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Toll free rivers in Alabama

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Title 33—NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS > CHAPTER 1—NAVIGABLE WATERS GENERALLY > SUBCHAPTER I—GENERAL PROVISIONS

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The Tennessee, Coosa, Cahawba, and Black Warrior Rivers, within the State of Alabama, shall be forever free from toll for all property belonging to the United States, and for all persons in their service, and for all citizens of the United States, except as to such tolls as may be allowed by Act of Congress.

(R.S. § 5244.)

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