STATE LAND LAWS 397 



SEATTLE TIDE LANDS REPLAT. SECS. 490-492 



of such readjustment by mutual agreements, the said board is hereby 

 authorized and instructed to receive, on behalf of the state, any sur- 

 render, release or conveyance of any such existing right or title, 

 making due compensation therefor, in pursuance of such mutual agree- 

 ment, from the fund received from the sale of tide lands, and to enter 

 into new contracts or deeds, on behalf of the state, with all persons 

 or corporations so surrendering, releasing or conveying any existing 

 right for such lots, tracts, or parcels of the tide lands as, in the judg- 

 ment of the said board, such persons or corporations are justly 

 entitled to purchase, in conformity with the revised and corrected 

 platting; all such new contracts or deeds to be issued only upon 

 payments made as provided by law, in accordance with the appraise- 

 ment made in pursuance of section 488. And in cases where a mutual 

 agreement for such readjustment cannot be effected, then the Board of 

 State Land Commissioners is hereby authorized and instructed, on 

 behalf of the State of Washington, to secure a vacation and surrender 

 of any such existing rights and titles in conflict with the revised 

 platting by due process of law, paying therefor the just value of the 

 same as determined by law, from the tide lands fund, and making new 

 contracts or deeds as hereinbefore set forth in cases where readjust- 

 ment is made by mutual agreement. The state auditor is hereby 

 authorized to draw such warrants upon the tide lands fund as are 

 necessary to carry out the provisions hereof. (Laws '97, p. 33, sec. 3.) 



*Secs. 487-491. 

 See post : sec. 570, adjustment of claims Louis Feureur. 



SEC. 490 SEATTLE LANDS TO BE SOLD. 



The Board of State Land Commissioners be and is hereby authorized 

 and instructed hereafter to dispose of unsold tide lands within the 

 limits of the portion of Seattle tide lands included in the sheets of the 

 plat referred to in section 487, only with reference to, and in con- 

 formity with, the supplemental sheets of said plat by said section 

 ordered to be substituted for the original platting. (Laws '97, p. 34, 

 sec. 4.) 



SEC. 491. SEATTLE DEVOLUTION OF POWERS. 



The powers hereby* conferred and duties imposed upon the Board 

 of State Land Commissioners shall be possessed and exercised by any 

 other board or officer who may hereafter succeed to the jurisdiction 

 and powers in respect to tide lands now possessed by the Board of 

 State Land Commissioners. (Laws '97, p. 34, sec. 5.) 



*Secs. 487-491. 



SEC. 492. LAKES UNION AND WASHINGTON SHORE LANDS- 

 SURVEY AND APPRAISAL. 



The Board of State Land Commissioners of the State of Washington 

 acting as a Board of Harbor Line Commission or other proper official 

 capacity as now authorized by law, shall, as soon as possible after 



