...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 he common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said Territory as to the citizens...

...Pease, 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...

...States.42 It was from the same concept that some of the language of the Northwest Ordinance was taken: [T]he navigable waters leading into the Mississippi...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 . . . without...

...instrument is: 'That all of the navigable waters leading into the St. Lawrence and the Mississippi, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the territory as the citizens of the United States, or those of any other...

...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...

...Mississippi. The Northwest Ordinance decreed that : "The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and the St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the...forever free, without any tax, impost or duty therefor." It appears possible that the attorney general of any affected State could act to enjoin the imposition...

...construction costs. We do not think that is feasible. Mr. OBERSTAR. Let me read you this to get your reaction: Navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and...and the carrying places between the same shall be highways and forever free as well to the inhabitants of said territory as to citizens of the United...

...recite from memory a section of the Northwest Ordinance of 1767 guaranteeing that inland waterways "shall be common highways and forever free . . . without any tax, impost, or duty therefor." To complement that ancient rationale, the barge operators offer a modern one : energy conservation....

...bargemen recite from memory a section of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 guaranteeing Umt inland waterways "shall be common highways and forever free . . . without any tax, impost, or duty therefor." To complement that ancient rationale, the barge oi>erators offer a modern one : energy conservation....

...the ordinance above alluded to is, that "The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and the St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the 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 those of...