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title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
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# 33 U.S.C. § 9 - Des Moines River as toll free

## Text

The Des Moines River shall forever remain free from any toll, or other charge whatever, for any property of the United States, or persons in their service, passing along the same.

(R.S. § 5246.)

## Notes

Editorial Notes

Codification R.S. § 5246 derived from acts Aug. 8, 1846, ch. 103, § 3, 9 Stat. 78; Jan. 20, 1870, ch. 7, 16 Stat. 61.