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Repeal.

Emergency.

or other lands shall be included within the provisions of this act, and whenever any such land will be benefited by such improvement they shall be included in the apportionment of the costs of the improvement. When an assessment has heretofore been made or is hereafter made against any such land for such improvement it shall be assessed according to the subdivision thereof and such land thereby placed upon the tax rolls the same as other lands.

SEC. 2. That section 2 of said act be and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. An emergency exists and this act shall take effect immediately.

Passed the Senate February 19, 1907.

Passed the House March 6th, 1907.

Approved by the Governor March 9th, 1907.

Several

CHAPTER 92.

[S. B. 216.]

JOINDER OF CAUSES OF ACTION.

AN ACT relating to the joinder of causes of action and amending section 4942 of Ballinger's Annotated Codes and Statutes of Washington.

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

SECTION 1. Section 4942 of Ballinger's Annotated Codes and Statutes of Washington is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 4942. The plaintiff may unite action may several causes of action in the same complaint, when they all arise out of,

causes of

be united.

1. Contract, express or implied; or

2. Injuries, with or without force, to the person; or 3. Injuries, with or without force, to property; or

4. Injuries, to character; or

5. Claims to recover real property, with or without damages for the withholding thereof; or

6. Claims to recover personal property, with or without damages for the withholding thereof; or

7. Claims against a trustee, by virtue of a contract or by operation of law.

8. The same transaction.

But the causes of action so united must affect all the

parties to the action, and not require different places of trial, and must be separately stated.

Passed the Senate February 20th, 1907.

Passed the House March 6th, 1907.

Approved by the Governor March 9th, 1907.

CHAPTER 93.
[S. B. 141.]

EMPLOYMENT OF CONVICTS ON STATE ROADS. AN ACT providing for the employment of convicts on state roads, and declaring an emergency.

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

charge.

Expenses

road fund.

SECTION 1. All convicts confined and not otherwise Persons in employed shall be employed under authority of the State Board of Control in charge of the Superintendent of the Penitentiary or of such other persons in the employ of the State as the State Board of Control shall direct, in the building of state roads in this state. All expenses of paid from whatsoever nature incurred through such employment shall be paid from the fund appropriated by the State Legislature for the construction of the particular road or roads upon which such convicts may be employed. The places where and the manner in which work shall be performed upon state roads by such convicts shall be designated by the State Highway Board.

SEC. 2. An emergency exists and this act shall take Emergency. effect immediately.

Passed the Senate February 14th, 1907.

Passed the House March 6th, 1907.

Approved by the Governor March 9th, 1907.

Salaries.

Payment.

Salaries not affected

CHAPTER 94.

[S. B. 181.]

SALARIES OF STATE OFFICERS.

AN ACT fixing the salaries of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor,
Secretary of State, Treasurer, Auditor, Attorney General,
Superintendent of Public Instruction and Commissioner of
Public Lands, and providing for the manner of payment.

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

SECTION 1. That the annual salaries of the following named officers are hereby fixed as follows: Governor, six thousand dollars; Lieutenant Governor, twelve hundred dollars; Secretary of State, three thousand dollars; Treasurer, three thousand dollars; Auditor, three thousand dollars; Attorney General, three thousand dollars; Superintendent of Public Instruction, three thousand dollars; and Commissioner of Public Lands, three thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. The salaries herein provided for shall be paid at the times and in the manner now provided by law.

SEC. 3. In all cases mentioned in section 1 where the during pres- salary of the officer was prescribed by law at the time of

ent term.

his election and qualification, the salary so prescribed shall
remain during the present term the same as at the time
of such election and qualification.

Passed the Senate February 15th, 1907.
Passed the House February 27th, 1907.
Approved by the Governor March 9th, 1907.

CHAPTER 95.

[S. B. 233.]

AMENDING ACT PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT
AND CREATION OF DIKING DISTRICTS, ETC.

AN ACT to amend section 7 of an act entitled "An act to provide
for the establishment and creation of diking districts and the
construction and maintenance of a system of dikes, and to pro-
vide for the means of payment thereof, and declaring an emer-
gency," approved March 20th, 1895, and relating to diking dis-
tricts, their formation and organization, the construction and
maintenance of a system of dikes including the straightening,
deepening and widening of rivers, water courses, and streams,
and protecting the banks thereof, enlarging the rights,
powers and duties of the commissioners thereof, disposing of
the interests of the state in the beds and shores of navigable
waters, streams or water courses, and declaring an emergency.

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

districts.

SECTION 1. That section 7 of an act entitled "An Act to provide for the establishment and creation of diking districts and the construction and maintenance of a system of dikes and to provide a means of payment thereof, and declaring an emergency," approved March 20th, 1895, be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 7. All diking districts organized under the pro- Powers of visions of this act shall have the right of eminent domain with the power by and through its board of commissioners to cause to be condemned and appropriated private property for the use of said organization, in the construction and maintenance of a system of dikes and make just compensation therefor; that the property of private corporations may be subjected to the same rights of eminent domain as private individuals, and said board of commissioners shall have the power to acquire by purchase all the real property necessary to make the improvements provided for by this act. All diking districts and the commissioners thereof now organized and existing, and all diking districts hereafter to be organized, and the commissioners thereof shall have in addition to the rights, powers and authority now conferred by any law of this state:

Rights of way.

(1st). The right, power and authority to straighten, widen, deepen and improve any and all rivers, water courses or streams, whether navigable or otherwise, flowing through or located within the boundaries of such diking district.

(2nd). To construct all needed and auxiliary ditches, canals, flumes, locks and all other necessary artificial appliances in the construction of a diking system and which may be necessary or advisable to protect the land in any diking district from overflow or to assist and become necessary in the preservation and maintenance of such diking system.

(3rd). In the accomplishment of the foregoing objects, the commissioners of such diking districts are hereby given, in addition to the right and power of eminent domain now conferred by law upon the commissioners of any diking district, the right, power and authority by purchase, or the exercise of the power and authority of eminent domain, or otherwise, to acquire all necessary or needed rights of way in the straightening, deepening or widening of such rivers, water courses or streams, and such auxiliary ditches or canals hereinabove mentioned, and when so acquired shall have and are hereby given the right, power and authority, by and with the consent and approval of the United States government, in cases where such consent is necessary, to divert, alter or change the bed or course of any such river, water course or stream aforesaid, or to deepen or widen the same.

SEC. 2. The right, power and authority to acquire the necessary and needed rights of way for any and all purposes now existing by law or created by this act, may be acquired by the commissioners of any diking district over, across and upon any land, or interest therein, of the State of Washington or any county of this state, and streets, avenues, alleys or public places of any city, town or municipal corporation of this state: Provided, however, That the construction of such dike or dikes shall not have the effect of impairing any right, power or authority now existing on the part of any city or town to construct in, upon, underneath, above or across such dike or dikes,

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