STATE LAND LAWS 115 



RE-LEASE. SEC. 138 



vided for the lease or sale of other school and granted lands. 

 (Laws '97, p. 245, sec. 29; sec. 6689 Rem.-Bal. ; 477 sec. 95 

 Pierce.) 



* Sec. 134 doubtless intended. 



Appraisement of improvements: sec. 77, ante. 



Cited in 39 Wash. 404. 



Applies to contracts for tide lands as well as granted lands : State v. Bridges, 

 19 Wash. 431. 



SEC. 138. LESSEE'S PRIOR RIGHT TO RE-LEASE. 



If, at the expiration of any lease, or any renewal thereof, 

 the lessee desires to re-lease the lands covered thereby, he may 

 make application to the Commissioner of Public Lands for a re- 

 lease. Such application shall be made within thirty days after 

 the expiration of the lease and shall be in writing and under 

 oath, setting forth the character and value of all improvements 

 existing on the land, the name and postoffice address of the owner 

 thereof, the purpose for which he desires to re-lease the land, the 

 amount considered by such lessee as the reasonabe annual 

 rental value thereof and such other information as the Com- 

 missioner of Public Lands may require, and shall be accom- 

 panied with a deposit of ten dollars, which deposit, if the land 

 be not leased, through the failure or refusal of the applicant to 

 accept a lease at the rate fixed by the Commissioner of Public 

 Lands, shall be forfeited to the state and by the commissioner 

 paid to the state treasurer and credited to the fund to which 

 the rental of the land should be credited. The Commissioner of 

 Public Lands may, upon the filing of such application, cause 

 the lands to be inspected by a state land inspector; and if he 

 deems it for the best interests of the state to re-lease said 

 lands, he shall fix the rental value thereof and, upon receipt of 

 the first year's rental, together with the fees required by law, 

 the Commissioner of Public Lands shall issue to the applicant a 

 renewal lease for any period not exceeding five years. The Com- 

 missioner of Public Lands shall notify the applicant, by mail, 

 of the rental value fixed, and if, within thirty days after the date 

 of such notice, the applicant fails or refuses to pay to the Com- 

 missioner of Public Lands the first year's rental, together with 



