gg STATE LAND LAWS 



SEC. 105 ACCRETIONS. 



Upon application and payment for such additional tide lands 

 within said ninety days to the Land Commissioner of the State 

 of Washington, deed shall be issued to the respective purchaser 

 or purchasers therefor. If such application and payment is not 

 made before June 7, 1911, by the parties to whom the preference 

 rights under this section are given then such additional tide 

 land shall be sold as other tide lands are sold under the laws of 

 the State of Washington. (Laws '11, p. 130, sec. 2; 3 Rem.- 

 Bal., sec. 6641-1 ; 477 sec. 23 Pierce.) 



Sale of second class tide lands, generally: sec. 96, supra. 



Prior to the approval of the act of 1911 (Sec. 59, supra) a sale of second 

 class tide lands conveyed nothing below the line of mean low tide : Pearl Oyster 

 Co. v. Heuston, 57 Wash. 533. 



SEC. 105. ACCRETIONS SALE OF. 



Any accretions that may be added to any tract or tracts 

 of tide or shore lands heretofore sold or that may hereafter be 

 sold by the state shall belong to the state, and shall not be sold 

 or offered for sale until the said accretions shall have been first 

 surveyed and platted under the direction of the Commissioner 

 of Public Lands, and the adjacent owner shall have the prefer- 

 ence right to purchase said lands for thirty days after the same 

 shall be offered for sale. (Laws '99, p. 132, sec. 1 ; sec. 6763 

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



Cited: 27 Wash. 607; 49 Wash. 133; 64 Wash. 166. 



An alluvial island formed in navigable waters subsequent to the government 

 survey belongs to the state, and is subject to sale as are other public lands : 

 Opinions Att'y Gen'l, '05-'06, p. 386. 



If navigable water encroach upon granted lands, the boundary shifts with 

 the line of ordinary high water or tide, and the submerged lands become subject 

 to sale as tide or shore lands, and not as granted lands : Opinions Att'y Gen'l, 

 '05-'06, p. 140. 



The right of a riparian proprietor to future accretions to his land is not a 

 vested right, as there can be no present vested right in something which may 

 never have an existence : Elsenbach v. Hatfield, 2 Wash. 236. 



