Shore Control and Port Administration: Investigation of the Status of National, State, and Municipal Authority Over Port Affairs |
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administration.-The appointed approved board of harbor board of pilot bodies having jurisdiction bonds bulkhead charges charter city commission city council commerce commissioner of public construction corporation court department of public dockage docks Duties and powers eminent domain engineer erect establishing port authorities exercised Federal ferries front governor grant harbor administration harbor commissioners harbor lines harbor master improvements Laws establishing port lease legislature license mayor municipal officials navigable waters obstructions officials and bodies officials and bodies.-The operate ordinance Organization of port piers pilot commissioners pilotage port administrative bodies.-The port and harbor port district port is vested port of Boston port of Portland port of Seattle port officials port wardens powers of port public lands railroad relating to port riparian owner riparian rights River rules and regulations secretary Secretary of War Section shore lands South Portland statute thereof tidelands various phases vessels wharf wharfage wharfinger wharves
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Page 3 - ... of streams or other bodies of water over which Congress has jurisdiction under its authority to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States, and which either in their natural or improved condition notwithstanding interruptions between the navigable parts of such streams or waters by falls, shallows, or rapids compelling land carriage, are used or suitable for use for the transportation of persons or property in interstate or foreign commerce...
Page 2 - And they are navigable in fact when they are used, or are susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water.
Page 149 - ... expeditious and economical transfer or interchange of passengers or property between carriers by water and carriers by rail ; to advise with communities regarding the appropriate location and plan of construction of wharves, piers, and water terminals...
Page 30 - First, the shores of navigable waters, and the soils under them, were not granted by the Constitution to the United States, but were reserved to the States respectively. Secondly, the new States have the same rights, sovereignty, and jurisdiction over this subject as the original States. Thirdly, the right of the United States to the public lands and the power of Congress to make all needful rules and regulations for the sale and disposition thereof conferred no power to grant to the plaintiffs the...
Page 65 - This riparian right is property, and is valuable, and though it must be enjoyed in due subjection to the rights of the public, it cannot be arbitrarily or capriciously destroyed or impaired.
Page 21 - ... person having the charge or command of any vessel bound to a foreign port shall deliver to the collector of the district from which such vessel is about to depart a manifest of all the cargo on board the same, and the value thereof, by him subscribed, and shall swear to the truth thereof: whereupon the collector shall grant a clearance for such vessel and her cargo, but without specifying the particulars thereof in the clearance, unless required by the master or other person having the charge...
Page 122 - Fifth, that no person in the public service is for that reason under any obligation to contribute to any political fund, or to render any political service, and that he will not be removed or otherwise prejudiced for refusing to do so.
Page 147 - The State of Washington asserts its ownership to the beds and shores of all navigable waters in the state up to and includ•ing the line of ordinary high tide, in waters where the tide ebbs and flows...
Page 40 - ... as most in accordance with the interest of the people and with the object for which the Territories were acquired, of leaving the administration and disposition of the sovereign rights in navigable waters, and in the soil under them, to the control of the States, respectively, when organized and admitted into the Union.
Page 76 - It is grants of parcels of lands under navigable waters that may afford foundation for wharves, piers, docks, and other structures, in aid of commerce...