STATE LAND LAWS 91 



PUBLIC SALE. SECS. 95-96 



which shall be stated in the application to purchase. (Laws '97, 

 p. 253, sec. 51 ; amended Laws '99, p. 132, sec. 1 ; sec. 6763 

 Rem.-BaL; 477 sec. 157 Pierce.) 



Former Laws: Laws '95, p. 561, sec. 81. 



Contract of sale: sec. 106, post. 



Time for appeal: sec. 23, ante. 



Sold subject to lien for cost of filling: sec. 286, post. 



Cited in 19 Wash. 48; 27 Wash. 607; 49 Wash. 133; 64 Wash. 166. 



Where for more" than ten years after their right matured the applicant 

 failed to tender the purchase price or demand a deed, his laches bar him 

 from asserting the right to purchase : Kinnear v. Ross, 74 Wash. 391. 



SEC. 95. SALE OF LANDS OF FIRST CLASS AT AUCTION. 



Any tide or shore lands of the first class remaining unsold, 

 and where there be no pending application for the purchase of 

 same, shall be sold on the same terms and in the same manner as 

 provided for the sale of school and granted lands : Provided, 

 That none of such lands shall be sold for less than the appraised 

 value heretofore fixed, or that may hereafter be fixed on said 

 lands ; but when it is deemed advisable and for the best interests 

 of the state, such lands may be reappraised in the same manner 

 as provided for the appraisement and sale of school and granted 

 lands. (Laws '97, p. 252, sec. 47; sec. 6755 Rem.-Bal. ; 477 

 sec. 143 Pierce.) 



Former Laws: Laws '89-'90, pp. 435-6, sees. 13-14; Laws '95, p. 

 553, sec. 60. 



Sale of lands upon dismissal of appeal: sec. 31, ante. 



Appraisement and sale of granted lands: sec. 68 et seq., ante. 



Preference right of certificate holder in case lands have been filled: 

 sec. 290, post. 



Cited in 49 Wash. 133. 



This section is not affected by sec. 155 et seq., post, relating to the leasing 

 of tide lands in port districts : Opinion Att'y Gen'l, Sept. 30, '13. 



SEC. 96. SALE OF SECOND CLASS TIDE LANDS. 



All tide and shore lands other than first class shall be offered 

 for sale and sold in the same manner as school and granted 

 lands, and shall be sold at not less than five dollars per lineal 

 chain, measured on the United States meander line bounding the 

 inner shore limit of such tide or shore lands, and each applicant 

 shall furnish a copy of the United States field notes, certified to 

 by the Surveyor General of the State of Washington, of said 



