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In the House. By Mr. Meany

House Bill No. 378.

STATE OF WASHINGTON, THIRD REGULAR SESSION.

Read first and second time by title February 17th, and referred to Committee on Tide Lands.

AN ACT

To create a Harbor Line Commission and prescribe its duties and the compensation of its members, and declaring an emergency.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington:

SECTION 1. There is hereby created a harbor line commission to consist of five com-
2 missioners, who shall be disinterested person, citizens of this state, to be appointed by the
3 governor.

SEC. 2. Said commissioners shall hold office until the first day of April, 1895. Should
2 a vacancy or vacancies occur in said board by resignation or otherwise, the same shall be
3 filled by appointment by the governor.

SEC. 3. The duties of the said harbor line commission shall be to locate and establish
2 harbor lines in the navigable waters of all harbors, estuaries, bays and inlets of this state,
3 wherever such harbor lines have not already been located and established by the board of
4 harbor line commissioners heretofore existing in this state, and wherever such navigable
5 waters lie within or in front of the corporate limits of any city, or within one mile thereof
6 upon either side, and to determine the area mentioned in section 1 of article XV of the
7 constitution of the State of Washington, and to revise, modify, change, revoke, relocate, re-
8 establish and redetermine harbor lines and areas already established or determined by said
9 board of harbor line commissioners, and to perform all other duties provided and prescribed
10 in article XV of the constitution of the State of Washington, and all such other duties as
11 the law may prescribe; and wherever and whenever said harbor line commission shall have
12 established and determined or re-established or redetermined the lines or areas as herein
13 provided in any of the navigable waters of the harbors, estuaries, bays and inlets of this
14 state, it shall file the plat thereof in the office of the secretary of state and a duplicate
15 thereof in the office of the clerk of the city where harbor lines and areas shall have been by
16 it located and determined, or relocated or redetermined, and from and after the filing of said
17 plat the harbor lines and areas established and determined or re-established or redetermined
18 as therein and thereon designed and displayed shall be and the same are declared to be the
19 harbor lines and areas of that portion of the navigable waters of this state: Provided, That