8 CONSTITUTION 



ART. XV HARBORS. 



make further provisions for enlarging said fund. The interest 

 accruing on said fund, together with all rentals and other 

 revenues derived therefrom, and from lands and other property 

 devoted to the common school fund, shall be exclusively applied 



to the current use of the common schools. 



Proceeds of sale of granted lands: see Laws, sec. 41, post, and 

 notes thereto. 



Escheats and forfeitures: Laws, sec. 56 et seq., post. 



See generally the Enabling Act, Laws, sec. 581 et seq., post. 



This section is executed by Laws '09, p. 320, sees. 1-3 (sees. 4598- 

 4600 Rem.-Bal.). 



Cited : 17 Wash. 139 ; 40 Wash. 105 ; 51 Wash. 501. 



The sale of lands and proceeds thereof cannot be used as provided in Laws 

 of 1895, p. 5. for the erection of normal school buildings : State ex rel. Heuston 

 v. Maynard, 31 Wash. 132. 



ART. XV, SEC. 1. HARBORS AND HARBOR LINES. 



The Legislature shall provide for the appointment of a 

 commission whose duty it shall be to locate and establish harbor 

 lines in the navigable waters of all harbors, estuaries, bays, and 

 inlets of this state, wherever such navigable waters lie within 

 or in front of the corporate limits of any city or within one mile 

 thereof upon either side. The state shall never give, sell, or lease 

 to any private person, corporation, or association any rights 

 whatever in the waters beyond such harbor lines, nor shall any 

 of the area lying between any harbor line and the line of ordinary 

 high tide, and within not less than fifty feet nor more than 600 

 feet of such harbor line (as the commissioners shall determine) 

 be sold or granted by the state, nor its right to control the 

 same relinquished, but such area shall be forever reserved for 

 landings, wharves, streets, and other conveniences of navigation 

 and commerce. 



Commission constituted: Laws, sec. 13, post. 



Establishment of harbor lines: Laws, sec. 306 et seq., post. 



See next section, and notes, and notes to Art. XVII, post. 



Cited in 1 Wash. 301 ; 2 Wash. 250 ; 4 Wash. 9 ; 7 Wash. 120-152 ; 13 Wash. 

 66 ; 17 Wash. 655 ; 19 Wash. 46 ; 22 Wash. 100 ; 25 Wash. 223 ; 53 Wash. 219 ; 

 54 Wash. 533 ; 56 Wash. 660 ; 64 Wash. 315 ; 71 Wash. 107. 



See 2 Remington's Digest, pp. 2404-2410, sees. 84-101; 4 Remington's Digest, 

 pp. 872-874, sees. 84-101. 



What waters are navigable : Note to Const., Art. XVII, sec. 1, post. 



Tide lands and the beds of navigable waters belong to the state, with full 

 power of disposition, subject only to the restrictions of state and national con- 



