202 STATE LAND LAWS 



SEC. 295 FILLING TIDELANDS. 



Washington or the United States of America can, at any time, 

 appropriate said tide gates or locks upon payment to the parties 

 erecting them, of the reasonable value of the same at the date 

 of such appropriation, said reasonable value to be ascertained 

 and determined as in other cases of condemnation of private 

 property for public use. (Laws '93, p. 246, sec. 9; sec. 8108 

 Rem.-Bal.; 477 sec. 249 Pierce.) 



Public use of waterways: sec. 277, ante. 



Cited: 11 Wash. 231, 646; 20 Wash. 276; 35 Wash. 507. 



SEC. 295. APPRAISEMENT OF TIDE LANDS TO BE FILLED. 



If the Commissioner of Public Lands shall determine to let any 

 contract for the excavation of a waterway, as hereinbefore pro- 

 vided, the tide land appraisers appointed in the county in which 

 said tide lands lie, shall forthwith appraise the tide lands which 

 it is proposed to fill in by the excavation of such waterway, at 

 their actual value at the time of letting such contract, and the 

 said lands so appraised shall never be disposed of by the state 

 for less than such appraised value. (Laws '93, p. 246, sec. 10; 



sec. 8109 Rem,-Bal. ; 477 sec. 251 Pierce.) 



Board of State Land Commissioners succeeds boards of appraisers: 

 sec. 13, ante. 



Appraisement of tide lands, generally: sec. 319, post. 



Cited : 20 Wash. 276 ; 33 Wash. 390 ; 35 Wash. 507 ; 36 Wash. 141. 



Immediate appraisement is not mandatory, and the contractor is not entitled 

 to a writ of mandamus requiring such appraisement to be made, where the lands 

 had already been sold by the state prior to the completion of the contract : Hays 

 v. Callvert, 36 Wash. 138. 



