...regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers. No tax shall be imposed on lands the property of the...proprietors be taxed higher than residents. The navigable water leading into the Mississippi and Saint Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall...

...regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona-fide purchasers. order, and it is not in order to move to reconsider...report is agreed to or disagreed to. (7) Appeals from Saint Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free,...

...still enforceable in the territory.23Article IV of the Ordinance provided for free navigation of the "waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same" for all Americans.24 It is doubtful if the congressmen from the southern states who voted for the Ordinance...

...regulations Congress may find it necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona-fide purchasers. No tax shall be imposed on lands the property of the...nonresident proprietors be taxed higher than residents" (emphasis added). This or similar wording — all to the effect that the US government was to retain...

...the latter end of the spectrum, the Wisconsin Constitution provides that "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."23 Colorado's...

...regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers. No tax shall be imposed on lands the property of the...nonresident proprietors be taxed higher than residents." The committee, taking into consideration these stipulations, viewing the lands of the United States within...