, 1892-05-03

Make Application for Purchase.
Important EnfOrmatfon.
People who desire to purchase tide lands
of the frst-class in Thurston county, have
sixty days in which to make application
from the 29th of April last, the time thus
expiring june 29th. Blank applications to
purchase can be found with the county
auditor or can be procured from Commits
sioner of Public Lands Forrest.
Tide lands Of this state are divided BY law
into three classes, to-wit:
i. That which lies within, or in front of,
or within two miles on either side of, an in
corporated city.
2. All other tide lands having valuable
Improvements thereon
8. All tide lands not included in the first
or second class.
Exclusive rights to purchase tide lands
are given, for sixty days from and after the
filing Of the plat and report of appraisal
| thereof, with the board of eqalization and
| appeal, in the following cases; and such
exclusive rights are forfeited if not exer-
1 cised within the period SO stated, to-Wit:
/. To owners of valuable Improvements
in actual use for trade, commerce or busi-
ness, made upon tide lands prior to March
| 20, 1890.
/
3. to bona fide purchasers, or persons
claiming under such purchasers, to whom
owners or abutting uplands have attempted
to convey by deed tide land in front Of such
abutting upland.
| 4. To owners of artificial syster beds on
ground not covered with natural OYSTERS.
| Provided. That said oysters were planted
prior to March 26, 1890, and are not situated
within or in front of any incorporated city
or town, or within two miles thereof upon
either side.
The foregoing defined exclusive rights to
purchase apply to the appraised value of the
tide land In each case, as fixed by the local
board of appraisers, except where such APP
praised value shall have been subsequently
changed by action of the state board of
equalization and appeal.
The tide land appraisers of Thurston
county have deposited a copy of the plat
and record of the tide lands appraised in
front Of Olympia, with the county auditor
and another copy with the state board of
equalization. Section s of the tide land
law says:
Any person, association or corporation
entitled to purchase or hold real estate in
the state of Washington, who shall desire
to purchase under this act, may file with
the commissioner of public lands an appli-
cation to purchase any of the lands herein
described, which application shall contain
description of the land applied for by
metes and bounds. The commissioner Of
public lands shall furnish the state board
of equalization and appeal with true copy
of said application. Upon receipt of said
application the commissioner of public
lands shall, at the expense of the applicant,
publish for three weeks in any newspaper
printed in the county in which the land is
| ii7sttttatdJt4 &. nGp41z st 4 llll1I to
purchase, with description thereof. If,
at the expiration of thirty (30) days no no
tinn Of nontast ig Fl lpd with thn coid eta 10
board of equalization and appeal, said ap-
praisement shall stand confirmed and Be
the price at which said land shall be sold,
as hereinafter provided.
Sec. 8. Any person may contest any APP
plication for purchase or appraisal by filing
notice of said contest with the board Of
equalization and appeal, and also serving
copy ofsaid contest upon the applicant for
purchase, or his agent or attorney, where
upon it shall be the duty of said board
of equalization and appeal to fix
time and place to hear and deter
mine said contest: Provided, however,
that either party dissenting from the
opinion of said board Of equalization and
appeal on questions of law, fact or priority
Of right to purchase, may appeal to the
superior court of the county in which said
lands are situated within ten (10) days
after said hearing, which appeal shall
bring before the court the question whether
the appraisal represents the actual value Of
the land; and the matter shall be sub
mitted to Jury and tried as other appeal
cases are tried and the jury shall reap
praise the lands, with right to appeal as in
other cases: And be it further provided,
That upon the application of the three
free-holders, residents of the county
wherein the said lands are situated, it shall
be the duty of the prosecuting attorney of
said county to take an appeal from the de-
cision OF said board of equalization to the
superior court of such county, and con
duct the trial of the same In case the
Judgment rendered op such appeal should
not be in excess Of the appraised lands,
kthe cost of the appeal shall be taxed
against said appellants.
Sec. 10. Where no appeal is taken the
board of equalization and appeal shall GER
tify to the commissioner Of public lands
their findings, upon receipt of which said
commissioner shall deliver a certificate of
purchase to parties entitled thereto Pro
yided, Where an appeal has been taken,
upon the determination of the case the
clerk of the court shall certify the proceed
ings to the commissioner of public lands,
who shall issue certificate Of purchase to
| the person or persons entitled to purchase
according to the decree of said court.
Sec, IL. The owner or owners of lands
abutting or fronting upon OF bounded by
the shore of the Pacific ocean, or of any
bay, harbor, sound, inlet, lake or water
| course, shall have the right for sixty (60)
days following the filing Of the final an.
praisal Of the tide lands to purchase all or
any part of the tide lands in front of the
lands SO owned: Provided, That if valua-
BILE Improvements in actual use for COM
merce, trade or business have been made
upon said tide lands by any person, asso-
citation or corporation, the owner or own
ers OF such appointments shall have theeX-
elusive right to purchase the land SO I'M
proved for the period aforesaid: Provided
| further, That the occupant who has prior
| to the passage of this act, planted oysters
| in any bay or arm of the sea upon ground
not covered with natural oysters, or who
/ has, prior to the passage of this act ac-
/ quired by purchase therights of any other
! person or corporation to such occupancy,
| the same being not within or in
/ front of the limits of any incorporated
4 city or town, or within two
miles on each side thereof, shall have the
exclusive right to purchase the land so oc-
cupied for the period aforesaid, to an ex-
tent not exceeding eighty acres: Provided,
That nothing in this act shall be so CON
strued to apply to any improvements made
after the passage of this act.
Sec. 12. When the abutting upland
/ owner has attempted to convey by deed to
bona fide purchaser any portion of the
tide lands in front of such uplands, OF lit
| toral rights therein, such right of purchase
herein given to the upland owner shall be
construed to belong to such purchaser, or
to any person, association or corporation
4 claiming by, through or under such pur-
chaser, to the extent Of the tract or rights
so conveyed.
Sec. Is. In case the persons mentioned
in sections eleven and twelve Of this act do
not, within the time limited, exercise the
right to purchase herein given, then said
lands shall be open to the public for sale as
herein provided. The Commissioner of
public lands may sell the surveyed and
plated tide Ian remaining unsold, upon
The following te id conditions, to-wit;
He shall adverti ~ some newspaper of
general circulation, publishedin the county
in which said lands arc lnnatnd r,otinn