Navigable rivers as public highways

  1. Law
  2. USC 43
  3. Public Lands
  4. RIGHTS-OF-WAY AND OTHER EASEMENTS IN PUBLIC LANDS
  5. Navigable rivers as public highways

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§931. Navigable rivers as public highways

All navigable rivers, within the territory occupied by the public lands, shall remain and be deemed public highways; and, in all cases where the opposite banks of any streams not navigable belong to different persons, the stream and the bed thereof shall become common to both.

(R.S. §2476.)


Editorial Notes

Codification

R.S. §2476 derived from acts May 18, 1796, ch. 29, §9, 1 Stat. 468 ; Mar. 3, 1803, ch. 27, §17, 2 Stat. 235 .


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