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7654. RIVERS, Obstructions in.—

I think
the State should reserve a right to the use of
the [river] waters for navigation, and that
where an individual landholder impedes that
use, he shall remove that impediment, and leave
the subject in as good a state as nature formed
it.—
To Joseph C. Cabell. Washington ed. vi, 541.
(M. 1816)