---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 461...464"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "461...464"
heading: "Repealed. Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 854, § 1636, 31 Stat. 1434"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/461...464"
units:
  - "Chapter 9 — Protection of Navigable Waters and of Harbor and River Improvements Generally"
  - "Subchapter IV — Potomac River and Tributaries in District of Columbia"
---

# [§461...464. Repealed. Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 854, § 1636, 31 Stat. 1434 — repealed]



## Notes

Section 461, act May 19, 1896, ch. 208, § 1, 29 Stat. 126, prohibited deposit of ballast, dirt, ashes or oyster shells into Potomac River except for purpose of making a wharf and then only after approval.

Section 462, act May 19, 1896, ch. 208, § 2, 29 Stat. 127, prohibited deposit of dead fish, dead animals, fruits, vegetables, ice, snow, filth or trash of any kind into Potomac River.

Section 463, act May 19, 1896, ch. 208, § 3, 29 Stat. 127, related to penalties.

Section 464, act May 19, 1896, ch. 208, § 4, 29 Stat. 127, provided that none of these provisions be construed to interfere with any work or improvements in harbor or river area.