STATE LAND LAWS 399 



SALE OF SHORE LANDS. SECS. 494-495 



as is authorized or required by any existing law, except as may be 

 changed by this act:* Provided, however, That in case of contest, 

 interest shall be charged upon the appraised value at the rate pre- 

 scribed by law from the date of the expiration of said twenty day 

 period, and such interest shall be paid at the time the first installment 

 of principal is made, and no contract shall issue unless such interest 

 be paid. Any of said shore lands remaining unsold and where there is 

 no pending application for the purchase of the same, shall be sold 

 in the same manner as provided by law for the sale of school and 

 granted lands. (Laws '07, p. 5, sec. 2.) 



*Secs. 492-496. 



Manner of sale, generally : sec. 87 et seq., ante. 



The purchasers of Lake Washington shore lands under this act (sees. 492- 

 495) took the same subject to the rights granted to the United States by sec. 

 554, post : Bilger v. State, 63 Wash. 457. 



SEC. 494. SAME TERMS OF SALE. 



All of said shore lands, whether sold to any applicant as above 

 provided or sold at public auction in cases where there is no pending 

 application as above provided, shall be paid for by the purchaser in 

 ten equal annual installments, the first of which installments shall be 

 paid at the time of the issuance of a contract by the state to the 

 purchaser therefor; and all other provisions of the existing laws of this 

 state governing the matter of the sale of the state's granted, school, 

 tide and other lands shall govern and control the sale and disposition 

 of said shore lands, except as modified or changed by the provisions of 

 this act:* Provided, however, That in all cases where contracts for 

 the sale of any portion of said shore lands shall have been heretofore 

 issued, the holders thereof may, at their option, surrender such con- 

 tracts, whereupon it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Public 

 Lands to issue to such persons or their assigns, new contracts bearing 

 the same date as the originals thereof, and distributing the payments 

 into ten equal annual installments, as hereinbefore provided, the cash 

 payments previously made by such persons to be credited upon such 

 contracts: And provided further, That interest at the rate of six per 

 cent, per annum shall be paid upon all deferred payments, the interest 

 to be paid annually. (Laws '07, p. 5, sec. 3; amended, Laws '09, p. 50, 

 sec. 1.) 



*Secs. 492-496. 



NOTE : Before amendment, this section allowed only three years for payment. 



SEC. 495. SAME GENERAL LAWS TO GOVERN WHEN. 



The provisions of any existing law of this state relating to the 

 selection, survey, management, reclamation, lease and disposition of 

 the state's granted, school, tide, oyster and other lands or harbor 

 areas, or any other law of this state applicable thereto, shall control 

 and govern the establishment of the harbor lines, survey, platting, 



