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Medo, in the county of Santa Clara, from its mouth to the upper line of the town of New Haven; Mission Creek, in the county of San Francisco; that portion of Channel Street in the city of San Francisco, and lying east of and between the easterly line of Harrison Street and the water-front of the bay of San Francisco, the width thereof to be sixty feet from Harrison to the northeasterly line of Seventh Street, and one hundred and forty feet from the northeasterly line of Seventh to the city front; that certain creek running through tide-land survey numbered sixty-eight, and swamp and overflowed land survey numbered one hundred and forty-five, from its mouth to the head of tidewater therein; San Leandro Creek, from its mouth at San Francisco Bay to Andrews's Landing; San Lorenzo Creek, from its mouth at San Francisco Bay to Roberts's Landing; Johnson's Creek, from its mouth at San Francisco Bay to Simpson's Landing; the north branch of Alameda Creek, from its mouth to Eden Landing; San Rafael and Corte Madera Creeks, in Marin County, from their mouths as as far up as tide-water flows therein; the Neuces Creek, from its mouth at Suisun Bay to a point one half-mile above the warehouse of George P. Loucks; Diablo Creek, from its junction with the Neuces, to a point opposite the warehouse of Frank Such, in Contra Costa County; the Arroyo de San Antonio, or Keys Creek, in Marin County, from its mouth at Tomales Bay to the warehouses on the point at Keys embarcadero; all the streams aud sloughs emptying into Elk River, and all streams and sloughs south of Eureka, in Humboldt County, which are now or at any time have been used for the purpose of floating logs of timber, and all the sloughs south of Humboldt Point, in said county, that at high water have a depth of two feet of water, and wide enough to float and admit a boat carrying five tons or more freight; Novato Creek, or estuary, in Marin County, from its mouth to Sweetzer's Landing; Salinas River and Elkhorn Slough, or Estero Viejo, in Monterey County, from its mouth as far up as tide-water flows. [Amendment approved March 11, 1891; Stats. 1891, p. 96.] Channel Street, jurisdiction of harbor commissioners over: 79 Cal. 540.

American River is non-navigable: 79 Cal. 347.

2429. Pilot commissioners, appointment and removal: 76 Cal. 633; 83 Cal. 453.

2440. Pilot commissioners for San Francisco, Mare Island, and Benicia, powers of: 76 Cal. 633.

2442. This section operates as an exception to the general rule established by section 369 of this code: 76 Cal. 633.

2468. Amendment to law of pilotage. All vessels sailing under an enrollment, and licensed and engaged in the coasting trade between the port of San Francisco and any other port of the United States, shall be exempt from all pilotage, unless a pilot be actually employed. All foreign vessels, and all vessels from a foreign port or bound thereto, and all vessels sailing under a register between the port of San Francisco and any other port of the United States, shall be liable for pilotage and half-pilotage, as provided in section two thousand four hundred and sixtysix of this code. [Amendment adopted April 6, 1891; Stats. 1891, p. 496.]

2521. Authority to remove wharfingers and collectors: 81 Cal. 19.

659.

2523. Action on wharfinger's bond: 95 Cal. 75.

2524. Jurisdiction over Channel Street: 79 Cal. 510. Erection of wharf-Injunction: 79 Cal. 540.

Charge for use of wharves and landings: 92 Cal. 659. Duty on tonnage, what is not: 92 Cal. 659.

Distinction between dockage and wharfage: 92 Cal.

Money collected as wharfage becomes state money at once: 66 Cal. 271.

An act to provide penalties for failure to pay tolls, by false returns or otherwise, to any board of state harbor commissioners of the state of California."

[Approved March 10, 1891; Stats. 1891, p. 27.]

SECTION 1. Any person, corporation, firm, or association who shall, by false returns, or in any manner, avoid the payment of all or any portion of any tolls that may be due to any board of state harbor commissioners of the state of California, from any source or cause, as provided for by law and the rules and regulations of said board, shall be liable for and shall pay to said board twice the amount of such tolls, and in addition thereto the sum of ten dollars over and above such amount.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.

An act to extend the jurisdiction of the board of state harbor commissioners over East Street, San Francisco.

[Approved March 31, 1891; Stats. 1891, p. 261.]

SECTION 1. That portion of East Street, between Pacific and Folsom Streets, in the city and county of San Francisco, which has heretofore been under the jurisdiction of the board of supervisors of said city and county, is hereby placed under the jurisdiction of the board of state harbor commissioners.

SEC. 2. The board of state harbor commissioners is hereby authorized and directed to assume control of said street within the limits defined in section one, and to operate the same as required by law for other portions of the water-front. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. An act to empower the board of state harbor commissioners to rectify the alignment of East Street, from Pacific Street to Market Street, in the city and county of San Francisco, and to sell, acquire, and condemn adjacent property.

[Approved March 31, 1891; Stats. 1891, p. 270.]

SECTION 1. The board of state harbor commissioners is hereby authorized and directed to rectify the alignment of East Street, between Pacific Street and Market Street, in the city and county of San Francisco, said rectification to be done so as to straighten the property lines and give as wide and commodious a thoroughfare as the traffic may demand.

SEC. 2. In no case shall the alignment of the westerly side of said thoroughfare extend east of the inner line of the thoroughfare as now established and defined by law.

SEC. 3. The jurisdiction of the said board shall be westerly to the line as established under this act.

SEC. 4. The board, in carrying out this law, shall have the power to purchase and sell, and to exchange, upon a legal and equitable basis, any portion or portions of the property adjacent to the westerly line of the thoroughfare herein provided for; and a full record of their proceedings shall be entered upon their minutes, and a sworn statement of all transfers, sales, and purchases, and other transactions, shall be filed with the secretary of state. Said statements shall show in full all payments and receipts, itemized so as to definitely exhibit the price or prices of each parcel of land transferred.

SEC. 5. In case of failure on the part of the interested parties to come to a satisfactory agreement, the board shall have the power to condemn, as in other cases, for public purposes.

SEC. 6. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. An act to amend an act entitled "An act to amend section six of an act entitled 'An act concerning the water-front of the city and county of San Francisco,' approved March 15, 1878, and to confer further powers upon the board of state harbor commissioners." approved March 17, 1880.

[Approved March 31, 1891; Stats. 1891, p. 233.]

SECTION 1. Section five of an act entitled "An act to amend section six of an act entitled 'An act concerning the water

front of the city and county of San Francisco,' approved March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and to confer further powers upon the board of state harbor commissioners," is hereby repealed.

SEC. 2. Section ine of an act entitled "An act to amend section six of an act entitled 'An act concerning the waterfront of the city and county of San Francisco,' approved March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, and to confer further powers upon the board of state harbor commissioners," approved March seventeenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, is hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

An act to provide for the issuance and sale of state bonds to create a fund for the construction and furnishing, by the board of state harbor commissioners, of a general ferry and passenger depot in the city and county of San Francisco, to create a sinking fund for the payment of said bonds, and providing for the submission of this act to a vote of the people.

[Approved March 17, 1891; Stats. 1891, p. 110.]

SECTION 1. For the purpose of providing a fund for the payment of the indebtedness hereby authorized to be incurred by the board of state harbor commissioners for the erection and furnishing of a general railroad, passenger, and ferry depot at or near the foot of Market Street, in the city and county of San Francisco, at a cost not to exceed six hundred thousand dollars, which the said board of state harbor commissioners are hereby authorized to construct in the manner and method authorized by law, and at a cost not to exceed said six hundred thousand dollars, the state treasurer shall, immediately after the issuance of the proclamation of the governor, hereinafter provided for, prepare suitable bonds of the state of Calfornia: one thousand bonds in the denomination of one hundred dollars each; five hundred bonds in the denomination of five hundred dollars each; two hundred and fifty bonds in the denomination of one thousand dollars each. The whole Issue of said bonds shall not exceed the sum of six hundred thousand dollars, which said bonds shall bear interest at the rate of four per centum per annum from their date, and shall be payable at the office of the state treasurer at the expiration of nineteen years from their date. Said bonds shall bear date the first day of January, A. D. eighteen hundred and ninetythree, and shell be payable on the first day of January, A. D. nineteen hundred and twelve. The interest accruing on said bonds shall be due and payable at the office of the said treasurer on the first day of January and the first day of July of each year; provided, that the first payment of interest shall be made on the first day of July, A. D. eighteen hundred and ninety-three, on so many of said bonds as have been theretofore issued. At the expiration of nineteen years from the date of said bonds, they shall cease to bear interest, and said treasurer shall forthwith pay the same out of the San Francisco depot sinking fund, provided for hereinafter in this act. Said bonds shall be signed by the governor, countersigned by

the controller, indorsed by said treasurer, and shall have the seal of the state affixed thereto.

SEC. 2. Interest coupons shall be attached to each bond, so that they may be removed without injury or mutilation to the bond. Said coupons, consecutively numbered, shall be signed by the state treasurer. But no interest on any of said bonds shall be paid for any time which may intervene between the date of any of said bonds and the issue thereof to a purchaser. SEC. 3. The sum of one thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to pay the expense that may be incurred by the state treasurer in having said bonds prepared. Said amount shall be paid out of the San Francisco harbor improvement fund, on controller's warrants duly drawn for that purpose.

SEC. 4. When the bonds authorized to be issued under this act shall be duly executed, numbered consecutively, and sealed, they shall be by the state treasurer sold at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, and in such parcels as said treasurer shall deem best; but he must reject any and all bids for said bonds, or any of them, which shall be below the par value of said bonds; and he may, by public announcement at the place of sale, continue such sale, as to the whole or any part thereof, to any time and place he may select. Due notice of the place and time of sale of such bonds shall be given by said treasurer, by publication in two newspapers published in the city and county of San Francisco, and also in two newspapers published in the city of Oakland, two published in the city of Los Angeles, and two published in the city of Sacramento, once a week for four weeks prior to such sale. The costs of such publication shall be paid out of the San Francisco harbor improvement fund, on controller's warrants duly drawn for that purpose. The proceeds of the sale of such bonds shall be forthwith paid over by said treasurer into the treasury, and must be by him kept in a separate fund, to be known and designated as the San Francisco Depot Fund," and must be used exclusively for the building and furnishing of said depot. Drefts and warrants upon said fund shall be drawn upon and shall be paid out of said fund in the same manner as drafts and warrants are drawn upon and paid out of the San Francisco harbor improvement fund.

SEC. 5. For the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds, a sinking fund, to be known and designated as the "San Francisco Depot Sinking Fund," shall be and the same is hereby created, as follows: The state treasurer shall, on the first day of each and every month after the date of said bonds, take from the San Francisco harbor improvement fund the sum of four thousand six hundred and thirty-one dollars, and place the same in said San Francisco depot sinking fund, created by this section. Said treasurer shall, on controller's warrants duly drawn for that purpose, employ the moneys in said sinking fund in the purchase of bonds of the United States, which said ponds shall be kept in a proper receptacle, appropriately labeled; but he must keep always on hand a sufficient amount of money in said sinking fund with which to pay the interest on the state bonds herein provided to be

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