| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs - Saint Lawrence River - 1850 - 24 pages
...declares the said waters and the carrying places between the same " to be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory...confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor." The right of freely navigating the Mississippi to its mouth had already been asserted by the United... | |
| Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1851 - 642 pages
...property of the United States; and non-resident proprietors shall not be taxed more than residents; that the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi...the same shall be common highways, and forever free. The fifth provides, that there shall be formed in the territory not less than three, nor more than... | |
| William Hickey - 1851 - 588 pages
...of the United States; and in no case shall non-resident proprietors be taxed higher than residents. The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi...places between the same, shall be common highways, and for ever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory as to the citizens of the United States,... | |
| William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1851 - 580 pages
...of the United States; and in no case shall non-resident proprietors be taxed higher than residents. The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi...places between the same, shall be common highways, and for ever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory as to the citizens of the United States,... | |
| A. S. Barnes - Constitutional history - 1852 - 676 pages
...state or territory now or hereafter tobe formed and bounded by the same. Anil the river Mississippi and the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi...and forever free as well to the inhabitants of the state, as to the citizens of the Uiutcd States, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor. 2. The title... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1911 - 844 pages
...understood as adopted in furtherance of the policy of the Ordinance of 1787, which stipulated that 'the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi...same, shall be common highways, and forever free.' " The legislation in force when such authority was given is found in 1 Comp. Laws, ยงยง 2494, 2495.... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1852 - 668 pages
...they are hereby, declared to be common highways, and be forever free, as well to the inhabitants of said territory as to the citizens of the United States...of any other States that may be admitted into the confederation, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor." Journal of Congress, '1786, p, 637. Soon... | |
| Constitutional history - 1852 - 680 pages
...And the river Mississippi and the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St Lawrence, anil the carrying places between the same, shall be common...and forever free as well to the inhabitants of the state, as to the citizens of the United States, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor. 2'. The... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 736 pages
...can have no bearing upon the question of its navigability. The ordinance of 1787, in providing that the "navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence and the carrying places between them shall be common highways, and forever free." etc., did not by its terms, or in the spirit of its... | |
| Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1902 - 806 pages
...understood as adopted in furtherance of the policy of the Ordinance of 1787, which stipulated that 'the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places beat a point where the same is navigable for boats or vessels of fifteen tons burden or more, they... | |
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