of Eureka are authorized and empowered to make such rules and regulations, and take such action as may be necessary or proper for the protection of navigation in Humboldt Bay, or in any slough or creek emptying into the same so far as the tide ebbs and flows: SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Action of. CHAP. CXCIII.-An Act to amend section two thousand eight hundred and seventy-two of the Political Code. Approved March 14, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1: Section two thousand eight hundred and seventy-two of the Political Code is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 2872. If the Board are of opinion that the public interSirvisors. ests will be promoted thereby, it may, by the assent of a majority of all the members of the Board, grant the application by an order entered in its minutes, and particularly describing the bridge. The applicant must cause a certified copy of the order, with a copy of the application, to be recorded in the office of the Clerk of the county before proceeding under it; provided, that the Board of Supervisors shall not have power to license bridges across the Sacramento or San Joaquin Rivers, the Suisun Bay, or Carquinez Straits, the Petaluma, Napa, or Sonoma Creeks, except at points above the head of navigation on said streams. SEC. 2. This Act shall be in force from and after its passage. Power of CHAP. CLVI.-An Act to amend the Political Code respecting the health and quarantine regulations for the City and County of San Francisco. [Approved March 9, 1878.] The People of the State of California, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section three thousand and eight of said Code is amended to read as follows: 3008. The Health Officer is the executive officer of the Health Department, and he may, in his discretion, cause the removal to a hospital of any and all persons, within the limits of the City and County of San Francisco, infected with variola. SEC. 2. Section three thousand and nine (3009) of said Code is amended to read as follows: tain officers 3009. The Board of Health must appoint a Quarantine Board to Officer, who shall be a physician in good standing, a Secre- appoint certary, one Assistant Secretary, six Health Inspectors, one and emMarket Inspector, and one Messenger, whose duties must be ployés. fixed by the Board of Health. They must also appoint one Superintendent Physician, one Resident Physician, one Steward, one Matron, one Apothecary, two Visiting Physicians, two Visiting Surgeons, as officers of the City and County Hospital in and for the City and County of San Francisco, one each of said Visiting Physicians and Surgeons to be nominated by the Faculty of the Medical Department of the University of California, and one each of said Visiting Physicians and Surgeons to be nominated by the Medical College of the Pacific. Said Board may also appoint one Engineer for the City and County Hospital. They may also appoint one Superintendent, one Resident Physician, one Matron, and such other employés as are now authorized by law to be employed in and for the Alms-house of said city and county. They shall also have power to appoint and prescribe the duties of one City Physician and one Assistant City Physician, who shall be designated as Police Surgeons, and whose duty it shall be to make all autopsies required of them by the Coroner of said city and county. And said Board is also empowered to appoint such employés and such medical attendants as they may deem necessary in the Health Department, and in all the various institutions which are by law placed under their supervision; and the compensation of such employés and medical attendants shall be fixed by the Board of Health. The appointing power aforesaid is vested solely in said Board of Health, and said Board shall have power to prescribe the duties of said appointees, and shall not remove the same without just cause. The heads of departments appointed by the Board of Health, to wit, the Health Officer, Resident Physician of City and County Hospital, and Superintendent of Alms-house, shall not be removed except by a concurrence of four members of said Board of Health. SEC. 3. Section three thousand and ten of said Code is amended to read as follows: officers and Health 3010. The following annual salaries are hereby allowed Salaries to the officers of the Health Department, and such other offi- allowed to cers and employés as are mentioned in the preceding section, employés of viz.: Health Officer, three thousand dollars; Quarantine Department. Officer, eighteen hundred dollars; Secretary, twenty-one hundred dollars; Assistant Secretary, twelve hundred dollars; Health Inspectors, twelve hundred dollars each; Market Inspector, twelve hundred dollars; Messenger, nine hundred dollars; City Physician, eighteen hundred dollars; Assistant City Physician, twelve hundred dollars; all of said salaries, together with the salaries of such other employés of the Health Department as may be appointed by the Board of Health, must be paid in equal monthly installments out of the General Fund of the City and County of San Francisco, in the same manner as the salaries of the other officers of said city and county are paid. There shall be paid to the Shipmasters to report infected vessels. Passengers not to be officers and employés of the City and County Hospital and Alms-house the following annual salaries, viz.: Superintendent Physician, twenty-four hundred dollars; Resident Physician, fifteen hundred dollars; Steward, fifteen hundred dollars; Matron, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one Apothecary, twelve hundred dollars; Visiting Physicians and Surgeons, twelve hundred dollars each; Engineer, twelve hundred dollars; Superintendent of Alms-house, twentyfour hundred dollars; Resident Physician of Alms-house, fifteen hundred dollars; Matron of Alms-house, seven hundred and twenty dollars; and all other medical attendants and employés of said institutions are to be paid such sums as may be authorized by law, and as provided in the preceding section; all to be paid in equal monthly installments out of the Hospital and Alms-house Fund of said City and County of San Francisco; and the Auditor of said city and county is hereby directed to audit the said demands, payable out of the funds aforesaid, upon the approval of the same by the said Board of Health, and also to audit all demands for salaries of medical attendants and employés appointed by the Board of Health in accordance with this Chapter, for the amounts authorized to be paid, when the same shall have been approved by said Board; and the Treasurer of said city and county must pay said demands out of said funds. The Clerk of the Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco shall not receive any compensation as Clerk of the Board of Health. SEC. 4. Section three thousand and thirteen (3013) of said Code is amended to read as follows: 3013. Shipmasters bringing vessels into the Harbor of San Francisco, and masters, owners, or consignees having vessels in the harbor which have on board any cases of Asiatic cholera, small-pox, yellow, typhus, or ship fever, must report the same, in writing, to the Quarantine Officer before landing any passengers, casting anchor, or coming to any wharf, or as soon thereafter as they, or either of them, become aware of the existence of either of the diseases on board of their vessels. SEC. 5. Section three thousand and fourteen (3014) of said Code is amended to read as follows: 3014. No captain or other officer in command of any vesand freight sel sailing under a register, arriving at the Port of San Franlanded with- cisco, nor any owner, consignee, agent, or other person having out permit. charge of such vessel, must, under a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, land, or permit to be landed, any freight, passengers, or other persons from such vessel until he has reported to the Quarantine Officer, presented his bill of health, and received a permit from that officer to land freight, passengers, or other Duties of pilots. persons. SEC. 6. Section three thousand and fifteen (3015) of said Code is amended to read as follows: 3015. Every pilot who conducts into the Port of San Francisco any vessel subject to quarantine or examination by the Quarantine Officer, must: One-Bring the vessel no nearer the city than is allowed by law. Two-Prevent any person from leaving, and any communication being made with the vessel under his charge, until the Quarantine Officer has boarded her and given the necessary orders and directions. Three-Be vigilant in preventing any violation of the quarantine laws, and report, without delay, all such violations that come to his knowledge to the Quarantine Officer. Four-Present the master of the vessel with a printed copy of the quarantine laws, unless he has one. Five-If the vessel is subject to quarantine, by reason of infection, place at the mast-head a small yellow flag. SEC. 7. Section three thousand and sixteen (3016) of said Code is amended to read as follows: neglect of masters of vessels to comply with sanitary regulations. 3016. Every master of a vessel subject to quarantine or Penalty for visitation by the Quarantine Officer, arriving in the Port of San Francisco, who refuses or neglects either: One-To proceed with and anchor his vessel at the place assigned for quarantine, when legally directed so to do; or, Two-To submit his vessel, cargo, and passengers to the Quarantine Officer, and furnish all necessary information to enable that officer to determine what quarantine or other regulations they ought respectively to be subject; or, Three-To report all cases of disease and of deaths occurring on his vessel, and to comply with all the sanitary regulations of the bay and harbor Is liable in the sum of five hundred dollars for every such neglect or refusal. SEC. 8. Section three thousand and seventeen (3017) is amended to read as follows: infected quarantine. 3017. All vessels arriving off the Port of San Francisco Vessels from from ports which have been legally declared infected ports, ports suband all vessels arriving from ports where there is prevailing, ject to at the time of their departure, any contagious, infectious, or pestilential diseases, or vessels with decaying cargoes, or which have unusually foul or offensive holds, are subject to quarantine, and must be, by the master, owner, pilot, or consignee, reported to the Quarantine Officer without delay. No such vessel must cross a right line drawn from Meiggs' Wharf to Alcatraz Island until the Quarantine Officer has boarded her and given the order required by law. SEC. 9. Section three thousand and eighteen (3018) of said Code is amended to read as follows: tion and 3018. The Quarantine Officer must board every vessel, Examinasubject to quarantine or visitation by him, immediately on inspection her arrival, make such examination and inspection of vessel, of infected books, papers, or cargo, or of persons on board, under oath, vessels. as he may judge expedient, and determine whether the vessel should be ordered to quarantine, and if so, the period of quarantine. SEC. 10. Section three thousand and nineteen (3019) of said Code is amended to read as follows: 3019. No Captain or other officer in command of passenger-carrying vessel of more than one hundred Passengers any not to be and landed with out permit. Fees of Returns of births, deaths, etc. No bodies to be buried without permit. fifty tons burden, nor of any vessel of more than one hundred and fifty tons burden, having passengers on board, nor any owner, consignee, agent, or other person having charge of such vessel or vessels, must, under a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, land or permit to be landed, any passenger from the vessel until he has presented his bill of health to the Quarantine Officer and received a permit from that officer to land such passenger, except in such cases as the Quarantine Officer deems it safe to give the permit before seeing the bill of health. SEC. 11. Section three thousand and twenty (3020) of said Code is amended to read as follows: 3020. The following fees may be collected by the Quarantine Officer: For giving a permit to land freight or passengers, or both, from any sailing vessel of less than five hundred tons burden, from any port out of this State, two dollars and fifty cents; over five hundred and under one thousand tons burden, five dollars; each additional one thousand tons burden or fraction thereof, an additional two dollars and fifty cents; for steam vessels, propelled in whole or in part by steam, of one thousand tons burden or less, five dollars, and two dollars and fifty cents for each additional one thousand tons burden or fraction thereof; but vessels not propelled in whole or in part by steam, sailing to and from any port or ports of the Pacific States, of the United States, or Territories, and whaling vessels, entering the Harbor of San Francisco, are excepted from the provisions of this section. SEC. 12. The following is restored and added as a new section to said Code, and shall be inserted in said Code after section three thousand and twenty-three, and designated as section three thousand and twenty-four: 3024. Physicians and midwives must, on or before the fourth day of each month, make a return to the Health Officer of all births, deaths, and the number of still-born children occurring in their practice during the preceding month. In the absence of such attendants, the parent must make such report within thirty days after the birth of the child. Such returns must be made in accordance with rules adopted, and upon blanks furnished by the Board of Health. SEC. 13. Section three thousand and twenty-five (3025) of said Code is amended to read as follows: 3025. No person shall deposit in any cemetery, or inter in the City and County of San Francisco, any human body without first having obtained and filed with the Health Officer a certificate, signed by a physician or midwife, or a Coroner, setting forth as near as possible, the name, age, color, sex, place of birth, occupation, date, locality, and the cause of death of the deceased, and obtain from such Health Officer a permit; nor shall any human body be removed or disinterred without the permit of the Health Officer, or by order of the Coroner. Physicians, when deaths occur in their practice, must give the certificate herein mentioned. Hereafter it shall be the duty of the Assistant City Physi |