 | History, Modern - 1849 - 620 pages
...secured by the sixth article of that instrument. The fourth article of that compact provides 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,... | |
 | William Hickey - Constitutional history - 1851 - 580 pages
...regulations Congress may find necessary, for securing the title in such soil, to the bona fide purchasers. No tax shall be imposed on lands, the property of...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 - 1851 - 588 pages
...regulations Congress may find necessary, for securing the title in such soil, to the bona fide purchasers. No tax shall be imposed on lands, the property of...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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | A. S. Barnes - Constitutional history - 1852 - 674 pages
...securing the tit.le in such soil to bona fide purchasers thereof; and no tax snail be imposed on land, the property of the United States; and in no case shall non-resident proprietors be taxed liighcr than residents. Provided, That nothing in this constitution, or in the act of congress aforesaid,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William L. Hickey - Constitutional history - 1853 - 588 pages
...may find necessary, for securing the title in such soil, to the bona fide purchasers. No tax shall he imposed on lands, the property of the United States;...than residents. The navigable waters leading into tho Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways,... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1853 - 732 pages
...1787, concerning the territory of the United Stales north-west of the Ohio river, it is declared that " the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi...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 of those... | |
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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... 
