194, STATE LAND LAWS 



SEC. 286 IMPROVEMENT OF WATEBWAYS. 



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EXCAVATION OP WATERWAYS AND FILLING OF TIDE LANDS. 



SEC. 286. Commissioner May Make Contract. 



287. Application for Contract; Notice. 



288. Terms of Contract. 



289. Time for Performance. 



290. Certificate of Performance; Lien. 



291. Rights of Way Granted. 



292. Excavation and Bulkheads. 



293. Costs Included in Lien. 



294. Use of Waterways; Control by United States. 



295. Appraisement of Lands Affected. 



Cross-References: ESTABLISHMENT OF WATERWAYS: sec. 273 

 et seq>, ante; LEASING WATERWAYS: sec. 163 et seq., ante; PLAT- 

 TING AND APPRAISEMENT TIDE LANDS: sec. 306 et seq., post. 



SEC. 286. CONTRACTS FOR FILLING TIDE LANDS. 



The Commissioner of Public Lands of the State of Washing- 

 ton may, when in his judgment the interests of commerce would 

 be subserved thereby, enter into contract with any person or 

 persons, or incorporated companies doing business in the State 

 of Washington, for the excavation of any waterway or water- 

 ways through any lands belonging to the State of Washington, 

 or to any citizen or corporation of said state, and for the filling 

 in and raising above high tide of any tide or shore lands belong- 

 ing to the State of Washington, and upon the completion of such 

 contract such person or persons or incorporated company shall 

 become entitled to and shall have a lien, as in this chapter pro- 

 vided, upon all tide and shore lands belonging to the State of 

 Washington, adjacent to such waterway, and remaining unsold 

 on March 9, 1893, that they may fill in and raise above high 

 tide, and all purchasers of said tide and shore lands from the 

 State of Washington shall take the same subject to said lien: 

 Provided, however, That such contract shall not become binding 

 or operative until approved by the Governor, nor until such 

 person or persons or incorporated company shall have filed with 

 the Commissioner of Public Lands, a bond in the penal sum of 



