 | United States. Army. Corps of Engineers - 1885 - 1130 pages
...supplied to factories along the Merrimac below. They do not form by themselves, or by their connection with other waters, a continued highway over which...commerce is, or may be, carried on with other States. The lake is Dot a navigable water of the United States, but only of the State. This quotation is from... | |
 | Nathan Howard (Jr.) - 1875 - 674 pages
...jurisdiction. Van Buren agt. Canal Boat McChesney. them a continuous highway, over which commerce was or might be carried on with other states or foreign countries in the customary modes in which such commerce was conducted by water ; that it was a navigable water of the United States if it formed by itself... | |
 | Rhode Island. Harbor Commissioners - 1877 - 742 pages
...Laws of the United Stales, 1886, page 150), being one that "Forms in its ordinary condition, by itself or by uniting with other waters, a continued highway...which commerce is or may be carried on with other Stales and foreign countries in the customary modes in which such commerce is conducted by water;"... | |
 | Orlando Bump - 1878 - 474 pages
...Butlers. State, 6 Ind. 165. Rivers are navigable waters of the United States, in contradistinction from the navigable waters of the States, when they form...modes in which such commerce is conducted by water. The Daniel Ball, 10 Wall. 557; s. C. 1 Brown, 193. The doctrine of the common law as to the navigability... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frderick C. Seibold - 1878 - 764 pages
...The Wisconsin river may have such a connection with the Mississippi as to form with it a continuous highway, over which commerce is, or may be, carried on with other states; but until congress exercises its power over the subject, the improvement legalized by the state cannot... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1879 - 912 pages
...The Wisconsin river may have such a connection with the Mississippi as to form with it a continuous highway, over which commerce is, or may be carried on with other States; but until Congress exercises its power over the subject the improvement legalized by the State cannot... | |
 | 1905 - 1120 pages
...waters of the United States, within the meaning of the acts of Congress, iu contradistinction from the navigable waters of the states, when they form,...modes In which such commerce is conducted by water." The appellee now contends, further, that there is no equity in the bill, for the reason that it specifies... | |
 | 1884 - 1912 pages
...navigable waters of the United States within the meaning of the acts of congress, in contradistinction from the navigable waters of the states, when they form...modes in which such commerce is conducted by water." In Escanaba Co. v. Chicago, 107 US 678, [2 Sup. Gt. Rep. 185,] it was held that the Chicago river,... | |
 | 1884 - 1902 pages
...States, within the meaning of the acts of congress, in contradistinction from the navigable rivers of the states, when they form in their ordinary condition by themselves, or by uniting with other rivers, a continued highway over which commerce is or mav be carried on with other states or foreign... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1880 - 426 pages
...within the limits of a State, and which does not, by connecting with other waters, form a continuous highway over which commerce is or may be carried on with other States or with foreign countries.2 It is otherwise, however, with a river which, though wholly within a State,... | |
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And they constitute navigable waters of the United States within the meaning of the acts of Congress, in contradistinction from the navigable waters of the States, when they form in their ordinary condition by themselves, or by uniting with other waters,... 
