270 STATE LAND LAWS 



SEC. 417 QUIETING TITLES. 



agent, may secure title thereto as hereinafter provided. (Laws 

 '89-'90, p. 448, sec. 1; sec. 6636 Rem.-Bal. ; 477 sec. 367 

 Pierce.) 



This chapter executes the proviso to Art. XVI, sec. 2, Const., ante. 



Construction of acts of congress reserving lands to Territory: sec. 

 603. post. 



Early sales of University lands validated: sec. 580, post, and act of 

 territorial legislature approved Oct. 26, '75 (Laws '75, p. 103). 



Cited : 5 Wash. 273 ; 7 Wash. 216 ; 74 Wash. 580. 



The Enabling Act (sec. 585, post), restricting the manner of disposal of lands 

 granted for educational purposes, was modified by sec. 2, Art. XVI of the Con- 

 stitution, ante, providing for confirmation of early sales : Romaine v. State, 1 

 Wash. 215. 



As to early sales of University lands, see Keane v. Brygger, 3 Wash. 338 ; 

 Brygger v. Schweitzer, 5 Wash. 564 ; Smith v. Arthur, 7 Wash. 60. 



SEC. 417. SUIT AGAINST STATE PROCEDURE. 



Any person, or his executors, administrators, heirs, assignee 

 or successor in interest, being the legal and bona fide holder and 

 owner, assignee or legal representative of the person to whom 

 has been made a conveyance of such school or university land, 

 which conveyance has been executed by the county commission- 

 ers or county school superintendent of any county, or the uni- 

 versity commissioners of the said Territory of Washington, or an 

 authorized commissioner or regent of the university of said 

 territory, or by any other officer, commissioner or agent acting 

 under authority conferred by any law of the said Territory of 

 Washington where the grantee named in such conveyance has 

 paid the full purchase price for said land, and for any reason 

 such grantee has not been vested with a title thereto, such pur- 

 chaser, his assignee or legal representative shall have a right of 

 action against the State of Washington, in the superior court of 

 the county in which the land is situated, to secure a confirmation 

 of title to the land described in said deed, or to a specific per- 

 formance of the conditions of the deed or instrument, and the 

 court in its decree may order a deed to be executed by the Com- 

 missioner of Public Lands of the State of Washington confirming 

 to the grantee, or assignee, or legal representative the tract de- 

 scribed in such conveyance, or intended to have been granted 



