STATE LAND LAWS 

 MAEINE HOSPITAL. SECS. 458-460 



tract or parcel of land situated in the county of King, State of Wash- 

 ington, particularly described as follows, to-wit: The southeast quarter 

 of the northeast quarter of section sixteen in township twenty-one 

 north of range five east of the Willamette meridian. Upon making said 

 purchase the Governor shall enter into a contract with the proper offi- 

 cers of the State of Washington for the payment of the entire purchase 

 price, with interest at the rate fixed by the existing law and in the 

 manner required of other purchasers of school land: Provided, The pur- 

 chase price may be paid at any time, but it shall not be necessary to pay 

 any part of the purchase price in advance or at any given date. (Laws 

 '09, p. 117, sec. 1.) 



SEC. 458. FOR MARINE HOSPITAL SECS. 17 AND 18, TWP. 9 N., 

 R. 9 W. 



The Commissioner of Public Lands in the State of Washington be 

 and he is hereby directed without application to appraise and sell at 

 public sale, in the manner provided by law, the following described 

 property, to-wit: Beginning on the north bank of the Columbia river 

 at a point ten rods east of the section line between sections seventeen 

 and eighteen, township nine north, range nine west of W. M.; thence 

 north six rods; thence west two rods;- thence north fourteen rods; 

 thence west eighteen rods; thence south twenty rods to the bank of 

 the Columbia river; thence east along the meanders of said river to 

 the place of beginning, being two and fifty one-hundredths acres in 

 sections seventeen and eighteen, township nine north, range nine west 

 of W. M. (Laws '05, p. 52, sec. 1.) 



SEC. 459. SAME AGENT TO PURCHASE. 



The Commissioner of Public Lands is authorized on behalf of the 

 state to appoint an agent for the purpose of bidding on behalf of 

 the state for said property at the time it is offered for sale. (Laws 

 '05, p. 52, sec. 2.) 



SEC. 460. SAME DEED. 



The Commissioner of Public Lands in case the agent appointed 

 purchases said property at said sale shall certify the same to the 

 Governor who with the secretary of the State of Washington shall 

 make, execute and deliver to the government of the United States 

 Public Health and Marine Hospital service a deed to said land. (Laws 

 '05, p. 52, sec. 3.) 



