Report of the Chief of Engineers U.S. Army, Parte3

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1898
Includes the Report of the Mississippi River Commission, 1881-19 .

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Página 2360 - And the river Mississippi and the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same shall be common highways 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.
Página 2226 - States, and such commissioner, judge, or court shall proceed in respect thereto as authorized by law in case of crimes against the United States...
Página 2360 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St Lawrence, and the carrying places between the 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 and those of any other States that may be admitted into the Confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Página 2226 - ... of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding...
Página 2360 - ... a public highway, for the use of the government of the United States, free from toll or other charge upon the transportation of any property or troops of the United States.
Página 2357 - ... the commercial power of Congress is exclusive of State authority only when the subjects upon which it is exerted are national in their character and admit and require uniformity of regulations affecting alike all the States ; and that when the subjects within that power are local in their nature or operation, or constitute mere aids to commerce, the States may provide for their regulation and management, until Congress intervenes and supersedes their action.
Página 2384 - The principle deducible from these authorities seems to be that, whatever may be the form or nature of the conveyance used to pass real property, if the grantor sets forth on the face of the instrument, by way of recital or averment, that he is...
Página 2226 - ... regulations shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof in any district court of the United States within whose territorial jurisdiction such offense may have been committed shall be punished by a fine not exceeding...
Página 2339 - That there be, and hereby is, granted to the State of Wisconsin, on the admission of such State into the Union, for the purpose of improving the navigation of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, in the Territory of Wisconsin, and of constructing the canal to unite the said rivers at or near the portage...
Página 2382 - Bank of Augusta v. Earlc, 13 Pet. 519, 10 L. Ed. 274, Chief Justice Taney delivering the opinion, franchises are defined as "special privileges conferred by government upon individuals, and which do not belong to the citizens of the country, generally, of common right...

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