| United States - Law - 1813 - 548 pages
...Muir The Mississippi and Missouri rivers, and the tie. to be free! navigable waters flowing into them, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways and forever free to the people of the said territory and to the citizens of the United States, without any tax, duty... | |
| John Talbot - Canada - 1820 - 476 pages
...lands belonging to the United States. Non-residents not to be taxed higher than resident proprietors. The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi...Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, to remain, for ever, as free and common highways to all the inhabitants of the American territory.... | |
| Edward Ingersoll - Law - 1821 - 882 pages
...be common to both, and that the river Mississippi, and the navigable rivers and waters leading into the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said state as to other citizens of the United States, without any tax, duty, impost, or toll, therefor,... | |
| United States. Continental Congress - United States - 1823 - 1024 pages
...contracted in the prosecution of the late war with Great Britain, passed the 4th of May, 1786." Resolved, That the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi...Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same be, and are hereby declared to be common highways, and be for ever free, as well to the innabiOn motion... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1824 - 990 pages
...the said territory, and the States which may be formed therein, it is provided, among other matters, that " 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 terria 1 LUS p. 475. ed. 1815. tory, as to the... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 498 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...Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, sliall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inliabitants of the said territory as to... | |
| United States. Congress - United States - 1835 - 676 pages
...places between them, are declared to be common highways. The ordinance alluded to is in these words: "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,... | |
| United States - 1835 - 674 pages
...and by an ordinance of Congress of 13th July, 1787. The 4th article of Ihat ordinance concludes thus: "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,... | |
| Thomas Francis Gordon - Commercial law - 1837 - 886 pages
...1796. And by the ordinance of 13th July, 1787, it was already made an article of perpetual compact, x should be common highways, and for ever free," &c. The navigable rivers and waters in the territories... | |
| Francis Hilliard - Real property - 1839 - 672 pages
...private rights.4 22. By the ordinance relating to the Northwest Territory, it is provided unalterably, that the navigable waters, leading into the Mississippi...same, shall be common highways, and forever free.' 23. It is stated as the settled law in Connecticut,' resting on the same ground of general usage, which... | |
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