Nine-foot Channel from the Great Lakes to the Gulf: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Nine-Foot Channel from the Great Lakes to the Gulf, United States Senate, Sixty-seventh Congress, Fourth Session, on S. 4428, a Bill for the Improvement of Commerce and Navigation, and for Other Purposes. October 15, 16, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23, 26, and 27, 1923. [Sixty-eighth Congress, Second Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 411, 67th Congress, 4th Session, Appointing a Committee to Investigate and Report Upon the Problem for a Nine-foot Channel in the Waterway from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. January 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22, and 23, 1925. Volume 1-2] ... |
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Página 59 - ... any interference with or diversion from their natural channel of such waters on either side of the boundary, resulting in any injury on the other side of the boundary, shall give rise to the same rights and entitle the injured parties to the same legal remedies as if such injury took place in the country where such diversion or interference occurs...
Página 200 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free...
Página 60 - The following order of precedence shall be observed among the various uses enumerated hereinafter for these waters, and no use shall be permitted which tends materially to conflict with or restrain any other use which is given preference over it in this order of precedence : (1) Uses for domestic and sanitary purposes; (2) Uses for navigation, including the service of canals for the purposes of navigation ; (3) Uses for power and for irrigation purposes.
Página 59 - It is agreed that, in addition to the uses, obstructions, and diversions heretofore permitted or hereafter provided for by special agreement between the Parties hereto, no further or other uses or obstructions or diversions, whether temporary or permanent, of boundary waters on either side of the line, affecting the natural level or flow of boundary waters on the other side of the line, shall be made except by authority of the United States or the Dominion of Canada within their respective jurisdictions...
Página 22 - The right of the United States in the navigable waters within the several States is limited to the control thereof for purposes of navigation. Subject to that right Washington became upon its organization as a State the owner of the navigable waters within its boundaries and of the land under the same.
Página 198 - An act making appropriations for the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes...
Página 19 - It is not a prohibition of any obstruction to the navigation, but any obstruction to the navigable capacity, and anything, wherever done or however done, within the limits of the jurisdiction of the United States...
Página 9 - And since this court, in the case of The Genesee Chief, 12 How., 443, has declared that the Great Lakes and other navigable waters of the country, above as well as below the flow of the tide, are, in the strictest sense, entitled to the denomination of navigable waters...
Página 9 - The law of this land has always been that the right of the United States in the navigable waters within the several States is limited to the control thereof for purposes of navigation...
Página 131 - The navigation of the river St. Lawrence, ascending and descending, from the forty-fifth parallel of north latitude, where it ceases to form the boundary between the two countries, from, to, and into the sea, shall forever remain free and open for the purposes of commerce to the citizens of the United States, subject to any laws and regulations of Great Britain, or of the Dominion of Canada, not inconsistent with such privilege of free navigation.