All navigable rivers, within the territory occupied by the public lands, shall remain and be deemed public highways; and, in all cases where the opposite banks of any streams not navigable belong to different persons, the stream and the bed thereof shall become common to both.
(R.S. § 2476.)
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Codification
May 18, 1796, ch. 29, § 91 Stat. 468Mar. 3, 1803, ch. 27, § 172 Stat. 235R.S. § 2476 derived from acts , ; , .