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[CITE: 33USC10]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
                  CHAPTER 1--NAVIGABLE WATERS GENERALLY
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 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. Sec. 5251.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 5251 derived from act Mar. 3, 1811, ch. 46, Sec. 12, 2 
Stat. 606.
