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1336. COAST LINE, Rivers, Bays and.

—For the jurisdiction of the rivers and bays
of the United States, the laws of the several
States * * * have made provision, and they
are, moreover, as being land-locked, within
the body of the United States.—
To George Hammond. Washington ed. iv, 76. Ford ed., vi, 442.
(G. 1793)