 | Joseph Story - 1868 - 384 sider
...property of the United States ; and non-resident proprietors shall not be taxed more than residents ; that the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi...places between the same, shall be common highways, and for ever free. The fifth provides, that there shall be formed in the Territory not less than three,... | |
 | 1868 - 320 sider
...or territory now or hereafter to be formed and bounded by the same. And the river Mississippi, and the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi...places between the same, shall be common highways, aad forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the state as to the citizens of the United States,... | |
 | Francis Hilliard - 1869 - 532 sider
...2 Conn. 483. 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. (A statute of Alabama makes the same provision as to all rivers actually navigable. The title to the... | |
 | 1969 - 292 sider
...or territory now or hereafter to be formed, and bounded by the same; and 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 United States, without any tax, impost or duty therefor. Territorial... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Public Works - 1967 - 190 sider
...United States Constitution, the principle was stated in the Northwest Ordinance, on July 13, 1787 : "The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi...the same, shall be common highways and forever free. . . .'' One of the first acts of the new Congress was to re-enact the Northwest Ordinance statement... | |
 | Wisconsin. Legislature. Legislative Reference Bureau - 1967 - 308 sider
...or territory now or hereafter to be formed, and bounded by the same; and 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 United States, without any tax, impost or duty therefor. Territorial... | |
 | 1967 - 308 sider
...or territory now or hereafter to be formed, and bounded by the same; and 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 United States, without any tax, impost or duty therefor. Territorial... | |
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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... 
