The Municipal Government for the City of Oakland, California in 1876 was structured to be selected through a general election which was ordered to be held on the second Monday of March, 1877, and every two years thereafter, at which all members of the City Council and School Board and other city officers are to be elected, to serve for two years, without pay. The officers elected at the spring election of 1876 hold office until said general election.
In March 1876 the following officers were duly elected:
Mayor — E. H. Pardee
Police Judge — A. H. Jayne
Treasurer and Clerk — H. Hillebrand
Marshal and Tax Collector — Perry Johnson
Assessor — Joseph M. Dillon
City Attorney — Henry Yrooman
City Engineer — Thomas J. Arnold
Superintendent of Public Schools — F. M. Campbell
Clerk of Police Court — Henry Ames (appointed)
Clerk in City Marshal's Office — J. L. Rector (appointed)
Deputy City Clerk — C. J. Robinson (appointed)
Chief Engineer of Fire Department — M. De La Montanya
City Wharfinger — William Harwood (appointed)
Pound Master — George Taylor (appointed)
Deputy License Collector — J. J. Porter (appointed)
Oakland City Council
James Dods, President
John M. Miner
W. A. Walter
J. W. F. Sohst
U. Huntington
J. B. Ford
H. H. Watson
Standing Committees
Ordinance and Judiciary — Ford, Miner and Huntington
Auditing and Finance — Walter, Sohst and Ford.
Streets and Buildings — Miner, Walter and Huntington
Fire and Water — Sohst, Huntington and Watson
Education — Watson, Ford and Sohst
Street Lights and Lamp Posts — Watson, Sohst and Ford
Removals and Obstructions — Huntington, Miner and Watson
City Hall and Police — Huntington, Watson and Walter
Board of Education
E. E. Cole, President
J. W. Shanklin
J. A. Folger
L. L. Alexander
C. W. Kellogg
A. W. Swett
Benjamin Akerly
F. M. Campbell, Secretary
Board of Health
George E. Sherman, Health Officer and City Physician
W. Bamford
C. S. Kittredge
William Bolton
Police Department
Captain of Police — D. H. Band
Regular Officers
W. Aldrich, stationed at City Hall, night watch
W. H. Summers, patrol Seventh and Broadway
Charles P. McKay, patrol Seventh and Broadway
W. D. Thomas, patrol East Oakland
H. Nedderman, patrol Oakland Point
Edward J. Chase, patrol Oakland Point
John Barnett, patrol Seventh and Broadway
A. Wilson, patrol Seventh and Broadway
J. H. Tyler, patrol East Oakland
Charles E. Lufkin, stationed at City Hall, day watch
John A. Dodge, patrol Second Ward
A. Shorey, detective officer
George H. Carleton, superintendent of Fire and Police Telegraph
Regular Special Policemen on Beats
George F. Blake — Beat No. 1 bounded by Franklin, Fourth, Washington and Fourteenth Streets
Samuel H. Mitchell — Beat No. 2 bounded by Fourteenth, Lake Merritt, Twenty-second and San Pablo Avenue
A. J. Ross — Beat No. 3 bounded by Washington, South Front, Market and Fourteenth Streets
J. M. Wallace — Beat No. 4. Beat bounded by Fifth, Fourteenth, Market and Linden Streets
P. E. Davis — Beat No. 5. Beat bounded by Franklin to Fourth, Fourth to Webster, Webster to South Front, East Front to Fourteenth Street.
A. W. Burrell — Beat No. 6 bounded by Fourth, Washington, Webster and South Front Streets
Nelson Fillio — Beat No. 7 bounded by Fourteenth, San Pablo Avenue, Twenty-seventh and Market Streets
David Bush — Beat No. 8. Oakland Point
Special Policemen
Officers in the following list are invested with authority to act as policemen, but are not subject to orders from the chief, or required to leave the places at which they are stationed:
George Taylor, Pound Master
B. S. E. Williams, C. P. B. B. Bepair Shops
Allen Peel, Lafayette School, Oakland Point
John Maguire, Pioneer Planing Mill
Ralph Balmford, Lincoln School
Daniel Morrison, Oakland Planing Mill
A. E. Dietz, Dietz Hall
E. G. Jones, High School
Darwin Degolia, B. B. Bridge, Alice Street
Henry Theobold, Twelfth Street Bridge
John Brown, Clinton Mill, East Oakland
J. L. Boundy, Webster Street Bridge
William Stack, Zimmerman's Garden
