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Employés by grantees or lessees, or their assigns, under valid leases. Said Commissioners may also appoint an Assistant Chief Wharfinger, who shall perform such duties pertaining to his office as shall be required of him by said Commissioners, and by said Chief Wharfinger. Said Assistant Chief Wharfinger must, before entering upon the duties of his office, file in the office of the Board a bond, with two or more sureties, in a sum sufficient to cover all moneys that may come into his hands, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties as Assistant Chief Wharfinger, which bond shall be approved by the Board by writing indorsed thereon. Said Commissioners shall also appoint a sufficient number of persons Wharfingers to collect the revenue arising from dockage, wharfage, cranage, rents, and tolls, by authority of this article, and may also appoint a sufficient number of persons Toll Collectors to collect the tolls authorized to be collected by virtue of this article; each of which Wharfingers and Toll Collectors must, before entering upon the duties of their respective offices, file in the office of the Board a bond, with two or more sureties, in a sum sufficient to cover any moneys that may come into their hands, conditioned for the faithful performance of their duties as such Wharfingers and Toll Collectors, which bonds shall be approved by said Commissioners by writing indorsed thereon. Every Wharfinger and Toll Collector appointed by authority of this article must make and subscribe to an official oath, which oath must be attached to and filed with his bond. The Secretary of the Board is hereby authorized to administer to each Wharfinger and Toll Collector the oaths required by this article to be made by such Wharfingers and Toll Collectors. Each Wharfinger and Toll Collector shall keep, in suitable books to be furnished by the Commissioners, an account of all moneys by him collected, which books shall be open to the inspection of the public at all reasonable times, and such Wharfingers and Toll Collectors shall pay to the Commissioners all the moneys collected by them, at least once in each week, and as much oftener as the Commissioners shall require. The Wharfingers appointed by authority of this article shall have authority, respectively, and they are hereby authorized, to require the captain, consignees, agents, or owners of any water-craft, or the owners, agents, managers, or conductors of any railroad car, or train of cars, or the consignees of any

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goods, wares, or merchandise, or animals to be landed, loaded, Employés or unloaded upon the premises described in this article, on duties. or before the landing, loading, or unloading thereof, to furnish to any such Wharfingers, when required to do so, the number of tons, or number of hundred, or number of feet, or number of cords, or number of animals, any such watercraft, or car, or train of cars, contains; and it shall be the duty of every captain, consignee, agent, or owner of any water-craft, or the owners, agents, managers, or conductors of every railroad car, or train of cars, the consignee of any goods, wares, merchandise, or animals, upon any railroad car, or train of cars, which goods, wares, merchandise, or animals are to be landed, loaded, or unloaded within or upon the premises described in this article, to furnish to such Wharfingers a correct account of the number of tons, or the number of hundred, or number of feet of goods, wares or merchandise, or number of animals, when required to do so by any Wharfinger; and every captain, consignee, agent, or owner of any water-craft, or any owner, agent, manager, or conductor of any railroad car, or train of cars, or any consignee of any goods, wares, merchandise, or animals, uponany railroad car, or train of railroad cars, who shall neglect or refuse to furnish the information required to be given to the Wharfingers by this section, or who shall, designedly, give false information, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof before any Court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the jail of the City and County of San Francisco not less than ten nor more than fifty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. (Amendment, approved February 28, 1876; Amendments 1875-6, 32; took effect from passage.)

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SEC. 2524. The Commissioners shall have possession and water front control of that portion of the Bay of San Francisco, together cisco in with the improvements, rights, privileges, easements, and Commissionappurtenances connected therewith, or in anywise apper- of Commistaining thereto, for the purposes in this article provided (excepting such parcels thereof as are held by the lessees, or their assigns, of valid leases, which parcels so held it is hereby made the duty of the Commissioners to take possession of, together with the improvements thereon, as soon as said leases terminate, and also to see that the lessees, or their suc

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Water front cessors or assigns, do not exercise rights and privileges that are not conferred by said leases), bounded as follows, to wit: Commission- Commencing at the point where the easterly line of the Presidio Reservation intersects the water-line front, as established by the Board of State Tide Land Commissioners; thence easterly along said water-line front to the center of Webster Street; thence southerly along the center of Webster Street to the center of Lewis Street; thence easterly along the center of Lewis Street to the center of Polk Street; thence southerly along the center of Polk Street to the center of Tonquin Street; thence easterly along the center of Tonquin Street to the center of Larkin Street; thence southerly along the center of Larkin Street to the center of Jefferson Street; thence easterly along the center of Jefferson Street to the center of Powell Street; thence southerly along the center of Powell Street to the center of Beach Street; thence easterly along the center of Beach Street to the center of Dupont Street; thence southerly along the center of Dupont Street to the center of North Point Street; thence easterly along the center of North Point Street to the center of Kearny Street; thence southerly along the center of Kearny Street to the center of Francisco Street; thence easterly along the center of Francisco Street to the center of Montgomery Street; thence along the center of Montgomery Street to the center of Chestnut Street; thence easterly along the center of Chestnut Street to the center of Sansome Street; thence southerly along the center of Sansome Street to the center of Lombard Street; thence easterly along the center of Lombard Street to the center of Battery Street; thence southerly along the center of Battery Street to the center of Greenwich Street; thence easterly along the center of Greenwich Street to the center of Front Street; thence southerly along the center of Front Street to the center of Vallejo Street; thence easterly along the center of Vallejo Street to the center of Davis Street; thence southerly along the center of Davis Street to the center of Pacific Street; thence easterly along the center of Pacific Street to the center of East Street; thence southerly along the center of East Street to the center of Folsom Street; thence westerly along the center of Folsom Street to the center of Steuart Street; thence southerly along the center of Steuart Street to the center of Harrison Street; thence southerly on. a direct line with said Steuart Street two hundred and fifty

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three feet nine inches, to the center of a street the name of Water front which is not on a map; thence at right angles, westerly, cisco in along the center of said street to the center of Spear Street; Commissionthence southerly along the center of Spear Street to the center of Commis of Bryant Street; thence westerly along the center of Bryant Street to the center of Beale Street; thence southerly along the center of Beale Street to the center of Brannan Street; thence westerly along the center of Brannan Street to the center of First Street; thence southerly along the center of First Street to the center of Townsend Street; thence westerly along the center of Townsend Street five hundred and fifty feet to the center of a street the name of which is not on a map; thence at right angles southerly along the center of said street to the center of King Street; thence along the center of King Street to the center of Second Street; thence southerly along the center of Second Street to the center of Berry Street; thence westerly along the center of Berry Street to the center of Third Street; thence southerly along the center of Third Street to the northerly line of Channel Street; thence westerly along the last mentioned line to the easterly line of Fifth Street; thence southerly along said last mentioned line to the southerly line of said Channel Street; thence easterly along said mentioned line to the center of Kentucky Street; thence southerly along the center of Kentucky Street to the center of Fourth Street; thence along the center of Fourth Street to the center of Louisiana Street; thence southerly along the center of Louisiana Street to the center of El Dorado Street; thence along the center of El Dorado Street to the center of Illinois Street; thence southerly along the center of Illinois Street to the center of Solano Street; thence easterly along the center of Solano Street to to the water front line established by the Board of State Tide Land Commissioners; thence southerly along said last mentioned line to the center of Tulare Street; thence westerly along the center of Tulare Street to the center of Texas Street; thence southerly along the center of Texas Street to the center of Islais Street; thence easterly along the center of Islais Street to the center of Water-front Street; thence southerly along the center of Water-front Street to the center of India Street; thence westerly, southerly, and easterly, along the center of said India Street to the center of

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Water front Water-front Street, to the center of China Street; thence westerly along the center of China Street to the center of Commission- Third Avenue; thence southerly along the center of Third of Commis- Avenue to the northerly line of the property of the California Dry-dock Company; thence easterly along said last mentioned line to the water front established by the Board of State Tide Land Commissioners; thence southerly along and around said dry-dock company's land to the south-easterly corner thereof; thence westerly along the line of said land to the center of Water-front Street; thence southerly along the center of Water-front Street to the center of Nineteenth Avenue; thence westerly along the center of Nineteenth Avenue to the center of Dock Street; thence southerly along the line of Dock Street to the center of Twenty-third Avenue; thence westerly along the center of Twenty-third Avenue to the center of H Street; thence southerly along the center of H Street to the center of Twenty-fourth Avenue; thence easterly along the center of Twenty-fourth Avenue to the centre of Water-front Street, and thence southerly along the center of said Water-front Street to the southern boundary of the County of San Francisco; thence along the southerly, easterly, and northerly boundary lines of said county to a point due north of the place of commencement, and thence south to the place of commencement. And said Commissioners, in addition to a general control over said premises, shall have authority to use, for loading and landing merchandise, with a right to collect dockage, wharfage and tolls thereon, such portion of the streets of the City and County of San Francisco ending or fronting upon the waters of said bay as may be used for such purposes without obstructing the same as thoroughfares, and authority to rent an office in the City and County of San Francisco, between Montgomery, Market and Pacific Streets and the city front; and purchase from time to time suitable books for the records of the Secretary and accounts of the Wharfingers, together with such stationery as may be required by the Board, and to fix and regulate from time to time the rates of dockage, wharfage, cranage, tolls, and rents, and collect such an amount of revenue therefrom as will enable the Commissioners to perform the duties required of them by authority of this article. And the Commissioners and Mayor of San Francisco may so modify and establish such rates of dockage and wharfage as will produce a revenue

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