18 g STATE LAND LAWS 



SECS. 266-267 TRESPASS TIMBER. 



ber is manufactured. (Laws '97, p. 261, sec. 66; sec. 6823 

 Rem.-Bal. ; 477 sec. 207 Pierce.) 



Former Laws: Laws '95, p. 570, sec. 101. 



Damages for trespass on school lands inure to permanent school 

 fund: Const., Art. IX, sec. 3, ante. 



Damages for trespass generally: compare sees. 939-940 Rem.-Bal., 

 2 Remington's Digest, p. 2731, sec. 17, and 4 Remington's Digest, p. 1006, 

 sec. 17. 



SEC. 266. INJURING TIMBER ON STATE LANDS. 



Every person who shall wilfully (1) cut down, destroy or 

 injure any wood, timber, grain, grass or crop, standing or 

 growing, or which has been cut down and is lying upon the lands 

 of another, or of the state, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 

 (Laws '09, p. 1019, sec. 407; sec. 2659 Rem.-Bal.; 135 sec. 

 811 Pierce.) 



Former Laws: Laws '90, p. 126, sec. 5. 



See sec. 261, ante, additional. 



SEC. 267. INJURY TO CAPITOL LANDS PENALTY. 



If any person shall cut down, destroy or injure any tree 

 standing or growing upon any of the lands granted to the 

 State of Washington, for erecting public buildings at the capital 

 of said state before patent shall have been issued by the state 

 therefor, or shall take or remove from any such lands any 

 timber or wood, or shall dig, quarry, take or remove any 

 mineral, earth or stone from such lands, such person, upon 

 conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the 

 county jail not less than one month nor more than one year; or 

 by fine not less than fifty nor more than one thousand dollars, 

 or both: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be so 

 construed so as to prevent any purchaser who shall purchase 

 said land for purposes of a home from cutting such timber as 

 may be necessary for domestic use, or to clear land for actual 

 cultivation. (Laws '93, p. 188, sec. 10 ; sec. 6827 Rem.-Bal. ; 

 457 sec. 37 Pierce.) 



Trespass on state lands generally: sees. 261, 266, ante. 



Removal of timber by purchaser under contract: sec. 428, post, 

 which is a later act. 



