STATE LAND LAWS 

 SEC. 359 OYSTER RESERVES. 



hereafter established, and to make such rules and regulations as 

 may be found necessary or desirable to carry into effect the pro- 

 visions of this act.* 



2. To immediately examine all tide or oyster lands belonging 

 to the state (except tide lands of the first class and lands herein- 

 above provided for) and to survey, plat and establish thereon 

 what shall be and constitute oyster reserves for the future. 



3. To cause a survey or re-survey of all the state oyster land 

 reserves now existing or to be established by the said commission 

 to be made before the first day of October, 1903, or as soon there- 

 after as possible, and shall have each angle of the boundary line 

 indicated by a stone of not less than one hundred pounds in 

 weight and marked with the letters S. R. cut thereon in letters not 

 less than three inches long and one-half inch deep, and to cause 

 all oyster reserves to be platted, said plats to be filed in the office 

 of the Commissioner of Public Lands and in the office of the 

 auditor of the county wherein said reserves are located ; and in 

 cases where the adjoining lands are used in whole or in part by 

 private individuals for the production of oysters, stakes shall be 

 kept standing on all the angles of the boundary, the tops of 

 which shall be at least four feet above high tide. 



4. Said commission may, when it seems to them advisable, 

 close any portion of any of the reserves against the removal of 

 oysters for any period of time, not longer than two years at one 

 time : Provided, That such closed periods may be thereafter re- 

 newed, from time to time, not exceeding in all four years, by the 

 commission. 



5. To care for and protect all reserves and to reseed and re- 

 plant such as are in need of seed. 



6. To employ such patrolmen and deputies as may be neces- 

 sary for the protection of oyster reserves and collect licenses and 

 payment for seed oysters and to define their duties. (Laws '03, 

 p. 340, sec. 5 ; sec. 5245 Rem.-Bal. ; 373 sec. 9 Pierce.) 



Former Laws: Laws '91, pp. 366-7, sees. 1-2; Laws '97, p. 299, sec. 2. 



*Secs. 355-365. 



Injury to boundary marks: sec. 269, supra. 



Sale of natural oyster beds to cultivators: sec. 114, ante. 



Cited : 39 Wash. 236 ; 56 Wash. 275. 



