18 CONSTITUTION 



ART. XXVI INDIAN LANDS. 



sufficient description by metes and bounds, and an accurate plat 

 or map of each such tract or parcel of land be filed in the proper 

 office of record in the county in which the same is situated, to- 

 gether with copies of the orders, deeds, patents, or other evi- 

 dences in writing of the title of the United States : And pro- 

 vided, That all civil process issued from the courts of this state, 

 and such criminal process as may issue under the authority of 

 this state, against any person charged with crime in cases aris- 

 ing outside of such reservations, may be served and executed 

 thereon in the same mode and manner, and by the same officers, as 

 if the consent herein given had not been made. 



Jurisdiction of Rainier National Park ceded to United States: 

 Laws, sec. 555, post. 



Grants of tide and shore lands to United States: Laws, sec. 239 

 et seq., post. 



Cited in 40 Wash. 246. 



ART. XXVI, SEC. 2. DISCLAIMER OF INDIAN LANDS. 



The following ordinance shall be irrevocable without the con- 

 sent of the United States and the people of this state : 



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Second: That the people inhabiting this state do agree and 

 declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to the un- 

 appropriated public lands lying within the boundaries of this 

 state, and to all lands lying within said limits owned or held by 

 any Indian or Indian tribes ; and that, until the title thereto 

 shall have been extinguished by the United States, the same shall 

 be and remain subject to the disposition of the United States, 

 and said Indian lands shall remain under the absolute jurisdiction 



and control of the Congress of the United States. 



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This executes sec. 581, post, Enabling Act. 



Disclaimer of patented lands: sec. 2, Art. XVII, supra. 



Cited : 26 Wash. 672 ; 32 Wash. 613 ; 38 Wash. 129 ; 170 Fed. 508-515 ; 193 

 Fed. 531. 



This disclaimer does not operate as a grant or conveyance by the state, but 

 Its utmost effect would be to bar the state or its grantees from claiming land 

 which was held in exclusive possession of Indians at the time of the adoption of 

 the constitution, during the time such rights continue to exist : U. S. v. Ashton,. 

 170 Fed. 509. 



