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 1152 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 425. 1899. . And further, the removal of any structures or parts of structures erected in violation of the provisions ot the said sections may be enforced by the in_junction of any circuit court exercising jurisdiction in any district in which such structures may exist, and proper proceedings to this end may be instituted under the direction of the Attorney- General of the United States. nspmung refusein Sec. 13. That it shall not be lawful to throw, discharge, or deposit, §{‘,}',}§j,’f’*° "““°" '°" or cause, sutler, or procure to be thrown, discharged, or deposited either from or out of any ship, barge, or other tloating craft of any kind, or from the shore, wharf, manufacturing establishment, or mill of any kind, any refuse matter of any kind or description whatever- other thanthat flowing from streets and sewers and passing therefrom in a liquid state, into any navigable water of the United States, or into any tributary of any navigable water from which the same shall iloat or be washed into such navigable water; and it shall not be lawful to deposit, or cause, suffer, or procure to be deposited material of any kind in any place on the bank of any navigable water, or on the bank of any tributary of any navigable water, where the same shall be liable to be washed into such navigable water, either by ordinary or high tides, or by storms or iloods, or otherwise, whereby navigation shall or may be rmam. impeded or obstructed: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall improvement of navigable waters or construction of public works, considered necessary and proper by the United States officers supervising -pm-mm maqmit such improvement or public work: And provided further, That the ` anchorage and navigation will not be injured thereby, may permit the deposit of any material above mentioned in navigable waters, within limits to be defined and under conditions to be prescribed by him, provided application is made to him prior to depositing such material; and whenever any permit is so granted the conditions thereof shall be strictly complied with, and any violation thereof shall be unlawful. Um¤z.¤¤=·.wh¤·v¤¤. Sec. 14. That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to take ‘°'°°“* °*°‘*f°"’*°°“" possession of or make use of for any purpose, or build upon, alter, deface, destroy, move, injure, obstruct by fastening vessels thereto or otherwise, or in any manner whatever impair the usefulness of any sea wall, bulkhead, jetty, dike, levee, wharf, pier, or other work built by the United States, or any piece of plant, iloating or otherwise, used in the construction of such work under the control of the United States, in whole or in part, for the preservation and improvement of any of its navigable waters or to prevent Hoods, or asboundary marks, tide gauges, survey- ing stations, buoys, or other established marks, nor remove for ballast or other purposes any stone or other material composing such works: mega. Provided, That the Secretary of War may, on the recommendation of ’{,’“,‘[‘j§f’“ '°' ““"°' the Chief of Engineers, grant permission for the temporary occupation or use of any of the aforementioned public works when in his judgment --»—-— such occupation or use will not be injurious to the public interest. 0;>·gr¤$;;:·;: by Sec. 15. That it shall not be lawful to tie up or anchor vessels or '“° ° "‘ ’ other craft in navigable channels in such a manner as to prevent 'carelessly sink, or permit or cause to be sunk, vessels or other crat't in navigable channels; or to float loose timber and logs, or to float what is known as sack rafts of timber and logs in streams or channels actually navigated by steamboats in such manner as to obstruct, impede, —¤¤;¤•>¤vgs:L*¤¤r ¤* or endanger navigation. And whenever a vessel, raft, or other craft ""‘ °" is wrecked and sunk in a navigable channel, accidentally or otherwise, · it shall be the duty of the owner of such sunken craft to immediately mark it with a buoy or beacon during the day and a lighted lantern at night, andto maintain such marks until the sunken craft is removed or abandoned, and the neglect or failure of the said owner so to do shall be unlawful; and it shall be the duty of the owner of such sunken craft to commence the immediate removal of the same, and prosecute, such removal diligently, and failure to do so shall be considered as an
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