318 STATE LAND LAWS 



SECS. 556-560 LANDS RESERVED. 



police or military jurisdiction over said park. (Laws '01, p. 192, sec. 1; 

 sec. 6854% Rem.-BaL; 513 sec. 27 Pierce.) 



Cession of jurisdiction to United States, generally : Const., Art. XXV, 

 sec. 1, ante. 



SEC. 556. UNITED STATES TIDE LANDS IN TWP. 25 AND 26 N., 

 R. 1 E TORPEDO STATION. 



The Governor, the secretary of state and the Commissioner of Public 

 Lands are hereby authorized and directed, without further consideration, 

 to convey and relinquish by deed to the United States of America, if re- 

 quested by the secretary of the navy department so to do prior to March 

 1, 1914, all the right, title and interest of the State of Washington in 

 and to any or all lands in sections 35 and 36 in township 26 north, 

 range 1 east, W. M., and in and to any and all tide lands lying in 

 front of sections 1, 12 and 13, township 25 north, range 1 east, W. M., 

 subject to any vested rights. (Laws '13, p. 240, sec. 1.) 



Under sec. 1, Art. XVI, Const., ante, this grant is void except as to tide lands : 

 Opinion Att'y Gen'l, April 22, '13. 



Grant of tidelands to United States, generally : sec. 239 et seg. f ante. 



Cession of jurisdiction to United States, generally : Const., Art. XXV, sec. 1, 

 ante. 



CHAPTER 



LANDS RESERVED FROM SALE. 



SEC. 560. Tide Lands for Canal; Pt. Townsend and Oak Bays. 



561. Ocean Beach Chehalis County, for Highway. 



562. Same; Not to Be Sold. 



563. Ocean Beach Pacific and Chehalis Counties; Highway. 



564. Same; Not to Be Sold. 



565. Same; Existing Leases and Contracts. 



566. Same; Extinguishment of Rights. 



567. Tide Lands for Veterans' Home, Port Orchard. 



568. Granted Lands at Soap Lake; Health Resort. 



SEC. 560. PORT TOWNSEND AND OAK BAYS RESERVATION 

 FOR CANAL. 



The consent of the state is hereby given to the digging of a ship 

 canal connecting the waters of Port Townsend Bay and Oak Bay by the 

 shortest and most practicable route through the strip of land or 

 isthmus now separating the said bays; said canal to be of such depth 

 and width as will admit the passage of steamers of light draft and 

 other water craft and saw logs; and so much of the tide lands be- 

 longing to the state as may be necessary for that purpose are reserved 

 for that purpose and from any other disposition. (Laws '89-'90, p. 517, 

 sec. 1.) 



