Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-08-09

said lands are situated Said viewer,
shall be governed by the road laws o
Washington Territory SO far as they
may be applicable, but if in their judg
ment such laws do not contain suffi
cient legislation to cover the case, they
may make such additional rules fol
their own government as they may
deem necessary, and for that purpose
the same powers are given to them AZ
are delegated to the Railroad Commits
sioners, under Section 81 of the article
upon Corporations in the Constitution
SEC. -. AS soon as the Censu.
Commissioners and the land viewer:
have completed their duties, they shall
report the result of the same to the
Governor of the Territory, who shall
thereupon proceed to divide the total
number OF acres of tide lands by the
total number Of old settlers, after add
lug the number seventy-eight thereto
and thereupon it shall be the duty OF
the viewers heretofore appointed to
proceed at once to divide all OF said
lands into as many lots, each contain
ing the number of acres given as the
result of said division, as there are old
settlers with IS added thereto as afore.
said, marking said lots by driving one
pile at the four corners of each lot,
which piles or stakes shall be plainly
marked with the number of the lots
faced by the several sides of said piles
or stakes.
SEC. -. When said clam or tide
lands have been divided into lots, and
marked rs aforesaid, it shall be the
duty of the Governor of the Territory
or State, as the case may be, to issue
his proclamation to the effect that said
tide or clam lands will be divided in
severalty among the old settlers, at a
time and place to be fixed in said
proclamation, which time shall not be
less than sixty days, nor more than
sixty years, after the first publication
of said proclamation.
Sec. -. At the time and place
named in said proclamation, the ole
settlers shall proceed to divide the
said lots as follows: The name O
each old settler shall be written upon
a separate slip of paper, and the mum
ber of each lot shall be likewise writer
upon separate slip of paper, which
said slips of paper shall be placed in
separate revolving churns; that is t(
say, The slips of paper containing
the names of the old settlers shall bt
placed in one churn, and the slips o
paper containing the numbers of the
lots shall be placed in another churn
and thereupon said churns shall b.
turned II sufficient length of time Il
make butter come. Prouided, that i
churns cannot be provided, ice-crean
freezers may be substituted; and pro
pided further, That before said slips oi
paper containing the numbers of til,
lots are placed in the churns as afore
said, the Honorable Edward Eldridgt
and Francis Henry shall be permitted
to select two lots each, the Governo
one lot, and each OF the members o
this Convention one lot, and the mum
bers corresponding with the lots so SC
lected shall be given to the person
selecting them, and said lots shall
thenceiorth become their property il
fee simple, after which said shakin,
shall take place, and upon the com
pletion thereof, some person, to be
selected by the old settlers, shall pro
ceed to draw the tickets from tn,
churns, one from each churn at time
the number of the lot drawn shall b,
the lot of the old settler whose nam
is upon the card drawn from the othe
churn at the same time.
SEC. -. Upon the completion o
said drawing, it shall be the duty o
the Governor to issue to each of tn,
persons, in the name of the futur
State of Washington, patent convey
ing the land drawn by him in fee sim
pie, and the legislature shall, at it
first session. ratify and confirm eacl
and everything that may have been
or may be done. under this article.
SEC. =. 1t shall be the duty of tn
National Guard of Washington t,
maintain the old settlers in thei
rights; and for that purpose the arti
Gle on Military Affairs shall be consid
cred in force in all OF its provision
just as it read before it was disembow
eled in the Committee of the Whole.
Sec. -. AS tide or clam lands can
not be improved for the use of old set
tiers, by changing them from their ns
tural condition it shall be the duty Q
the Governor to remove all buildings
wharves, filings and other erections
therefrom, and as near as may be, re
store said lots to their primitive con
dition; and in case the so-called i'm
provements shall have exterminate,
the clans, upon any such lot or lots, j
shall be the duty of the Governor t.
SOW, or cause to be sowed, broadcast
upon said lot, or lots, CLAIMS, at tn
rate of twenty-five bushels to the acre
at the expense of the State.
A. A. DRNNY,
HILLoRY BUTLER,
II. L. YEsLER,
DEXTER HORTON,
J. H. HI. VAN BoKKELLES,
JAMES G. SWAN,
ALBERT BRIGGS,
| EDNAkD ELDklDGE,
HENRY RHoDER,
+. c. FERGUSON,
WM. BENTON,
ID. II. BIGELow,
And 800 others.
| believe the above is founded OF
justice, and presents the only practi
cal solution of the tide-land question
but would have been better please,
with the plan if the distribution Of lot
had been slightly extended.
r. S. GREENE.
We concur in the above,
THOMAS BURKE,
ORANGE JACOBS,
J. X. LEWIS,
| c. II. HANFoRD,
b. +. DENNIsoN,
c. G. HEWITT.
/ believe these sections will hold wa
ter in any court.
J. b. METCALFE.
Referred to Committee of the Whole
Dickey, presented a report from tn
Committee on Miscellaneous Subjects
recommending separate submission o
a Prohibition Article. Laid over on
day and ordered printed.
The Convention resolved Itself int
Committee of the Whole, Bowen il
the chair, and the great question OF
Board of Railroad Commissioners wa
at once taken up, and the majority re
port of section 81, establishing such
Board, was considered and discussed.
Grifiits, opened up discussion by tn