Board to impose penalties. Compensation and expenses. Fees of Harbormaster. 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 compe tent 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. NOTE.-Stats. 1869-70, p. 745, Secs. 2, 3. See Sec. 612, Penal Code Cal. 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. NOTE-Stats. 1869-70, p. 745, Sec. 4. 2571. The members of the Board must receive the sum of four dollars for every day actually and necessarily employed by them in performing the duties herein 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. NOTE.-Stats. 1869-70, p. 745, Sec. 5. 2572. The fees of the Harbormaster are prescribed by the Board of Commissioners, and paid monthly 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. NOTE.-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. 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. Board. 2583. There must be a Marine Board, to be de- Marine nominated 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 Shall organize, how. Compensa tion of members and officers. Application for tion of license. office in the City of San Francisco, the rent whereof must not exceed fifty dollars per month. NOTE.-Stats. 1870, p. 241, Sec. 1. The subsequent sections of this Article, to and including Sec. 2606, are taken from the above recited Act. See "Mates and Seamen," Secs. 2048 to 2066, inclusive, Vol. I, Civil Code Cal. Seamen, from their peculiar avocation and consequent dependence thereon, are made the objects of special legislation, care, and protection.-See Pars. Mart. Law, Pars. Merc. Law. See also generally Brightly's U. S. Digest; 3 Kent Comm., pp. 136-156; Pothier Mar. Conts., by Cushing; 2 Brown Civ. and Adm. Law, p. 155; Conkling Adm., and Abbott on Shipping. As instances of this peculiar case, a seaman has a triple remedy for his wages against the vessel, the owner, and the master; and has also a lien above all others.-Gilp. Dist. Cr., p. 592; Bee Adm., p. 254; Pars. Merc. Law. See, also, note to Sec. 3028, Vol. II, Civil Code Cal., and Sec. 3056, id, and note. 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. 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. 2586. The Board must receive the application of and revoca- 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. 2587. For each license issued for a sailors' hotel 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. 2588. The Board must furnish to each sailors' 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. Amount of license fees. Badges furnished. etc., to badges. 2589. Every sailors' hotel or boarding house Runners, keeper, and every agent, runner, or employé of such wear 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. No others to wear badges. Not to solicit without license. Not to keep hotel without license. Boarding vessels. No master must permit any one to board. 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. 2591. No person not having the license herein 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. 2592. No person must keep, conduct, or carry on 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. NOTE.-See Sec. 435, Penal Code Cal. 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 2459 of Article VI of this Chapter. 2594. No person having charge of a vessel arriv 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 hereinbefore provided; nor unless such sailors' hotel or boarding house keeper has been duly licensed as provided in this Article. 2595. No person boarding any vessel in the port |