The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-03-05

masters license failed outright. About
ten mates were unable to get through
with their examinations, however. All
of the engineers have been able to pass
and now all possess certificates. Yes
seiS and officers which have tailed to
pass inspections and examinations will
be obliged to go to San Francisco for
their commissions. The inspectors go
from here to Alaska
SurpI Use Sold.
The wreck of the gasoline schooner
Surprise at Koloa, Kauai, has been
sold to Manuel Rego of Waimea for
$3.50, at auction. 1t has been found i'm
possible to move her from the reef.
Inquiry as to PlIJ,age.
When the Legislature OF California
passed IAN act in 1899 to amend the
Political Code relative to pilots, Pilot
Commissioners and pilotage, it was
done for the purpose of obtaining in
, formation impossible to get in any 9TH
er way. This act was an amendment
to section 2460 and reads:
Every pilot of the harbor of San
( Francisco. Mare Island, Vallejo and
Benicia must, once in each month, up
| on blanks to be furnished them by the
Board of Pilot Commissioners, render
| a verified account to the board of all
moneys. received by him, or by any
| person for him or on his account, and
| pay per cent thereof to the board in
tuil compensation for its official SER
vices, for the services of it's secretary
and treasurer and all incidental eX-
penSes. Such account shall give the
name of each vessel piioted, and the
master thereof, and for each vessel for
| which pilotage has been charged or COL
| tn1 h1 oh 70, .y-
| collected from each, any rebates made
and allowed, and the amounts thereof,
where the same is registered, the depth
of its draught. its tonnage, whether
inward or outward bound, and whether
| the amounts SO received, collected or
charged is for full pilotage or half
| pilotage; and the secretary shall rec
ord such accounts in full detail in a
| book prepared for that purpose. which
book shall at all times be open to the
public.
This law was brought about from
the fact that it was impossible to get
Information from the Pilot Commits
sioners in any definite shape, and be-
cause it was impossible to regulate the
plotage charges of San Francisco
through legislative action Two years
have passed since the law went into
effect ana during that time the book
in which the records have been kept
has not been examined by any person
interested in having the pilotage fees
changed.
While the law specifically states that
the book shall at all times DE open tc
the public, it is a difficult matter fol
the public to avail itself of that per
mission. The office of the Pilot Com
missionerS at San Francisco is continu,
ally. closed, and the Commissioners
meet but once a month.
Requests made to the members of the
Commission meet with the Response
that the applicant must see the secre-
tary, but as the secretary appears tC
have much business in other places
this is almost an impossibility. Com
plants regarding this condition of af-
fairs hara been forwarded to the Sen
ate and Assembly committees on com
merce, and, in response to these com
plants the Assembly committee vii
meet at the rooms of the Chamber Of
Commerce, San Francisco, for the pur-
pose of Investigating the book of &C.
counts of the pilots. The Board of Pi
lot Commissioners has been cited Il
(appear before the committee, and viii
be expected to show the book and tC
give an account of the work during
the past two years.