CHAPTER 41. [S. B. 148.] CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF RAILROADS IN AN ACT granting additional authority to cities of the first class Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington: notwith charter SECTION 1. Any city of the first class shall have the Authority power by ordinance to authorize the location, construction standing and operation of railroads in, along, over and across any provisions. highway, street, alley or public place in such city, for such term of years and upon such conditions as the city council of such city may by ordinance prescribe, notwithstanding any provisions of the charter of such city limiting the terms of franchises, or requiring such franchises to contain a provision that such city shall at any time have the right to appropriate, by purchase, the property of the corporation receiving any franchise, license, privilege or authority: Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall be construed as applying to street railroads cepted. or railroads operated in connection with street railroads, in and along the streets of such city. Street rail roads ex SEC. 2. An emergency exists and this act shall take Emergency. effect immediately. Passed the Senate February 13th, 1907. Passed the House February 20th, 1907. Approved by the Governor February 26th, 1907. Commissioner to prospect. Establishment. CHAPTER 42. [S. B. 77.] FISH HATCHERY ON LEWIS RIVER. AN ACT to establish a state fish hatchery on the Lewis river, or some of its tributaries, in Cowlitz county, in the State of Washington. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington: SECTION 1. That the State Fish Commissioner is hereby authorized and directed to prospect the Lewis river and its tributaries, in Cowlitz county with a view of establishing and maintaining a state salmon hatchery thereon. SEC. 2. That if after investigating, the State Fish Commissioner finds the Lewis river, in Cowlitz county, or any of its tributaries, a suitable stream for the location of a salmon hatchery he is hereby authorized and directed to establish and maintain a state salmon hatchery on said Lewis river, or its tributaries, in Cowlitz county. Passed the Senate February 4th, 1907. Passed the House February 20th, 1907. Commissioner to prospect. Establishment. CHAPTER 43. FISH HATCHERY ON LYLE RIVER. AN ACT to establish a state fish hatchery on the Lyle river, in Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington: SEC. 2. That if after investigation, the State Fish Commissioner finds the Lyle river in Clallam county a suitable stream for the location of a hatchery, he is hereby authorized and directed to establish and maintain a state salmon hatchery on said Lyle river in Clallam county. Passed the Senate February 4th, 1907. Passed the House February 20th, 1907. CHAPTER 44. [S. B. 60.] FILING OF PLATS. AN ACT to amend section 1263 Ballinger's Annotated Codes and Statutes of Washington, relating to filing of plats and payment, assessment and collection of taxes upon the same. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington: SECTION 1. That section 1263 of Ballinger's Anno- Deposit. tated Codes and Statutes of Washington shall be amended to read as follows: Section 1263. Any person filing a plat subsequent to May 31st, in any year and prior to the date of the collection of taxes, shall deposit with the county treasurer a sum equal to an increase of twenty-five per cent. of the amount of the tax for the previous year on the property platted. The treasurer's receipt for said amount shall be taken by the auditor as evidence of the payment of the tax. The treasurer shall appropriate so much of said deposit as will pay the taxes on the said Taxes. property when the tax rolls are placed in his hands for collection, and in case the sum deposited is in excess of the amount necessary for the payment of the said taxes, the treasurer shall return, to the party depositing, the amount of said excess, taking his receipt therefor, which receipt. shall be accepted for its face value on the treasurer's quarterly settlement with the county auditor. Any plat filed in accordance with the provisions of this act subsequent to March 1st, and on or before May 31st, of any year, shall be assessed as though of record, March 1st. Passed the Senate February 7th, 1907. Passed the House February 20th, 1907. Approved by the Governor February 26th, 1907. Registration by finder. CHAPTER 45. [S. B. 86.] ESTRAYS. AN ACT to amend section 3 of an act entitled "An act in relation to estrays, providing for their detention, regulation and sale, and prescribing penalties for its violation," approved February 16, 1905. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington: SECTION 1. That section three of an act entitled "An Act in relation to estrays, providing for their detention, regulation and sale, and prescribing penalties for its violation," approved February 16, 1905, is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 3. Any person about whose premises any animal may be in the habit of running at large at any time between the 1st day of October and the 1st day of March east of the Cascade range and between the first day of December and the first day of March, west of the Cascade range, may take up such animal, and shall within ten days thereafter cause the same to be registered with the county auditor of his county under "Estrays Found," giving the information required by the record as fully as practicable, and the auditor shall charge against such estrays the said fee of fifty cents for each animal so registered. Breachy or vicious animals may be taken up and registered as herein provided. The word "Animal” or "Animals" for the purpose of this act, shall include only horses, mules, cattle and hogs. Passed the Senate February 5th, 1907. Passed the House February 20th, 1907. Approved by the Governor February 26th, 1907. CHAPTER 46. [H. B. 340 Sub. for H. B. 107.] TAXATION OF BANK STOCK. AN ACT relating to assessment and taxation of bank stock, and declaring an emergency. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Washington: SECTION 1. All the shares of stock in banks whether Assessment. of issue or not, existing by authority of the United States or of the state, and located within the state, shall be assessed to the owners thereof in the cities or towns, where such banks are located, and not elsewhere, in the assessment of all state, county and municipal taxes imposed and levied in such place whether such owner is a resident of said city or town or not; all such shares shall be assessed at their full and fair value in money on the first day of March in each year, first deducting therefrom the proportionate part of the assessed value of the real estate belonging to the bank. And the persons or corporations who appear from the records of the banks to be owners of shares at the close of the business day next preceding the first day of March in each year shall be taken and deemed to be the owners thereof for the purposes of this section. SEC. 2. An emergency exists and this act shall take effect immediately. Passed the House February 19th, 1907. Passed the Senate February 27th, 1907. Approved by the Governor February 27th, 1907. Who shall be deemed owners. Emergency. |