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Show 112 flict with any beneficial consumptive use, present or future, in states lying wholly or partly west of the ninety-eighth merid- ian, of such waters for domestic, municipal, stock-water, irri- gation, mining, or industrial purposes.209 A provision of more limited application merits notice here. As to debris-storage reservoirs of the California Debris Com- mission,210 the Secretary is authorized to enter into contracts to supply storage for water and the use of outlet facilities for domestic and irrigation purposes and power development upon such conditions of delivery, use, and payment as he may approve.211 Protection of Navigable Waters As we have seen, Congress since 1820 has enacted numerous laws designed to insure and provide for improvement of rivers and harbors in the interests of navigation. Lagging somewhat behind came sporadic and less extensive legislative efforts to preserve and protect the navigability of waters from encroach- ments by bridges, wharves, dams, and other structures. An early example is an 1862 statute which specified navigation clearances in authorizing the construction of bridges over the Ohio River.212 Designed for more general protection was an 1884 act whereby Congress delegated authority to the Secretary to require owners to provide bridges with specified aids in the interests of navigation.213 Similarly, Congress in 1890 forbade the deposit of certain refuse matter, and prohibited the creation of any obstruction, "not affirmatively authorized by law" to the navigable capacity of any waters, in respect of which the United States has jurisdiction, at the same time regulating the construction of bridges and other structures.214 Still more comprehensive, as we shall shortly see, are the provisions of the River and Harbor Act of 1899-Section 9 through 20 being presently effective-which consolidated and ¦ supple- mented requirements pertaining to the protection of navigable 809 See, e. g., Act of December 22, 1944, § l(b), 58 Stat. 887, 889; Act of March 2,1945, § l(b), 59 Stat. 10,11. 210 See infra, pp. 119-120. 911 Act of March 1,1893, § 23, 27 Stat. 507, 510, as amended, 33 U. S. C. 683. 813 Act of July 14,1862, § 1,12 Stat. 569. 213 Act of July 5,1884, § 8, 23 Stat. 133,148. "* Act of September 19,1890, §§ 6-10, 26 Stat. 426, 453. |