STATE LAND LAWS 

 WATERWAYS IMPROVEMENT VACATION. SECS. 280-282 



amount as said commissioners may deem advisable. (Laws '90, 

 p. 732, sec. 7; sec. 8098 Rem.-Bal. ; 477 sec. 229 Pierce.) 



* Sees. 273-280. 



Harbor Line Commission succeeded by Board of State Land Com- 

 missioners: sec. 13, ante. 



SEC. 280. EXPENSES. 



All bills incurred in carrying out the provisions of this act* 

 shall be audited and paid in the same manner as is provided in 

 the act creating the Harbor Line Commissioners, for the pay- 

 ment of bills incurred by them. (Laws '90, p. 762, sec. 8 ; sec. 

 8099 Rem.-Bal.; 477 sec. 231 Pierce.) 



* Sees. 273-280. 



Board of State Land Commissioners as Harbor Line Commission: 

 sec. 13, ante. 



Harbor Line Commission created: Laws '90, p. 239. 



SEC. 281. POWERS OF PORT DISTRICTS. 



All port districts organized under the provisions of chapter 

 92 of the session Laws of 1911 shall be and are hereby author- 

 ized to improve navigable and non-navigable waters of the 

 United States and the State of Washington within the port 

 district ; to create and improve for harbor purposes new water- 

 ways within the port district; to regulate and control all such 

 waters and all natural or artificial waterways (waterways of 

 commercial waterway districts excepted) within the limits of 

 such port district so far and to the full extent that this state 

 can grant the same, and remove obstructions therefrom; to 

 straighten, widen, deepen and otherwise improve any and all 

 waters, watercourses, bays, lakes or streams, whether navigable 

 or otherwise, flowing through or located within the boundaries 

 of such port district. (Laws '11, p. 418, sec. 4; amended, Laws 

 '13, p. 210, sec. 4; 3 Rem.-Bal., sec. 8165-4; 437 sec. *7 

 Pierce.) 



Excavation of waterways: sec. 286 et seq., infra. 



SEC. 282. VACATION OF WATERWAYS. 



Whenever any waterway heretofore established under the 

 authority of the laws of this state, or any portion of such water- 



