. COFRAN,
Superintendent of Public Streets and Highways.
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362 REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS.
Total length of sewers constructed from July 1st, 1856,
to July 1st, 1865, feet 98,367.9
Constructed from July 1st, 1865, to June 30th, 1866. . . 33,674.5
Total 132,042.2
The entire cost of street work from July 1st, 1856, to
July 1st, 1865, was $3,339,839 27
Cost from July 1st, 1865, to June 30th, 1866 1,089,564 18
Total $4,429,403 45
APPENDIX
TO
THE MUNICIPAL REPOKTS
OF 1865-6.
The financial and general transactions of the Municipal Government of the
City and County of San Francisco, during the fiscal year 1865-6, are shown
by reports of the various Officers and Heads of Department, submitted to
the Board of Supervisors at the close of the year, and presented in the pre-
ceding pages, a careful examination of which will be found advantageous in
arriving at correct conclusions as to the present conduct of local affairs, and to
a fair comparison with those of former years.
With the commencement of the current year, on the first day of July last,
a period of ten years elapsed since the initiation of Municipal authority under
provisions of the Consolidation Act, which was considered and adopted as
a basis of retrenchment and reform ; by that, the annual expenditures were
restricted to very moderate sums for each of the specified departmental and
general purposes ; these, from the necessarily increased requirements of the
rapid growing city, were repeatedly enlarged at successive sessions of the State
Legislature, until from the many amendments enacted, only a minor portion of
the original document remains intact ; yet, in the sections which are thus pre-
served, and in the general character of the additional powers granted, the wise
safeguards against extravagant expenditures are retained, and constitute the
fundamental principles of the existing Act. The amounts authorized to be
expended for the several purposes in any one Fiscal year, are still limited to
fixed sums, reasonably apportioned to estimated requirements of the different
Departments, but probably in some instances less than at times the public wel-
fare may require.
364 APPENDIX.
The passage of the Consolidation Act in 1856 was not effected without
strenuous opposition ; its advocates were numerous, but its opponents believing
its provisions not adapted to the proper administration of the government of
a large city, appeared in nearly equal numbers to defeat it ; many of the latter
subsequently became its supporters, and with its originators have steadfastly
upheld and sustained the system which it created, acknowledging that in its
workings it has stood the tests of time better than the most sanguine antici-
pated or predicted ; prior to, and at its inception, the people were dissatisfied
with the reckless management and wasteful expenditures which marked the
history of governmental affairs of former years, whereby onerous debts were
incurred, and oppressive measures enacted, until Municipal bankruptcy was
apparent to all save those willfully blind to the fact ; at the present it is confi-
dently believed that a large majority of citizens acquiesce in the economical
and beneficial results of the system which it inaugurated, and would deplore
any material change from its provisions as a public misfortune. During the
period since its adoption, the substantial progress of the city has been great,
commercially, industrially, and financially. San Francisco seems now to be
only on the threshold of a magnificent future ; the grand Pacific Ocean opens
with broad arms its western shores to, and invites her trade ; the Islands, and
thousands of miles of its eastern bounds are awake to the importance of her
position. Although by far the youngest of the large American seaports, she
ranks third in commercial importance. Industrially, she may be said to be
younger still ; but the sound of the anvil, the hammer, the mill, and the fac-
tory are no strangers in her environs ; each new branch of industry that is
developed is hailed as a harbinger of continued progress and success.
Financially, the world yields to her the palm as to native wealth and export
of precious metals ; $75,000,000 per annum for seventeen years past, shipped
from her port as the product of the State, and of the adjacent States, is
believed to be below the mark. Agriculturally, it can be said that one of the
counties of the State raises nearly wheat enough to supply bread for the entire
population. Mercantile enterprises in some respects, may have drooped, but
considering the hazards attendant upon dealings with a large interior popula-
tion, changing localities from time to time, not more than in history of the past,
Eastern cities of larger population and older years have experienced, and yet
very many mercantile houses have withstood the vicissitudes of seventeen years,
and are still in successful operation.
The National, State and local taxes levied during the last four years, have
been heavy, and it may be deemed almost remarkable that they have been so
promptly and willingly met.
Comparisons of the revenues and expenditures of preceding years have been
so frequently made heretofore, that no particular reference is required now ; in
the following pages the simple tables present the facts.
EXPENDITURES.
365
EXPENDITURES.
From August, 1849, to May 8th, 1850 $ 649,859 82
Trom May 8th, 1850, to June 30th, 1851 1,813,447 00
In Fiscal Year 1851-2 456,332 00
In Fiscal Year 1852-3 1,009,029 00
In Fiscal Year 1853-4 1,831,825 00
In Fiscal Year 1854-5 2,646,190 00
In Fiscal Year 1855-6 856,120 00
In Fiscal Year 1856-7. 353,292 00
In Fiscal Year 1857-8 ,';66,427 00
In Fiscal Year 1858-9 480,895 00
In Fiscal Year 1859-60 745,014 00
In Fiscal Year 1860-1 579,131 00
In Fiscal Year 1861-2 591,656 00
In Fiscal Year 1862-3 700,364 00
In Fiscal Year 1863-4 785,894 53
In Fiscal Year 1864-5 915,325 48
In Fiscal Year 1865-6 ! 1,085,941 96
Total $15,866,743 79
ILI this connection it is to be remarked that the expenditures of the last ten
years are given as they actually appear, making no allowance for receipts of
Fee officers, or sums paid by the State for School purposes, Assessment expenses,
and Hospital dues, the amount of which in the last year was $169,007.51, as
shown by Auditor's Report, page 57, and in each of three years past is shown
as follows :
Fiscal Year.
Fees of
Officers.
State School
Expenses.
State Assess-
ment Expenses
State for
Hospital Dues.
Total.
1863-4
$107 629
$23918
$5 445
$
$138 992
1864-5
1865-6
117,086
116,977
40,435
43,044
6,875
6,453
6,744
2,533
171,140
169,007
Totals. .
$341,692
$107,397
$18,773
$9,277
$477,139
Making an average of nearly $160,000 per annum as an offset to items
included in current expenses, which if deducted for the last year, as shown
above, would leave a net expenditure of $91 6, $34; bat taking the figures as
they stand, there appears expended in six years and eleven months prior to July
1st, 1856, the sum of $9,262,802.82, and in the ten years succeeding, until July
1st, 1866, the sum of $6,433,933.46 ; it is also to be noted that a large amount
was paid in those ten years in liquidation of debts contracted in the former
period, which reaches the sum of $4,010,581.96, entirely exclusive of interest
paid on Bonds of 1863-4, or the so-caJled City Slip Judgrneat Bonds, issued ID
366
APPENDIX.
settlement of claims arising from defective title to the slip lots sold on the water
front in 1854, which settlement was made after a protracted litigation of nearly
ten years, the matter having been decided by the Courts in favor of the pur-
chasers and adverse to the City, involving the payment of one million of dollars
over and above the appraised value of the lots in question which were surren-
dered to the purchasers, and Bonds issued as aforesaid. Adding to these the
payments made in support of the State Government since 1850-51, an
aggregate of disbursements is presented to wit :
From August, 1849, to July 1st 1856 $9,262,808 82
From July, 1856, to July, 1866 6,433,933 46
Paid in liquidation of debts contracted prior to 1856 4,010,581 96
Paid to the State 5,793,163 35
Total $25,500,487 59
In addition to the net expenditure for City purposes in the fiscal year as
shown by the statement preceding, an additional sum of $90,995.90 was incurred
for permanent improvements, for items of which see Report of the Auditor,
pages 57,58.
In considering expenditures of the year, it is to be observed that the item for
lighting public streets is an important one, the sum paid for street lamps, in-
cluding repairs, amounting to $124,931 47, the total number of lamps at close
of the year being seventeen hundred and ninety-eight, at twenty cents per night.
In the year 1860-61 the sum paid for same purpose was $20,898 57, the num-
ber of lamps being two hundred and fifty-eight, price twenty-six cents per night ;
showing an increased annual expense at the close of the five years of $100,000
for street lights alone.
For particulars of State payments and the sources of revenue derived there-
for, the following is presented :
Fiscal Years.
Property
Taxes.
Poll Taxes.
Licenses.
Stamps, etc.
Total.
1850-1
$95,879
$2,220
$38,904
$137,003
1851-2
78,675
2,180
21 665
102 520
1852-3
61,218
11,833
20,532
93 583
1853-4
188 659
3,828
17 852
210 339
1854-5
179,617
3,800
108,479
291 896
1855 6
168 588
11 431
180 019
1856-7
119 572
4,907
22480
146 959
1857-8
224,359
3,640
54,323
$39,751
322,073
1858-9
181,471
2,325
28,456
94,216
306,468
1859-60
192,198
1,826
33,000
90,409
317,433
1860-1
200,574
4,325
32,418
39,964
277,281
1861-2
239,561
8,075
27,653
28,237
303,526
1862-3
330,655
48,229
24,619
57,457
520,960
1863-4
5 06,171
68,740
45,421
65,380
685,712
1864-5
730,809
64,748
26,039
70,983
952,579
1865-6
794,977
40,626
29,425
79,784
944,812
Totals..
$4,412,983
$271,302
$542,697
$566,181
$5,793,163
REVENUE.
367
REVENUE.
The Real Estate and Personal Property Assessment Rolls since 1850-51 ,
were returned as follows :
Fiscal Years.
Real Estate.
Improvements.
Personal Property.
Total Annual Am't.
1850-1
$16,849,054
.
$4,772,160
$21,621,214
1851-2
11,141,463
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2,875,440
14,016,903
1852-3
15,676,356
2,805,381
18,481,737
1853-4
17,889,850
$6,158,300
4,852,000
28,900,150
1854-5
19,765,285
9,159,935
5,837,607
34,762,827
1855-6
18,607,800
8,394,925
5,073,847
32,076,572
1856-7
17,827,617
8,345,667
4,194,970
30,368,254
1857-8
15,576,545
7,394,296
12,426,335
35,397,176
1858-9
13,554,565
5,946,585
11,224,800
30,725,950
1859-60
14,172,235
6,523,985
9,323,002
30,019,222
1860-1
25,148,885
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Real Estate.
10,818,614
35,967,499
1861-2
31,871,897
Mortgages.
9,973,222
41,845,119
1862-3
36,975,250
13,900,208
15,655,750
66,531,208
1863-4
43,116,538
14,634,381
19,378,147
77,129,066
1864-5
47,292,903
11,621,662
21,822,000
80,736,165
1865-6
49,137,312
*
39,264,247
88,402,274
1866-7
53,566,896
f42,414,540
95,981,436
THE KATES OF TAXATION
During the seventeen years above referred to were —
Fiscal Years.
For State.
For City.
For County.
Annual Kates.
1850-1
. . ., $0 50
$1 00 ...
. . 0 50 ...
... $2 00
1851 2
0 50
2 45
1 15
4 10
1852-3
0 30 .
2 45
1 66^. .
4 41J
1853-4
0 60
2 00 ...
1 28^.. .
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1854-5
0 60
2 15
1 lo}
3 85}
1855-6
0 70 .
2 33^..
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1857-8
0 70
1 60
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2 30
1858-9
0 60
1 85 ...
County
2 45
1859-60
0 60
2 56^..
Consolidated.
3 16&
1860-1
1861 2
.... 0 60....
0 62
.... 2 25 ...
2 25
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2 85
2 87
1862 3
0 62
1 974-
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2 74|
1863-4
0 90
1 20
2 10
1864 5
1 25
1 63
2 98
1865-6
1 15
1 97
3 12
1866-7
1 13..
1 97 .
3 10
* Assessments upon improvements are included in Real Estate, and Mortgages in Per-
sonal Property Roll ; the average amount of the latter for five years past, being about
$12,000,000.
t The footing of the supplementary Personal Property. Roll, completed on the 27th of
October, but included in the above, is $1,453,737.
368 APPENDIX.
THE STATE AND CITY PURPOSES
To which made applicable for current year were —
For the State, one hundred and thirteen cents upon each one hundred dol-
lars ($5100) valuation ; applied to the following specific purposes as prescribed
by law, viz :
General State purposes 30%
Interest and redemption of Bonds of 1857 , 30
Interest and redemption of Bonds of 1860 01^
Interest and redemption of Soldiers' Relief Bonds 04
Interest and redemption of Soldiers' Bounty Bonds 12
Interest and redemption of Line Officers Bonds 01
Support of Schools 08
Interest on Pacific Railroad Bonds 08
Construction of State Capitol 10
Militia purposes 05
Insane Asylum 03
$1 13
For the City, including Corporation Debt and Sinking Funds and
Railroad interest, one hundred and ninety-seven cents upon each one
hundred ($100) dollars valuation, applied as follows :
Corporation Debt Fund, applicable to the various sinking funds
and interest on debt of the City and County
School Fund 35
General Fund
Street Light Fnnd 15
Street Department .Fund 4^
Interest on bonds of the City and County, bearing date October
1st, 1863, and June 1st, 1864 9
Sinking Fund on said bonds 7^
Interest Tax on San Francisco and San Jose Railroad Bonds. . 4
Loan Fund on said San Francisco and San Jose Railroad Bonds. 2^
Pacific Railroad Interest Tax 8%
Sinking Fund on Bonds of the City of San Francisco, 1855. . . 5
1 97
Total $3 10
For sums collected applicable to the different purposes, see Auditor's Report,
page 56.
SPECIAL FEE FUND.
369
THE SPECIAL FEE FUND.
The object and workings of this Fund are well understood. It was created
for several offices in 1858-9. IQ 1861, all fee-receiving offices were included,
excepting for collection of Poll Taxes, for which a per centage of fifteen cents
upon the hundred is allowed, and from which the Deputies of the Tax Collector,
thus specially employed, are paid by that officer ; also, necessary incidental
expenses. The receipts of the several offices (formerly the perquisites of the
respective officers) are now made payable weekly into the City and County
Treasury, constituting a Fund from which salaries and expenses are paid, and
the balance remaining at close of each fiscal year transferred to the General
Fund. The receipts and expenses of the different offices, prior to 1861, were :
RECEIPTS.
DATE.
From the
Sheriff.
From County
Clerk.
From County
Recorder.
Total.
May 1st to June 30th, 1858
July 1st, 1858, to June 30th, '5U
July 1st, 1859, to June 30th, '60
July 1st, 1860, to 'June 30th, '61
$ 1,468 70
11,750 71
9.668 14
9,906 21
$ 4,277 65
20,894 38
21,321 20
43,420 50
$ 3,440 44
19,794 89
24,267 50
34,352 95
$ 9,186 79
52,439 98
55,256 84
67,679 66
Totals. .
£32.703 76
169,913 72
$81.855 78
$184.563 27
SALARIES AND EXPENSES.
May, 1858, to June 1, 1859
$38,355 60
$30,045 14
$19,348 14
$87,748 88
Blank Books and Stationery . . .
415 00
731 10
1,197 75
2,343 85
July 1st, 1859, to June 30th, '60
25,899 96
23,166 58
18,323 72
.67,390 26
Blank Books and Stationery. . .
194 00
1,031 75
1,059 75
2,285 50
July, 1860, to June 30, 1861 ...
25,474 96
22,399 92
27,650 67
75,525 55
Blank Books and Stationery . . .
200 12
785 35
1,572 37
2,557 84
Totals. .
$90,539 64
$78,159 84
$69,125 40
$237,851 88
Subsequent to 1861, have been :
370
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TREASURY EXHIBIT.
371
While the preceding presents a debit balance for the last five years of nearly
$110,000, it is to be observed that it does not show the real position of the
Special Fee Fund, as all expenditures of the respective offices are included in
the exhibit, while only the salaries of the officers receiving fees, are made
chargeable upon it, with all expenses for blanks, stationery, etc., the salaries of
deputies and clerks, in all instances, were paid from the General Fund, the
credit balance debited to that fund from the Special Fee Fund at the close of
the year being $70,385 56.
INDEBTEDNESS OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRAN-
CISCO FOB BONDS OUTSTANDING JUNE 30-ra, 1866.
Issued in
By the
Payable
Annual Rates
Annual
Sinking Fund
In Circula-
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1851
City
1871
10 per cent
$50 000
$289 900
1854 .
Fire .
1866
10 per cent
16 666
174 500
1855
City . .
1875
6 per cent.
21,000
305,500
1858
City and County
1888
6 per cent
In 1867
1 133 500
1860 . . .
School
1870
10 per cent.
5 000
55 500
1861
School
1870
10 per cent
2 500
18 000
1862....
1863...
1863
1864....
1864
1865
1866
S. F. &S. J. R. R. Co
S. F. &S. J. R. R. Co
City Slip
City Slip
Central Pacific R. R. Co
Western Pacific R. R. Co. . .
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1877
1878
1883
1884
1894
1895
1881
7 per cent.
7 per cent.
7 per cent.
7 per cent.
7 per cent.
7 per cent.
7 per cent.
j- 18,000
54,000
Comm'ces
1873.
Com. 1867.
150,000
150,000
917,386
28,008
400,000
250,000
75,000
Total $4,947,294
In the report of the Auditor, pages 34 to 36, a detailed statement is pre-
sented of Bonds issued and Bonds redeemed during the year, showing a net
decrease of $53,100 from the amount outstanding at its commencement
TREASURY EXHIBIT.
In Auditor's Report, pages 37 to 44, the Treasurer's Account for the year
is presented, which shows —
Cash balance of .- $156,754 11
Loans from Sinking Funds outstanding , 186,215 00
Le&s demands audited but not presented
$353,969 II
74,548 26
Carried forward < , $279,420 85
3T2 APPENDIX.
Brought forward $279,420 85
Add to this the balance in hands of the Commissioners of the Funded
Debt, applicable to redemption of City Bonds 882,322 78
Also, Stock of San Francisco and San Jose R. R. Co., held as collat-
eral with Bond of the Company for redemption of $300,000
City Six per cent. Bonds 800,000 00
And the total of assets shown is $1,461,743 63
As to the stock of the San Francisco and San Jose Eailroad Company
referred to in the foregoing, by an Agreement entered into in 1865, the Com-
pany became bound to take the stock held by the city, and give in lieu thereof
$300,000 in San Francisco Six per cent. Bonds, on or before the fourth day of
October, 1866, paying interest thereon for the preceding year ; this as yet has
not been done, and the whole matter remains for settlement when the term
expires. The supposed flourishing condition of the Company, with fifty miles
of road in successful running order, leads to belief that the obligation will be
met at the expiration of the time mentioned.
This road is the first on the Pacific coast of the trans-continental line to the
Atlantic States. The two continuous lines, the "Western" and "Central" Pacific,
are making progress, and the track of the latter will, it is believed, within the
ensuing year, be laid through the passes of the Sierras into the plains beyond
to meet the lines now so rapidly advancing from the East.
The advantages to be derived by San Francisco from the successful comple-
tion of the connecting lines can hardly be imagined or understood ; joined to
which, oceanic steam communication with Eastern Asia, the Sandwich Islands
and Japan, soon to be established by the Pacific Mail Co., the presumptive
successful laying of the Eussian and American telegraphic lines, completing a
circuit around the earth, leaves no room for doubt as to the importance of her
commercial position.
Already her merchants and business men are in daily telegraphic communica-
tion with their correspondents in New York, Liverpool, London and Paris,
and often the news of an important movement is in their possession apparently
hours before the actual time of its occurrence at the East.
Attention is now called to the material developments and progress of the
year, in which the great measure of
WIDENING KEAKNY STREET,
stands prominent, and is being successfully carried out. By order No. 605 of
the Board of Supervisors, approved December 22d, 1864, the width of the street
was enlarged from forty-five five twelfths feet to seventy-five feet. After filing
in the County Court the Commissioner's Eeport on the fifth of April, 1866,
protracted litigation ensued, for particulars of which see letter of Hon. Alex-
KEARNY STREET WIDENING. 373
ander Campbell, special counsel in the matter, included in Report of City and
County Attorney, page 169.
Notwithstanding delay caused in hearing objections urged to Report of the
Commissioners as to assessments for compensation for damages to owners for
their landvS condemned to be taken to make the improvement, also of those who
considered the apportionment for benefits accrued to their property, too great,
and the six months of time necessarily taken for testimony, arguments and
examination of all the cases, some forty in number, the work still steadily pro-
gressed. Many property owners largely interested, soon after the report of
Commissioners was filed on the fifth of April, 1866, commenced operations by
voluntarily removing or tearing down on the western side of the street, the
buildings then standing on the ground, reported as necessary to be taken, and
without waiting for receipt of moneys awarded, with a spirit of enterprise
somewhat unusual to witness, entered into erection of new buildings, which
has been steadily continued until the present writing, when seven of the eleven
blocks are rapidly approaching completion, and present in place of the one and
two story buildings, mostly of wood, which were a recognized mark of the era
of 1849-50, substantial structures of brick and iron, all of three and four
stories in height, numbers of which have been tenanted for months, the whole
matter throwing far into the shade the well vaunted enterprises of earlier days.
It is now more than probable that within the ensuing year, the whole work
will be completed, and the entire distance from the City Hall to Market Street,
and intersection with Third Street opened, making a continuous and broad
thoroughfare through Third Street to the bay, entitling Kearny and Third
Streets to rank as the main Avenue of the eastern portion of the city.
In the time which has thus been taken, manifest advantages have been
derived by many ; by mechanics, laborers and artisans consequent upon the
large amount of skill, labor and materials required ; by owners from increased
value of property ; by the city, in the increased revenue therefrom.
The measure has been and is now looked upon by the entire community as
one of great public importance and permanent benefit to the city.
In the County Court, on the fourth day October, 1866, His Honor Judge
Cowles rendered a decision adverse to objections, and confirming report of
Commissioners in most of the cases; some three or -four of minor importance
were referred back for amendment ; these cases involved questions as between
owners and occupants of property, under lease for a term of years, the decision
being to effect that assessments for benefits and damages be equitably assessed
and apportioned between owners and occupants of the lands affected.
The decision reviews in detail all the cases submitted, and makes one hund.
red and fifty-six pages of manuscript.
One month is allowed by statute to carry the cases on the part of con-
testants to the Supreme Court, by appeal for review upon matters of law
under Section- 12 of Act of 1863-4, a proceeding which it is believed but
few if any of the contestants will adopt. Should no appeal be taken, the
whole subject can be considered as definitely settled.
374 APPENDIX.
la his decision, passing first upon case of W. A. Piper, owner of lot on cor-
ner of Kearay and Merchant Streets, Judge Cowles says :
" The Court is compelled to enter upon the investigation of these and other
issues tried in connection with the proceeding, at odd intervals, and without the
benefit of freedom from the pressure of other official duties so desirable in a
complicated work of this nature.
At the threshold of this investigation it is proper to state, that in reviewing
the figures of the Commissioners of appraisal and assessment in this proceeding,
the extent of the duty imposed upon the Court is conceived to be to ascertain
whether they have succeeded, not in making an assessment of damages and bene-
fits absolutely equal and uniform and exactly just in every particular, but whether
they have succeeded in arriving at a fair and reasonable approximation towards
perfect uniformity and equality in the assessment of damages, and the apportion-
ment of benefits in this proceeding. To require more than this would be to
exact results impossible of attainment, an absurdity of which the law is never
guilty.
The legal presumption is, that the Commissioners, who it may be remarked
were selected at the instance of a large number of persons having a deep pecu-
niary interest in the proper execution of the work, and with special reference to
their peculiar fitness for the duties assigned them, have discharged their duties
faithfully, and have embodied in their report legal and just results."
Following the rendering the decision, decrees in thirty-two cases were filed on
the 9th of October. On the 18th of October an amendatory report, making
re-apportionment in the minor cases referred back, was filed in the County
Court by the Commissioners, Messrs. E. N. Torrey, C. C. Webb, and A. B.
Forbes. The time for hearing objections to the amendatory report has been
set for the fifth day of November.
THE FIRE ALARM AND POLICE TELEGRAPH
Has been conducted with marked success during the year ; a detailed statement
of its affairs is presented in report of the Superintendent, pages 216, 218.
The forerunner and initial to introduction of the Paid Fire Department Sys-
tem, its workings were carefully noted by the public, and had an important
bearing upon the adoption of that system.
Some additions and repairs to the machinery in use were made ; for the City
Hall Bell, heavier striking apparatus has been ordered, and no effort will be
spared to make its workings as effective as possible.
Some changes have been made in location of Signal Boxes, which are now
placed as follows :
SIGNAL BOXES.
375
1— Cor. Stockton and Francisco streets.
2— Cor. Mason and Lombard streets.
3— Cor. Stockton and Greenwich streets.
4— Cor. Sansome and Greenwich streets.
5— Cor. Battery and Union streets.
6— Cor. Jones and Filbert streets.
7— West End Engine House, Union street,
between Hyde and Larkin streets.
8— Cor. Powell and Union streets.
9— Hose Company No. 1, Dupont street,
between Union and Green streets.
12— Cor. California and Kearny streets.
13— Cor. Front street and Broadway.
14— Cor. Stockton street and Broadway.
15 — Cor. Leavenworth and Pacific streets.
16— Cor. Mason and Pacific streets.
17— Cor. Kearny and Pacific streets.
18— Cor. Sansome and Jackson streets.
19 — Cor. Davis and Washington streets.
21— CITY HALL.
23— Cor. Taylor and Clay streets.
24— Cor. Powell and Clay streets.
25— Cor. Dupont and Clay streets.
26— Cor. Battery and Clay streets.
27— Cor. Montgomery and Commercial sts.
28— Cor. Leavenworth and Sacramento sts.
29— Cor. Stockton and California streets.
31— Engine No. 3, California street, near
Sansome.
32— Cor. Drumm and California streets.
34— Cor. Mason and Pine streets.
35— Cor. of Hyde and Bush streets.
36— Engine House No. 11, Bush street.
37— Engine House No. 4, Market street.
38— Cor. Montgomery and Sutter streets.
39— Cor. Stockton and Sutter Sts.
41 — Engine House No. 7, Sutter street, near
Jones.
42— Hose Company No. 4, Geary street, near
Mason.
43— Engine House No. 2, O'Farrell street.
near Dupont.
45— Cor. Hyde and O'Farrell streets.
46— Cor. Jones and Turk streets.
47— Cor. Market and Powell streets.
48— Cor. Kearny and Geary streets.
49— Cor. Mission and Steuart streets.
51— Cor. Folsom and Spear streets.
52— Cor. Mission and Fremont streets.
53— Cor. Folsom and First streets.
54— Engine House No. 14, Second street.
56— Cor. Harrison and Second Streets.
57 — Cor. Brannan and Second streets.
58— Cor. Townsend and Third streets.
59— Engine House No. 1, Bryant street, near
Third.
61— Cor. Howard and Third streets.
62— Hose Company No. 2, Fourth street,
near Everett.
63— Cor. Harrison and Fourth streets.
64— Cor. Howard and Fifth streets.
65— Cor. Mission and Sixth streets.
67— Engine House No. 12, Sixth street, near
Folsom.
68— Cor. Harrison and Seventh streets.
69— Cor. Howard and Eighth streets.
71— Cor. Mission and Eleventh streets.
72— Cor. Mission and Thirteenth streets.
73— Cor. Folsom and Sixteenth streets.
74— Engine House No. 13, Sixteenth street.
75 — Cor. Kearny and Union streets.
76— Cor. Montgomerj' and Green streets.
78— Cor. Folsom and Eleventh streets.
79 — Cor. Polk street and Broadway.
81— Cor. of Hayes and Franklin (Hayes*
Valley).
The instructions to key holders are the same as heretofore, viz : Upon the
discovery of a fire near your Signal Box, turn the crank slowly and steadily
about twenty-five or thirty times ; then wait a few moments, and if you hear
no ticking in the Box, or alarm on the large bells, turn as before. If you still
hear no alarm, go to the next Box, and give the alarm from that. Never open
the Box, or touch the crank, except in case of fire. N^ver signal for a fire
seen at a distance. Be sure your Box is locked before leaving it.
All persons interfering with, or maliciously injuring the Telegraph Appara-
tus, or giving false fire alarms through the Signal Boxes, are made liable to
heavy penalties.
It is also provided that when found necessary for any person or persons to
remove, interfere with or disturb any portion of the Telegraph lines for removal
of buildings or otherwise, due notice in writing shall be given or caused to bo
given to the Superintendent, or in his absence, to the operator on duty at the
City Hall, between the hours of six o'clock, A.M., and twelve o'clock M., stating
the locality at which, and the manner in which it may be necessary to disturb,
interfere with, or remove the line.
376 APPENDIX.
PAID FIRE DEPARTMENT.
The change now making from the Volunteer to the Paid system, presents
the most marked event of the year. On the third day of December ensuing,
the latter will be placed in operation under provisions of Legislative enactments
of 1865-6. As to the services of the former, a merited tribute is paid in the
Report of the Chief Engineer, pages 181-184.
. The impromptu manner with which the Volunteer Department originated
and was organized is familiar to all. Most nobly did early residents enroll
themselves in its ranks. Soon after the December fire of 1849, some six com-
panies were in organization and efficient service. Empire No. 1, Manhattan
No. 2, Howard No. 3, St. Francis Hook and Ladder No. 1, Lafayette No. 2,
and Sansome No. 3, were earliest in the field ; to which, California No. 4,
Knickerbocker No. 5 and Monumental No. 6 were soon added.
The draft of an Act to establish a paid Fire Department was presented in
the Board of Supervisors on the sixteenth day of February, 1863, by John C.
Merrill, then Supervisor of the Ninth Ward, but failed to receive sanction
of the Board, and was laid upon the table. A copy of this introduced in the
State Legislature during session of 1863-4 was defeated.
At the next session, 1865-6, a modified bill, introduced in the Assembly by
Hon. J. A. McClelland, was passed by both Houses, overcoming strenuous
opposition and receiving sanction of the Executive, became a law on the second
of March, 1866. That, with an Amendatory Act, approved April 2d, consti-
tutes the present law, and designates, as before said, the third of December
ensuing for going into operation.
On the fifth of March, 1866, a certified copy of the Act having been received,
the subject was referred to a Special Committee of the Board, composed of
members of the Fire and Water and Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph Com-
mittees, jointly.
This Special Committee took the matter immediately in hand, and by tele-
graph, in the month of April thereafter, entered into an agreement with the
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company of Manchester, New Hampshire for four
Steam Fire Engines of their patent — one to be of 1st, and three of 2cl Class,
for the sums respectively each of $5,000 for 1st Class, and $4,750, 2d Class,
payable in gold or its equivalent in U. S. Notes, also one Hose Reel for the
sum of $560, upon same terms — all complete, freight paid, deliverable in San
Francisco ; the negotiation having been materially aided through services ren-
dered by Mr. Charles Main, of San Francisco, then at the East.
The terms of the contract were complied with ; all of the Engines and the
Hose Reel were received in contract time, and are ready for service.
In the further carrying out of the measure, a Special Committee, consisting
of Supervisors Stanyan, Rowell, and Shrader, was appointed on the sixteenth
of July, by which some twenty horses have been purchased at an average cost
of $350 ; so that the new Department was provided with a great portion
PAID FIRE DEPARTMENT. 377
of its apparatus and stock nearly two months before the time set by law for
it to take effect.
In addition to this, a contract has been entered into with Messrs. H. Casebolt
& Co,, of the City, to manufacture and deliver by the time required eight Hose
Reels, of the same quality and style as the Eastern pattern, for the sum of $381.25
each.
By provisions of the enactment first referred to there were to be chosen five Fire
Commissioners to take necessary steps by the appointment of officers, etc., to
place the Department in complete working order by the time designated. The
Act made two Commissioners elective by the people, one to be appointed by the
Board of Supervisors, two to be appointed by the Board of Fire Underwriters ;
the result of which has been the election of —
BENJAMIN H. FREEMAN and JOHN V. McELWEE, by electors of San Fran-
cisco, September 5th.
JACOB S. DIMON, appointed by Board of Supervisors, September 10th.
ERASTUS N. TORREY and JOHN C. MERRILL, chosen by the Board of Under-
writers, September 14th.
The term of office fixed is five years — one Commissioner to go out yearly ;
the classification for first term to be determined by lot.
The Board thus constituted held a first and preliminary meeting on the
twenty-second of September, at which Mr. JOHN C. MERRILL was chosen
temporary President, and Mr. JACOB S. DIMON, temporary Secretary.
The ballot for Classification was had, resulting —
Mr. E. N. Torrey drawing term of five years.
Mr. J. C. Merrill " " four "
Mr. B. H. Freeman " « three "
Mr. J. Y. McElwee " " two "
Mr. J. S. Dimon " " one "
A second meeting was held on the twenty-ninth of September, when the
Board permanently organized, choosing BENJAMIN H. FREEMAN, President ;
and J. B. JODRDAN, Clerk.
The contemplated force and composition of the Department, with other par-
ticulars relating thereto, are shown in sections four and six of Act approved
March 2d, 1866, (see Statutes 1865-66, pages 139. 140) to wit :
SECTION 4. " The Fire Department of the City and County of San Francisco
shall, when organized under this Act, consist of a Chief Engineer, two Assistant
Engineers, one Corporation Yard Keeper, six (6) Steam Fire Engine Companies— to
consist each of one Foreman, one Engineer, one driver, one fireman, and eight (8)
extra men ; two Hook and Ladder Companies — to consist each of one Foreman, one
driver, one tillerman, and twelve (12) extra men; and three (3) Hose Companies —
to consist each of one Foreman, one driver, one steward, and six (6) extra men.
25
378 APPENDIX.
Each Steam Fire Engine Company shall have one steam fire engine, one hose reel,
with one thousand (1,000) feet of hose, and not more than four (4) horses. Each Hook
and Ladder Company shall have one truck with hooks and ladders, and necessary
appurtenances, and two horses. Each Hose Company to have one hose reel with
one thousand (1,000) feet of hose, and one horse. But the said Board of Super-
visors shall have power to increase or diminish the number of Fire Companies as
the public safety of the City and County may require, and to purchase the neces-
sary steam engines and apparatus therefor, and to organize such volunteer Com-
panies for outside districts of said City and County as they may see fit ; provided,
such volunteer companies shall be subject to the provisions of this Act ; but none
of the members thereof, except the steward for each of such volunteer companies,
shall receive any salary.
SEC. 6. " The salaries of the officers and men comprising the said Fire Depart-
ment shall not exceed the following sums, payable monthly : to the Chief Engineer,
two hundred and fifty dollars ($250) per month ; to each Assistant Engineer, one
hundred dollars ($100) per month ; to each foreman, thirty dollars ($30) per month ;
to each engineman, eighty dollars ($80) per month ; to each driver sixty dollars
($60) per month ; to each fireman, fifty dollars ($50) per month ; to each tillerman,
fifty dollars ($50) per month ; to each steward, fifty dollars ($50) per month ; to
each extra man, twenty dollars ($20) per month ; to the Corporation Yard Keeper,
fifty dollars ($50) per month. All the paid members of the Fire Department except
the foreman and extra men shall give their undivided attention to their respective
duties. The foreman and extra men shall perform such duties as may be prescribed
from time to time by the Board of Fire Commissioners."
The terms of office of Chief Engineer and Assistant Engineers are for two years,
unless removed by the Board for some cause ; that of subordinate officers during
good behavior ; the Clerk during pleasure of Commissioners, by whom regula-
tions are to be adopted for government and regulation of the Department.
Appointments for Chief Engineer and Assistant Engineers to be confirmed by
Board of Supervisors.
At a third meeting of the Fire Commissioners, held on the sixth day of
October, the following appointments were made, and on the eighth, day of same
month confirmed by the Board of Supervisors, to wit :
Mr. F. E. R. WHITNEY, Chief Engineer.
Mr. HENRY W. BURCKES, 1st Assistant Engineer.
Mr. CHARLES ACKERSON, 2d Assistant Engineer.
FIRES AND FIRE ALARMS.
During the year closed the number of fires and alarms was less than in that
preceding, being two hundred and twenty-one against two hundred and thirty-
five in 1864-5 ; yet the aggregate of losses claimed is more than double that
FIRES AND ALARMS.
379
of the former year. The principal reason of this is found in the destruction,
on the seventeenth of July, 1865, of a large warehouse at the corner of Battery
street and Broadway, the loss by which was placed at $343,827 — only some
seven thousand dollars less than half the total of the year ; this fire, in report
of Mr. JOHN L. DURKEE, Fire Marshal, an abstract of which is presented here-
with, is stated to have been caused by spontaneous combustion ; large quan-
tities of coal and linseed oils with cotton and other extra inflammable material,
were stored in the premises. The above taken into consideration with the large
number of incendiary fires (including three Hay Barns near the water front),
more than accounts for the increase of loss, although the total of Insurance on
property destroyed is some twenty thousand dollars less than in the previous
year.
That a disposition to incendiarism on the part of evil disposed persons has
been and is still prevalent, is unfortunately too true. Stringent penalties against
the crime are prescribed, notwithstanding which, and all vigilance of the officers,
in a large majority of instances this has proved insufficient to secure the arrest of
its perpetrators.
Cause of Fires.
Loss.
Insurance.
Accident
6
11
3
11
1
5
1
1
4
2
9
18
8
1
2
3
6
1
44
2
1
37
14
2
1
1
4
2
1
2
17
$ 4,380 00
5 00
5 00
19,534 70
10 00
10 00
5 00
57,970 00
3,050 00
1,362 00
7,072 00
1,200 00
290 00
4,326 00
4,565 10
25 00
2,302 00
100 00
68,837 62£
5,600 00
1,086 50
10,300 00
12,092 00
2,078 00
343,827 25
2,635 00
40,330 59 J
$ 34,800 00
5,750 00
38,150 00
115,000 00
37,800 00
14,500 00
2,000 00
15,160 00
10,000 00
4,700 00
41,750 00
12,000 00
115,183 J54
5,500 00
9,500 00
18,500 00
57,900 00
4,000 00
106,300 00
45,625 00
&693.818 34
Attempt at arson
Attempt at incendiarism
Ashes
Asphaltum kettle
Bonfires ...
Carlessness with pipe
Carelessness with benzine
Carlessness with fire
Carelessness with lamp
Carelessness with candles. . .
Chimneys
Children with matches
Cocikl oil lamp
Defective stove
Defective stove pipe
Defective chimneys .
Defective furnace
false
Gaslight
Gas pipe
Incendiary
Re-kindling
Supposed carelessness with matches. .
Supposed children with matches
Supposed spontaneous combustion . . .
Supposed incendiary. . . ...
Supposed sparks from chimney
Spontaneous combustion
Sparks from chimney
Unknown
Totals . . ......
221
$592.996 77
380
APPENDIX.
INCENDIAEY FIRES.
Hay barn? 3 j Brought forward 24
Unoccupied 10 j Restaurant 1
Stables 1 Hotel and restaurant 1
Saloons 1 Stables and dwelling 1
Distiller}- 1 Carriage and carpenter shop 1
Pile of boxes 1 Dwellings 2
Saloon and lodging house 2 Ship chandler 1
Second hand store 1 Store 1
Schooner 1 Boot and shoe store 1
Fruit store 1 Soap factory and Chinesh wash house 1
School houses 2 Clothing stores 2
Liquor and fancy store 1
Cctrricil forward 24
Total 37
MATERIAL OF BUILDINGS BURNED.
Brick 191 Frame 178
Iron 1 I Zinc 2
SIZE AND STYLE OF BUILDINGS BURNED.
Brick, one story 2 Frame, one story 7:5
Brick, two story 10 Frame, two story, 93
Brick, three story 7 Frame, three story 8
Brick, lour story 1 Iron, two story 1
Zinc, one story 2
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF FIRES AND ALARMS FROM JULY IST, 1864,
TO JUNE 30TH, 1865, AND FROM JULY IST, 1865, TO JUNE 30TH, 1866.
July 1, 1864, to
June 30, 1865.
July
August
September. .
October. . . .
November. .
December .
January . . .
February. . .
March
April
May
June ,
Total . ,
IS
124 26 57 4 11
14 235145
[July 1,1865, to
'jime 30, 1866.
July
August
September
October. . .
November.
December
January . .
February. .
March ....
April
iMay
June
15
li 4
<• 2 C» 1
1" 1
Total.. 125 1844)15 5
4 1
14 221
40
FIRE LIMITS.
381
COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF MONTHLY LOSSES AND INSURANCE FROM
JULY IST, 1864, TO JUNE 30TH, 1865, AND FROM JULY IST, 1865, TO JUNE
30-ra, 1866.
July 1st, 1864, to June 30th, 1865.
July 1st, 1865, to June 30th, 1866.
MONTHS.
Loss.
Insurance.
MONTHS.
Loss.
Insurance.
Julv..
$ 4,640 00
2,005 00
5,375 00
14,402 93
44,948 60
6,664 25
9,426 00
38,277 02|-
6,661 25
17,860 00
55,898 00
70,480 00
$ 15,000 00
10,400 00
5,600 00
61,900 00
107,425 00
127,500 00
19,550 00
91,150 00
31,900 00
38,900 00
143,450 00
61,750 00
July
$366,317 75
11,227 00
19,292 00
11,011 50
12,321 00
5,342 10
3,388 50
5,070 00
14,833 00
26,827 42
78,448 50
38,918 00
$261,750 00
19,900 00
19,500 00
26,000 00
12,000 00
35,850 00
14,933 34
19,000 00
14,600 00
65,610 00
161,725 00
42,950 00
August . . .
September
October . .
November
December
January . .
February.
March . . .
April ....
May
August . .
September
October . .
November
December
January . .
February .
March . . .
April
May
June
June
Total.. .
Total . .
$276,638 051
$714,525 00
$592,996 77
$693,818 34
FIRE LIMITS.
Important changes have been made during the year, in the boundaries of that
portion of the city within which the erection of wooden buildings is prohibited ;
the district is now bounded by a line commencing at the intersection of Market
and Davis streets, and running thence along the westerly line of Davis street to
Clark street ; thence along the southerly line of Clark street to Front street ;
thence along the westerly line of Front street to Broadway ; thence along
the southerly line of Broadway to Stockton street ; thence along the
easterly line of Stockton street to Clay street ; thence along the southerly line
of Clay street to Dupont street ; thence along the easterly line of Dupont street
to Bush street ; thence along the southerly line of Bush street to Stockton
street ; thence along the easterly line of Stockton street to Market street ;
thence along the southeasterly line of Market street to Fourth street ; thence
along the northeasterly line of Fourth street to Folsom street ; thence north-
easterly along the northwesterly line of Folsom street one hundred feet ; thence
northwesterly and parallel with Fourth street to a point within one hundred
feet of Market street ; thence northeasterly and parallel with Market street to
a point within one hundred feet of Third street ; thence southeasterly and
parallel with Third street to the northwesterly line of Folsom street ; thence
northeasterly along said line of Folsom street to a point one hundred feet north-
easterly from Third street ; thence northwesterly and parallel with Third street
to a point within one hundred feet of Market street ; thence northeasterly and
para|Jel with Market street to a point within one hundred feet of Second street ;
thence southeasterly and parallel with Second street to the northwesterly line
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of Howard street ; thence northwesterly along the said line of Howard street
to a point one hundred feet northeasterly from Second street ; thence north-
westerly and parallel with Second street to a point within one hundred feet of
Market street ; thence northeasterly parallel with Market street to a point
within one hundred feet of First street ; thence northeasterly parallel with First
street to the northwesterly line of Howard street ; thence northeasterly along
the said line of Howard street to a point one hundred feet northeasterly from
First street ; thence northwesterly and parallel with First street to a point
within one hundred feet of Market street ; thence northeasterly and parallel
with Market street to the intersection of Davis Street ; and thence to the point
of beginning.
CITY AND COUNTY HOSPITAL.
This Institution continues under the management of Dr. WM. T. GARWOOD,
Kesident Physician, and Drs. F. A. HOLMAN, Visiting Surgeon, and A. G.
SOHLE, Visiting Physician.
The Report of the Resident Physician, pages 236 to 241, shows present
number of inmates, and gives particulars for comparison with statistics of former
years.
The average number of patients provided for yearly since 1860, has been —
For the year ending June 30th, 1860. 160
For the year ending June 30th, 1861 . 176
For the year ending June 30th, 1862 . 236
For the year ending June 30th, 1863 . 283
For the year ending June 30th, 1864 . 322
For the year ending June 30th, 1865.370
For the year ending June 30th, 1866.341
Remaining at close of the year 315
The expenditures durin
1853-4. $213,364
1854-5 278,328
1855-6 89,478
1856-7 40,360
1857-8 43,880
1858-9 37,653
1859-60 38,591
the thirteen years ending June 30th, 1866, were —
Brought forward $738,654
1860-1 36,386
1861-2 39,292
1862-3 58,049
1863-4 67,314
1864-5 85,127
1865-6 85,441
Carried forward $738,654
Total $1,110,263
Hospital affairs since the year 1849, are fraught with much of public and
general interest. In that year, several attempts were made to establish a per-
manent Hospital wherein the sick and destitute otherwise unprovided for, at an
inclement season of the year, could receive proper aid and medical attendance.
The records of Municipal legislation in 1849 show the enactment of several
measures having that object, the carrying out oi which, however, in alb cases
was disastrous or proved utter failures.
STREET LINES AND GRADES. 383
Under the conduct of various physicians, there were so called Hospitals
established, by which the names and fame of Drs. Alfred Melhado and Peter
Smith, with others, are preserved in lively recollection.
Under their auspices the young municipality became burdened with onerous
debts to meet exorbitant and rapacious charges ; during the winter of 1849
to May 8th, 1850, the sum of $66,973 66 was paid, or the city made liable
therefor, while from May 8th, 1850, to February 28th, 1851, the sum of
$208,135 was thus paid, or further liabilities incurred, the effect of which is
known and felt at the present time, in the many clouds thrown upon titles
to property, growing out of suits and judgments, whereby city and individual
property was seized and sold to meet the indebtedness thus created.
The table presented shows the disbursements of more recent years, in which
time it will be observed that Hospital matters have presented new and more
promising phases.
At the present it is in contemplation to erect a new Hospital, and also Alms
House buildings, as authorized by Acts of the Legislature in 1863 and 1866.
For this a portion of the San Miguel Rancho, comprising eighty acres of
arable land, situate some three miles southwesterly from the City Hall, has
been purchased at a cost of $30,000.
Premiums for the plans adopted as first and second best, were offered, viz :
$250 for the first, and $200 for the second ; and eight plans with elaborate
drawings were submitted on the first of October, which after careful examina-
tion by the Joint Committee on Public Buildings and Hospital, assisted by the
Visiting Surgeon, Visiting Physician, and Resident Physician of the City
and County Hospital, resulted in awarding to Messrs. M. F. Butler and
Bugbee the first premium, and to Messrs. Kenitzer and Farquharson the
second. The matter is being closely attended to by the committee having the
subject in charge. Specifications are being prepared by Messrs. Butler and
Bugbee, and proposals for building the Alms House will soon be called for.
STREET LINES AND GRADES.
Under the operations of the Van Ness Ordinance, ratified by State legisla-
tion and subsequent enactments, a large portion of the so-called outside lands
of former years has been settled, and now forms an integral part of the City ;
nearly three hundred miles of streets have been surveyed, the grades estab-
lished, and a large portion graded and otherwise improved.
The profiles of the streets surveyed, showing the configuration of the land,
the elevation above base of the grades established, the official map of the
city, and a block book of streets within charter limits of 1851, showing devia-
tions from rigid lines, are filed in the office of the City and County Surveyor
all of which were legalized by an order approved January, 26th, 1866, entitled
384 APPENDIX.
Order No. 684 — Establishing the lines and Grades of Streets and Public High-
ways in the City and County of San Francisco, and the Legal and Official Plan
and Map of said City.
The People of the City and County of San Francisco do ordain as follows :
WHEREAS, under and by virtue of an Act of the Legislature of the State of Cal-
ifornia, entitled " An Act to establish the lines and grades of Streets in the City
and County of San Francisco," approved April 26, 1862, and the Act amendatory
thereof, the Board of City Engineers therein mentioned and constituted, having
completed their Survey, Maps and Profiles, and a Book explanatory thereof, called
the Block Book, and having delivered the same with their Report, acccording to
law, to this Board.
And this Board having thereupon published a notice for three weeks, stating
that such Report had been made, and that the same with the Survey, Maps, Pro-
files, and block Book aforesaid, were open for public inspection in the Office of the
Clerk of the Board of Supervisors ; and notifying any property owner dissatisfied
with said Survey, Maps, Profiles and explanatory Block Book, or either of them,
within said three weeks, to file in the Office of the Board of Supervisors, with
said Clerk, objections, in writing, to the same, or to the establishment of the afore-
said Grades and Lines ; stating specifically the grounds and reasons of said objec-
tions, Avhich published Notice contained a tabular statement of the respective
grades as indicated by said Surveys, Maps and Profiles.
And the said Report, Survey, Maps Profiles and Block Book, having been kept
open for public inspection in the Office of the Clerk of said Board of Supervisors
during the. period of the publication of said Notice.
And said period of three weeks having expired, and no written or other objec-
tions to said Survey, Repoct, Maps, Profiles and Block Book, or either of them
having been filed.
And the said Survey, Maps, Profile .and Block Book, having been finally submit-
ted to said Board of Supervisors, it is now ordered :
SECTION 1. That the Survey, Maps, Profiles and Block Book, aforesaid, be and
they are hereby approved and adopted, and that said Maps, Profiles and Block
Book do stand as the legal and valid official plan of the City and County of San
Francisco, to determine the lines of the streets and the grades thereof, as provided
by the Acts of the Legislature aforesaid.
SEC. 2. That the lines of the streets in those portions of the City and County
of San Francisco, as delineated in the aforesaid Block Book, shall be run in accord-
ance with the distances from the monument of Re-Survey lines to the respective
corners as fixed and indicated in said Block Book ; and every survey hereafter
made shall conform thereto, and shall be plotted in said Block Book, as an official
record of such survey.
SEC. 3. That the lines of streets and sizes of blocks in all the other portions of
the City (not included in said Block Book) shall be run in accordance with the
distances and dimensions marked on the General Map of the City and County of
San Francisco, made by said Board of Engineers, in connection with the " Monu-
ment Map " of said Board of Engineers, as regards the location of the monuments
and stakes with the lines of said streets.
SEC. 4. The respective grades of the streets, as indicated by said Surveys,
Maps and Profiles, and hereby determined, are specially shown by the following
tabular statement, viz :
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OUTSIDE LANDS.
A suitable and equitable disposition of this long mooted question has for
several years past attracted a large share of public attention, and presented a
prominent feature in Municipal Legislation.
On the eleventh of December, 1865, a Special Committee of the Board of
Supervisors, consisting of Frank McCoppin, E. N. Torrey, Monroe Ashbury,
Chas. H. Stanyan, Chas. Clayton, submitted a Report in the matter which
was considered and adopted on the twenty-sixth of same month.
This report formed the basis of a bill which was subsequently introduced in
the State Legislature, and passed both Houses, but failed to receive sanction of
the Executive.
The conclusions arrived at by the Committee are shown by their recommenda-
tions, unanimously concurred in, to wit :
" First — That the Board of Supervisors be authorized to appoint three Commis-
sioners, who shall be known as the San Francisco City and County Land Com-
missioners, whose duty it shall be, as soon as practicable after their appointment,
to ascertain the character and extent of claims to the Pueblo lands of the City,
and appraise the value of the same, irrespective of the value of improvements
thereon.
" Second — That the said Commissioners shall have power to execute or cause to
be executed, deeds of release and quitclaims to the parties in the actual possession
thereof, by themselves or tenants, or by their co-tenants in joint or common ten-
ancy on or before the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, with
the reservations, conditions, and exceptions hereinafter mentioned, all right, title,
and claim of said City and County to the lands described in the aforesaid decree of
the United States Circuit Court, situated without the corporate limits of the City of
San Francisco, as established by an Act to re-incorporate said City, passed April
fifteenth, 1851; provided such possession has been continued up to the present
time, or if interrupted by an intruder or trespasser, has been or may be recovered
by legal process ; provided also, that no claimant shall be entitled to hold more
than fifty acres of the said lands, and that as a condition precedent to the execution
and delivery of any deeds as aforesaid, the parties claiming the lands shall be
required to pay into the Treasury of the City and County of San Francisco, for a
tract not exceeding ten acres, ten per cent, of its appraised value, and for every
additional ten acres up to fifty acres, ten per cent, shall be added : thus, there shall
be charged for ten acres, ten per cent. ; for the second ten acres, twenty per cent. ;
for the third ten acres, thirty per cent. ; for the fourth ten acres, forty per cent. ;
and for the fifth ten acres, fifty per cent, of its appraised value, and in the same
proportion for fractional quantities. .
" Third — That where a tract of land exceeds in quantity the limit herein expressed
and defined, the claimant shall, before receiving a deed as aforesaid, be required to
quit-claim, and peaceably deliver the possession of any surplus so held and claimed to
the Commissioners, for the use and benefit of the City and County of San Francisco,
to be disposed of as hereinafter recommended, provided the parties in possession,
388 APPENDIX.
whose claims are recognized by the Commissioners, shall be authorized and required
to locate in one compact body, as nearly as possible, the quantity of land allotted to
them, and to which they shall be entitled ; provided, always, that the amount of
taxes levied on said lands and paid by the claimants or their grantors to the City
and County of San Francisco, for municipal purposes, since the year 1860, shall be
credited to the said claimants and reckoned as a part of the amount to be exacted
by and paid to the City.
" fourth — That the Commissioners, with the concurrence of the Board of Super-
visors, shall be required to lay off and reserve one or more Public Parks, and to lay
off, appropriate, and reserve sufficient lands for public streets, and provide for the
opening of the same, and to lay off, appropriate, and reserve sufficient lands for
charitable objects, and City Cemetery, and for schools, hospital, and engine house
lots, or tor other necessary public purposes, at convenient distances, with a view to
provide for the wants, health, comfort, and recreation of the inhabitants of the
City ; provided, that if the lands claimed by any valid claimant shall be taken for
any of the aforesaid purposes, equivalent allotments shall be provided for them by
the Commissioners out of the nearest ungranted lands to such valid claim, or where
this cannot be done, the City shall pay for the lands so taken at the same rates
charged by her for lands to be granted, according to the terms hereby recommended ;
provided, also, that the improvements thereon shall be paid for at their full appraised
value, said appraisement to be made by the Commissioners.
"Fifth — That the residue of said lands shall be sold at public sale, under the direc-
tion of the Commissioners, in such quantities and upon such terms as will enable per-
sons of limited means to purchase homesteads — provided the Commissioners shall
have power — and it shall be made their duty to remit to the parties purchasing, fifty
per cent, of the amount remaining due and unpaid to the City on account of
purchases, to all those who shall within one year from the date of sale expend a sum
equal to fifty per cent, of the purchase price of their lots, in fencing, building upon
and otherwise improving the same, provided also the terms of sale shall be one-
third cash, one-third in one, and the balance in two years.
" Sixth — That the proceeds of such sales, as well as all moneys received for grants
of lands made as aforesaid, shall be paid into the Treasury of the City and County
of San Francisco, and shall constitute a Fund to pay for lands taken by the City
for the purposes herein mentioned and in the manner heretofore expressed, and for
the opening of free roads through said lands to the ocean beach, and the improve-
ment of the grounds reserved for a public park or parks."
The effect of the Executive Yeto was to return the subject matter to the
Board of Supervisors, in which body it was subsequently taken up and referred
to a new Committee, composed of Supervisors Clement, Rowell, Ashbury
McCoppin, Stanyan. This Committee, on the seventeenth of September, 1866,
introduced an order which was passed for printing, and on the twenty-fourth of
same month referred to the Judiciary Committee, by which it was favorably
reported with amendments, October 1st, and again passed for printing ; on the
eighth of same month was finally passed, received the signature of the Mayor
on the twelfth of October, and will be submitted to the Legislature at its next
session for confirmation and further authority to carry out details of its pro-
visions. The Order is as follows :
OUTSIDE LANDS. 389
ORDER No. 733. — For settlement and quieting of the title to lands in the City
and County of San Francisco, situated above high water mark of the Bay of San
Francisco and the Pacific Ocean, and without the former corporate limits of the
City of San Francisco.
The people of the City and County of San Francisco do ordain as follows :
SECTION 1. Immediately after the passage of this Order, the Board of Supervisors
shall proceed to devise and adopt a plan for the subdivision into blocks and lots of
all the lands not reserved to the United States, situated on the peninsula of San
Francisco, and within the present corporate limits of said City and County, and
above the natural ordinary high water mark of the Bay of San Francisco and the
Pacific Ocean, as the same existed on the seventh of July, 1846, and without the
corporate limits of the City of San Francisco as defined in the Act to re-incorporate
said City passed by the Legislature of California, on the fifteenth day of April, 1851,
so far as said Board may deem such subdivision necessary ; and to select and set
apart for public uses such lots and portions of said land as said Board may deem
necessary, subject to the limitations and provisions hereinafter in this Order con-
tained.
SEC. 2. After the adoption of the plan provided for in Section 1 of this Order,
the Board of Supervisors shall cause to be made a map of said lands according to
said plan. Such map s*hall show the streets and public highways, the blocks formed
by the intersection of the streets and public highways, and the lots into which said
blocks shall be subdivided ; and upon such map shall be designated the lots and
portions of land set apart for public uses, and the particular use for which each lot
or portion of land shall have been set apart.
SEC. 3. Upon the completion of the map provided for by Section 2 of this Order,
it shall be deposited for public inspection in the office of the Clerk of the Board of
Supervisors and there remain for a period of sixty days ; and notice shall be pub-
lished in three of the daily papers during the whole time that said map shall so
remain in said office.
SEC. 4. Any person having or claiming any interest in any portion of said lands
under and by virtue of any of the provisions of this Order, may at any time before
the completion of said map, or while the same shall remain in the office of the
Clerk of the Board of Supervisors for public inspection, present to the Committee
on Outside Lands, hereinafter in this Order provided for, a description and diagram
of the lands in which he shall so claim an interest, and have the same delineated
on said map, and may also present to the said Committee in writing his objections
to the location or use of any lot or portion of land designated on said map as set
apart for public uses and embraced within the description and diagram presented
by him, but no claim shall be delineated upon said map by said Committee, unless
all taxes have been paid thereon for the five fiscal years preceding the year beginning
July 1st, 1866.
SEC. 5. After the said map shall have remained in the office of the Clerk of the
Board of Supervisors for the said period of sixty days, as provided in Section 3 of
this Order, the Boarfr of Supervisors shall examine the objections, if any, made
thereto, and may make such alterations in the location or designation of any lots
or portions of lands set apart for public uses as may be necessary to obviate any
objection which the said Board shall deem just and proper ; provided, that no alter-
390 APPENDIX.
ation shall be made which shall effect any person whose claim shall have been
delineated on said map, and who shall not have made any objection to the location
or designation of the lots or portions of land set apart for public uses.
SEC. 6. As soon as the alterations provided for, in Section 5 of this Order, shall
have been made and delineated on said map, the said map shall become and be the
official map of said lands ; and the portions of land thereon designated as public
streets and highways shall become and be dedicated to public use as streets and
highways : and the lots and portions of land thereon designated as set apart for
other public uses shall severally become and be dedicated to the uses for which
they severally shall have been set apart.
SEC. 7. No lot set apart for public use, other than for a park, plaza, cemetery or
public square, or for the erection thereon of a City Hall, or buildings for a City
Library, Hospital, or an Asylum, shall exceed in extent two fifty-vara lots ; and no
tract or portion of land set apart for a plaza or public square, shall exceed in
extent four whole blocks, formed by the intersection of the main streets of the
plan ; and the tract or portion of land set apart for a cemetery shall not exceed in
extent two hundred acres, nor be less than one hundred acres ; and the tract or
portion of land set apart for a public park shall not be less than three hundred
acres.
SEC. 8. In addition to the streets and highways not less than one-twentieth
nor more than one-tenth part of any tract which, including streets and highways,
does not exceed fifty (50) acres in extent, shall be set apart for public use ; but if
any tract which by the provisions of this Order would pass to one person, shall
exceed fifty (50) acres in extent, including streets and highways, there shall be set
apart for public use other than for a public park, and for a cemetery, and in addi-
tion to the streets and highways, not less than one-twentieth nor more than one-
tenth part of fifty (50) acres ; and not less than one-tenth part of all above fifty
(50) acres, from any tract which by the provisions of this Order, would pass to a
number of persons as joint tenants or tenants in common, so much shall be set
apart for public use and.no more, as by the provisions of this section might be set
apart if the interests of the respective tenants were several and divided. If of any
tract less in extent than one-half of a block, formed by the intersection of the main
streets of the plan, a portion shall be set apart for public use, other than for a pub-
lic park, or for a cemetery, or for streets and highways, the person or persons to
whom said tract would pass by the provisions of this Order, may purchase the
amount so set apart for public use, by payment, to the City and County, in gold
coin, the value thereof ; the value to be determined by the Board of Supervisors on
the report of the Committee on Outside Lands.
SEC. 9. The tract or portion of land set apart and designated on said map as a
Public Park, and the tract or portion set apart and designated thereon as a Ceme-
tery, and the several portions thereon designated as public streets and highways,
shall be deemed absolutely dedicated as such ; but persons who, by the provisions
of this Order would, but for such dedication, be entitled to any of the lands embraced
within such Park or Cemetery, shall be entitle to receive compensation for their
claims to portions to which they would be so entitled less the deductions which
might be made therefrom according to the provisions of Section 8 of this Order,
such compensation to be made according to the value of the lands taken, the value
OUTSIDE LANDS. 391
to be determined by the Board of Supervisors on the report of the Committee on
Outside Lands ; but no person shall be entitled to receive, either under the provis-
ions of this section or of Section 8 of this Order, compensation for any lot or por-
tion of land set apart for public use, unless his claim shall have been delineated on
the map hereinbefore in this Order provided for, nor until all conflicting claims to
such lot or portion of land shall have been finally determined, and no person shall
be entitled to receive compensation for any portion of land included on any street
or highway.
SEC. 10. No conveyance of any tract of land, or any interest therein made after
the eighth day of March, 1866, shall be regarded in the selection and designation
of lots and portions of land for public use ; but the amount of land that may be
reserved and set apart for public use shall be determined by the claims and posses-
sions as they existed on the eighth day of March, 1866.
SEC. 11. All that portion of the land described in Section 1 of this Order, which
lies south of a line drawn due south eighty-one degrees and thirty-five minutes
east magnetic, through Seal Kock, and west of a line easterly not less than two
hundred feet from ordinary highwater mark, is hereby reserved and set apart for
public use as a public highway.
SEC. 12. The City and County of San Francisco hereby relinquishes and grants
all the right, title, and claim which the said City and County now has or may here-
after acquire as the successor of the Pueblo of San Francisco, or as the grantee or
patentee of the United States, in and to the lands hereinbefore in this Order de-
scribed, and not excepted or reserved, or intended to be excepted or reserved, by
any of the preceding sections or provisions of this Order, and which may not be
set apart for public use under any of the preceding sections and provisions, and
upon which shall be paid previous to the first day of April, 1867, all taxes which
have been assessed thereon, during the five fiscal years preceding the year beginning
July 1st, 1866, unto the persons, or to the heirs and assigns of persons who were
on the eighth day of March, 1866, in the actual bona fide possession thereof, by
themselves or their tenants, or having been ousted from such possession before or
since said day have recovered or may recover the same by legal process. And it is
hereby declared to be the intent and object of this section to pass the right, title,
and claim of the said City and County in and to every tract or portion of said land,
except the portions that are or may be reserved as aforesaid, possessed by one
person, unto the possessor thereof in severalty ; and every separate tract or portion
thereof, except the portions that are or may be reserved as aforesaid, possessed by
more than one person' jointly or in common, unto the possessors thereof jointly or
in common.
SEC. 13. The grant and relinquishment by this Order made, shall be subject to
the selections, reservations, and conditions hereinbefore in this Order made and
provided for.
SEC. 14. A Committee of three members of the Board of Supervisors shall be
chosen by said Board, whose duty it shall be to prepare and report to the Board,
the plan provided for in Section 1 of this Order, to supervise the making of the
map provided for in Section 2, to select, set apart, and designate the lots and por-
tions of land hereinbefore provided to be set apart for public use, and generally to
392 APPENDIX.
superintend the carrying out of the provisions of this Order ; all the acts of said
Committee to be subject to the approval of the Board1 of Supervisors.
SEC. 15. Whenever a survey shall be required to determine the boundaries of
any claim or portion of any claim, whether ordered by the Committee or requested
by the claimants, the expense of such survey shall be borne by such claimants ;
and no survey shall be received by the Committee, except it shall have been made
by the City and County Surveyor, or a Surveyor designated by the Committee ; and
the amount of compensation for such survey shall be fixed by the Committee at a
reasonable rate, not to exceed the ordinary charges for such services.
SEC. 16. The compensation which may become due, by virtue of Sections 8 and
9 of this Order, shall be made in such manner as the Legislature may hereafter
provide.
SEC. 17. This Order shall take effect from and after its passage.
On the 15th of October, in pursuance of section 14 of the Order, the Com-
mittee of three required to be chosen was elected by the Board of Supervisors'
and consists of K. P. Clement, Chairman ; Frank McCoppin, and Charles H.
Stanyau.
As having a relative connection with the foregoing subject, as well as with that
of the Pueblo title and the Van Ness Ordinance, the following extract is pre-
sented from the valuable " Colonial History of San Francisco," a volume pub-
lished by Hon. John W. Dwinelle, Special City Counsel in the Pueblo case.
(See addenda thereto, page 356) :
" It certainly illustrates the hardships to which the holders of real estate are
subjected in the City of San Francisco, when we find the Governor of the State
repudiating the Pueblo title, which no Governor either Mexican or American ever
denied before him, and laying down legal propositions, which if true, not only over-
turn all titles under the Van Ness Ordinance, but also deny all title whatsoever to
the City in the Outside Lands. For, if the Legislature cannot modify the execution
of a beneficial public trust, or cannot adopt and confirm the previous action of a mu-
nicipal corporation, then the Van Ness Ordinance is void. The municipal corporation
cannot accept the trust created by the Act of Congress of March 8th, 1866, without
the consent of the Legislature. The City has, therefore, nothing but the Pueblo
title to repose upon in the distribution of the Outside Lands ; but the holders of
real estate may rest assured that not one of the propositions of the Governor's veto
message is sound law, and that the Van Ness Ordinance is valid, as well as the
PUEBLO title."
In the same connection, and as having an important bearing upon the final
settlement of the whole subject, an Ordinance entitled the
VAN NESS ORDINANCE,
Approved June 20th," 1855, is given, which reads as follows :
SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the Mayor to enter, at the proper Land Office
of the United States, at the minimum price, all the lands" above the natural high
water mark of the Bay of San Francisco, at the time of the admission of California
VAN NESS ORDINANCE. 393
into the Union as a State, situated within the corporate limits of the City of San
Francisco, as defined in the Act to incorporate said City, passed April 15th, 1851,
in trust for the several use, benefit, and behoof of the occupants or possessors
thereof, according to their respective interests.
SEC. 2. The City of San Francisco hereby relinquishes and grants all the right
and claim of the said City to the lands within the corporate limits, to the parties in
the actual possession thereof by themselves or tenants, on or before the first day of
January, A.D. 1855, and to their heirs and assigns forever; excepting the property
known as the Slip property, and bounded on the north by Clay street, on the west
by Davis street, on the south by Sacramento street, and on the east by the water
lot front. And excepting also, any piece or parcel of land situated south, east, or
north of the water lot front of the City of San Francisco, as established by an Act
of the Legislature of March 26th, 1851 ; provided, such possession has been con-
tinued up to the time of the introduction of this Ordinance in the Common Council ;
or, if interrupted by an intruder, or trespasser, has been, or may be, recovered by
legal process ; and it is hereby declared to be the true intent and meaning of this
Ordinance, that when any of said lands have been occupied and possessed under
and by virtue of a lease or demise, they shall be deemed to have been in the pos-
session of the landlord or lessor under whom they were so occupied or possessed ;
provided, that all persons who hold title to lands within the said limits by virtue of
any grant made by any Ayuntamiento, Town Council, Alcalde, or Justice of the
Peace, of the former Pueblo of San Francisco, before the seventh day of July, 1846 ;
or grants to lots of land lying east of Larkin, and northeast of Johnston street, made
by any Ayuntamiento, Town Council, or Alcalde of said Pueblo, since that date,
and before the incorporation of the City of San Francisco by the State of California ;
and which grant, or the material portion thereof, was registered or recorded in a
proper book of record deposited in the office, or custody, or control, of the Recorder
of the County of San Francisco, on or before the third day of April, A.D. 1850 ; or
by virtue of any conveyance duly made by the Commissioners of the Funded Debt
of the City of San Francisco, and recorded on or before the first day of January,
1855, shall, for all the purposes contemplated by this Ordinance, be deemed to be
the possessors of the land so granted, although the said lands may be in the actual
occupancy of persons holding the same adverse to the said grantees.
SEC. 3. The patent issued, or any grant made by the United States to the City,
shall inure to the several use, benefit, and behoof of the said possessors, their heirs
and assigns, mentioned in the preceding section, as fully and effectually, to all
intents and purposes, as if it were issued or made directly to them, individually and
by name.
SEC. 4. The City, however, as a condition annexed to the next two preceding
sections, reserves to itself all the lots which it now occupies, or has already set
apart for Public Squares, Streets, and sites for School Houses, City Hall, and other
buildings belonging to the Corporation ; and also such lots and lands as may be
selected and reserved for streets and other public purposes, under the provisions of
the next succeeding sections.
SEC. 5. The City shall have the right to proceed to lay out and open streets as
soon as the Corporation may deem it expedient, in that part of the city Avest of
Larkin street, and southwest of Johnston street, and reserves the right to take
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possession of such land as it may be necessary to occupy for that purpose, without
compensation ; and to assess, in the manner provided by the present, or any existing
charter of the City, upon the lands bounded on such streets, the whole expense of
laying out, opening, grading, or constructing the same ; and payment of the cost of
said improvements shall be deemed a charge upon the lands mentioned in this sec-
tion, to which the City of San Francisco relinquishes her right and title by the
second and third sections of this Ordinance.
Sec. 6. The City shall also have the right to select and set apart from the lands
west of Larkin street, and southwest of Johnston street, as many lots, not exceed-
ing one hundred and thirty-seven and a half feet square each, as the Mayor and
Common Council may by Ordinance determine to be necessary for sites for school
houses, hospitals, fire engine houses, and other public establishments necessary
and proper for the use of the Corporation ; and may lay out and reserve upon the
said lands, at convenient and suitable points and distances, public squares, which
shall not embrace more than one block, corresponding in size to the adjoining block ;
provided, that the selection shall be made within six months from the time of the
passage of this Ordinance ; and that the City shall not, without due compensation,
occupy for the purposes mentioned in this section, after the laying out of the streets
aforesaid, more than one- twentieth part of the. land in the possession of any one
person ; and that such possessor shall voluntarily assent thereto, or refusing to do
so, shall not be entitled to the benefit of any concession contained in the second
and third sections of this Ordinance.
SEC. 7. The lots and lands reserved for the use of the Corporation, under the
provisions of the next preceding section, shall be selected in localities likely to be
most convenient and suitable for their respective uses, and in such proportion to
the quantity in the possession of the respective occupants as to make the appor-
tionment as nearly equal as circumstances will admit.
SEC. 8. The selection of said lands and lots shall be made by a Commission, to
consist of three persons, who shall be chosen by the Common Council, in Joint
Convention, who shall report the same to the Common Council for its approval ;
and upon such approval, deeds of release to the Corporation for the lands thus
selected shall be executed, acknowledged, and recorded, in which deeds shall be
specified the uses for which they are granted, reserved, and set apart respectively.
SEC. 9. Although the City hereby renounces in favor of the actual possessors, in
accordance with the provisions of Section 2, any right or claim of its own, nothing
in this Ordinance is intended to prejudice any other outstanding title to the said
lands adverse to the said possessors.
SEC. 10. Application shall be made to the Legislature to confirm and ratify this
Ordinance, and to Congress to relinquish all the right and title of the United States
to the said lands, for the uses and purposes hereinbefore specified.
SEC. 11. Nothing contained in this Ordinance shall be construed to prevent the
City from continuing to prosecute to a final determination her claim now pending
before the U. S. Land Commission, for Pueblo lands, for the several use, benefit,
and behoof of the said possessors mentioned in Section 2, as to the lands by them
so possessed, and for the proper use, benefit, and behoof of the Corporation as to
all other lands not herein before released and confirmed to the said possessors.
SEC. 12. That all Ordinances or parts of Ordinances^conflicting with this Ordi-
nance, or any part of its provisions, be and the same are hereby repealed.
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It is almost superflous to add that said Ordinance No. 822 and confirmatory
Ordinance No. 845 were approved and ratified by Act of the State Legis-
lature, approved March llth, 1858.
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Pending settlement of the outside land question, much attention has been
paid to the selection and setting apart suitable grounds for a Public Park, and
in the various measures or recommendations presented and entertained in re-
cent years, this subject stands prominent as an important part of the subject.
On the 6th of November, 1865, the memorial of a large number of citizens
and tax-payers, in reference to the matter, was received and considered by the
Board of Supervisors, which set forth that —
" The great cities of our own country, as well as of Europe, have found it neces-
sary at some period of their growth, to provide large parks, or pleasure-grounds,
for the amusement and recreation of the people. When they have set about the
work early in their history, the grounds have been secured near to the centers, and
so made easily accessible, and the expense has been comparatively light.
" No city in the world needs such recreation grounds more than San Francisco.
A great Park, or — what is more practicable — a series of small parks, connected by
varied and ornamented avenues, where people can drive, and ride, and walk, free
from dust and noise, is the great want of this city. Until some provision is made
to meet this want, however successful and impressive the business growth of San
Francisco may be, it will not be an attractive place for families and homes.
" With this fact patent to everybody, and the certainty that every year's delay
adds to the difficulties to be overcome, it would seem to be wisdom, before the
suburbs of the city are more thickly populated, to have some general plan adopted
for such pleasure grounds and connecting avenues, and to secure the required land
as early as possible. However slowly or rapidly the work on the grounds may be
prosecuted, all the other developments of the city, in buildings, railroads, sewers,
gas and water pipes, etc., will then be adapted to the plan of the Park, and thus
the great expense of subsequent changes will be avoided."
The memorial thus referred to. concludes by recommending thai Mr. Freder-
ick Law Olmsted, landscape architect, of the City of New York, who had
recently visited San Francisco, be communicated with in relation to the matter.
Following this, and in the same month, his Honor the Mayor, the City and
County Attorney, with Supervisors Bell and McCoppin, were empowered to
correspond with Mr. Olmsted, and obtain his views and recommendations as to
extent of grounds required, and suitable location for a Park, a communication
to which effect was mailed on the llth of November, 1866. On the 31st of
March, Mr. Olmsted responded in a preliminary report (with map, plans, and
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elaborate designs accompanying), from which the following brief extracts are
made :
" A place of public recreation being demanded for the people of San Francisco,
I am asked to say in what way I should propose to meet this demand.
" Before any discussion can be had with advantage upon this subject, it is
necessary that a clear understanding should be arrived at in regard to the special
conditions to which the proposed recreation ground should be adapted.
" These may be either of a social character, such as the number and the habits
and customs of the people which are to make use of it, or such as are fixed by
natural circumstances, as of topography, soil, and climate.
" In regard to the social conditions, it is obvious that San Francisco differs from
other towns which have provided themselves with parks, in the incompleteness of
its general plan. As soon as the Pacific Railroad is finished, its importance will
no longer depend as much as it does at present, upon its position relative to the
wants and the productions of the people of the Pacific Slope of the American
Continent, but it will begin to assume relations with the larger part of the popula-
tion of the whole world — and the most industrious and productive part, both civil-
ized and uncivilized — relations more direct, intimate, and profitable, than are now
held by any existing town. The magnitude and variety of the field which will thus
become tributary to its prosperity, will insure its progress against excessive fluctu-
ations, and its citizens, influenced by a steadily increasing demand for their ser-
vices, will provide for this demand by a steadily increasing enlargement of their
means of accomplishing business, in the construction of manufactories, shops,
warehouses, and otherwise. The present city is but a small section of that which
is yet to be formed.
" It is, therefore, important to remember, that a public pleasure ground, when
once formed within a city, possesses a character of permanency beyond any civic
building, and usually becomes the most unchangeable feature in its plan. Conse-
quently, it is necessary, in designing such a work, first of all, to consider how the
convenience and pleasure of future generations are to be affected by it, and in the
present case, it is more than usually important that this should be borne in mind
from the very outset, because a pleasure ground adapted to meet the wants of the
population of the City of San Francisco, as it exists to-day, will probably be needed
to accommodate two or three times that number of people, even by the time it had
reached in the growth of plants and other respects, the conditions aimed at in its
design — and, ultimately, a far larger number. Whatever pleasure ground is formed
for it in the next ten years, should be laid out with reference to the convenience,
not merely of the present population, or even of their immediate successors, but of
many millions of people. Obviously this responsibility cannot be adequately met
without careful prevision of circumstances very different from those with which we
have immediately to deal.
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" San Francisco has a future more certain than any of these older towns, and its
probable requirements are more easily to be anticipated. It is important, there-
fore, at the outset, that due attention should be given to the fact that a pleasure
ground planned merely to meet the requirements of the present, or of the next ten
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or twenty years, will be an uneconomical undertaking, and a neglect of a very im-
portant municipal duty.
"At the same time, the need of a public pleasure-ground for the use of the
present population, is a very pressing one ; and the immediate demand should not
for a moment be set aside on account of the difficulty of providing for the future.
**********
"The conclusion to which these considerations lead, is obviously that whenever a
pleasure-ground is formed in San Francisco, it should have a character which the
citizens will be sure to regard with just pride and satisfaction. It should be a
pleasure-ground second to none in the world — a promenade which shall, if possible,
become so agreeable to its citizens, that when they go elsewhere they will remem-
ber it gratefully, and not be obliged to consider it a poor substitute for what is
offered them by the wiser policy of other cities.
**********
" The special conditions fixed by natural circumstances, to which the plan must
be adapted, are so obvious that I need not recapitulate them here. Determining
for the reasons already given, that a pleasure-ground is needed which shall com-
pare favorably with any in existence, it must, I believe, be acknowledged, that,
neither in beauty of green sward, nor in great umbrageous trees, do these special
conditions of the topography, soil, and climate of San Francisco allow us to hope
that any pleasure ground it can acquire will ever compare in the most distant de-
gree with those of New York or London.
" There is not a full grown tree of beautiful proportions near San Francisco, nor
have I seen any young trees that promised fairly, except, perhaps, of certain com-
pact, clumpy forms of evergreens, wholly wanting in grace and cheerfulness. It
would not be wise nor safe to undertake to form a park upon any plan which
assumed as a certainty that trees which would delight the eye can be made to grow
near San Francisco by any advantages whatever which it might be proposed to
offer them. It is perhaps true that the certainty of failure remains to be proved,
that success is not entirely out of the question, and it may be urged that experi-
ments on a small scale should be set on foot at once, to determine the question for
the benefit of future generations ; but, however this may be, it is unquestionably
certain that the success of such experiments cannot safely be taken for granted in
any general scheme that may, at this time, be offered for the improvement of the
city.
" The question, then, is, whether it be possible for San Francisco to form a
pleasure-ground peculiar to itself, with a beauty as much superior to that of other
such grounds, in any way, as theirs must be superior to what it can aspire to in
spreading trees and great expanses of turf.
"I think that it can.
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" In any pleasure-ground for San Francisco, the ornamental parts should be com-
pact ; should be guarded from the direct action of the northwest wind ; should be
conveniently entered ; should be rich in detail ; close to the eye, and should be fitted
to an extensive system of walks, rides, drives and resting-places. These latter
should also be sheltered as much as possible from the northwest wind ; should be
of such a plan that their public use can be efficiently regulated without cumbrous,
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unusual, or very expensive police arrangements, and should be easily kept clean and
free from dust. No ground should be selected for this improvement which is
already of very great value, yet the neighborhood should be of a character which
will ultimately invite the erection of the best class of private mansions and public
edifices. Entrance to it should be practicable at no great distance from that part
of the town already built up ; it should extend in the direction in which the city is
likely to advance, or should be so arranged that an agreeable extension can be
readily made in that direction hereafter. At the same time, it should have such a
form, that when the city shall be much enlarged, it will so divide it that, without
subjecting the trees and shrubs it contains to destruction during great conflagra-
tions, it shall be a barrier of protection to large districts which would otherwise be
imperiled. It is further desirable that it should not make any great change in the
present plans of sewerage, lighting, and water supply necessary ; should not present
any insurmountable obstructions to the ordinary ways of passage or business trans-
portation between different parts of the city ; should not block the city railroads
or other public works, and should not greatly disturb buildings already erected,
streets already graded, sewered and paved, or otherwise cause heavy losses or de-
preciation of value to the existing property of the city, or that of corporations
or private citizens.
" If there is any scheme by which all these seemingly conflicting requirements
can be met, no arrangement which can be proposed, that falls short of it, will long
be considered satisfactory. Changes of detail, revisions, repairs, temporary expe-
dients to meet special difficulties, will constantly be suggested, discussed, and from
time to time adopted ; and thus in the end any less comprehensive plan will
prove excessively inconvenient and expensive. It will be much more economical
to adopt a plan which comprehends everything that is likely to be wanted at the
outset. The whole scheme of improvements should, as far as possible, therefore,
be definitely established at the outset, and the plan of the city in all respects ad-
justed to suit it.
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" The best place for a rural ground, to be retired from the general promenade,
that I have been able to find near the city, is in a valley sheltered on the north,
west and southwest sides by hills lying north and west of what is designated the
' hospital lot ' on the city map, and not far from the Orphan Asylum. This valley
is not only unusually protected from wind, but the soil is moist, and I have ob-
served that in the dryest season the shrubs and herbaceous plants, of which there
is a yery abundant natural growth within it, retain their freshness and health better
than anywhere else.
" There is a considerable extent of low level ground in the same vicinity, suitable
for a parade and play ground of moderate size, which being close on Market Street,
near the Mission, will be readily accessible from the present town. It is also very
centrally situated with reference to all the suburbs of the city, and is just within
the lines to which the streets of the city are laid out by the map of 1865. As be-
yond this point to the westward the rectangular system of streets will probably
have to be abandoned, owing to the steepness and ruggedness of the hills, it offers
also a convenient point of division between a scheme of grounds intended for the
use of citizens during the next ten or twenty years, and a scheme for future im-
provements.
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" For these reasons I would propose to place here, as far as practicable, all those
parts of the general system of pleasure grounds which require considerable lateral
expansion. In European town parks, the more strictly rural portions are generally
associated with the parts intended to be used as a promenade, in which but little
lateral space is really needed. As by the arrangement already sketched out the
social public promenade is provided for elsewhere, and as only a moderate area will
be needed for military use here, the parade ground proper being located farther out
in the country, it will be desirable to bring this area in juxtaposition with the tract
to be set apart for the more secluded garden ground, in order to gain a greater gen-
eral impression of spaciousness than either alone would give. As, however, the
purpose of each is quite distinct from that of the other, they should, in the detailed
arrangement of the design, be very completely separated. I propose, therefore, to
place between them a grand terrace or tribune, readily accessible from each, as
well as from the general promenade, and from the common streets of the town.
This structure might be formed in two levels, one set apart for persons in carriages,
the other for those on foot. On two sides of it might be rich parterres or formal
flower gardens with fountains, and the whole might be given a highly architectural
character with rich parapets of stone ; or it might be cheaply finished with turf
banks, bastions, and bays, and plain iron or wooden hand-rails. In connection with
this grand central concourse there should be suitable stands for music, for fire-
works, and for public speaking. These should face toward the parade ground, in
which a crowd of many thousand persons might be assembled without danger of
injury to plants or objects of art, and where a regiment might be manoeuvred, or a
division reviewed in marching column. Additional accommodations for spectators
on foot and in carriages should be arranged all around its margin. It should be
placed at as low a level as practicable, with higher ground and thick plantations on
the windward side.
"On the other side of the terrace or tribune, in a still more thoroughly protected
position, I would have a small garden formed in the nocK of the hills, facing to the
southeast, with a grove of trees in the upper part and in that part nearest the trib-
une, the remainder being thrown into a surface of picturesqe form, with rocks and
terraces, and planted closely and intricately with shrubs and vines, with walks run-
ning among them, and frequent seats, arbors, and small sheltered and sunny areas
of turf and flowers. In the lowest part there should be a flatter space, in which
there should be laid out and kept up at any expense for maintenance that might
be found necessary, a small clear lawn of turf sloping down to the shore of a pool
of still water, on the other side of which there should be the finest display of foliage
in natural forms which art could command. From within this garden, no carriage
road or buildings, except those of a rural character, inviting rest, should be seen,
and no pains should be spared to make it a spot of pure and tranquil sylvan loveli-
ness. If it is a question whether anything of this kind could be maintained in a
large city without being misused, and rendered practically valueless for those who
would most enjoy it, through the misbehaviour of lawless men and boys, the Ramble
in the Central Park, parts of which in a great degree realize what I should at-
tempt, gives a sufficient answer.
" For some years to come, such a series of grounds and structures as I have sug-
gested near the Orphan Asylum, with a Marine Parade at Point San Jose, and a
spacious promenade between them, would probably suffice.
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"A line between these two points would be nearly parallel to a line equally subdir
viding the present population of the city, being within ten minutes drive of the City
Hall and the Lincoln School House respectively ; and the best course for a prome-
nade to be laid out between them, having regard merely to the beauty and fitness
of the promenade itself, would be a moderately direct one, carried in a succession
of easy curves, generally in the depression of the hills.
" If, however, the value of the land which would need to be purchased, and the
disarrangement of the present lines of streets and properties which would be re-
quired to carry out this plan, should be thought a very great objection to it, it would
be practicable to make use of Van Ness Avenue, from the water line to Eddy
street, and I think it best to presume that this would be deemed advisable.
" Taking Van Ness Avenue, I should add to it one tier of building lots on each side,
which gives a space 390 feet wide. Fifty-five feet of this space on each side might be
appropriated to streets, into which the cross streets now falling into Van Ness Avenue
would lead, without there being necessarily any change in the present plans for their
grading, paving, sewering, or piping. The present middle tier of lots of the blocks
on each side of Van Ness Avenue would then be front lots on these two streets,
which would be in all respects formed in the usual manner, except that it might be
considered best not to lay any walk on the sides opposite the houses. There would
remain a space to be given up to the promenade and ornamental ground 280 feet
wide. Within this an excavation would be made, varying in depth a little, according
to the shape of the surface, but everywhere at least 20 feet deep. The sides of the
excavation should slope so as to leave a nearly level space at the bottom 152 feet
wide. In the center of this might be formed a mall 24 feet wide, flanked on each
side by a border, to be used as will hereafter be described. Between the borders
and the foot of the slopes might be two roadways, each 54 feet wide, and 15 feet
being made of loose sifted gravel, as a pad for saddle horses, and the remaining 39
feet finished with hard rolled gravel for carriages. Immediately outside the road-
ways, the surface should usually rise very gently and be occupied by beds of turf
or flowers, which should be carried up irregularly until lost under plantations of
shrubs and trees. The upper part of the slopes adjoining the streets should be
everywhere planted with coniferous trees set closely and trimmed so as to form a
lofty hedge or thick screen sufficient to break off the wind from the less sturdy
plants within.
" At such intervals as might from time to time be deemed advisable, bridges to
carry streets across the promenade grounds, would have to be constructed, and at
each of these bridges entrances should be arranged by which persons on foot could
reach the mall. Access to the roads may be obtained by carriage approaches de-
sc3nding the slopes in lines diagonal to the general course, starting midway between
the bridges.
" After crossing Eddy street, the promenade might fork into two branches, that to
the left going straight to the southwest corner of the present Yerba Buena Park,
where the Pioneer Monument is to be placed, which would form the vista-point of
the mall. Here it would terminate with an entrance on Market Street, six blocks
out from Montgomery street. The fork to the right would be at right angles to
the first, and run parallel to Market street until it reached the vicinity of the low
ground near the Orphan Asylum, where it would connect with the terrace before
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described. Here it would be divided, one branch of the roadway being carried
around the garden, following the hills ; the other making the circuit of the parade
ground ; the mall being arranged to branch out into the garden walks, and also to
lead around the parade.
" The system of roads and walks after leaving this point, would resume more or
less of the original restricted form, and would be carried on as far as might be
thought advisable, as an extension of the general promenade. Between the Pioneer
Monument and the old Spring Valley Reservoir near the Orphan Asylum, little having
been done toward the carrying out of the existing plan of the city streets on the
west side of Market street, I think it would be best to revise the city map, both to
secure greater convenience for business purposes, and to increase the dignity of the
approaches and surroundings of the parade and garden. The small pieces of ground
now reserved in this vicinity for public squares, may as well be thrown into streets
and lots, and the streets at present laid out to divide the property between Market
street and the proposed promenade, be given up, and a more simple and symmet-
rical plan adopted.
*********
" If such a plan should be adopted as I have suggested, each section of the general
promenade formed by the bridges should receive a somewhat different treatment,
especially in the border between the mall and the roadway. In some sections the
border may be treated in a natural style ; in others, in a formal style. The latter
would be especially applicable where the level of the natural surface and the ad-
joining streets is highest and the cuttings deepest, as in these situations it may be
best to employ retaining walls, and throw the ground into terraces on the exterior
slopes ; then, at some points, the border may be decorated with vases elevated
on pedestals, baskets of flowers, yuccas, aloes, orange trees, or other exotic plants
in tubs, which would admit of their being placed under shelter. Another section
of the mall should be planted with fastigiate trees and shrubs, another with cac-
tuses, another with standard roses, another with a particular class of flowering
shrubs, another with creeping plants pegged down, another with a vegetable em-
broidery upon fine turf, another with beds of tulips, of violets, or of callas, etc.
" At some points, the walks should be carried out to the edge of the roadway, (as
shown in the vicinity of the bridges upon the sketch C), so that people can step
upon it from their carriages, or converse with them upon it without getting out.
Some of these openings should be covered with pavilions of rustic or lattice work,
overgrown with vines or creepers and furnished with seats ; at other points the
walk may be thrown out to the road on each side, and the center occupied by
smaller pavilions, or by fountains, statues, cages of birds, dove cotes, rabbit hutches,
small paddocks of gazelles or antelopes, tanks of aquatic plants, globes of fish, or
such suitable objects of art or curiosity, as may from time to time be acquired by
the city, either as gifts or by purchase. By slight modifications of the general
plan, the details could be modified to an indefinite extent, and every desirable object
might be placed in the position most suitable to exhibit it to advantage, either
from the carriage road or the walk, or from both. Portions of the mall, for in-
stance, might be made lower than the adjoining road, and divided, so as to run
within narrow rocky ravines, in the ledges and crevices of which would be the
most delicate plants, or the rocks might be covered with ivy.
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" Thus, in minor points, the design could be everywhere varied, always taking care,
however, that the slopes should be of a somewhat larger style than the one adopted
for the borders of the central mall. At the same time, if considerations of economy
should be required to control the design in this respect, a plain turf finish might be
given to the borders, and the slopes might be planted with masses of common
shrubs and small trees, such as the lilacs, mock orange, calcyanthus, acacia, flow-
ering currant, elder, laburnum, buckeye, manzanita, photinia, ceanothus, magnolias,
laurels, azalias, oedenostema, eriodyctiou, golden-leafed chestnut, holly-leafed ber-
berry, and many others which may be obtained in large quantities from the canons
of the coast range. Some sections might be devoted to an illustration of the shrubs
of California, others to those of Australia, China, Japan, or Siberia, in so far as
they would suit the situation.
"As, however, the winter of San Francisco is peculiarly adapted, whenever it is
fair weather, to the enjoyment of the promenade, I should prefer to plant much the
larger part almost wholly writh evergreens, especially with the smooth-leaved ever-
green shrubs and vines, like the laurel, myrtle, rhododondrons, Chinese magnolias,
arid ivy. With a smaller expenditure than several individuals in Europe and the
Eastern States have made for the purpose, the citizens of San Francisco might, I
believe, provide themselves in a lew years with a " Winter Garden " more beautiful
than any now to be found in the world.
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"To the present time the street plan of San Francisco has been contrived with
scarcely any effort to adapt it to the peculiar topography of the situation. On a
level plain like the site of the city of Philadelphia, a series of streets at right angles
to each other is perfectly feasible, and the design is as simple in execution as it
appears on paper; but even where the circumstances of site are favorable for this
formal and repetitive arrangement, it presents a dull and inartistic appearance, and
in such a hilly position as that of San Francisco, it is very inappropriate. If the
present site, as it was in 1850, had now to be laid out for a large city, it would be
desirable to adopt a different arrangement in many respects.
" If hills of considerable elevation occur within the boundary of a site marked out
for a city, this salient difficulty should be met at the outset, and a series of main
lines of road should be arranged that will ascend these hills diagonally, in such a
way as to secure sufficiently easy grades. The skeleton lines being thus determined
on, a series of transverse and connecting streets should next be provided that will
divide the whole into sections of moderate size, and each of these intermediate dis-
tricts should then be planned separately, and with as much regularity as the circum-
stances of the case admit.
" The city of San Francisco is unquestionably in a very different degree of ad-
vancement from what it was in 1850; but even now it is evident that by far the
larger portion of the city remains to be built up. Although, therefore, very much
has been done that it would be impossible to think of changing, and the interests
involved in the portions that are not improved are, doubtless, so numerous as to
make a change anywhere difficult and troublesome ; still the future advantage to
the city of a judicious reconsideration of the whole subject at this time can hardly
be over estimated, especially with reference to that portion of the city that remains
entirely unoccupied by buildings of a permanent character.
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" The first cost of constructing the streets upon such a plan as has been suggested,
would probably be less than upon the present ; and the advantage in the saving
of wear and tear to horses and vehicles, to say nothing of fatigue to persons on
foot, would be incalculable."
With the foregoing, it is to be noted that the Government of the United
States holds in possession a large tract comprising some three hundred acres,
known as the " Presidio," situated near the entrance to the Harbor, on the
northwestern bounds of the City. This tract having for a period of twenty
years been held for Government purposes, and comprising a much larger terri-
tory than required for military use, attention was called to the propriety and
feasibilty of obtaining its use for a Park, excepting that portion needed for
barracks for soldiers and other military uses.
With such object, a Committee, consisting of Supervisors Rowell, Ashbury,
and Clayton — appointed on the sixteenth of June, 1866 — was instructed to
confer with the United States military authorites of the Department of the
Pacific in regard to the matter.
The response received from Major General Halleck, commanding the Division
of the Pacific, was favorable. Survey and plans proposed were asked for,
when furnished to be submitted to the War Department at Washington for
consideration.
Authority for this was given by a resolution unanimously adopted in Board
of Supervisors, September 10th, 1866, viz :
" Resolved, That the Special Committee appointed to confer with the Government
authorities in reference to procuring a portion of the lands of the Presidio for the
purposes of a Public Park, be and hereby is authorized to procure a survey to be
made by the City Surveyor, of the Military Reservation at the Presidio, for the pur-
pose of ascertaining what portion of said lands are suitable for the uses of a Park,
and, can be used for that purpose without prejudice to the military requirements of
the Government at that point."
Pending this, no further steps have been taken.
WARDS AND ELECTION DISTRICTS.
In pursuance of authority granted at the last session of the Legislature, a
number of the Wards have been subdivided so as to constitute two Election
Districts, for greater convenience of voters, a polling place or precinct being
designated in each District.
The following shows the boundaries of the Wards and Districts as now
established :
FIKST WARD. — Bounded by Washington street on the south, Kearny street
404 APPENDIX.
on the west, and the Bay of San Francisco on the north and east. Islands in
the Bay attached to First Ward.
SECOND WARD. — Bounded by Kearny street on the east, Yallejo street on
the south, Larkin street on the west, and the Bay of San Francisco on the
north.
THIRD WARD. — Bounded by Washington street on the north, Kearny street
on the west, California street on the south, and Market street and the Bay of
San Francisco on the east.
FOURTH WARD. — Bounded by Yaliejo street on the north, Kearny street on
the east, Washington street on the south, and Larkin street on the west.
FIFTH WARD. — Bounded by California street on the north, Kearny street on
the west, and Market street on the south and east.
SIXTH WARD. — Bounded by Kearny street on the east, Pine street on the
south. Larkin street on the west, and Washington street on the north.
SEVENTH WARD. — Bounded by Harrison street on the south, Second street
on the west, Market street on the north, and the Bay of San Francisco on the
east.
Election District No. 1. — Bounded by Howard street on the south, Second
street on the west, Market street on the north, and the waters of the Bay on
the east.
Election District No. 2. — Bounded by Harrison street on the south, Second
street on the west, Howard street on the north, and the waters of the Bay on
the east.
EIGHTH WARD. — Bounded by Kearny street on the east, Market street on
the south, Larkin street on the west, and Pine street on the north.
Election District No. 1. — Bounded by Post street on the south, Larkin street
on the west, Pine street on the north, and Kearny street on the east.
Election District No. 2. — Bounded by Market street on the south, Larkin
street on the west, Post street on the north, and Kearny street on the east.
NINTH WARD. — Bounded by Harrison street on the north, Seventh street
on the west, and the Bay of San Francisco on the east.
TENTH WARD. — Bounded by Market street on the north, Seventh street on
the west, Harrison street on the south, and Second street on the east.
Election District No. 1. — Bounded by Harrison street on the south, Fourth
street on the west, Market street on the north, and Second street on the east.
WAKDS AND ELECTION DISTRICTS.
405
Election District No. 2. — Bounded by Harrison street on the south, Seventh
street on the west, Market street on the north, and Fourth street on the east.
ELEVENTH WARD. — Bounded by Seventh street on the east, by Market
street and Ridley street in a direct line to the Pacific Ocean on the north, by
the Pacific Ocean on the west, and by the line of San Mateo County and the
Bay of San Francisco to the line of Seventh Street on the south and east.
Election District No. 1. — Bounded on the east by Seventh street to Mission
Creek, on the south by Mission Creek and Sixteenth street to Dolores street,
and on the west by Dolores street to Market street, and westerly and northerly
by Market street to Seventh street.
Election District No. 2. — Bounded on the north by Mission Creek and Six-
teenth street to Dolores street, on the east by Dolores street from Sixteenth to
Ridley street, thence northerly by Ridley street and a direct line to the
Pacific Ocean, thence westerly by the Ocean to the line of San Mateo County,
on the south by the line of San Mateo County to the Bay, and easterly and
northerly by the waters ol the Bay to Mission Creek.
TWELFTH WARD. — Bounded by Larkin street on the east, by Market street
and Ridley street in a direct line to the Pacific Ocean and the Bay of San
Francisco on the west and north.
Election District No. 1. — Bounded by Larkin street on the east, Bush street
on the south, the Pacific Ocean on the west, and the Bay on the north.
Election District No. 2. — Bounded by Bush street on the north, Larkin street
on the east, Market street to Ridley street, Ridley street in a direct line to the
Pacific Ocean on the south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west.
OFFICERS OF ELECTION.
( Clerk
Benjamin Shellard.
1st Ward — Election District
( Samuel Neall,
( Clerk .
{ John Me Henry.
Jeremiah Smith
2d Ward — Election District
( H. H. Lawrence,
3d Ward — Election District
r Clerk
| M. C. Conroy.
J. IT. Church.
( E. A. Robinson,
4th Ward — Election District
( Clerk
} H. G. Langley.
J. M. Johnston.
( C. C. Morton,
( S. L. Lupton.
406
APPENDIX.
OFFICEKS OF ELECTION.— CONCLUDED.
( Clerk
Robert Merrill
5th Ward—Election District
( N. B. Stone,
( Clerk
I M. Winn.
George 0 'Whitney
6th Ward— Election District
( J. C. Harvey,
f Clerk
I H. R. Johnson.
C. E. Johnston
7th Ward — Election District No. 1 .
i Judges
( Peter Wheelan,
( Clerk. . .
j R. S. Cutter.
J. W Slosson
7th Ward— Election District No. 2.
j Judges
j C. A. Hawley,
( Clerk
( J. C. Hubbard.
C J Snow
8th Ward — Election District No. 1 .
1 Judges
f Clerk
( Jacob Lynn,
( Lewis Teese.
Franklin Williams.
8th Ward — Election District No. 2.
j Judges
J W. P. Kirtland,
\.
( Clerk
| Lewis Peck.
J. M. Buffington.
9th Ward — Election District
( Isaac Tabor,
( Clerk. ..
{ Thomas Boyce.
R. A. Marden.
10th Ward — Election District No. 1 .
) Judges. .
( Alfred Miesegaes,
( Clerk. .
( N. P. Copp.
Bernard Lande.
10th Ward — Election District No. 2.
5
) Judges . .
( A. Benard,
f Clerk
( Herman Rankm.
A. G. Randall.
llth Ward — Election District No. 1 .
) Judges
^ Donald McLennan,
( Clerk
( Thomas N. Cazneau.
Martin Fennell.
llth Ward— Election District No. 2.
i Judges ......
j M. W. Lamb,
f Clerk
( John T. McGeoghegan.
J. B. Morton.
12th Ward — Election District No. 1 .
) Judges
( Wm. T. Canham,
( Clerk
( J. A. Rodgers.
Charles P. Kimball.
12th Ward — Election District No. 2.
) Judges
( E. Heath,
( Thomas Bolster.
NOTE.— The term of office of the Clerks and Judges of Elections is two years, unless
sooner made elective by Board of Supervisors, which body also has power to fill vacancies.
NATIONAL GUARD. 407
MILITARY.
By an Act " Concerning the Military of the State of California," approved
April 2d, 1866, material changes were made in the organization of the State
Militia, by which several regiments, battalions, and unattached companies were
mustered out of service, or consolidated into a new organization, now known as
the " National Guard," consisting of six brigades, composed of eighty com-
panies ; sixty-four of infantry, of not less than fifty privates, with officers and
non-commissioned officers ; twelve of cavalry, of not less than thirty privates,
with officers and non-commissioned officers, and four of artillery, officers, etc.
THE NATIONAL GUARD
is under command of Major-General Lucius H. ALLEN ; head quarters, San
Francisco, whose Staff is as follows :
Lieut. Colonel S. C. ELLIS Ass't Adj't Gen'l, and Chief of Staff.
Lieut. Colonel A. H. HOUSTON Commissary.
Lieut. Colonel A. W. VON SCHMIDT Engineer Officer.
Lieut. Colonel DANIEL NORCROSS Paymaster.
Lieut. Colonel S. O. HOUGHTON Inspector.
Lieut. Colonel THEO. A. MUDGE Ordnance Officer.
Lieut. Colonel J. H. STEARNS Quartermaster.
Lieut. Colonel J. W. BRUMAGIM Judge Advocate.
Lieut. Colonel GEO. HEWSTON Surgeon.
Major S. P. MIDDLETON Aid-de-Camp.
Major JAS. L. BEYEA Aid-de-Camp.
That portion of the National Guard located in the city and county of San
Francisco now consists of two regiments of infantry, three companies of caval-
ry, and one artillery light battery of six guns, all attached to the Second
Brigade ; Brigadier General JOHN HEWSTON, Jr., Commanding.
STAFF.
Major G. W. SMILEY Ass't Adj't Gen. and Chief of Staff.
Major JOHN HILL Inspector.
Major W. F. LADD Ordnance Officer.
Major M. M. RICHARDSON Paymaster.
Major C. E. HINCKLEY Commissary.
Major C. L. WIGGIN Quartermaster.
Major A. D. GRIMWOOD Judge Advocate.
Major T. J. P. LACY Engineer.
Major S. R. GERRY Surgeon.
Captain OCTAVIUS BELL Aid-de-Camp.
The San Francisco regiments and Companies thus referred to are as follows :
408
APPENDIX.
FIRST REGIMENT OF INFANTRY.
EGBERT SIMSOX Colonel.
T. B. LUDLUM Lieut. Colonel.
W. C. LITTLE Major.
Company
Letter.
Company Xame.
Commanding Officer.
No. of
Men.
A
State Guard
. . Captain John G. Dawes
. . 8.3..
B
Citv Guard
. .Captain George W. Granniss . . . !
.. 69..
National Guard
.. 97..
D
San Francisco Guard. . .
. . Captain John V. MeElwee
.. 97..
E
. . Captain Ahram Mo<rer i
.. 82..
F
Li"ht Guard
Captain Eli Cook '
.. 92..
G
Ellsworth Rifles
. . 97. .
II
. . California Timers
. . Captain Edward McDevitt 1
. . 82 ..
SECOND REGIMENT OF INFANTRY.
JOHN W. McKEXziE.
JAS. B. STOKER
JOHN STRATMAN . .
. .Colonel.
. . Lieut. Colonel.
. .Major.
Company
Letter.
Companj* Name.
Commanding Officer.
Xo. of
JHen.
A
Captain II A Gorlcv
. 95..
B
\Vtishinffton Guard. . . .
. .Lieut. Cornd<r. John C. Jenkins.
. .110. .
C
. .Franklin Guard
. . Captain John McComl)
.. 79..
D
.. 73..
E
McClellan Guard
. .Captain J. W. Wilkinson
.. 79..
F
McKtnzic Guard
Captain R G Gillrnore
. . 81 ..
G
. .Eureka Guard
. . Captain A. J. Shrader
.. 78..
H
. . San Francisco Cadets . .
. . Captain C. E. S. McDonald. . . .
.. 89..
FIRST REGIMENT OF CAVALRY.
CHAS. L. TAYLOR Colonel.
ABIJAH McCALL Lieut. Colonel.
JOHN IT. MARSTOX 1st Major.
H. M. LEONARD 2d Major.
Company
Letter.
Company Name.
Commanding Officer.
No. of
Men.
A..
. .First Lio'lit Dr;i(roons
.Captain Jacob Browning ....
. . 85 . .
B
. San Francisco Hussars
Captain G G Bradt...
82. .
c :
. .Jackson Dragoons
..Captain P. R. O'Brien
.. 79..
MILITARY. 409
LIGHT BATTERY.
Company
Letter.
Company Name.
Commanding Officer.
No. of
Men.
H
. . California Guard
. . Captain W. C. Burnett
.. 82..
Puring the interval between the passage of the Act of April, 1866, and the
date of organization of the National Guard under its provisions, most com-
panies of the State Militia organization continued in service until regularly
mustered out, without receiving pay for armory rents or regimental incidental
expenses, and a question arose whether, under the law, they were entitled to re-
ceive it ; this has been satisfactorily settled ; all of the companies so continuing in
service have been paid in full to respective dates of mustering out, and those
mustered into the National Guard, until the 1st of October, 1866. The law
referred to reduced the allowance to Colonels, for incidental regimental expenses,
from $100 to $25 per month, at which latter sum their demands have been
audited or paid. The present monthly allowance for incidental expenses and
armory rents is fixed : to Colonels of Regiments, $25 ; to Captains of Com-
panies, $50 ; to California Guard Light Battery, $40 for each gun, making
$240 for their six guns.
HARBOR AND WHARVES.
The People of San Francisco, as well as those of the State and elsewhere,
having commercial relations with the port, particularly in shipping, have good
reason for congratulation in the certain early building of the long contemplated
Sea Wall, or masonry constructed harbor protection on the water front.
The success which has thus far attended the labors of the Board of State
Harbor Commissioners meets with general commendation, and is confidently
believed to be gratifying to all who desire the greatest facilities extended to
the large and ultimately vast commercial interests, for which it is the great ob-
ject in every way suitably to provide.
Heretofore, so much has been said and written in regard to this subject, and
the matter is generally so well understood that it is needless now to enter into
a recapitulation of all the doings of the Commissioners, since their organization
Nov. 4th, 1864 ; the practical results of their exertions and the earliest comple-
tion of the great work intrusted to them, is more important and most looked for.
The Board now consists of
CHAS. L. TAYLOR, chosen by electors of the State,
S. S. TILTON, appointed by the Legislature, and
JAMES LAIDLEY, chosen by electors of San Francisco.
ROBT. E. C. STEARNS, Secretary, appointed by the Board.
27
410
APPENDIX.
By the courtesy of the Secretary, Mr. Stearns, the following exhibit of
transactions of the Board, for thirteen months ending October 4th, is presented :
RECEIPTS
WHARVES, ETC.
Gross Receipts.
Current
Expenses.*
Net Receipts.
Clay Street Wharf
$15,744 75
$ 2,611 25
$13,133 50
Jackson Street Wharf. . ...
15 066 35
2,757 00
12,309 35
Washington Street Wharf.
9 450 80
2 634 00
6 816 80
Mission Street Wharf
36,160 00
3,035 67
33,124 33
Vallejo Street Wharf. *
37,200 00
3,742 45
33,457 55
North Point Wharf . .
9 119 25
2 032 50
7,086 75
Folsom Street Wharf t
26 000 00
26 000 00
Howard Street Wharf
17,750 65
2,168 75
15,581 90
East St. Water Front (north of Market St.)
East St. Water Front (Market to Folsom
Street) t
6,645 30
16,932 00
1,313 00
5,332 30
16,932 00
Main Street Wharf (Risdon & Co.)t.
3 250 00
3,250 00
Front Street (Union to Green Street)! •
612 00
612 00
Stewart Street (Moore & Co )
1 769 00
t
1 769 00
Spear and IBrvaut Sts (Hathaway's)!
1 950 00
1 950 00
Oakland and San Antonio Steam Naviga-
tion Co 's Wharf |
800 00
800 00
Vallejo Street Water Front, (Davis to
Front Street)!
3 300 00
3 300 00
Davis St (portion of Water Front on).
320 00
320 00
Dry Dock Company!
550 00
550 00
TWolc
•Rono Ron in
<fitor» 9QA fio
<ttl «O 1\>x> AS
Net Receipts, as shown above $182,325 48
S. F. Harbor Protection Fund — amount drawn by Commissioners 3,500 00
State Wharf and Dock Fund — amount drawn by Commissioners. . . . 44,068 50
Total... $229,893 98
DISBURSEMENTS.
URGENT REPAIRS. — Amount paid for repairing Clay St., Jackson
St., Washington St., Mission St., Vallejo St. and Howard
St. Wharves, and outer half of East Street, between Jack-
son and Clay Streets, and portion of Vallejo Street, be-
tween Davis and Front Streets. . . $19,423 00
* Current Expenses includes the amount paid to Wharfingers and Collectors, the expense
of hauling dirt from the Wharves, and amount paid for towing and moving ships at the
wharves in certain cases.
t Wharves and portions of the Water Front marked thus t have been leased by the Com-
missioners, and the amount received, as above, is for rent — the parties holding said leases
are obligated to charge and collect the rate of Tolls, Wharfage, and Dockage as established
by the Board, and to make all necessary repairs at their own expense.
J Amount paid to the State, as required by the Company's charter.
HARBOR AND WHARVES. 411
LEGAL EXPENSES, in full, including amount paid to Special
Counsel 3,379 00
SALARIES of Commissioners and Secretary 12,350 00
KENT, Printing, Advertising and Stationery 2.602 30
SEA WALL ACCOUNT. — Amount paid for survey, maps, advertis-
ing and premium for best plan for a Sea Wall 3,607 00
DREDGING ACCOUNT. — Amount paid for dredging slips at Mission
Street, Vallejo Street and North Point Wharves 44,106 50
SAN FRANCISCO HARBOR PROTECTION FUND. — Amount remitted
State Treasurer 110,816 34
STATE WHARF AND DOCK FUND. — Amount remitted State
Treasurer . . 33,609 84
Total $229,893 98
STATE WHARF AND DOCK FUND.*
DR. CR.
To balance, September 4th, 1865 $29,590 02
To amount paid in by State Harbor Commissioners,
as per Controller's Receipts on file in office . . 33,609 84
By amount of Commissioners Orders, No. 19, 20, 21
and 22 44,068 50
By Balance in State Wharf and Dock Fund, October
2d, 1866 ' : 19,131 36
$63,199 86 $63,199 86
SAN FRANCISCO HARBOR PROTECTION FUND.f
DR. CR.
To amount on hand, September 4th, 1865 31,917 20
To amount paid in by State Harbor Commissioners,
as per Controller's receipts on file in office 110,816 34
By amount of Commissioners' Orders, Nos. 1, 2 and 3 $3,500 00
To balance in S. F. Harbor Protection Fund, Octo-
ber 2d, 1 866 139,233 54
$142,733 54 $142,733 54
* This Fund cannot be drawn upon by the Commissioners, except for the payment of
contracts when new wharves, etc., are built, or for dredging.
t Commissioners' Orders on this Fund, only in payment for contracts performed in con-
nection with the peiimanmt improvement of the Water Front ; .
412
APPENDIX.
It will he seen by the foregoing statements that the Harbor Commissioners
have, during the period named, viz : from September 4th, 18G5. to October 2d,
1866. thirteen months, remitted to the State Treasurer to the credit of the
Wharf and Dock Fund $ 33,609 84
Harbor Protection Fund 110,816 34
Making a total of $144,426 18
or an average monthly remittance of $11,109.70, being an average increase
over the previous eleven months, as shown in the Municipal Report of last
year, (p. 372) of over $2,000 per month, and exceeding the estimated remit-
tance to said Funds vide Annual (1865) Report of the Commissioners to the
Governor (p. 23) of over $1,100 per month. This increase is not owing to any
decreased expenditure in the repairs of the wharves and other structures ; for
the average monthly expenditure for repairs for the period mentioned in the
Municipal Report of last year was $1,383.31 per month, while for the thirteen
months included in this Report, the cost of the same has averaged $1,494.07
per month, but is the result of additional facilities furnished to commerce in the
way of substantial and well kept structures.
All of the wharves in the possession of the Commissioners are now in excel-
lent order, and the accommodations furnished to the commerce of the port,
though perhaps short of what they should be, are far superior to what they
have been at any previous period.
In addition to the amount expended for urgent repairs, ($19,423) the sum of
$44,106.50 has been expended for dredging the slips at Mission Street, Yallejo
Street, and North Point Wharves.
During the year the Commissioners have had a thorough survey and soundings
of the Water Front, made by competent engineers, and in April last the Board
offered, through the newspapers, a premium of $1,000 for the best plan for a
Sea Wall for the protection of the Water Front of the City.
In response to said offer, over thirty plans were submitted by various parties,
requiring the most careful and studious examination. Finally, on the twentieth
of September last, the plan (marked Y. y) submitted by W. J. Lewis and Geo.
F. Allardt, was adopted by the Commissioners.
Lack of space in this report prevents any extended description of the plan
referred to ; it consists, however, of a granite wall upon an immediate founda-
tion of concrete, the whole resting upon a foundation of broken rock, and the
front of the wall protected at its base against the action of the waves by a rip-
rap of heavy stones ; the estimated cost of this structure is $2,462,470.
The suits commenced in 1864 by the Commissioners through their counsel, Mr.
Edward Tompkins, against the Broadway and Pacific Wharf companies, also
against the owners of the Market Street and Central wharves having recently been
decided in favor of the State by the Supreme Court, the revenue of the Com-
mission will be largely increased ere many months. It is presumed that quite
extensive repairs may be required upon the structures held by said companies
which will, of course, absorb the revenue from them for some considerable time.
HEALTH. 413
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
In the current year, as well as during the fiscal year closed, particular atten-
tion has been paid to the enactment and carrying out of suitable sanitary meas-
ures and regulations, tending to promote greater health in the community.
At the time of the Asiatic cholera visitation in 1850-'51, a Board of Health
was first organized in San Francisco, which by Ordinance No. 87, approved
Nov. 5th, 1850, was composed of the Mayor, one member of the Board of
Aldermen, one member of the Board of Assistant Aldermen, three citizens of
the city, and three from medical men of the city who were citizens.
The comparative mildness with which the epidemic prevailed in the city at
that time, and its entire disappearance early in the year 1851, was followed in
subsequent changes of government, by abolishment of the ordinances.
Under provisions of Sectiqp 74 of the Consolidation Act, (amended in 1863)
by order No. 626 of the Board of Supervisors, approved April 3d, 1865, a new
Board of Health was provided for, to be composed of the Mayor, as President,
and six members, five to be appointed by the Board of Supervisors, two to be
from the medical men of the city, two from citizens at large, one member of
the Board of Supervisors, and the Harbor Master.
On the tenth of July the five members were chosen by ballot, to wit :
From Board of Supervisors Dr. ISAAC ROWELL,
Dr. J. P. WHITNEY,
Dr. S. F. ELLIOT,
From Physicians and Citizens.
Dr. J. D. B. STILLMAN,
Dr. L. J. HENRY.
The Board organized on the eleventh of July, and appointed Chas. L. Wig-
gin Secretary.
That order was amended on the sixteenth of October, 1865, by Order No.
664, under which the Board was formed of the Mayor, three members of the
Board of Supervisors', comprising the Committee on Health and Police, the
Harbor Master, and a competent physician of the city and county to be ap-
pointed by said Board, also to be Health Officer.
On the thirtieth of October, Dr. J. M. McNulty was chosen Health Officer,
which position he holds at the present time, having for his clerk, Capt. W. F.
Scott. (For record of that portion of the Health Department see pages 222
to 235.)
On the twenty-seventh of March, 1866, an act was passed by the State Leg-
islature entitled, " An Act to establish a quarantine for the bay and harbor of
San Francisco, and sanitary regulations for the City and County of San Fran-
cisco," approved April 2d, 1866. By that act a new Board of Health was
constituted, composed of the Mayor, who is ex officio President, the Quarantine
Officer, the Coroner, the President of the Chamber of Commerce, and the
Chairman of the Committee on Health and Police of the Board of Supervisors.
414 APPENDIX.
The members of the Board organized under the last act referred to, are as
follows :
II. P. COON, Mayor, President.
Dr. S. F. ELLIOTT, Quarantine Officer.
Dr. S. K. HARRIS, Coroner.
K. G. SNEATH, Esq., President Chamber of Commerce.
CHAS. CLAYTON, Esq., Chairman of Committee on Health and Police of the
Board of Supervisors.
CHAS. L. WIGGIN, Clerk.
At a meeting held May 15th, Mr. J. H. Clarke was appointed Health In-
spector.
The Quarantine Officer, Dr. S. F. Elliott, was appointed by the Governor,
June, 1866 ; term of office, two years.
By the different provisions thus referred to, the sanitary condition of the
city proper is under charge of the Health Officer, Jj>r. McNulty, while the super-
vision of the bay and harbor is intrusted to the Quarantine Officer, Dr. Elliott.
The quarantine grounds of the bay and harbor are located at the anchorage
of Saucelito, and embrace the space of one mile in the bay around the town of
Saucelito.
The Quarantine Officer has power, and it is made his duty, to order all vessels
to the quarantine grounds which are subject to quarantine, and generally to
perform all acts which quarantine officers are usually authorized to perform.
But as yet no case has occurred making it necessary to place a vessel in quar-
antine, and it may be said then in the Health Officer's Department the City has
been equally fortunate.
REGISTRY LAW AND MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.
Several acts having important bearings upon municipal affairs were passed
by the Legislature of 1865-'66. Prominent among these were the " Registry
Act," approved March 19th, 1866 ; an " Act to organize and regulate Justices'
Courts," approved March 26th, and an " Act changing the time for holding Mu-
nicipal elections," approved April 2d.
After passage of the Registry Act and the act changing time for holding
Municipal elections, doubts were entertained as to sufficiency of time allowed
for enrollment of citizens prior to the day fixed for the election to be held Sept.
5th. To accomplish this, energetic measures were adopted and extra expenses
incurred, so that during the last three days provided for sessions of Boards of
Registration comparatively few applications for enrollment were made. In five
of the twelve wards, two election districts, for greater facility of enrollment
and voting purposes, were established. The number of citizens enrolled and
the number of votes polled were as follows :
REGISTRY LAW AND ELECTIONS. 415
Wards. No. enrolled. No. voting.
1st
1056
976
2d
1053
912
3d
667
551
4th
1000
914
5th
816
727
6th
991
853
7th
1528
1333
8th
1979
1756
9th
969
834
10th
2749
2492
llth
1343
1291
12th . .
822 .
752
Totals 14,973 13,371
The number of voters enrolled thirty days before election, as shown above,
was fourteen thousand nine hundred and seventy-three, to which there is to be
added the number enrolled during the thirty days and inclusive of special ses-
sions of the enrolling officers in the three days immediately prior to the fifth of
September, which is estimated at seven hundred, showing that some twenty-
three hundred enrolled citizens did not vote.
The total number of votes polled at the three preceding Municipal elections
were respectively in years 1863, 10,147 ; 1864, 10,84^ ; 1865, 13,770.
The City and County officers chosen, whose terms commence on the first
Monday in December, 1866, are :
Auditor, Henry M, Hale.
Chief of Police, Patrick Crowley.
City and County Attorney, Horace M. Hastings.
Tax Collector, Charles R. Story.
Superintendent of Public Streets and Highways, Geo. Cofran.
Public Administrator, William A. Quarles.
Fire Commissioners, Benjamin H. Freeman, John Y. McElwee.
JUSTICES' COURT.
The Act creating a Justice's Court takes effect on the first day of January,
1868, and does away with the present system of one Justice of the Peace for each
township composed of two wards, creating in lieu thereof, a Court to be com-
posed of five Justices, to be elected by the City and County at large at election
in October, 1867, the Justices to hold office for two years, one of the number
each year, to be appointed by the Board of Supervisors, Presiding Justice.
416
APPENDIX.
Said Board is also authorized to appoint a clerk of the Court upon a recom-
mendation of a majority of the Justices, and not more than three constables,
severally to hold office for two years, unless sooner removed for cause.
The Court fees are made payable into the Special Fee Fund of the City
Treasury, from which the salaries of the Justices, Clerk, and Constables are
to be paid. The salaries fixed by the Act are
Presiding Justice, per annum $3000
Four Justices of the Peace, each per annum 2400
One Court Clerk, per annum 2400
Two Constables, (one additional, if required) each per annum 1200
INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS
Of the City and County, for year ending December 31st, 1865, compiled from
Report of the Assessor to the State Surveyor General.
AGKICULTURAL.
Number.
Number.
Land inclosed , acres •••/
18000
1 421
.Land cultivated " *...
1.779
Beans and Peas acres.. ....
' 65
Barley "
123
Potatoes "
20
Barley bushels
1 537
622
Oats "
421
604
FRUIT TREES AND VINES.
Number.
Number.
Apple Trees
414
Nectarine Trees
17
Peach "
91
Quince "
26
Pear "
431
Apricot " .........
30
Plum "
156
Fig Trees "
6
Cherry "
226
Almond "
8
Gooseberry Trees
132
Grape Vines
31
Kaspberrv " .
2.069
Strawberry Vines...
2.890
LIVE STOCK.
Number.
Number.
Horses, American- ............
9,000
Sheep -
3,000
Horses, Spanish
2000
Goats
64
Mules
310
Hogs ....... ..
7000
Cows
4500
Chickens
4,800
Calves
49
Turkeys
215
Oxen
60
Ducks
2500
Bee Hives
41
Geese
785
INDUSTRY.
417
INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS.— CONCLUDED.
Cattle slaughtered, number... 65,507
Hogs " "... 19,975
Sheep " " ...146,853
Value $ 993 699
" 199 750
" ...1 027 971
IMPROVEMENTS.
Number.
Number.
Grist Mills, steam power
10
1
1
4
4
25
$8 124
1
1,500
2
470
21
61,825
130
2
180
25,000,000
Saw Mills steam power
5
6,250,000
5
25
$1,500,000
891,828
4,600,000
38
1,200
50
13
750,000
1,000,000
39
1
1
2
Quartz Mill
Toll Bridge
Railroads
Ferries
Miles in length
Turnpike roads
Cost .'
Miles in length
Income above cost of repairs. ..
Salt Mills
Capital Stock
Foundries, Machine shops, etc..
Men employed « .
Tons of Salt ground
Rice Mill
Rope Walk
Woolen Mills
Men employed
Employees (White 270, Chinese
200)
Soap Factories
Breweries
Soap manufactured Ibs
Barrels manufactured. ........
Men employed
Men employed
Match Factory
Sugar Refineries
Men employed
Glass Factories
Pounds manufactured
NEWSPAPERS.
Number.
Number.
Daily
11
Tri- Weekly
1
Weekly
23
Tri-Monthly
1
SemiAVeekly
2
Total...
38
The above table shows only statistics returned, and falls far short of full exhibit of
the mechanical, industrial and agricultural wealth of the city and county, a defect which
another year will doubtless remedy.
OFFICIAL FEES.
The following table is presented, showing the returns made by Officers in the
City and County of San -Francisco, for six months ending January and July,
1866, respectively, not payable into the City and County Treasury, being in
lieu of fixed salaries :
418
APPENDIX.
TABLE OF RECEIPTS.
Officers and Names of
Officers.
Receipts from July 1st, 1865,
to January 1st, 1866.
Receipts from January 1st to
July 1st, 186S.
Amount for the
Year.
Amount
Chargeable.
Amount Re-
ceived..
H
£
r
Amount
Chargeable.
Amount
Received.
'
H
COURT COMMISSIONERS.
Harvey S. Love
$117 50
$900 00
$1,017 50
$1,017 50
897 80
1,619 00
582 05
1,191 00"
635 50
1,544 00
1,842 00
1.932 50
1,246 50
3,128 00
710 50
2,021 00
2,457 00
2,587 00
2,074 50
1,421 50
2.367 00
1 372 50
1,935 25
71400
81300
2,903 00
1,838 10
4,455 50
99525
2750
3,865 50
6,295 00
6,009 25
2,033 00
2,182 35
4,088 00
4,733 30
1,161 25
1,251 25
2,147 20
2,38335
2,027 33
7,261 34
2.462 25
4.316 05
1,002 63
2,334 25
$199 50
200 00
725
$698 30
580 00
154 25
$897 80
780 00
161 50
Robert C. Rogers.
James M Taylor. ....
ibo 66
1230
158 50
739 00
408 25
1,032 50
635 50
56 50
914 50
801 00
81350
1,656 00
710 50
850 00
1,232 50
1,566 00
789 50
839 66
420 55
1,191 00
635 50
131 50
914 50
801 00
813 50
1,656 00
710 50
850 00
1,232 50
1,566 00
789 50
NOTARIES PUBLIC.
A Barstow
J H Blood
75 00
1,412 50
927 50
1,131 50
433 00
1,472 00
1,412 50
927 50
1,131 50
433 00!
1,472 00
H Dreschfeld
A S Gould
Henry Haight
H. S. Homans
••• '••'••
1.171 00
1,224 50
1,021 00
1.2S5 00
1,421 50
1,185 00
660 00
972 00
i,ni 66
1,224 50
1,021 00
1,285 00
1.421 50
1,185 00
660 00
972 00
E V Joice
G T Knox
W. W. Lawt'on ...
T A Lvnch .
J. W. McKenzie
j x Milliken
'712 50
963 25
714 00
813 00
1.512 00
757 50
2,572 00
1,182 00
712 50
963 25
71400
813 00
1,512 00
757 50
2,572 00
S S Murfey
W C Parker
E. P Peckham
O V Saw\er
1,391 00
1,080 60
1,883 50
68650
27 50
1 696 50
1,391 0$
1,080 60
1.883 50
'788 00
27 50
1,974 50
E V S utter
F J Thibault
Geo. C Waller...
69 75
13750
207 25
101 50
John White
JUSTICES OB- THE PEACE
R J. Tobin
224 00
613 75
1,667 00
5,681 75
1,891 00
6,295 00
27800
H J Wells
A Barstow .... .
6009 25
i 788 '66
3,516' 05
6,009 25
2,"i82"35
4,'733S6
C. Cornell
511 00
1,522 00
2,033 00
"393' 75
'1,217' 25
Jas C. Pennie
G. Robins
E B Drake
1029 25
3,058 75
4,088 00
J A Coolidge
i,iei 25
19 00
1,083 35
i.iei 25
30 50
2,147 20
J. P. VanHagan...
M. W. Lamb
11 50
1063 85
345 75
875 66
2,383 '35
802 68
3,403 44
857 25
1,471 50'
29433
1,446 25
1,220 75
2,383"35j
934 43|
3,626 94
1,054 00
2.462 00,
543 441
2,334 25
Wm H Bell
CONSTABLES.
P. Crowley .
1,092 90
3,264 23
1,210 25
1,171 30
395 99
1,092 90
3,634 40
1,408 25
1,854 05
459 19
131 75
223 50
196 75
990 50
249 08
88800
S.C.Harding....
M. Smith
37017
190 80
682 75
63 20
J. Hilton
J. Groesbeck ...
Martin Fennell
NOTE. — Several resignations and new appointments have been made during the year,
which accounts for the difference in receipts of man^y officers, as returned above.
PUBLIC GROUNDS.
419
STREETS AND SQUARES.
In the Report of the Superintendent of Public Streets and Highways, pages
233 to 362, a full statement is presented of the work done upon Public Streets
during the year, the amount of which is large, but less, in the aggregate, than
that of the year preceding. The work, in general, is of a superior character.
The following table shows yearly assessments for street work since 1856 :
V1E8
City.
Property
Owners.
Total.
From November 14th, 1856, to Nov'r 15th, 1857"
From November 14th, 1857, to. Nov'r 15th, 1858
From November 15th, 1858, to Nov'r 15th, 1859
From November 15th, 1859, to June 30th, 1360.
From July 1st 1860 to June 30th 1861
$608
4,316
5,532
25,269
12,205
11,687
12,106
12,834
14,540
45,932
$57,938
40,296
86,685
141,033
189,627
380,577
475,759
649,589
1,144,717
1,043,632
$58,543
44,608
92,217
166,302
201,832
392,264
487,865
662,423
1,159,257
1,089,564
From July 1st, 1861, to June 30th, 1862
From July 1st, 1862, to June 30th, 1863
From July 1st 1863, to June 30th, 1864
From July 1st, 1864, to June 30th, 1865
From July 1st, 1865, to June 30th, 1866
Total
$145,122
$4,209,953 $4,354,875
It is noticeable that during the last four years street assessments were paya-
ble in United States notes, the value of which, as compared with gold, varied
largely in the time mentioned, and caused great difficulty in the carrying out of
work ordered, the payment for labor in all instances being in coin. Making
allowance for this, an average deduction of twenty-five to thirty per cent,
would be made from the figures above, so as to bring street payments to the gold
basis of all other city payments.
City possessions, as public grounds, at the present time are of limited propor-
tions, as the following will show :
Names.
Between what Streets Located.
i
0
<4
1
Alta Square
Scott, Clay, Steiner, and Pacific
1°
69
Alamo Square
Hayes McAllister Steiner and Scott
^e>
69
Buena Vista Park. . .
Alta Utah Vermont and Napa
4
41
Columbia Square .
Folsom Sixth 'Harrison and Seventh
i
17
Franklin Park.
Center Hampshire Santa Clara and Jersey
4
11
Hamilton Square ....
O'Farrell Scott Post and Steiner
I9
69
Hospital Lot
Ridley Scott Waller and Steiner
8
6*S
Jackson Park. . .
Mariposa Carolina Santa Clara and Arkansas
4
11
Jefferson Square
Tyler, Eddy Laguna and Gou^h
]f>
69
Lafayette Park
Sacramento Gough Washington and Lacuna
" T>
69
Lobos Square
Chestnut Laguna W"ebster and Bay
IS
69
Portsmouth Square. . .
Triangular Park
Clay, Brenham Place, Washington, and Kearny . .
Mission, Ridley and Brady
1
0
38
oq
Stockton Post Powell and Geary
0
60
Washington Square . .
Powell, Union, Stockton, and Filbert
9
60
Yerba Buena Park. . .
17
09
Total area..
117
45
420 APPENDIX.
The Board of Supervisors, in the year closed, lost by death one of its
foremost and most active members — Mr. Gerrit W. Bell, Representative
of the now Eighth Ward.
Mr. Bell entered the Board on the seventh of October, 1861, and,
twice reflected to the same position, retained his seaf until the sixteenth
day of April, 1866. On that day he died, falling one of the victims to
the memorable disaster caused by the explosion of a case of nitro-gly-
cerine held for examination by the Express Department of Wells, Fargo
& Co., before transit to the interior.
At a regular meeting, held pursuant to adjournment, on the evening
of that day, the melancholy event was communicated to the Board by
Supervisor McCoppin, and responded to by the President in brief
remarks.
Upon introducing resolutions of respect to the memory and acknowl-
edgment of services of the deceased, Mr. McCoppin said :
" When the Clerk, after calling the roll, announced ' eleven members
present,' all must have been struck with the sad thought that the twelfth
member would never more be with us. He felt incapable of expressing
his feelings on the present occasion. Mr. Bell was, next to himself, the
oldest member of the Board. In his death, the Board had lost its best
member, society one of its brightest ornaments, and San Francisco one of
its most valuable citizens. He had had frequent occasion to experience
Mr. Bell's kindness, towards himself. In all his public duties he was
most faithful to his constituents, and he honestly believed that Mr. Bell
never conceived an improper or unjust thought. He certainly had never
met a man of greater singleness of purpose and purity of character. The
catastrophe by which he had been taken from us was so sudden and ter-
rible as to overpower us all. Just before the explosion occurred he was
about leaving the City Hall to go to Mr. Bell's office to consult him on
business connected with this Board. On hearing of the catastrophe he
hastened to the spot, and was greatly relieved at being told he was
unharmed ; but soon learned, with the keenest sorrow, that the first
information was incorrect, and that he was dead. We had indeed sus-
IN MEMORIUM. 421
tained an irreparable loss. There was nothing left us to-night but to
adjourn, as a mark of respect to the memory of one who has gone from
us to be with us no more."
His Honor, Mayor Coon, in response, said : "All sympathize with the
remarks of the member from the Eleventh, and feel the great loss which
has befallen us in the death of Mr. Bell. The accident has so appalled
every one as to render us almost incapable of expressing our feelings."
The resolutions presented by Supervisor McCoppin were unanimously
adopted, to wit : <•
" Whereas, A terrible catastrophe has this day saddened the hearts
of the people of San Francisco, and carried sorrow and mourning into
the families of many of our citizens ;
And whereas, Among those who were, by an inscrutable dispensation
of Almighty God, suddenly removed from life, there was a valued mem-
ber of this Board, GERRIT W. BELL, Supervisor of the Eighth
District, who, for nearly five years' past, filled that station with honor to
himself and credit to his constituents ; who, by his unswerving integrity,
fidelity to the public interest, and untiring attention to the business of
the Board, commanded the approbation and praise of all who knew him
or marked his conduct ;
And whereas, In his personal associations, and daily intercourse with
the members of this Board as individuals and as a body, all had learned
to appreciate and value his sterling worth ; therefore, in view of the most
sad event which has thus deprived the community of valued citizens and
his associates of a dear and attached friend,
Be it Resolved, That the Board of Supervisors hereby tenders sincere
and heartfelt condolence to the widow and family of its departed mem-
ber, and directs that its chamber be draped in mourning for thirty days.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to the family
of the deceased, and be entered upon the minutes of the Board.
Resolved, That this Board now adjourn until Monday evening, the
twenty-third inst., at 1% o'clock, to which time all business be continued
and set for hearing, at same hours as designated for this meeting ; mean-
time, at the call of the President, will assemble in special session to
attend, as a body, the obsequies of Mr. Bell."
The Board then adjourned.
422
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COMMITTEES. 429
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Judiciary McCoppiN, CLEMENT, TITTEL.
Finance and Auditing CLAYTON, McCoppiN, TITTEL.
Fire and Water- TITCOMB, SHRADER, PHELPS.
Streets, Wards, Grades, and Pub-
lic Squares ASHBURY, McCoppiN, STANYAN.
Public Buildings . . . .' PHELPS, TORREY, STANYAN.
Health and Police. .'. CLAYTON, ROWELL, CLEMENT.
License and Orders CLEMENT, SHRADER, REYNOLDS.
Hospital ROWELL, CLAYTON, ASHBURY.
Printing and Salaries SHRADER, TORREY, TITCOMB.
Special Auditing REYNOLDS, PHELPS, ROWELL.
Industrial School STANYAN, ASHBURY, REYNOLDS.
Fire Alarm and Police Telegraph . TORREY, TITCOMB, TITTEL.
Education ROWELL, STANYAN, CLEMENT.
SPECIAL COMMITTEES.
Outside Lands CLEMENT, McCoppiN, STANYAN.
) MAYOR, CITY AND Co. ATTORNEY,
Public Grounds f A -*T ^
) ASHBURY, McCoppiN.
Government Reservations ROWELL, ASHBURY, CLAYTON.
) TORREY, TITCOMB, TITTEL, SHRA-
Paid Fire Department J ^ pHELpg
Horses for Paid Fire Department . STANYAN, ROWELL, SHRADER.
Hospital and Alms House } ROWELL, CLAYTON, ASHBURY,
Buildings. ) PHELPS, TORREY, STANYAN.
Police Investigation ROWELL, PHELPS, ASHBURY.
430 APPENDIX.
NEW BOARD.
Subsequent to 1862, the date fixed for the organization of the Board was the
first Monday in July, of each year, six members being elected annually. By
the Act of April 2d, 1866, changing time for holding municipal elections from
May to September, the terms of office of present incumbents were extended
until the first Monday of December, at which time the Supervisors chosen in
September take their seats. The Board will then be composed as follows, viz :
MEMBERS AND MEMBERS ELECT OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.
1866-7.
or and Ex Officio President H. P. COON.
1st Ward, P. H. DALY, 7th Ward, CHAS. CLAYTON,
2d Waid, R. P. CLEMENT, 8th Ward, F. G, E. TITTEL,
3d Ward, WILLIAM B. FAIRMAN, $th Ward, A. J. SHRADER,
4th Ward, WM. S. PHELPS, 10th Ward, J. H. REYNOLDS,
5th Ward, MONROE ASHBURY, llth Ward, FRANK McCoppiN,
6th Ward, E. N. TORREY, 12th Ward, CHAS. H. STANYAN.
RESOLUTION No. 5556.
RESOLVED, That the Heads of the following Departments be, and are hereby,
requested to report to this Board, on or before the first day of August ensuing,
the condition of their respective Departments during the fiscal year ending-
June 30th, 1866, embracing all their operations and expenditures :
Auditor,
Assessor,
Tax Collector,
County Clerk,
Streets,
Fire Department,
Hospital, Public Schools, Industrial School,
Treasurer, Funded Debt, Police,
Sheriff, Harbor Master, Coroner,
County Recorder, Pound Keeper, Public Administrator,
City & Co. Surveyor, City & Co. Attorney, Health Officer.
License Collector,
And that all or portions of said reports be published in a volume, in accord-
ance with the requirements of Section 73 of the Consolidation Act. The
Clerk of the Board is hereby instructed to send a copy of this Resolution to
the Head of each of the enumerated Departments.
In Board of Supervisors, San Francisco, June 4th, 1866.
Adopted by the following vote :
Ayes — Supervisors Clement, Rowell, Phelps, Ashbury, Clayton, Schreiber
Shrader, McCoppm, Stanyan.
Absent — Supervisors Titcomb, Torrey, Reynolds.
JAS. W. BINGHAM, Clerk.
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