210 STATE LAND LAWS 



SEC. 308 PLATTING TIDE AND SHORE LANDS. 



places heretofore dedicated and shall constitute a dedication of 

 new streets, alleys or public places and waterways appearing 

 upon such replat when a majority of the city council of the city 

 or town wherein such replatted land is situated shall by resolution 

 approve the same; and if such land is not in any incorporated 

 city or town when a majority of the county commissioners of the 

 county wherein such replatted land is situated shall approve the 

 same. . Nothing herein contained shall be construed to supersede 

 existing laws relating to the vacation of streets, alleys and pub- 

 lic places. This section is intended to afford an additional method 

 of procedure: Provided, If any streets heretofore platted are 

 vacated by the replat and any new street or waterway is so laid 

 out as to leave unsold tide land between such new street or water- 

 way and land heretofore sold, the owner of said tide land here- 

 tofore sold shall have the preference right, for sixty days after 

 final approval of such replat, to buy the unsold tide land so inter- 

 vening at the appraised value. (Laws '97, p. 248, sec. 40; 

 amended, Laws '01, p. 326, sec. 1 ; sec 6745 Rem.-Bal. ; 477 sec. 

 119 Pierce.) 



Former Laws: Laws '89-'90, p. 239, sees. 3-4; Laws '95, p. 550, 

 sec. 53. 



Later act providing for establishment of harbor lines and survey 

 and disposition of tide and shore lands: sec. 306, supra; 319, 323, post. 



* Chap. 89, Laws '97, and acts amendatory. 



Harbor Line Commission and State Land Commission succeeded by 

 Board of State Land Commissioners: sec. 13, ante. 



Vacation of waterways: sec. 282 et seq., supra. 



Filing of tide land plats, additional: sec. 322, post. 



Filing of waterway plats: sec. 276, ante. 



Platting of state lands, generally: sec. 296 et seq., ante. 



Vacation of tide land plats outside of cities: sec. 299 et seq., post. 



Streets, etc., over reclaimed shore lands; selection: sec. 88, ante. 



Platting second class shore lands: sec. 102, ante. 



Cited : 13 Wash. 167 ; 14 Wash. 424 ; 17 Wash. 660 ; 42 Wash. 420. 



The establishment of a shore line by the board is conclusive upon all persons 

 except the state or abutting owners who claim that the same Is located too 

 far inland and upon their uplands : Williams v. Cole, 54 Wash. 110. 



Where the line of ordinary high water cannot readily be ascertained, be- 

 cause of artificial changes, and the meander line is concededly incorrect, the 

 courts will construct a conventional line as the boundary between uplands and 

 shore lands : Brace & Hergert Mill Co. v. State, 49 Wash. 326. 



