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Show Colorado, the next State to enter the Union, some years later, inaugurated a new sovereign policy for the future States of the arid west. This -will be the principal subject matter of the third and final part of this study ll5 115 " Colorado "was admitted into the Union in the year 1876 Alaska, acquired from Russia in 1867- Convention between the United States and Russia, ceding Alaska, 15 Stat. at L« 539 2 Malloy's Treaties, 1521. and ever since under the full and complete sovereignty of the United States as one of its territories, is not included in this study which is limited to the States The first suit between States over water rights was South Carolina v* Georgia, 93 U.S. 4 23 L. Ed, 782 (1876), holding merely that the power of Con- gress over the Savannah River under the federal constitution is not restricted by the Treaty of Beaufort, or Compact of 1787, between the two States* Other decisions of interest during this period, in addition to those already cited in the footnotes, are Smith v. Maryland, 18 Hew. (U.S.) 71, 15 Lc Ed, 269 (I855), conceding -the title of the State'to all submerged lands capable of ownership beyond the line of mean high tide together with the right of the State to regulate fisheries in Chesapeake Bay, etc.j l^eber v. Board of Harbor Com1rs, 18 Wall. (U.S.) 57, 21 L. Ed. 798 (I873), reaching a similar conclusion as to the ownership of tide lands in San Francisco Bay by the State of California; Barney v« Keokuk, 9k UoS. 32J+, 2I4. L. Ed. 221+ (I876), holding that the State of Iowa is t he owner of the bed from midstream and of the shores and banks to high-water mark of the Mississippi River within the territorial limits of the State* and Missouri v© Iowa, 7 How, (U.S.) 660, 12 L* Ed. 86l (181+8), contain- ing an historical discussion of the formation of States out of the Louisiana Purchase. The boundary lines of all the States, through very numerous rivers, lakes and water courses, are traced in Bulletin'-,^689, Dept. of the Interior. U»S« Geological Survey a ¦ ' "¦ |
