But by the established law of the State, the owner of lands bounded by navigable water has the title in the soil between high and low water mark, subject to the public right of navigation, and to the authority of the legislature to make public improvements upon it, and to regulate his use of it.

This statute (act of 16th April, 1858) provided that the commissioners' lines approved by the court should'forever after be deemed, adjudged, and taken firm and stable for the purposes aforesaid.'The supreme court of Pennsylvania has held that the purpose of the act was to regulate the rights of the public in respect to navigation, and to prevent private rights from being …

—should... begin to change its movements in the other direction, gradually restoring what it had taken from the remote lot, and finally all that it had taken from the intermediate lot, the whole by the law of accretion would belong to the remote lot. Having become riparian, it has all riparian rights. "³ § 303 by dam are not" navigable "waters and owners of property bordering …

In Pennsylvania the owner of the upland takes to highwatermark and has aqualified title to thearea between high andlowwater marks, subject tothe rightsof navigation over itandimprovement of it for purposes of navigation.

In navigable rivers, which includes fresh water streams navigable in fact, the ad joining land-owner has absolute right only to the high water mark.

If the stream of a public navigable river is artificially diverted from its channel, the land reclaimed cannot be appropriated by warrant and survey.

[CITATION] Patton and Palomar on Land Titles

[CITATION] Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterly