United States Congressional Serial SetU.S. Government Printing Office, 1913 - United States Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. |
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25 Stat 30 Stat act of August act of Congress act of June act of March act of September amended appropriation approval August 11 bridge channel charge Chief of Engineers commerce construction corporation court débris deemed deposit discretion dredging dumping duty expenses Government grant harbor act harbor improvements harbor lines held hereafter hereby authorized hydraulic hydraulic mining ibid improvement of rivers Isthmian Canal Commission July June 13 June 29 jurisdiction leases or licenses legally legislation ment Mississippi River Missouri River Muskingum River navigable river navigable waters necessary obstruction to navigation Ohio River Opin owner penalty permit persons piers prescribed prohibited protection purpose regulations removal river and harbor scow or boat Secretary Secretary of War section 9 September 19 specific statute streams structure submitted supervisor thereto tion tributaries United United States Army vessel violation waterway
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Page 109 - Those rivers must be regarded as public navigable rivers in law which are navigable in fact. And they are navigable in fact when they are used, or are susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water.
Page 100 - An Act to provide revenue, equalize duties, and encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes.
Page 4 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said Territory as to the citizens of the United States and those of any other States that may be admitted into the Confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Page 118 - Provided, That such structures may be built under authority of the legislature of a State across rivers and other waterways, the navigable portions of which lie wholly within the limits of a single State, provided the location and plans thereof are submitted to and approved by the Chief of Engineers...
Page 15 - States, and such commissioner, judge, or court shall proceed in respect thereto as authorized by law in case of crimes against the United States...
Page 47 - That any and every master, and engineer, or person or persons acting in such capacity, respectively, on board of any boat or vessel, who shall knowingly engage in towing any scow, boat, or vessel loaded with any such prohibited matter to any point or place of deposit, or discharge...
Page 109 - The capability of use by the public for purposes of transportation and commerce affords the true criterion of the navigability of a river, rather than the extent and manner of that use. If it be capable in its natural state of being used for purposes of commerce, no matter in what mode the commerce may be conducted, it is navigable in fact, and becomes *in law a public river or [*442 highway.
Page 100 - An Act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans...
Page 98 - The Republic of Panama further grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation and control of any other lands and waters outside of the zone above described which may be necessary and convenient for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of the said canal or of any auxiliary canals or other works necessary and convenient for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of the said enterprise.
Page 9 - War; and it shall not be lawful to excavate or fill, or in any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition, or capacity of any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, canal, lake, harbor or refuge, or inclosure within the limits of any breakwater, or of the channel of any navigable water of the United States, unless the work has been recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War prior to beginning the same.