 | Charles Richard Tuttle - Indians of North America - 1874 - 638 pages
...proprietors be taxed higher than residents. The navigable waters leading into Die .Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of said territory as to the citizens of the United States, and those of... | |
 | Theron Metcalf - Contracts - 1874 - 404 pages
...Greenl. 42. (rf) Hateh r. Dwight, 17 Mass. 298. (e) Vattel, Book I. chap. 22. l/) 5 Wheat. 374. St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of said territory as to the citizens of the United-States, and those of... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1874 - 554 pages
...1787, they provided that " the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and the Saint Law. rence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free." Colonel Houston, United States engineer in charge of this work, estimates its entire cost at $3,000,000,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 750 pages
...the Mississippi and St. * History of Wisconsin, vol. I, p. 81. f Article 4. Statement of Uitj case. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same,...and forever free as well to the inhabitants of the HiiitI Territory as to the citizens of the United States, aad those of any other States that may be... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Samuel Freeman Miller - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 848 pages
...constitution, which act declares " that the Mississippi river, and the navigable rivers and waters leading into the same, shall be common highways, and forever free as well to the inhabitants of the State of Mississippi as to other citizens of the United States." In considering this act of congress... | |
 | Edwin David Sanborn - New Hampshire - 1875 - 436 pages
...14th of July, 1787, which provided that the "navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and the St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same shall be common highways and forever free," will yet be thought worthy to be engraved in enduring marble upon the proudest of our temples of industry.... | |
 | Nebraska - Law - 1875 - 434 pages
...and bounded by the same. And the river Missouri, and the navigable waters leading into the Missouri, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well as to the inhabitants of the state as the citizens of the United States, without any tax, impost,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1876 - 494 pages
...that " the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying-places between the same, shall be common highways and forever...territory as to the citizens of the United States." Such are some of the broad and enlightened provisions which hare made the Ordinance of 1787 so beneficent... | |
 | Lewis Henry Morgan - 1876 - 256 pages
...that " the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying-places between the same, shall be common highways and forever...territory as to the citizens of the United States." Such are some of the broad and enlightened provisions •which have made the Ordinance of 1787 so beneficent... | |
 | Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frderick C. Seibold - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 770 pages
...ordinance of 1787, R S., p. 1070, declares that " the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St Lawrence and the carrying places between the same,...free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory The Attorney General vs. The City of Eau Claire and others. as to the citizens of the United States,... | |
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The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same shall be common highways and forever free... 
