...securing the title in such soil to the bond fide purchasers. No taxes shall be imposed on the lands and property of the United States ; and in no case shall...navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and Saint Lawrence, and the conveying-places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free,...

...assessment may be raised by a tax on property. ARTICLE IX. EMINENT DOMAIN AND PROPERTY OF THE STATE. 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. Territorial...

...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...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. Territorial...

...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...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. Territorial...

...present-day Wisconsin as part of the United States, set certain conditions for a property tax in that area: "No tax shall be imposed on lands the property of...non-resident proprietors be taxed higher than residents" (Article IV). In fact, the property tax has a long tradition. It stretches back through the history...

...Mississippi and the St. Lawrence. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 states : The navigable waterways leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and...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...

...Mississippi and the St. Lawrence. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 states : The navigable waterways leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence^ and...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...

...securing the title in such soil to bona fide purchasers thereof ; and no tax shall be imposed on land the property of the United States ; and in no case...nonresident proprietors be taxed higher than residents. Provided, that nothing in this constitution, or in the act of congress aforesaid, shall in any manner...

...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...territory as to the citizens of the United States . . . without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.43 An allied principle holds that certain interests...

...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...and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the territory as the citizens of the United States, or those of any other stnte that may be admitted into...