Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters
Chapter 13 — Mississippi River Commission
§ 649. Vicksburg Harbor and Ohio River below Cache River
Statutory text
The harbor at Vicksburg, Mississippi, and the Ohio River from its mouth to the mouth of the Cache River, are transferred to and placed under the control and jurisdiction of the Mississippi River Commission: Provided, That no part of the improvement of the Ohio River, with a view to the construction of locks and dams, shall be considered as transferred to or placed under the control and jurisdiction of the Mississippi River Commission.
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.
Pub. L. 64–260 § 1 · 39 Stat. 391
Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 649
(July 27, 1916, ch. 260, § 1, 39 Stat. 402.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(July 27, 1916, ch. 260, § 1, 39 Stat. 402.)
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Editorial Notes
Codification
Section is from part of section 1 of the Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1916.
Credits
(July 27, 1916, ch. 260, § 1, 39 Stat. 402.)