 | Law - 1877 - 510 pages
...J. 2. Object of forbidding tonnage tax: what prohibition applies to. — The prohibition to a State against the imposition of a duty of tonnage was designed...guard against local hindrances to trade and carriage by vessels, not to relieve them from liability to claims for assistance rendered and facilities furnished... | |
 | Law - 1877 - 510 pages
...J. 2. Object of forbidding tonnage tax : what prohibition applies to. — The prohibition to a State against the imposition of a duty of tonnage was designed...guard against local hindrances to trade and carriage by vessels, not to relieve them from liability to claims for assistance rendered and facilities furnished... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 858 pages
...tax or a duty. It is not a hindrance or impediment to free navigation The prohibition to the State against the imposition of a duty of tonnage was designed...guard against local hindrances' to trade and carriage by vessels, not to relieve them from liability to claims for assistance rendered and facilities furnished... | |
 | Law - 1878 - 442 pages
...tax or a duty. It is not an hindrance or impediment to free navigation. The prohibition to the State against the imposition of a duty of tonnage was designed...guard against local hindrances to trade and carriage by vessels, not to relieve them from liability to claims for assistance rendered and facilities furnished... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1880 - 886 pages
...conveniences provided, it is lawful. The prohibition to the States against the imposition of i iluty of tonnage was designed to guard against local hindrances...the State, a municipality, or a private individual. Keokuk NL Packet Go. v. City of Keokak. Ellerman v. McMains derived by a corporation from the legislature,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1232 pages
...a tax or duty. It is not a hindrance or impediment to free navigation. The prohibition to the state against the imposition of a duty of tonnage was designed...vessels, not to relieve them from liability to claims for assistance rendered and facilities furnished for trade and commerce. It is a tax or a duty that is... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 1362 pages
...tax or a duty. It is not a hindrance or impediment to free navigation. The prohibition to the state against the Imposition of a duty of tonnage was designed...guard against local hindrances to trade and carriage by vessels, not to relieve them from liability to claims for assistance rendered and facilities furnished... | |
 | Emlin McClain - Constitutional law - 1900 - 1134 pages
...tax or a duty. It is not a hindrance or impediment to free navigation. The prohibition to the State against the imposition of a duty of tonnage was designed...guard against local hindrances to trade and carriage by vessels, not to relieve them from liability to claims for assistance rendered and facilities furnished... | |
 | Joseph Rogers Herod - Favored nation clause - 1901 - 150 pages
...a tax or duty. It is not a hindrance or impediment to free navigation. The prohibition to the State against the imposition of a duty of tonnage was designed...guard against local hindrances to trade and carriage by vessels, not to relieve them from liability to claims for assistance rendered and facilities furnished... | |
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But a charge for services rendered or for conveniences provided is in no sense a tax or a duty. It is not a hindrance or impediment to free navigation. The prohibition to the State against the imposition of a duty of tonnage was designed to guard against... 
