Chambers of Commerce of the various ports demanding im- 

 provements, be requested to appoint a commission which 

 shall examine into the needs of all the harbors of California, 

 investigating port charges, wharfage, and dockage demands, 

 pilotage fees and towage and water supplies expenses and 

 reporting at as early a date as possible to the Governor, with 

 recommendations for such necessary improvements of the 

 harbors of the State in matters within the province of the 

 State; be it further 



Resolved, that the Counties Committee of The California 

 Promotion Committee urgently recommends that the Legis- 

 lature of the State of California, pursuant to such report, 

 enact such legislation as will provide for the regular and 

 permanent improvement of the harbors of the State, through 

 a period of years, at the expense of the whole State, the sums 

 to be expended to be raised either by general taxation or by 

 bond issue as may seem to the Legislature most expedient 

 and desirable; be it further 



Resolved, that the Governor of California be requested to 

 instruct the Attorney-General to take immediate proceedings 

 to eject from any harbor property of the State all persons or 

 corporations now improperly in possession of or occupying 

 such properties. Be it further 



Resolved, that the Committee on California Harbors of 

 The California Promotion Committee be and hereby is in- 

 structed to take immediately such steps as may be necessary 

 to carry out the provisions of these resolutions. 



Resolution Relating to Good Roads: Resolved, that a 

 better system of making and repairing public roads than is 

 possible under the present road laws, is required to secure 

 proper returns for the road taxes collected, and the Counties 

 Committee of The California Promotion Committee, in meet- 

 ing assembled, hereby endorses the recommendations in the 

 report of the Glen Ellen Road Convention, and instructs its 

 Committee on Good Roads to urge the enactment of laws in 

 harmony therewith. 



Resolution of Thanks: Resolved, that the sincere thanks 

 and appreciation of the Counties Committee of The Cali- 

 fornia Promotion Committee, at this, their sixth semi-annual 

 meeting, held this fifteenth day of December, nineteen hun- 

 dred and six, in this lovely City of St. James, be extended to 

 the Officials and Citizens of the City of San Diego, the San 

 Diego Chamber of Commerce, the Proprietors of this beauti- 

 ful Coronado Hotel, to the gentlemen who have favored us 

 with most entertaining and instructive papers, to the Press 

 of the City of San Diego, and to the Press of California, for 

 the royal reception and generous hospitality shown each and 



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