Chapter 226. to validate and cure defects in certain acts of the legislative assembly of Washington Territory
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CHAP. 226.— An Act to validate and cure defects in certain acts of the legislative assembly of Washington Territory.July 5, 1884. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Acts of legislative assembly of the Territory of Washington, wherein detective, cured, and confirmed. That all those certain acts passed by the legislative assembly of the Territory of Washington at its ninth biennial session, commencing Monday, October first, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and ending November twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, namely:
An act to correct errors and supply defects in the code of Washington; An act amending chapter one hundred and ninety-three of the code, relative to the construction and maintenance of dikes and ditches; An act to prohibit the sale of toy pistols, firearms, and tobacco to children under the age of sixteen years; An act in relation to prosecuting attorneys, defining their duties, and fixing their compensation; An act to supply deficiencies in the appropriation for the hospital for the insane for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and eighty two and eighteen hundred and eighty three;
An act to provide for holding a term of the district court at Port Townsend; An act to enable the county commissioners of Yakima County to build certain bridges in Yakima County; An act to legalize certain ordinances and proceedings of the city of Seattle in condemning a strip of land for a public street; An act to provide for the payment of bills for printing blank commissions for general officers, commissioners of deeds, and notaries public, for use of the executive department;
An act to establish the county-seat of Garfield County at Pomeroy; Notwithstanding the omission of the enacting clause or the date of the governor’s approval, the misdating of such approval or other defect or other irregularity, are hereby validated and confirmed as of November twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, when they are supposed to have been approved. 123 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 226, 227. 1884. Sec. 2. That the words “subdivision twelve of” be inserted in the act of said legislative assembly entitled “An act to amend section three hundred and forty-seven of the code of Washington”, approved November twenty-third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, immediately after the word “that” where it first occurs in said act, and immediately before the word “section” therein, and that construction and effect be given to said act as though it contained said words.
Approved, July 5, 1884.