...harbor or refuge or enclosure within navigable water of the United States, unless the work lias been recommended by the chief of engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War prior to beginning the same.' These provisions of the law were designed to protect the navigable waters...

...breakwater, or or the channel of any navigable water of the United States, unless the work has been recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War prior to beginning the same.. 384. Harbor lines. Where it is made manifest to the Secretary of War...

...pier, etc., in any navigable water of the United States outside established harbor lines or where none have been established, except on plans recommended...Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War, etc. A permit under this statute confers on the grantee no right or franchise lor the structure or...

...breakwater, or of the channel of any navigable water of the United States, unless the work has been recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War prior to beginning the same; and whereas the Watrous Island Boom Co., a corporation organized under...

...breakwater, or of the channel of any navigable water of the United States, unless the work has been recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War prior to beginning the same. Sec. 11. That where it is made manifest to the Secretary of War that the...

...river, or other water of the United States, outside established harbor lines, or where no harbor lines have been established, except on plans recommended...and it shall not be lawful to excavate or fill, or ill any manner to alter or modify the course, location, condition, or capacity of, any port, roadstead,...

...plan of such bridge or other works have been submitted to and approved by the Secretary of War, or to excavate or fill or in any manner to alter or modify...or capacity of any port, roadstead, haven, harbor, harbor of refuge, or inclosure within the limits of any breakwater, or of the channel of any navigable...

...Act of September 19, 1890, c. 907, 26 Stat. 426, 454, is cited as making it unlawful for any person to excavate or fill, or in any manner to alter or...modify, the course, location, condition or capacity of the channel of said navigable water of the United States unless approved and authorized by the Secretary...

...authorized by Congress to the navigable capacity of the waters of the United States is prohibited, except on plans recommended by the chief of engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War. Held, that the word "authorize" was used in such section in the sense or to approve of and formally...

...by means of any obstruction, use, or diversion of any of the navigable waters of the United States recommended by the Chief of Engineers and authorized by the Secretary of War. " SEC. 18. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this act is hereby expressly reserved as to any...