...attention of the government of the United States. By the ordinance of 1787, Congress declared that " the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi...places between the same, shall be common highways and for ever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory as to the citizens of the United States,...

...attention of the government of the United States. By the ordinance of 1787, Congress declared that " the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi...places between the same, shall be common highways and for ever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory as to the citizens of the United States,...

...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...

...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...and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory as to the citizens of the United States . . . without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.43...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...Mississippi. The Northwest Ordinance decreed 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, without any tax, impost or duty therefor." It appears possible that the attorney general of any affected...

...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...