Official Grades of the Public Streets of the City and County of San Francisco

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Excerpt from Official Grades of the Public Streets of the City and County of San Francisco: Comprising All Grades Established to March 20, 1909 Prior to the year 1853, the grades of streets were fixed and determined from time to time on the ordering of street improvements, when necessary to afford business facilities. In the early part of that year, proceedings were inaugurated in the Common Council for the establishment of grades, which resulted in the employment of Messrs. Milo Hoadley and William P. Humphreys, in May, 1853, to do and perform all the work and labor necessary to the establishment of suitable, proper and permanent grades for the streets of the City of San Francisco. These gentlemen presented reports in June and July, 1853, recommending the grades to be established on all the streets, which grades were established by the Common Council by Ordinances Nos. 350 and 425. In 1854 the Common Council adopted a Resolution which recited that sufficient manifestations of disapprobation on the part of the people had appeared in relation to the City grades established by said Ordinances, and provided for the appointment of a Special Committee by each Board (Aldermen and Assistant Aldermen) to employ three competent civil engineers to investigate and report their views and opinions on the system of grades adopted. The Committee appointed consisted of Messrs. J. R. West, John Nightingale, Frank Turk, Henry Meiggs and Samuel Gardiner, who, under the Resolution referred to, appointed as the Engineers Brevet Major J C. Barnard, United States Engineer Corps, A. T. Arrowsmith and Lieutenant J. A. Hardie, United States Third Artillery, who, in May, 1854, presented the report, with a table of grades, which grades were adopted as the permanent grades by Ordinance No. 608 (the prior Ordinances, Nos. 350 and 425, being repealed), which was approved by the Hon. C. K. Garrison, Mayor, on July 10, 1854. In 1862 the Legislature passed an Act entitled "An act to establish the lines and grades of streets in the City and County of San Francisco, " appointing for that purpose a Board of Civil Engineers, composed of the City Surveyor (George C. Potter), Milo Hoadley and Thaddeus R. Brooks. The work was prosecuted, reports made from time to time, and the grades established within certain limits by the Board of Supervisors. By an Act, of the Legislature, approved April 4, 1864, the time was extended, and the engineers completed their labors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.