§ 664. General duties as to plans for protection of navigation

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. 1893

   Pub. L. 52–183 § 4 · 27 Stat. 507

   Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 664

   (Mar. 1, 1893, ch. 183, § 4, 27 Stat. 507.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (Mar. 1, 1893, ch. 183, § 4, 27 Stat. 507.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 4. That it shall be the duty of said commission to mature and Duty of commission. Plans. adopt such plan or plans, from examinations and surveys already made and from such additional examinations and surveys as it may deem necessary, as will improve the navigability of all the rivers comprising Improving navigability of rivers, etc. said systems, deepen their channels, and protect their banks. Such plan or plans shall be matured with a view of making the same effective as against the encroachment, of and damage from debris resulting from mining operations, natural erosion, or other causes, with a view of restoring, as near as practicable and the necessities of commerce and navigation demand, the navigability of said rivers to the condition existing in eighteen hundred and sixty, and permitting mining by the Certain hydraulic mining permitted. hydraulic process, as the term is understood in said state, to be carried on, provided the same can be accomplished, without injury to the navigability of said rivers or the lauds adjacent thereto.

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