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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 1 — Navigable Waters Generally

§ 28. Crum River; old channel at mouth, Delaware Bay

Statutory text

After the channel of the Crum River where the same empties into the Delaware River has been changed, diverted, and straightened under the authority given to Alba B. Johnson and Samuel M. Vauclain and the Baldwin Locomotive Works by Act , chapter 260, the said Crum River, as so straightened, shall be a public navigable stream, and the course and channel of the said river, as it existed , from the right-of-way of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company to the low-water line in the Delaware River shall be abandoned and vacated when the above-mentioned new channel shall have been completed to a depth of four feet at mean low water, with a bottom width of sixty-two feet and width of one hundred feet at mean low-water level: Provided, That the Government shall have such right, title, and interest in and to the bed of said new channel as will assure the public the right to the perpetual use of said channel for all the purposes of navigation and commerce.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 64–260 § 1 · 39 Stat. 391

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 28

    (July 27, 1916, ch. 260, § 1, 39 Stat. 393.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (July 27, 1916, ch. 260, § 1, 39 Stat. 393.)

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Editorial Notes

References in Text

Act , chapter 260, referred to in text, is act July 27, 1916, ch. 260, 39 Stat. 393, which is classified to sections 7, 25, 28, 38, 424, and 648 to 650 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.

Codification

Section is from a provision of section 1 of act , popularly known as the “Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1916”.

The portion of that section authorizing the changing, diverting, and straightening of the channel of the river has been omitted as temporary and executed.

Credits

(July 27, 1916, ch. 260, § 1, 39 Stat. 393.)

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