CHAPTER 36. [H. B. 253.] RELATING TO STATE LANDS AND THEIR MANAGEMENT. AN ACT to amend section 4 of an act entitled, "An act to provide for the selection, survey, management, reclamation, lease and disposition of the state's granted school, tide, oyster and other lands, harbor areas and for the confirmation and completion of the several grants to the state by the United States; creating a board of appraisers and a board of harbor line commissioners, as required by articles 15 and 16 of the state constitution, which shall be generally known as the board of state land commissioners; defining their duties and making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. Approved March 16, 1897," and to grant to former purchasers of tide lands of the second class, their grantees and successors in interest, the prior and preference rights to purchase all lands over which the tide ebbs and flows, lying between the line of mean low tide and the line of extreme low tide, and lying in front of such tide lands of the second class heretofore sold or conveyed to such purchasers, their grantees and successors in interest by the State of Washington, and declaring an emergency. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington: SECTION 1. That section 4 of an act entitled "An act to provide for the selection, survey, management, reclamation, lease and disposition of the state's granted, school, tide, oyster and other lands, harbor areas, and for the confirmation and completion of the several grants to the state by the United States; creating a board of appraisers and a board of harbor line commissioners, as required by articles 15 and 16 of the state constitution, which shall [Amending be generally known as the Board of State Land Commis- Rem.-Bal.] sioners; defining their duties and making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency, approved March 16, 1897," be amended to read as follows, to-wit: Sec. 4. That for the purpose of this act all lands belonging to and under the control of the state shall be divided into the following classes: (1) Granted Lands. (a) Common school lands and lieu and indemnity lands therefor. (b) University lands § 6641, Tide lands. Shore lands. Harbor lines. Preferenced rights. [See $$ 67566757, Rem.Bal.] and lieu and indemnity therefor. (c) Other educational land grants. (d) Lands granted to the State of Washington for other than educational purposes, and lieu and indemnity lands therefor. (e) All other lands, including lands acquired or to be hereafter acquired by grant, deed of sale, or gift, or operation of law, including arid lands. (2) Tide Lands. All lands over which the tide ebbs and flows from the line of ordinary high tide to the line of extreme low tide, except in front of cities where harbor lines have been established or may hereafter be established, where such tide lands shall be those lying between the line of ordinary high tide and the inner harbor line and excepting oyster reserves. (3) Shore Lands. Lands bordering on the shores of navigable lakes and rivers below the line of ordinary high water and not subject to tidal flow. (4) Harbor Lines and Areas. Such lines and areas as are described in article 15 of the constitution of the State of Washington and which have been established according to law. All of which outer harbor lines so established as aforesaid are hereby ratified and confirmed, also all such harbor lines and areas as may and shall be hereafter established. SEC. 2. That the prior and preference right to purchase all tide lands of the second class lying between the line of mean low tide and the line of extreme low tide in front of all tide lands of the second class heretofore sold or conveyed by the State of Washington is hereby granted for the period of ninety days from the date this act goes into effect to the purchasers, their grantees or successors in interest of any tide lands of the second class heretofore sold or conveyed by the State of Washington. Such additional tide lands may be so purchased at the rate of one dollar per lineal chain measurement to be based on the United States government meander lines bordering the said tide lands heretofore sold. Upon application and payment for such additional tide lands within said ninety days to the land commissioner of the State of Washington, deed shall be issued to the respective purchaser or purchasers therefor. If such application and payment is not made within said ninety days by the parties to whom the preference rights under this section are given then such additional tide land shall be sold as other tide lands are sold under the laws of the State of Washington. SEC. 3. An emergency exists and this act shall take effect immediately. Passed the House February 14, 1911. Passed the Senate March 2, 1911. Approved by the Governor March 8, 1911. Emergency. CHAPTER 37. [H. B. 12.] LIMITING HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT OF FEMALES. AN ACT to regulate and limit the hours of employment of females in any mechanical or mercantile establishment, laundry, hotel or restaurant; except establishments engaged in harvesting, packing, curing, canning or drying certain perishable articles and providing a saving clause as to such exception; to provide for its enforcement and a penalty for its violation. § 6580, Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington: SECTION 1. No female shall be employed in any me- [Amending chanical or mercantile establishment, laundry, hotel or Rem.-Bal.] restaurant in this state more than eight hours during any day. The hours of work may be so arranged as to permit the employment of females at any time so that they shall not work more than eight hours during the twenty-four: Eight hours. Provided, however, That the provisions of this section in relation to the hours of employment shall not apply to, nor affect, females employed in harvesting, packing, curing, canning or drying any variety of perishable fruit or vegetable, nor to females employed in canning fish or shellfish. If it shall be adjudicated that the foregoing proviso and exception shall be unconstitutional and invalid Validity. [Amending $$ 6566-6567, Rem.-Bal.] Seats to be provided. Penalty. [See § 6568, Rem.-Bal.] for any reason, an adjudication of invalidity of said proviso or of any part of this act shall not affect the validity of the act as a whole or any other part thereof. SEC. 2. Every employer in establishments where females are employed shall provide suitable seats for them and shall permit the use of such seats by them when they are not engaged in the active duties for which they are employed, and every such employer shall keep posted in an open and conspicuous place in each room where such females are at work a copy of this act printed in such form and style as may be prescribed by the commissioner of labor. SEC. 3. Any employer, overseer, superintendent or other agent of any such employer who shall violate any of the provisions of this act, shall, upon conviction thereof be fined for each offense in a sum not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. Passed the House February 27, 1911. Passed the Senate March 4, 1911. Approved by the Governor March 9, 1911. Appropriating $500.00. CHAPTER 38. APPROPRIATING FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR PRINTING. AN ACT appropriating the sum of five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to pay for such additional printing as may be ordered by the Twelfth Legislature or either branch thereof. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington: SECTION 1. That there be and is hereby appropriated out of the funds of the State of Washington not otherwise appropriated the sum of five hundred dollars to pay for such printing as may be ordered by the twelfth legislature or either branch thereof in excess of the sum of ten thousand dollars heretofore appropriated, such printing to be done under the provisions of an act of the legislature, approved March 11, 1905. Passed the House March 7, 1911. Passed the Senate March 7, 1911. Approved by the Governor March 9, 1911. CHAPTER 39. [H. B. 181.] REGULATING SALE OF MILK AND CREAM. AN ACT regulating the sale of bottled milk and bottled cream in cities of the first class, and providing a penalty for the violation thereof. [See gen erally $$ 2512-2515, Rem.-Bal.] Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington: SEC. 2. Any person, firm or corporation in the State of Washington selling or offering for sale any bottled milk inscribed. or bottled cream which do not have inscribed on the caps Misdemeanor. of the bottles the name of the dairy, person, firm or corporation offering the same for sale, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. and penalty. SEC. 3. Any person, firm or corporation in the state selling or offering for sale any bottled milk or bottled cream with caps containing the name of some person, firm Substituting or corporation other than the owner of the same, for the purpose of inducing or securing a sale, or in any other way wrongfully or fraudulently brand the same as to name, or otherwise, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Passed the House February 7, 1911. Passed the Senate February 15, 1911.. Approved by the Governor March 9, 1911. |