50 STATE LAND LAWS 



SECS. 51-52 SELECTION. 



To appraise shore lands of Lakes Union and Washington: sec. 492> 

 post. 



To defend in condemnation suits: sec. 257, post. 



Board of State Land Commissioners may appear in certain matters: 

 sec. 50, ante. 



Attorney General of United States to appear for Indian tribes in 

 suits by State: sec. 601, post. 



Cited : 28 Wash. 501. 

 SEC. 51. NON-MINERAL CERTIFICATES. 



The Commissioner of Public Lands is hereby authorized and 

 directed to cause publication of notices of application to the 

 interior department for certification that state school land or 

 other granted land is non-mineral in character, in accordance 

 with the rules of the general land office. (Laws '97, p. 246, sec. 

 33 ; sec. 6649 Rem-.Bal. ; 477 sec. 107 Pierce.) 



Mineral lands not subject to selection: sec. 591, post. 



Selection of lands with coal reserved to United States: sec. 600,. 

 post. 



SEC. 52. SURVEY OF LANDS FOR SELECTION. 



Upon the recommendation of the board the Governor shall, 

 if he concurs, cause an application to be filed with the Surveyor 

 General for the survey of such township or townships, and 

 shall cause due notice thereof to be published in accordance with 

 sec. 596 of this code, and under such rules and regulations as 

 may be made by the Secretary of the Interior. Whenever the 

 United States Surveyor General shall have made an estimate 

 of .the cost of survey, and it shall appear, under the decision and 

 rulings of the Department of the Interior, that there is no 

 federal government appropriation for the survey of any town- 

 ship, applied for by the state, the Governor is authorized and 

 empowered to execute a voucher to the State Auditor for the 

 amount of such estimate, and the State Auditor is authorized 

 and directed, upon the filing of such voucher, to issue a warrant 

 on the general fund for the amount of the same, and the State 

 Treasurer shall pay said warrant out of the moneys appropri- 

 ated for said purpose. Upon the receipt of such warrant the 

 Governor shall deposit the same to the credit of the United 

 States, in accordance with such rules and regulations as may be 



