 The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory as to the citizens of the United States, and those...  History of North America - Page 248by John Talbot - 1820 - 4 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1873 - 324 pages
...true meaning of that clause which declares the free navigation of our rivers. Its language is this : "The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi...Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory, as to... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - 1884 - 782 pages
...ordinance of 1787 protects it from obstruction by any act of the State. This ordinance declared that : '. The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between them, shall be common highways and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of said territory as to... | |
 | 1873 - 550 pages
...hereafter to be formed and bounded by the same. And the river Mississippi and tho navigable waters lending into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and foreve! free, as well to the inhabltants of the State as to the citizens... | |
 | Illinois - 1874 - 1270 pages
...of the United States ; and in no case shall non-resident proprietors be taxed higher than residents. N ACT IN FORCE.] § 3. This act shall be in force...after the first day of April next. CHAPTER 71. INN shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory, as to... | |
 | Wisconsin - 1874 - 544 pages
...State 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...Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forevei frce, as well to the inhabitants of the State as to the citizens... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - 1875 - 840 pages
...of 1787, for the government of the territory of the United States north-west of the river Ohio, that "the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi...Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory as to... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1875 - 750 pages
...substantially enacted in the constitution of Wisconsin, which provides* that — " The river Mississippi and the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between tbe same, shall be common highways and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the State as to... | |
 | Charles Richard Tuttle, Ames Castle Pennock - 1876 - 718 pages
...of the United States; and, in no case, shall nonresident proprietors be taxed higher than residents. The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi...Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory as to... | |
 | John Russell Hussey - 1876 - 562 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, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said Territory as to... | |
 | William Salter - 1876 - 432 pages
...confederation," is not known ; or, how the section of the celebrated Ordinance of 1787, which declares that " the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying-places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants... | |
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