STATE LAND LAWS 

 SEC. 114 PLANTED OYSTER LANDS. 



After assignments of a contract have been approved by the commissioner 

 and a deed issued, the same cannot be collaterally attacked for defects in the 

 assignments : Price v. Loe, 56 Wash. 253. 



A deed executed by the governor but not delivered is still within the custody 

 of the commissioner and may be canceled for fraud : State ex rel. Shores v. 

 Ross, 44 Wash. 246. 



A state deed is admissible in evidence without proof of compliance with the 

 statutes pursuant to which it was issued : Welsh v. Callvert, 34 Wash. 250 ; 

 Palmer v. Peterson, 56 Wash. 74. 



A taxpayer having no special interest in the property, cannot maintain an 

 action to set aside a deed of state lands : Powers v. Webster, 47 Wash. 99. 



In the absence of fraud, a deed of state lands will not be set aside for mere 

 irregularities attending the sale, nor the erroneous decision of a fact or construc- 

 tion of law by the officers having jurisdiction to make the sale : State v. 

 Hewitt Land Co., 74 Wash. 573 ; State v. Heuston, 56 Wash. 268 ; State v. Ort f 

 66 Wash. 130. 



CHAPTER 11. 



SALE OF LANDS FOR OYSTER CULTIVATION. 

 SEC. 114. Cultivated Beds; Planter's Rights. 



115. Conditions, Reservations and Reversion. 



116. Removal of Oysters from Lands Sold. 



117. Same. 



118. Cultivated Beds; Planter's Rights. 



119. Oyster Planting; Sale of Lands for. 



120. Same; Survey and Description. 



121. Same; Survey, Price and Payment. 



122. Same; Application; Protest. 



123. Same; Citizens Only to Purchase. 



124. Same; Forfeiture and Abandonment. 

 Cross-References: CONVEYANCES GENERALLY: sec. 106 et seq., 



wnte; LEASE OF OYSTER LANDS: sec. 170 et seq., post; OYSTER 

 RESERVES: sec. 355 et seq., post. 



SEC. 114. PLANTERS' RIGHT TO PURCHASE. 



All persons having the qualifications provided by law to 

 enable them to purchase tide lands within the State of Washing- 

 ton, and who, prior to March 26, 1890, in good faith entered 

 upon tide lands not in front of any incorporated city or town, 

 nor within two miles thereof on either side, and planted and 

 cultivated thereon artificial oyster beds, and who continued to 

 occupy and work on the same continuously and in good faith to 

 March 26, 1890, and ever since said date, and who are now in 

 possession of and working said oyster beds in good faith, shall 

 be permitted to purchase the same for the purpose of cultivating 



