Not to solicit with SEC. 2591. No person not having the license herein. ou. license. provided, or not being the regular agent, runner, or employé of a person having such license, must invite, ask, or solicit, in the City or Harbor of San Francisco, the boarding or lodging of any of the crew employed on any vessel. Not to keep hotel with SEC. 2592. No person must keep, conduct, or carry on out licenso. as owner, proprietor, agent, or otherwise, any sailors' boarding house or sailors' hotel in the City and County of San Francisco, without having the license herein provided for. Boarding vessels. No master must per to board. SEC. 2593. No person must board any vessel entering the harbor of San Francisco before such vessel has been made fast to the wharf, except those mentioned in Section two thousand four hundred and fifty-nine of Article VI of this Chapter. SEC. 2594. No person having charge of a vessel arrivmit any one ing in the port of San Francisco must authorize or permit any sailors' hotel or boarding house keeper, nor any runner, agent, or employé of any sailors' boarding house or hotel keeper, to board or attempt to board any vessel arriving in the harbor of San Francisco before such vessel has been made fast to the wharf; nor to board or attempt to board any vessel lying or being in the harbor aforesaid, unless he wears a badge or shield as herein before provided; nor unless such sailors' hotel or boarding house keeper has been duly licensed as provided in this Article. To leave vessel when ordered. Hotel keep ers to make returns. SEC. 2595. No person boarding any vessel in the port of San Francisco must refuse or neglect to leave the vessel after having been ordered to do so by the master or person having charge of such vessel, except those mentioned in section two thousand four hundred and fiftynine of this Chapter. SEC. 2596. Every licensed boarding house or hotel keeper must make a return every Monday of each week to the Marine Board of the number of men boarding and lodging at his house, the number received, the number shipped during the week, and the number of men ready for shipment. license may SEC. 2597. Upon satisfactory evidence of the disor- When derly character of any licensed sailors' hotel or boarding be revoked. house, or of the keeper or proprietor of any such house, or of maltreatment of any boarder or lodger therein, or of any force, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation in inviting or soliciting boarders or lodgers for such house on the part of such keeper or proprietor, or of any of his agents, runners, or employés, or of any attempt to persuade or entice any of the crew to desert from any vessel in the port of San Francisco, or of harboring or concealing any deserter from any vessel, knowing or having good reason. to believe him to be such deserter, or of any other illegal or dishonest conduct by such keeper or proprietor, or of any of his agents, runners or employés, the Board may revoke the license for keeing such house. SEC. 2598. No person must carry on the business of a shipping master, or the business of shipping seamen or crews for vessels in the City and County of San Francisco, or ship or procure to be shipped seamen or crews for vessels lying or being in the harbor of San Francisco, for a compensation paid or to be paid for such service, without first having procured a license as provided for in this Article. Shipping master to procure license. shipped while in toxicated. SEC. 2599. No seaman or other person must be shipped No seaman while in a state of intoxication by any shipping master licensed by the Board; and if any seaman comes or is brought to the office of any shipping master in a state of intoxication, the shipping master must cause him to be detained until he is sober and capable of acting intelligently. Article. SEC. 2600. If any shipping master or other person Violation of licensed under the provisions of this Article to open or carry on a shipping office is guilty of a violation of any of the provisions hereof, or if such shipping master or Accounts against seamen. Deserters, who are, and how treated. Rules and regulations. other person, or his agent, servant, or employé, performs any illegal, oppressive, or unjust act in carrying on the business for which he is licensed, the Board, upon satisfactory proof thereof, may revoke the license granted to such person or his employer. SEC. 2601. If, at or previous to the time of the shipment of any seaman any person files with the Board an account against such seaman for board, clothing, or other necessary things furnished him while in port since his last previous voyage, the Board must cause an investigation to be made as to the correctness of such account; and if the same is found correct and proper it is a lien on any wages to be paid for the voyage for which such seaman or person is shipped, and the Board has power to collect the same for the benefit of the party entitled thereto. The Board must make such regulations in regard to allowing accounts so presented as are calculated. to prevent seamen in port from being furnished with intoxicating liquors. SEC. 2602. If any seaman, after shipping for a voyage on any vessel in the port of San Francisco and signing the shipping articles, refuses to render himself on board such vessel according to the terms of his agreement, or deserts from such vessel, he is a deserter, and may be arrested by any police officer on a certificate of the fact of such shipment, signed by the President of the Board and countersigned by the Secretary, in such manner as the rules or by-laws of the Board require. The police officer arresting such seaman must immediately carry him before a Justice of the Peace of the City and County of San Francisco, giving notice thereof at the office of the Board; and if such Justice on an investigation of the matter is satisfied that such person is not a deserter, he must discharge him from arrest; if otherwise, he must be turned over to the officers of the vessel. SEC. 2603. The Marine Board may make such by-laws, rules, and regulations concerning the shipment of seamen, rates for board and lodging, the paying off of crews of ves sels, the reference of controversies, and the general transaction of its business, and for, the proper and faithful performance of the provisions of this Article as it may deem proper, which are not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of this State or of the United States. The Chief of Police or City Marshal, with the force at command, must execute all orders of the Board. violating SEC. 2604. Any person who violates any of the pro- Penalty for visions of this Article, and any Commissioner or Secre- Article. tary who receives any gratuity or reward other than as herein provided for, or on account of any license, must be punished as provided in section six hundred and fortythree of the Penal Code. to file SEC. 2605. The Board must, within ten days after the Board first day of July in each year, file in the office of the statement. Clerk of the City and County of San Francisco a statement showing the number of licenses issued for the year next previous thereto, the number of licenses revoked, together with the names of the persons to whom issued, the street and number of the houses licensed, the names of the persons whose licenses have been revoked, and a statement of the amount of moneys received by it during the year, specifying on what account such moneys have been received, and also an account of its disbursements. paid into General Fund. SEC. 2606. All fees and moneys for licenses received Moneys under this Article must be paid into the Treasury of the City and County of San Francisco to the credit of the General Fund; the salaries of the Commissioners and Secretary of the Board and other necessary expenses must be paid out of the General Fund of the Treasury of the city and county, and the Auditor must audit and the Treasurer pay the same. SEC. 2607. The Marine Board must have the penal laws, punishing violations of the preceding sections, and such regulations and instructions as they may prepare, printed and furnished to all the pilots of the harbor, who Print and distribute Police Har bor Laws. must deliver one copy thereof to the master of every vessel entering the harbor which he boards. Stats. 1863-4, p. 446. CHAPTER II. HIGHWAYS. ARTICLE I. ENUMERATION OF HIGHWAYS. II. RULES AND RESTRICTIONS RESPECTING THEIR USE. V. PERFORMANCE OF HIGHWAY LABOR AND COMMUTA TION. VI. LAYING OUT, ALTERING, AND DISCONTINUING ROADS. What are highways. Origin of highways. ARTICLE I. ENUMERATION OF HIGHWAYS. SECTION 2618. What are highways. 2619. Origin of highways. 2620. Abandonment of highways. 2621. Duties of Clerk relative to road matters. SEC. 2618. Highways are roads, streets, or alleys, and bridges, laid out or erected by the public, or if laid out or erected by others, dedicated or abandoned to the public. Stats. 1855, p. 192, Sec. 1. SEC. 2619. Roads laid out and recorded as highways by order of the Board of Supervisors, and all roads used as such for a period of five years, are highways. Whenever any corporation owning a toll bridge or a turnpike, plank, or common wagon road is dissolved, or discontinues the road or bridge, or has expired by limitation, the bridge or road becomes a highway. N. Y. P. C., Sec. 397. SEC. 2620. A road not worked or used for the period |