State ex rel. Hammond v. Ross

Citations

• 39 Wash. 233
• 81 P. 725
• 1905 Wash. LEXIS 849

Syllabus

<p>Public Lands—Oyster Reserves—State Oyster Commission— County Boards—Powers—Statute—Construction—Implied Repeal oe Provisions Relating to County Boards of Oyster Commissioners. Laws 1903, p. 340, creating a state oyster commission, prescribing duties practically tbe same as those of the county boards of oyster commissioners under Laws 1897, p. 299, and providing different fees and penalties for the same acts and violations, was clearly intended to give the whole control of oyster reserves to the state commission to the exclusion of the county boards, and impliedly entirely repeals the earlier law relating to the powers of county boards, which therefore have no further authority.</p>