§ 931 - Navigable rivers as public highways

CHAPTER 22— RIGHTS-OF-WAY AND OTHER EASEMENTS IN PUBLIC LANDS

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.

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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.