STATE LAND LAWS 

 TIDE LANDS TO U. S. SEC. 239 



Laws 1911, shall cease to become part of such river, stream, 

 waterway or watercourse by reason of the diversion of such river, 

 stream, waterway or watercourse, under any proceedings had 

 under said chapter are hereby given and granted and vested in 

 the respective commercial waterway districts now existing, or 

 hereafter to be formed. (Laws '11, p. 21, sec. 8; 3 Rem.-Bal., 

 sec. 8173a; 437 sec. 43 Pierce.) 



Former Laws: Laws '09, special session, p. 16, sec. 8. 

 Eminent domain to such districts: sees. 253-254, infra. 

 Inclusion of state lands in such districts: sees. 245 and 253, infra. 

 Local improvement assessments in such districts: sec. 346, infra. 

 Grant of right of way for waterway excavated under private con- 

 tract: sec. 291, infra. 



SEC. 239. USE OF ABUTTING LANDS GRANTED TO UNITED 

 STATES. 



The use of any tide and shore lands belonging to the State 

 of Washington, and adjoining and bordering on any tract, 

 piece or parcel of land, which may have been reserved or 

 acquired, or which may hereafter be reserved or acquired, by the 

 government of the United States, for the purpose of erecting 

 and maintaining thereon forts, magazines, arsenals, dock yards, 

 navy yards, prisons, penitentiaries, light-houses, fog signal sta- 

 tions, or other aids to navigation, is hereby granted to the United 

 States, so long as the upland adjoining such tide or shore lands 

 shall continue to be held by the government of the United States 

 for any of the public purposes above mentioned : Provided, That 

 this grant shall not extend to or include any lands covered by 

 more than four fathoms of water at ordinary low tide ; and shall 

 not be construed to prevent the citizens of the State of Washing- 

 ton from using said lands for the taking of food fishes so long as 

 such fishing does not interfere with the public use of them by 

 the United States : And provided further, That whenever the 

 government of the United States shall cease to hold for public 

 purposes any such tract, piece or parcel of land, the use of the 

 tide and shore lands bordering thereon shall revert to the State 



