of Board. intended to promote. No person or company shall, without General the consent of the Board of State Harbor Commissioners, land authority or remove any goods, wares, or merchandise, or other thing, upon or from any wharf, pier, quay, landing, or thoroughfare situate upon the premises described in this article, unless authorized to do so by virtue of valid lease; nor shall any person collect dockage, wharfage, cranage, or toll within the boundaries of the premises described in this article, except by virtue of valid leases, without first obtaining permission to do so from said Commissioners; nor shall any person or company place, or cause to be placed, any obstructions in that portion of the Bay of San Francisco described in this article, nor upon any wharf, pier, quay, landing, or thoroughfare, without the consent of the Board. Whenever any wharf, pier, quay, landing, or thoroughfare in the harbor of San Francisco shall be incumbered, or their free use interfered with, by goods, wares, merchandise, or other substance, whether loose or built upon, or fixed to any such wharf, pier, quay, landing, or thoroughfare, it shall be the duty of the Commissioners to notify, in writing (which notice may be served by a Wharfinger or the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the Board), the owner, agent, or occupant or person placing or keeping such obstructions thereon, to remove the same within twenty-four hours after the serving of such notice; and in case of failure to comply with such notice, and remove such obstructions, the owner, agent, occupant, or person notified, shall be liable to pay the Commissioners the sum of twenty-five dollars for each and every day during which such obstructions shall remain upon any such wharf, pier, quay, landing, or thoroughfare; and the Commissioners shall have power, in their discretion, to remove any such incumbering substance, and store the same in any suitable, convenient, and safe place, and a sum equal to the amount of the expenses of the removal, together with all other necessary charges, shall be paid by the owner of such incumbering substance to the Commissioners, and such sum and necessary charges shall be a lien on such substance until paid. The rates of dockage, wharfage, and tolls, shall not exceed those established by the Board of State Harbor Commissioners, July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and dockage shall not be collected on any vessel lying at anchor outside of dock, wharf, or slip. Disposition SEC. 3. Section twenty-five hundred and twenty-eight of Moneys the Political Code is hereby amended so as to read as follows: collected. 2528. All moneys collected shall be paid into the State of. Treasury, and be credited to the San Francisco Harbor Improvement Fund, at least once in each month, except so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the salaries of officers, office rent, cost of office furniture, books, stationery, lights, fuel, expense of dredging, expense of pile-driving and piles, clearing the wharves and bulkheads, legal and other incidental expenses, and in addition, six thousand dollars per month for urgent repairs, which last sum, if so much be required, may be used in repairing the wharves, piers, landings, thoroughfares, sheds, and other structures, and the Report to Qualification of officers. streets bounding on the waterfront under the jurisdiction of the Board, without advertising for proposals therefor. Such moneys may be remitted to the State Treasurer by express. SEC. 4. Section two thousand five hundred and thirty of the Political Code is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 2530. On the payment to the State Treasurer of any sum of money, the Secretary and the State Treasurer must report to the State Controller the amount so paid, and the Treasurer must give the Secretary a receipt for the same. Such payments shall be considered as payments into the State Treasury, and the Treasurer shall be responsible on his official bond therefor. SEC. 5. Section two thousand five hundred and forty-five is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 2545. No person shall be appointed to any office by virtue of this article, nor be employed in the service of the Board, unless he be a qualified elector of the State, nor shall any person be so appointed or employed who is interested in any vessel sailing or plying in and out of or on the inland waters of the Bay of San Francisco, as owner, mortgagee, or otherwise, or as a stockholder in any company owning such vessels, or who is a consignee, the general or freight agent or manager of any such vessels, or agent or other employé of the owner of any such vessels, or who is engaged in the business of marine insurance, or of procuring such insurance, or who is engaged as a stevedore, in loading and discharging such vessels. No person not a citizen of the United States shall be employed either as contractor or laborer on any Legal day's work done under this article. And eight hours shall constitute a legal day's work, whether performed directly for the State or for the person or persons receiving a contract under this article. work. Salaries of officers. SEC. 6. Section two thousand five hundred and fifty-two of the Political Code is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 2552. The monthly salaries of the officers of the Board shall be as follows: The President, three hundred dollars; each of the other two Commissioners, two hundred and fifty dollars; the Secretary, two hundred dollars; the Assistant Secretary, one hundred and fifty dollars; the attorney, two hundred dollars; the Chief Engineer, two hundred and fifty dollars; the Chief Wharfinger, two hundred and fifty dollars; the Wharfingers, one hundred and twenty-five dollars, and the Collectors, one hundred dollars. The Board must fix the compensation of the other employés. No ex officio officer nor consulting engineer shall receive any compensation, except traveling and other incidental expenses. CHAPTER CLXXX. An Act to regulate the vocation of fishing, and to provide therefrom revenue for the restoration and preservation of fish in the waters of the State of California. [Approved March 21, 1887.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and license. to furnish license. SECTION 1. Every person engaged in the vocation of fish- Obtain ing in the public waters of this State, who shall use a boat and net for the purpose of such fishing, must obtain a license before engaging in such vocation. The Controller of State Controller shall prepare suitable licenses, of the classes designated by the Fish Commissioners, which shall purport to license the holder of such license to fish in any of the public waters of this State, with nets and by boat, for the term of one year from the first day of April of one year to the first day of April of the year following. The licenses shall be numbered consecutively, beginning with number one, and contain blanks for the insertion of the name of the holder, the name of the county in which he resides, and the name or number of his boat. The Controller shall sign all licenses and deliver the same to the Fish Commissioners, on demand, who shall be charged for the same by the Controller. Each license, before delivery to the applicant for a license, must be countersigned by the President of the Board of Fish Commissioners, and the President of the Board of Fish Com- President missioners shall execute a bond to the people of the State of of Board. California, in the sum of two thousand ($2,000) dollars for the faithful performance of the duties imposed upon him by this Act. The number of the license must be displayed License; by the holder on each side of the stern of his boat, in length played. not less than four (4) inches, and in width to correspond with the length; and a failure to so display the number within five days after receipt of the license, or the fishing by the holder of a license by unlawful lines, nets, seines, bay-net modes or methods, in violation of the law for the preservation of fish and game, shall work a forfeiture of such license. The owner or user of each fishing boat worked License fees.. by less than three men, shall pay an annual license fee of five dollars; and the owner or user of each boat worked by three or more men, shall pay an annual license fee of two and one half (2) dollars for each man so employed. Bond of. how dis lected. SEC. 2. The said license fees must be collected by the Fish How colCommissioners, or some one designated by them for that purpose; and each of the Commissioners, and such persons designated by them for the purpose of collecting said license fees, is and are hereby empowered to arrest any person fishing, or using a boat and net for fishing, without a license, contrary to the provisions of section one of this Act. The CompensaCommissioners may reserve out of the proceeds of the col- lectin collecting. Moneys collected. How disposed of. lection of such license fifteen (15) per cent to pay for services for such collection. SEC. 3. The money collected from such licenses, less the percentage deducted, shall be paid by the Commissioners into the State Treasury, and shall constitute a fund to be called the "Fish Commission Fund." Said fund shall be applicable to the payment of the expenses of propagating, protecting, restoring, and introducing fish in the public waters of the State, and to the payment of expenses incurred in the prosecution of offenders against the provisions of this Act, and to the compensation to the Commissioners for each day employed in the discharge of their duties, to be fixed by the State Board of Examiners, and all other necessary expenses. SEC. 4. All Acts and parts of Acts, so far as they conflict with this Act, are hereby repealed. SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect immediately. Appropria trial Home CHAPTER CLXXXI. An Act appropriating the sum of ten thousand dollars to erect a brick building, to be used as a dormitory for the “adult blind" inmates at the "Home for the Adult Blind." [Approved March 21, 1887.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and ARTICLE I. SECTION 1. The sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby tion. Indus- appropriated out of any moneys in the State Treasury not of the Adult otherwise appropriated, to be placed by the State Controller to the credit of the fund hereafter to be known as the "Fund of the Industrial Home of the Adult Blind." Blind. Objects. How expended. State Board of Examinprove bills. ers to ap SEC. 2. The object of this sum of money is the erection of a building to be used as a dormitory for the male inmates of the said Home. SEC. 3. No money shall be drawn from this fund except for the purpose of erecting and furnishing the building aforesaid. SEC. 4. All moneys drawn from this fund shall be drawn only upon bills ordered paid by the Board of Directors of the Home for Adult Blind, and approved in writing by the State Board of Examiners, and when so approved, the Controller must issue his warrant in payment thereof, and the State Treasurer must pay the same. SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER CLXXXII. An Act to appropriate money to pay the claim of Richard Coleman, formerly First Lieutenant commanding Company "D," Fifth Infantry Battalion, Second Brigade, National Guard of California, for moneys paid by him as expenses of said company. [Approved March 21, 1887.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and of SECTION 1. The sum of six hundred and fifty ($650) dol- Approprialars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the General Richard Fund of the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Coleman. pay the claim of Richard Coleman, formerly First Lieutenant commanding Company "D," Fifth Infantry Battalion, National Guard of California, for moneys paid by him as expenses of said company. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER CLXXXIII. An Act to amend section eleven hundred and twenty-seven of the Political Code of the State of California, relating to the establishing of election precincts. [Approved March 23, 1887.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section eleven hundred and twenty-seven of the Political Code of the State of California is hereby amended to read as follows: precincts. 1127. The Board of Supervisors of each county must Election establish a convenient number of election precincts therein, Establishwith such boundaries that not more than three hundred and ment of. fifty qualified electors of the county shall reside in any one precinct. SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. |