Duty of warrant holder. As to endorsing and keeping record. Emergency. Duty of Warrant Holder. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the holder of any state general fund warrant, upon presenting the same to the Treasurer for payment, to accept from the Treasurer therefor the amount thereien directed to be paid, whenever the Treasurer has in his hands money belonging to the permanent school fund in an amount equal to or in excess of the face or par value of such general fund warrant, and the Treasurer shall not indorse any general fund warrant "not paid for want of funds," when there shall be in his hands money belonging to the permanent school fund in amount equal to or in excess of any such warrant presented for payment, and from and after the date of such purchase such warrants shall bear interest as though they were stamped "not paid for want of funds." As to Endorsing and Keeping Record. SEC. 3. The State Treasurer shall stamp or write across the face of each of such warrants the words "purchased by the permanent school fund," and shall keep a record of all such warrants so purchased, and shall report to the State Auditor by number, amount and date of purchase all state general fund warrants purchased by him with permanent school funds, and shall be credited therewith, and shall safely keep such warrants until they shall be paid out of the general fund in their regular order. When so paid he shall report the payment thereof to the Auditor by number, amount and date of payment together with the amount of interest accrued thereon from date of purchase to date of payment at the legal rate, and shall credit the permanent school fund with the principal thereof and the current common school fund with interest accrued thereon. Emergency. SEC. 4. An emergency exists and this act shall take effect immediately. Approved March 7, 1899. PAYMENTS ON WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SITE. [Chap. CXII, Session Laws of 1899.] Appropriation on General Fund. on general school fund. SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated out of the general Apropriation fund in the state treasury the sum of eight thousand four hundred fund. and ninety-four and ten hundredths dollars ($8,494.10) for the purpose of paying the delinquent interest due and owing from the University of Washington on state school land contract of sale No. 1351 issued October 11, 1893, to the University of Washington for the benefit of the current school fund of said state, and the State For current Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant on the general fund for said sum of $8,494.10 in favor of said current school fund, and which said appropriation of $8,494.10, together with the legal rate of interest on state warrants shall be refunded to the general fund of the state from the university fund Refunded by at such time as there may be funds in said university fund to refund fund. the same: Provided, That in case there shall not be any money with which to pay said warrant when the same is presented for payment, said State Treasurer shall purchase said warrant with any moneys university by permanent in his hands belonging to the permanent school fund under the or purchased terms and provisions of section 69, chapter LXXXIX, Session Laws school fund. of 1897. Annual Interest Appropriation. SEC. 2. Annual There is hereby appropriated out of the university interest fund of the State of Washington, annually, from and after October appropriation. 11, 1898, the sum of sixteen hundred and ninety-eight and eightytwo hundredths dollars ($1,698.82) to meet the payments of interest accruing upon said state school land contract of sale No. 1351, and the State Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant upon the university fund in favor of the current school fund for said annual interest charged when the same shall become due. Emergency. SEC. 3. An emergency exists, and this act shall take effect im- Emergency. mediately. Approved March 13, 1899. CEDING JURISDICTION TO UNITED STATES. [Chap. XVII, Session Laws of 1891, p. 31.] 'Consent Consent of State to Acquisition of Lands By United States. SECTION 1. That the consent of the State of Washington be and the same is hereby given to the acquisition by purchase or United States. by condemnation, under the laws of this state relating to the ap Conveyances to be recorded. State to retain concurrent jurisdiction. propriation of private property to public uses, by the United States of America, or under the authority of the same, of any tract, piece or parcel of land, from any individual or individuals, bodies politic or corporate, within the boundaries or limits of this state, for the sites of locks, dams, piers, breakwaters, keepers' dwellings, and other necessary structures and purposes required in the improvement of the rivers and harbors of this state or bordering thereon, or for the sites of forts, magazines, arsenals, docks, navy yards, naval stations, or other needful buildings authorized by any act of Congress, and all deeds, conveyances of title papers for the same shall be recorded, as in other cases, upon the land records of the county in which the lands so acquired may lie; and in like manner may be recorded a sufficient description by metes and bounds, courses and distances, of any tract or tracts, legal divisions or subdivisions of any public land belonging to the United States which may be set apart by the general government for any or either of the purposes before mentioned by an order, patent or other official document or papers describing such land; the consent herein and hereby given being in accordance with the seventeenth clause of the eighth section of the first article of the Constitution of the United States, and with the acts of Congress in such cases made and provided, and the jurisdiction of this state is hereby ceded to the United States of America over all such land or lands as may have been or may be hereafter acquired by purchase or by condemnation, or set apart by the general government for any or either of the purposes before mentioned: Provided, That this state shall retain a concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and over all tracts so acquired or set apart, as aforesaid, so far as that all civil and criminal process that may issue under the authority of this state against any person or persons charged with crimes committed, or for any cause of action or suit accruing without the bounds of any such tract, may be executed therein in the same manner and with like effect as though this assent and cession had not been granted. Exempt From Taxation. taxation. SEC. 2. The tracts, pieces or parcels of land so acquired or Exempt from set apart, together with the tenements and appurtenances, for the purposes before mentioned, shall be held exempt from taxation by the State of Washington. Approved February 24, 1891. SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN SCHOOL LANDS FOR USE OF AMERICAN PATRIOTIC MEMORIAL COLLEGE. [Chap. LXII, Session Laws of 1895, p. 106.] Sale of Lands in Twp. 38 N., R. 2 E., W. M. in Twp. 38 W. M. In trust for Memorial SECTION 1. That all the lands now owned by the State of Sale of lands Washington heretofore granted to said state, for educational pur- N., R. 2 E., poses, in township No. 38 N., 2 E., W. M., in the county of Whatcom, State of Washington, shall be appraised and sold at auction, as required by law, and bid in by the Governor of said state, or his order. That said lands shall be held in trust for the use and benefit of the American Patriotic Memorial College, American a corporation existing under and by virtue of the laws of the Patriotic State of Washington, and that said lands shall not be available College. for the use and benefit of said college until the aforesaid incorporated association, composed of soldiers, sailors, marines and Conditional those engaged in the life saving service, including the Union to deposit. and Confederate soldiers of the late war of the rebellion from 1861-5 and their descendants, have deposited in the treasury of the United States the sum of one million dollars, to be held in trust by the Treasurer of the United States, subject to the rules and regulations as specified in Congressional Senate bill No. 2311, introduced by Senator Squire in the 53rd Congress, second ses Held in trust five years. sion, providing for the establishment and maintenance of a college for the education of the daughters of all soldiers, sailors, marines and those engaged in the life saving service, including both the Union and Confederate soldiers of the civil war of the rebellion from 1861-5, and the descendants of soldiers, sailors, marines and those engaged in the life saving service of all other wars in which the United States has been or may hereafter be engaged. Held In Trust Five Years. SEC. 2. That the State of Washington shall hold said lands in trust for the use and benefit of said association for the term of five years from the date of sale, at which time the trustees. of said Patriotic Memorial College shall pay to the State TreasWhen enti- urer of said state the full amount of the purchase price for said on payment. lands, and shall be entitled to a good and sufficient deed therefor, and in default of the payment for said lands by said association, as above stated, this act shall become null and void. tled to deed REPEALING ACT SETTING ASIDE CERTAIN SCHOOL [Chap. CI, Session Laws of 1903, p. 154.] AN ACT to repeal an act entitled "An act providing for the setting aside of certain school lands to the use and for the benefit of the American Patriotic Memorial College," approved March 13, 1895. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington: SECTION 1. That an act entitled "An act providing for the setting aside of certain school lands to the use and for the benefit of the American Patriotic Memorial College," approved March 13, 1895, be and the same is hereby repealed. |