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title: "33 U.S.C. § 23"
description: "Bear Creek, Mississippi"
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title_number: 33
title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
chapter_number: "1"
chapter_name: "NAVIGABLE WATERS GENERALLY"
section: "23"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 23"
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# 33 U.S.C. § 23 - Bear Creek, Mississippi
## Text
Bear Creek in Humphreys, Leflore, and Sunflower Counties, in the State of Mississippi, is declared to be a nonnavigable stream within the meaning of the Constitution and the laws of the United States. The right of Congress to alter, amend, or repeal this section is expressly reserved.
(Mar. 3, 1923, ch. 229, §§ 1, 2, 42 Stat. 1442.)
## Notes
Editorial Notes
Codification The first sentence hereof is section 1 and the last sentence section 2 of act Mar. 3, 1923, entitled “An Act declaring Bear Creek in Humphreys, Leflore, and Sunflower counties, Mississippi, to be a nonnavigable stream”.