...treated. The court sustained the law, Marshall, CJ saying : " If Congress had passed any act which hore upon the case, — any act in execution of the power...regulate commerce, the object of which was to control legislation over those small navigable creeks into which the tide flows, and which abound throughout...

...commerce, and the court expressly passed upon it. I:; delivering the opinion, Chief Justice Marshall said: "If Congress had passed any act which bore upon the...those small navigable creeks into which the tide flows ami which abound throughout the lower country of the Middle and Southern States, we should feel not...

...creek, and must be sup posed to abridge the rights of those accustomed to use it." He then says that if Congress had passed any act which bore upon the...object of which was to control State legislation over the small navigable streams into which the tide flows, the State law would be void ; but that as no...

...the case of Wilson v. The Blackbird Creek Marsh Company, in which Chief Justice Marshall held that, "If Congress had passed any act which bore upon the...object of which was to control State legislation, ... we should feel not • 13 Peters. This case decided, also, that the law of comity among nations,...

...of the United States 'to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states.' 1f Congress had passed any act which bore upon the case,...small navigable creeks into which the tide flows, and which abound throughout the lower country of the middle and lower states — we should feel not...

...decision entirely upon the absence of any congressional legislation on the subject. Its language was : " If Congress had passed any act which bore upon the...small navigable creeks into which the tide flows, and which abound throughout the lower country of the Middle and Southern States, — we should not...

...decision entirely upon the absence of any congressional legislation on the subject. Its language was : " If Congress had passed any act which bore upon the...was to control State legislation over those small pavigable creeks into which the tide-flows, and which abound throughout the lower country of the Middle...

...decision entirely upon the absence of any congressional legislation on the subject. Its language was: ' If Congress had passed any act which bore upon the...object of which was to control State legislation over these small navigable creeks into which the tide flows, and which abound throughout the lower country...

...therefore, void. The Chief-Justice in delivering the opinion of the Court, says : "If Congress has passed any act which bore upon the case, any act in...small navigable creeks into which the tide flows, and which abound throughout the lowercountry of the middle and southern States : we should feel not...

...decision entirely upon the absence of any congressional legislation on the subject. Its language was: "If Congress had passed any Act which bore upon the...of •which was to control state legislation over these small navigable creeks into which the tide flows, and which abound throughout the lower country...