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Title 33 - Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 1 - NAVIGABLE WATERS GENERALLY (§§ 1 - 59kk)
Subchapter I - GENERAL PROVISIONS (§§ 1 - 12)
Section 10 - Waters in Louisiana Purchase as public highways
GENERAL PROVISIONS - 33 U.S.C. § 10 (2012)
§10. Waters in Louisiana Purchase as public highways
All the navigable rivers and waters in the former Territories of Orleans and Louisiana shall be and forever remain public highways.
(R.S. §5251.)
CodificationR.S. §5251 derived from act Mar. 3, 1811, ch. 46, §12, 2 Stat. 606.
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