...adopted July 14th, 1787, it is provided that the navigable waters leading into the Mississipi and the St. Lawrence and the carrying places between the same shall be common highways, and forever free. The same provision, in substance, is embodied in an act of Congress relating to said territory, passed...

...constitutionality, is it expedient to make these improvements ? The ordinance of 1787 provides that "tho navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and...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 any...

...laws of the State. ' The last clause of aiticle four, of the ordinance of 17£7, provides as follows : "The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi...Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, ah all be common highways and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the eaid Territory, as to...

...the bona fide purchasers. No tax shall be imposed on lands, the property of the United States; and in no case shall non-resident proprietors be taxed higher...same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inbabtants of the said Territory, as to the citizens of the United States, and those...

...Breese, where it is said : "But what is the provisions of Art. 4 of the ordinance of 17873 It is this: The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi...the same shall be common highways and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of eaid territory as to the citizens of the United States, etc., without...

...river Ohio." Ohio LL 252. Article 4, page 256, contains this clause: "The navigable waters loading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying...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...

...Justice of the supreme court, says : "And remarking upon the provision of the ordinance of 1787, that the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between tde same, shall be common highways, and forever tree, as well to the inhabitants of the terri tory...

...of Wisconsin, and the laws of the United States and of the State of Wisconsin, it was declnred that the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying-places, &c., should- be common highways and forever free; that the Fox and Wisconsin Rivt>rs...

...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 of the United States, without...

...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...