| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1977 - 466 páginas
...article IV, that : 1 "Domestic Waterborne Shipping Market Analysis," AT Kearney, Inc., February 1974. 70 "The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi...the same, shall be common highways and forever free * * * to citizens of the United States * * * without any tax, impost or duty therefore." This policy... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs - 1983 - 1430 páginas
...necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona-fide purchasers. No tax shall be imposed on lands the property of the United States; and in no case...navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and Saint Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free,... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries - 1985 - 334 páginas
...origin of national policy can be traced to the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, in which it was pledged that "the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi...the same, shall be common highways and forever free, as well as to the inhabitants of the said territory as to the citizens of the United States, and those... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries - 1985 - 332 páginas
...origin of national policy can be traced to the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, in which it was pledged that "the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi...the same, shall be common highways and forever free, as well as to the inhabitants of the said territory as to the citizens of the United States, and those... | |
| Stephen L. Schechter - 1990 - 478 páginas
...necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers. No tax shall be imposed on lands the property of the United States; and in no case...than residents. The navigable waters leading into the Missisippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same shall be common highways, and... | |
| Arthur M. Woodford - 1991 - 298 páginas
...1787. This "Northwest Ordinance" provided not only for the governing of the territory, but also that "the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi...the same, shall be common highways and forever free . . ."16 But the transition of governments in the Great Lakes area was slow. The British were loath... | |
| Elizabeth Brand Monroe - 1992 - 296 páginas
...sess. (1836), H. Rept. 672, 3. 20. 2 US Stat. 226. 21. Ibid., 4-5. 22. They relied on the following: "the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi...same, shall be common highways, and forever free." Article IV, Northwest Ordinance of 1787. 23. Remonstrance against Obstructing the Navigation of the... | |
| Gyeorgos C. Hatonn - 1995 - 244 páginas
...WATERS (now you know why they do not dredge the river channels up the Mississippi and the Ohio properly) leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and...territory as to the citizens of the United States (original states), and those of any other States that may be admitted into the confederacy, WITHOUT... | |
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