approved by the Board, at a salary not exceeding one hundred and twenty-five dollars per month, payable monthly in the same manner as is provided by law for the payment of the Secretary.

Stats. 1867-8, p. 217, Sec. 3.

rooms.

SEC. 2554. The Board may procure and lease, on Office behalf of the State, suitable office rooms for their use, together with a good and substantial fire proof vault for the preservation of the archives of the office, at a rent not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars per month. Stats. 1867-8, p. 217, Sec. 4.

ARTICLE X.

HARBOR COMMISSIONERS FOR THE PORT OF EUREKA.

SECTION 2567. Harbor Commissioners for the port of Eureka.

2568. Survey and jurisdiction of the Board.
2569. Their duties, rules, and regulations.
2570. Board to impose penalties.

2571. Compensation and expenses.

2572. Fees of Harbormaster.

Commis

sioners for Eureka.

the port of

SEC. 2567. There is a Board of three Commissioners, Harbor known as the "Board of Harbor Commissioners of the port of Eureka." The Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Humboldt County and the President of the Board of Trustees of the Town of Eureka, in the County of Humboldt, are ex officio members thereof, and the third member is appointed by the Governor of the State, and holds his office for the term of two years from the date of his appointment and until his successor is appointed and qualified.

Stats. 1870, pp. 744, 745, Sec. 1.

Board.

SEC. 2568. The Board must, if the same has not been Survey and jurisdiction done, cause to be surveyed the water front of the Town of the of Eureka, on Humbodt Bay, and the land adjoining the town, one half of a mile to the west and one half of a mile to the east of the corporate limits thereof, and the waters of the bay for a distance of one mile northerly

Their duties, rules, and regulations.

Board to impose penalties.

from the water front line, and make or cause to be made
a plat of such survey, and file a copy thereof in the
County Recorder's office of the county; within and for
these limits the Board of Harbor Commissioners may
make such rules and regulations as may be necessary
and proper for the protection of navigation therein.
Stats. 1869-70, p. 745, Sec. 2.

SEC. 2569. The Board may:

1. Regulate the erection and extension of wharves and piers and prescribe the plans and dimensions thereof;

2. Regulate the tolls, wharfage, or dockage to be charged thereon;

3. Regulate the manner of constructing booms, and to limit their extent into the waters of the bay;

4. Prescribe and regulate the manner in which rafts, boats, or vessels must lie at anchor or be moored to any wharf or pier;

5. Prevent and remove obstructions to the regular ebb and flow of the tides, and the deposit and escape into the waters of the bay of substances likely to injure, interfere with or impede the navigation, or to create shoals or shallows in or lessen the depth of the waters thereof;

6. Impose penalties for violation of such rules and regulations, not exceeding for any one violation the sum of five hundred dollars, to be recovered by action in the name of the Board before any Court of competent jurisdiction, together with costs of suit, the net proceeds of which actions must be paid to the Treasurer of the Town of Eureka for town purposes.

Stats. 1869-70, p. 745, Secs. 2, 3.

SEC. 2570. The Town Marshal of Eureka is the Harbormaster of the port of Eureka. He must enforce and carry into effect such rules and regulations as the Board of Harbor Commissioners may from time to time adopt and publish, and must report to the Board any and all violations thereof.

Stats. 1869-70, p. 745, Sec. 4.

SEC. 2571. The members of the Board must receive

tion and

the sum of four dollars for every day actually and neces- Compensasarily employed by them in performing the duties herein expenses. prescribed, to be paid from the Treasury of the Town of Eureka. All expenses necessarily incurred by the Board in the performance of their duties must be paid in the same manner and from the same Fund as the members of the Board are herein provided to be paid.

Stats. 1869-70, p. 745, Sec. 5.

Fees of

SEC. 2572. The fees of the Harbormaster are pre- Harborscribed by the Board of Commissioners, and paid monthly master. by the Board of Trustees of the Town of Eureka, upon the certificate of the Board of Commissioners, except such fees as may be provided to be otherwise paid by the Board.

Stats. 1869-70, p. 745, Sec. 6.

ARTICLE XI.

OF SAILORS AND SAILOR BOARDING HOUSES.

SECTION 2583. Marine Board.

2584. Shall organize, how.

2585. Compensation of members and officers.

2586. Application for and revocation of license.
2587. Amount of license fees.

2588. Badges furnished.

2589. Runners, etc., to wear badges.

2590. No others to wear badges.

2591. Not to solicit without license.

2592. Not to keep hotel without license.

2593. Boarding vessels.

2594. No master must permit any one to board.

2595. To leave vessel when ordered.

2596. Hotel keepers to make returns.

2597. When license may be revoked.

2598. Shipping master to procure license.

2599. No seaman shipped while intoxicated.

2600. Violation of Article.

2601. Accounts against seamen.

2602. Deserters, who are, and how treated.

2603. Rules and regulations.

2604. Penalty for violating Article.

2605. Board to file statement.

2606. Moneys paid into General Fund,

2607. Print and distribute Penal Police Harbor Laws.

Marine
Board.

Shall organize, how.

Compensation of members

and officers.

Application for and revocation of license.

SEC. 2583. There must be a Marine Board, to be denominated the "Marine Board of the Port of San Francisco,” for licensing sailors' boarding houses and shipping masters in the City and County of San Francisco. The Board consists of three members, one of whom must be the Chief of Police of the City and County of San Francisco, and two others appointed by the Governor of the State. All the members of the Board must be commissioned by the Governor and take the oath of office. The Board must keep an office in the City of San Francisco, the rent whereof must not exceed fifty dollars per month.

Stats. 1870, p. 241, Sec. 1.

NOTE.-The subsequent sections of this Article are taken from the above recited Act.

SEC. 2584. The Marine Board must have a President and a Secretary, and adopt such by-laws and regulations as may be needful for the orderly conduct of its business. A majority constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business.

SEC. 2585. The compensation of the members and officers of the Board is as follows: The President must receive the sum of six hundred dollars per annum, the other two members of the Board the sum of five hundred dollars per year; the Secretary must receive a salary, to be fixed by the Board, not to exceed the sum of fifteen hundred dollars per year; and there must be allowed, in addition to the foregoing, a sufficient sum to pay the necessary incidental expenses of the Board.

SEC. 2586. The Board must receive the application of any person applying for a license to keep a sailors' hotel or boarding house, or for a license to open and carry on a shipping office in the port of San Francisco, and upon satisfactory evidence of the respectability and competency of such applicant, and of the suitableness of his accommodations, must issue to him a license for one year, unless sooner revoked by the Board, which must be conspicuously and permanently posted in the office or principal room of each licensed boarding house or hotel

and shipping office, together with such directions, instructions, or requests as the Board may direct to be attached thereto. The Board may, at discretion, revoke any such license for violation of the rules and regulations which it prescribes, as well as for the violation of the provisions of this Article.

licer 8 fees.

SEC. 2587. For each license issued for a sailors' hotel Amount of or boarding house there must be paid by the party to whom such license is issued the sum of fifty dollars in United States gold coin each year; and for each license to carry on the business of a shipping office there must be paid by the party to whom it is issued the sum of one hundred dollars in gold coin each year. All licenses are payable in advance.

SEC. 2588. The Board must furnish to each sailors' Badges furnished. hotel or boarding house keeper licensed by them one or more badges or shields, on which must be printed or engraved the name of such hotel or boarding house keeper, and the number and street of his hotel or boarding house, which must be surrendered to the Board upon the revocation or expiration of any license granted by them as herein provided.

SEC. 2589. Every sailors' hotel or boarding house keeper, and every agent, runner, or employé of such hotel or boarding house keeper, when boarding any vessel in the harbor of San Francisco, or when inviting or soliciting the boarding or lodging of any seaman or person employed on any vessel, must wear conspicuously displayed the shield or badge referred to in the foregoing section.

SEC. 2590. No person except those named in the preceding section must have, wear, exhibit, or display any such shield or badge to any of the crew employed on any vessel, with intent to invite, ask, or solicit the boarding or lodging of any of the crew employed on any vessel in the harbor of San Francisco.

Runners, badges.

etc., to wear

No others badges.

to wear