CONSTITUTION H 



GRANTED LANDS. ART. XVI 



as such is a valid street extension : State ex rel. Bartlett v. Forrest, 12 Wash. 

 483. 



As to effect of laying out streets by tide land appraisers, see West Seattle v. 

 West Seattle Land Co., 38 Wash. 359. 

 ESTATE AND USE: 



Where no private rights have intervened and the fee of the street is still in 

 the state, the legislature has power to vacate any tide land street : Henry v. 

 Seattle, 42 Wash. 420. 



Where a city grants a franchise over tide land streets before the legal estab- 

 lishment thereof, it is estopped to deny such franchise after such establishment : 

 Col. & P. S. R. Co. v. Seattle, 6 Wash. 332. 



One who purchases tide lands under preference right takes the fee to abut- 

 ting streets : Bussell v. Ross, 64 Wash. 418. 



A city acquires only an easement in harbor area included in street extensions, 

 and the grant is not a surrender by the state of its plenary control over streets 

 and harbor areas : Chlopeck Fish Co. v. Seattle, 64 Wash. 315. 



The designation of a street extension as a "city slip" upon the harbor line 

 plats does not indicate that such street was to be reserved as an open waterway 

 for navigation so as to preclude the use of such area as a connection between the 

 street and open water : Chlopeck Fish Co. v. Seattle, 64 Wash. 315. 



A city of the first class has power to construct and maintain public landing 

 places and other conveniences of navigation and commerce in streets extending 

 over tide lands and harbor area : idem. 



A charter provision authorizing a city to sell, dispose of or rent "water- 

 front" does not confer power to lease tide lands or harbor area of which it has 

 control only as a public street : State ex rel. Port Angeles v. Morse, 56 Wash. 

 654. 



Except as to tide lands owned by cities or included within streets, territorial 

 statutes providing that cities might authorize the construction of wharves at 

 street termini have been superseded by 'the constitution and laws providing for 

 the sale, lease and control of tide lands and harbor areas : State ex rel. Port 

 Angeles v. Morse, 56 Wash. 654. 



ART. XVI, SEC. 1. GRANTED LANDS, LIMITATIONS ON SALE. 



All the public lands granted to the state are held in trust 

 for all the people, and none of such lands, nor any estate or 

 interest therein, shall ever be disposed of unless the full market 

 value of the estate or interest disposed of, to be ascertained in 

 such manner as may be provided by law, be paid or safely 

 secured to the state; nor shall any lands which the state holds 

 by grant from the United States (in any case in which the 

 manner of disposal and minimum price are so prescribed) be dis- 

 posed of except in the manner and for at least the price pre- 

 scribed in the grant thereof, without the consent of the United 

 States. 



Conditions upon grants of land: Laws, sec. 581 et seq., post. 



Minimum appraisement of granted lands: Laws, sec. 69, post. 



Value of materials added: Laws, sec. 70, post. 



Cited in 7 Wash. 152 ; 25 Wash. 223 ; 51 Wash. 55 ; 57 Wash. 613 ; 71 Wash. 

 107 ; 63 Wash. 573 ; 74 Wash. 575-585. 



