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Dear Sirs:

This is in response to your requests for an opinion of this office concerning the question of whether Gassoway Lake is publicly or privately owned and whether the public has a right of use or access to the lake through and across a publicly constructed and maintained roadway now blocked by private interests.

Upon receiving your initial request, we contacted both the State Land Office and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg District, and have obtained information, records and data from those two offices relevant to the questions presented. We have also reviewed records from…