EDWARDS, Circuit Judge.
This is a case of first impression involving a conflict between two statutes in the field of Admiralty. They are the Limitation of Liability Act, adopted in 1851, 46 U.S.C. § 181 et seq. (1970), and the Rivers and Harbors Act, originally passed in 1899, 33 U.S.C. § 401 et seq. (1970). We believe that the plain purposes of the Rivers and Harbors Act which we construe here cannot be served by subordinating it to the Limitation...
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