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PUBLIC LAND SURVEY. SECS. 595-596 



more than one-quarter of a township, one-quarter section of land." Act of Febru- 

 ary 26, 1859, chapter 58, 11 Stat. L. 385 ; act of May 20, 1826, chapter 83, 4 

 Stat. L. 179. 



See notes to 6 Fed. St. Ann. 464. 



See notes to preceding section. 



Cited: 13 How. 244 (14 L. Ed. 130) ; 210 U. S. 21 (52 L. Ed. 941) ; 81 

 Fed. 152; 84 Fed. 571. 



SEC. 595. PREFERENCE RIGHT OF STATE TO SELECT. 



The State of Washington shall have a preference right over any 

 person or corporation to select lands subject to entry by said state, 

 granted to said state by the foregoing chapter of this code, for a period 

 of sixty days after the lands have been surveyed and duly declared 

 to be subject to selection and entry under the General Land Laws of the 

 United States: And provided further, That such preference right shall 

 not accrue against bona flde homestead or pre-emption settlers on any 

 of said lands at the date of filing of the plat of survey of any township 

 in any local office of said state. (Act Mar. 3, '93; 27 Stat. L., p. 592; 

 6 Fed. Stat. Ann., p. 477.) 



This section is a proviso to the Sundry Civil Appropriations act of the date 

 stated. 



See next section. 



Cited : 205 Fed. 160 ; 16 Land Dec. 458, 496 ; 23 L. D. 147 ; 26 L. D. 237 ; 

 30 L. D. 369; 32 L. D. 107; 34 L. D. 140, 301; 36 L. D. 77, 90; 38 L. D. 

 166, 519; 39 L. D. 345, 393, 474. 



SEC. 596. GOVERNOR TO SELECT LAND FOR SURVEY PREF- 

 ERENCE RIGHT TO SELECT. 



It shall be lawful for the Governor of the State of Washington, 

 * * * to apply to the Commissioner of the General Land Office for 

 the survey of any township or townships of public land then remaining 

 unsurveyed in any of the several surveying districts with a view to 

 satisfy the public land grants made by the several acts admitting the 

 said states into the Union to the extent of the full quantity of land 

 called for thereby; and upon the application of said Governors the Com- 

 missioner of the General Land Office shall proceed to immediately notify 

 the Surveyor General of the application made by the Governor of any of 

 the said states of the application made for the withdrawal of said lands, 

 and the Surveyor General shall proceed to have the survey or surveys 

 so applied for made, as in the cases of surveys of public lands; and the 

 lands that may be found to fall within the limits of such township or 

 townships, as ascertained by the survey, shall be reserved upon the fil- 

 ing of the application for survey from any adverse appropriation by 

 settlement or otherwise except under rights that may be found to exist 

 of prior inception, for a period to extend from such application for sur- 

 vey until the expiration of sixty days from the date of the filing of the 

 township plat of survey in the proper district land office, during which 

 period of sixty days the state may select any of such lands not embraced 

 in any valid adverse claim, for the satisfaction of biich grants, with the 



