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ON THE

LAW OF NAVIGABLE RIVERS.

BY LOUIS HOUCK,

AUTHOR OF "A TREATISE ON THE MECHANICS' LIEN LAW IN THE
UNITED STATES."

"If Law be a science, and really deserve so sublime a name, it must be founded on principle,
and claim an exalted rank in the empire of reason."- SIR WILLIAM JONES.

BOSTON:

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

1868.

LIBRARY OF THE

LELAND STANFORD JR. UNIVERSITY.

A28975

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by

LITTLE, BROWN, AND CO.,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

CAMBRIDGE:

PRESS OF JOHN WILSON AND SON.

TO THE

HON. HARVEY K. S. O'MELVENY,

Of Illinois,

A FRIEND, CONSTANT AND TRUE;

A LAWYER, ABLE AND UPRIGHT;

AN ORATOR, BRILLIANT IN THE CAUSE OF JUSTICE AND TRUTH;

A MAN, GENEROUS, NOBLE, AND OF SPOTLESS REPUTATION;

This Work

IS INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR.

ST. LOUIS, MO., August, 1868.

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