STATE LAND LAWS (J5 



APPRAISEMENT. SEC. 70 



missioner of Public Lands may order the inspection of the 

 entire section or sections. (Laws '97, p. 235, sec. 11 ; amended, 

 Laws '03, p. 103, sec. 1 ; amended, Laws '07, p. 751, sec. 5 ; 

 amended, Laws '09, p. 758, sec. 2; sec. 6661 Rem.-Bal. ; 477 

 sec. 41 Pierce.) 



Former Laws: Laws '89-'90, p. 439, sec. 5; Laws '93, p. 391, sec. 

 10; Laws '95, p. 534, sec. 18. 



Sale of materials: post, sec. 71. 



Sale of tide and shore lands: post, sec. 87 et seq. 



Board to appraise: sec. 42, ante. 



Inspectors appointment and duties: sees. 42-46, ante. 



Certain lands must be platted before sale: sec. 297, post. 



Value of materials added: sec. 70, post. 



Limitation upon area to be offered in one parcel: Const., Art. XVI, 

 sec. 4, ante. 



Minimum price of lands granted for educational purposes fixed by 

 Enabling Act, sees. 585-587, post, and by Const., Art. XVI, sec. 1, ante. 



Board of Regents to cause inspection of scientific school and agri- 

 cultural college lands: sec. 437, post. 



Notice of appraisement; protest: sec. 79, post. 



Survey to determine area to be sold: sec. 296, post. 



Cost of local improvements added: sec. 339, post. 



Cited : 27 Wash. 608 ; 37 Wash. 125 ; 74 Wash. 585. 



This section must be construed in connection with sec. 71, post, and timber 

 on state lands must be sold separately where it exceeds one million feet to the 

 quarter section : State ex rel. Heuston v. Callvert, 37 Wash. 124. 



Unimproved tide lands are not required to be divided into quantities not 

 exceeding 160 acres when offered for sale, but an owner of improvements on 

 tide lands is entitled to have the lands sold divided into tracts with reference 

 to the improvements : Sullivan v. Callrert, 27 Wash. 600. 



The limitation of Art. XVI, sec. 4, Const., ante, upon area to be offered in 

 one parcel applies only to lands granted to the state by Congress, and not to 

 lands acquired by deed from individuals : State v. Hewitt Land Co., 74 Wash. 

 573. 



And in the absence of fraud, a sale of such lands in a parcel greater than 

 160 acres, while irregular under this section, cannot be set aside at the suit of 

 the state after the delivery of deed, particularly if the land has passed into 

 the hands of innocent third parties : State v. Hewitt Land Co., 74 Wash. 573. 



SEC. 70. MATERIALS SOLD VALUE ADDED TO VALUE OF 

 LAND. 



When timber or other valuable materials have been sold 

 separate from the land and have actually been removed there- 

 from, then such lands may be sold for a sum which, added to the 

 price received for the timber or other valuable materials, will not 

 be less than ten dollars per acre. (Laws '07, p. 752, sec. 6; 



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