...the customary modes of trade and travel on water. Ib. 4. And they constitute navigable waters of the United States, within the meaning of the acts of congress....modes in which such commerce is conducted by water. To. 5. Grand river. In Michigan, held to be a navigable water of the United States, from Its mouth...

...water, and as a navigable water of the United States when it forms by itself or by its connections with other waters a continued highway over which commerce...States or foreign countries in the customary modes, etc . A steamboat navigating that river is therefore subject to the laws which require that a license...

...States within tho meaning of the acts of Congress, in contradistinction from the navigable waters of tho States, when they form in their ordinary condition...or may be carried on with other States or foreign countriosjin the customary modes in which such commerce is conducted by water. 5. Grand River, in Michigan,...

...meaning of tho acts of Congress, in contradistinction from thu navigable waters of tho States, when t,hcy form in their ordinary condition by themselves, or...carried on with other States or foreign countries in tho customary modes in which such commerce is conducted by water. 5. Grand River, in Michigan, held...

...conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water. And they constitute navigable waters of the United States within the meaning of the acts of Congress,...modes in which such commerce is conducted by water." . This definition is quoted with approval in the case of The Montello (11 Wall. 411), and in The Montdlo...

...Moor, 14 How. 561), yet a river entirely within a State, which, by uniting with other waters. forms a continued highway over which commerce is or may...modes in which such commerce is conducted by water, is to be regarded as navigable waters of the United States, and is subject to the regulations of Congress....

...only bo deemed a navigable water of the United States when it forms by itself, or by its connections with other waters, a continued highway over which...in which such commerce is conducted by water." The State courts have discussed the question of navigable waters only as a fact in their own State, and...

...trade and travel on water ; and it was further declared that they constitute navigable waters of the United States, within the meaning of the acts of Congress,...modes in which such commerce is conducted by water. It was accordingly held that Grand river, in Michigan, is a navigable water of the United States from...

...of 1886); being one that " forms in its ordinary condition, by itself or by uniting with other water a continued highway over which commerce is or may...modes in which such commerce is conducted by water;" and in view also of the long standing opinion of the Attorney General of October, 1853 (see page 151,...

...Bridge, 38 Mass 344; Butlers. State, 6 Ind. 165. Rivers are navigable waters of the United States, in contradistinction from the navigable waters of...conducted by water. The Daniel Ball, 10 Wall. 557; s. C. 1 Brown, 193. The doctrine of the common law as to the navigability of waters, has no application...