...opinion on this subject, because it has ceased to be a matter of much interest in the United States. For when the revolution took place, the people of each...became themselves sovereign, and, in that character, held the absolute right to all their navigable waters and the soils under them, for their own common...

...Waodell, 16 Peters, 410, the present chief justice, in delivering the opinion of "the court, said : " When the Revolution took place, the people ' of each...their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the Constitution." Then to Alabama belong the navigable waters, and soils under them,...

...from which your committee have made copious extracts. In the course of that reasoning the fol_ lowing quotation is made approvingly from 16 Peters 410 :...their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the constitution," and the court immediately add, "then to Alabama belong the navigable...

...which your committee have made copious extracts. In the course of that reasoning the ft»l. lowing quotation is made approvingly from 16 Peters 410 :...became themselves sovereign; and in that character hoid the absolute right to all their navigable waters and the soils under them for their own common...

...opinion on this subject, because it has ceased to be a matter of much interest in the United States. For when the Revolution took place, the people of each...their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the Constitution to the general government. A grant made by their authority must therefore...

...(See Treaty, in Appx.) In Martin vs. Waddell, (16 Pet. 410,) the Supreme Court of our Union say : That when the Revolution took place, the people of each...navigable waters, and the soils under them, for their common use ; subject only to the rights since surrendered by the national Constitution to the general...

...the proper organ to dispose of the public domain. Cited, Johnson v. M'Intosh, 8 Wheat. 595. Ibid. 10. When the revolution took place, the people of each...became themselves sovereign, and in that character held the absolute right to all their navigable waters, and the soils under them, for their own common...

...When the Revolution took place the people of each State became sovereign, and in that character held the absolute right to all their navigable waters,...their own common use, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the States to the General Government. Martin vs. Waddcll, (16 Peters, 410.) Conway et...

...1. When the Revolution took place, the people of each State, in their sovereign character, acquired the absolute right to all their navigable waters, and the soils under them. Martin v. WaddelCs Lessee, 345. 2. The grant from Charles the Second to the Duke of York, of the territory...

...sovereignty and jurisdiction in that behalf as the original States possess within their respective borders. f When the Revolution took place, the people of each...all their navigable waters and the soils under them, subject only to the rights since surrendered by the Constitution.^ 5. Necessary conclusion is, that...