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CONTRACT FOR IMPROVEMENT. SEC. 287 



not less than twenty-five hundred, nor more than twenty-five 

 thousand dollars, as in the judgment of said Commissioner of 

 Public Lands shall be considered necessary in a particular case, 

 with sureties to be approved by said Commissioner of Public 

 Lands, said bond to be conditioned for the faithful performance of 

 said contract : Provided furtJier, That no lands shall be affected 

 thereby except lands within or in front of incorporated cities 

 or towns, or within one mile thereof on either side, or lands be- 

 tween any inner and outer harbor lines established by proper 

 authority. (Laws '93, p. 241, sec. 1; sec. 8100 Rem.-Bal. ; 



477 sec. 233 Pierce.) 



Establishment of waterways: 273 et seq., ante. 



Cited: 8 Wash. 702, 708; 11 Wash. 231, 641, 645; 20 Wash. 279; 23 

 Wash. 732; 35 Wash. 507, 509, 511; 36 Wash. 139; 56 Wash. 650; 70 Wash. 

 556. 



The commissioner may enter into a new contract : Schlopp v. Forrest, 11 

 Wash. 640. 



This chapter held constitutional : Seattle & Lake Washington etc. Co v. 

 Seattle Dock Co., 35 Wash. 503 ; affirmed 195 U. S. 624. 



It is not contemplated that the state shall retain title to the tide lands 

 until the completion of the contract of filling the same, but the state retains the 

 power of disposition of all such lands, and there is reserved to the contractor 

 merely a lien upon the lands still under his contract : Hays v. Hill, 23 Wash. 

 730. 



SEC. 287. NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR CONTRACT. 



Any person or persons, or any corporation, doing business in 

 this state may give notice in writing to the Commissioner of 

 Public Lands of his or their intentions to comply with the pro- 

 visions of this chapter at any given locality or localities, describ- 

 ing the same in general terms, and thereafter they shall have 

 ninety days after the completion of the publication hereinafter 

 mentioned within which to prepare the maps, specifications and 

 contracts herein provided for. And the giving of said notice 

 shall place the lands described subject to the operation of this 

 chapter until the making and signing of the contracts herein 

 provided for, and the making and signing of said contract shall 

 make the lands described therein subject to the operating 

 [operation] of this chapter pending its execution, and all per- 

 sons or corporations purchasing said lands from the state in 

 the meantime shall take the same subject to the ultimate lien 



