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438 GENERAL AND SPECIAL LAWS.
ander Island, Goat Island, Diamond Island and Hog Island in
San Jacinto River above Lunchburg, and certain accretions
formed by dredged material excavated from the channel and
forming land attached to or near said Alexander Island, Hog
Island between Goose Creek and Morgan Point, Atkinson Island,
and all the submerged lands lying and being situated under
the waters of Buffalo Bayou, San Jacinto River, White Oak
Bayou, Bray's Bayou, Simms Bayou, Vinces Bayou, Hunting
Bayou, Greens Bayou, Carpenters Bayou, Old River, Lost River,
Goose Creek and Cedar Bayou, and all other streams within
Harris County Navigation District tributary to the Houston
Ship Channel, so far up said streams as the State may own
same, together with all lands lying and being situated under
the waters of Old River, Burnett's Bay, Crystal Lake, Scott's
Bay, Peggy's Lake, Black Duck Bay, Tabbs Bay and San Jacinto
Bay, and all other tidal flats or overflow land adjacent
to or appurtenant to the above mentioned streams within the
limits above mentioned except Mitchell's Bay and any area between
said bay and the Houston Ship Channel, as now or hereafter
located, is hereby granted to the Harris County Houston
Ship Channel Navigation District, or its successors, for public
purposes and for the development of commerce only, in accordance
with the following provisions and stipulations herein contained;
provided that inasmuch as it is the purpose of this Act
to grant said lands to the public agency which is developing the
Port of Houston, upon the creation by legislation of other public
agency which shall supersede the said navigation district as
the public agency developing the Port of Houston, the title to
said lands shall be transferred from the navigation district to
such public agency, either municipal or State, so provided, such
public agency being referred to herein as the sucessors of the
navigation district.
SEc. 2. The navigation district, or its successors, is hereby
granted the right, power and authority to authorize, establish,
construct, purchase, own, maintain, equip, regulate, operate and
lease wharves, piers, docks, dry docks, marine ways and all
other structures and appliances for facilitating or accomodating
commerce or navigation, and to dredge out channels, slips and
turning basins, and to fill in space between the main land and
islands and to fill areas for wharves, piers, docks, dry docks,
marine ways and for all other structures and appliances for
facilitating and accomodating commerce and navigation, having
first secured a permit from the Government of the United States
of America therefor, and to construct, or cause or authorize to
be constructed on said wharves, piers, docks, dry docks, marine
ways and other structures and appliances for facilitating and
accomodating commerce and navigation, or on lands so filled in,
any and all elevators, warehouses, bunkers, railway terminals
and sidetracks, or any other facilities or aids whatsoever to
navigation or commerce. Said lands shall be used by the navigation
district, or its successors, solely for the establishment, improvement
and conduct of an harbor and for the construction,
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Gammel, Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen. The Laws of Texas, 1927 [Volume 25], book, 1927; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth16125/m1/454/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .