STATE LAND LAWS 

 LIEN FOR COST. SEC. 290 



herein granted may be discharged, as hereinbelow provided, as to 

 any such part of said lands separately granted or owned, upon 

 the payment of such part of the amount for which the lien upon 

 the lands was given in the first instance as shall bear the same 

 proportion to said whole amount which the area of such separate 

 part of such lands bears to the area of the whole thereof. The 

 amount due on such lien, or any proportionate part thereof 

 separately payable as above provided, shall be payable by any 

 owner of said lands, or any part thereof separately owned, as 

 the case may be, other than the state, in ten equal annual install- 

 ments, the first installment at the end of the first year after the 

 sale of such lands, or of such separate portion thereof, by the 

 state ; and the remaining installments, one at the end of each 

 year thereafter, with accompanying interest on each of such 

 installments, as hereinbefore provided, to the time of the payment 

 thereof, and such lien may be foreclosed in the manner provided 

 by law for the foreclosure of other liens on real estate for non- 

 payment of the whole amount due, or of any separate installment 

 or installments thereof which shall have become due. If such 

 lands specified in any such certificate shall not be sold by the 

 state, within one year after the date of such certificate, the 

 parties in whose favor such certificate was issued, or their 

 assigns, shall have the option during the next succeeding six 

 months to purchase such lands, or any part thereof, from the 

 state in the manner provided by then existing laws for the sale 

 of tide lands of the state. This chapter shall not be so construed 

 as to create any obligation on the part of the state to pay or 

 discharge any lien which may attach to such lands by virtue of 

 the provisions thereof. (Laws '93, p. 243, sec. 4 ; sec. 8103 



Rem.-Bal.; 477 sec. 239 Pierce.) 



Lessee entitled to appraisement as improvement: sec. 143, ante. 



Cited: 11 Wash. 644; 20 Wash. 279; 35 Wash. 507; 60 Wash. 344; 70 

 Wash. 559. 



WHEN LIEN ATTACHES: 



The contract entered into becomes a lien when any part of the work suit- 

 able for the purposes of commerce has been completed : Schlopp v. Forrest, 

 11 Wash. 640. 



Where two contracts were entered into at the same time, each for the ex- 

 cavation of a waterway to connect with the other and form one general 



