Packet Co. v. Keokuk
Supreme Court of the United States
Epjroe to tbe Supreme Court of the State of Iowa. The act of the legislature of Iówa creating the city of Keokuk a municipal corporation gave to the city council power to establish and regulate wharves, and to fix the rates of landing and wharfage of all boats, rafts, and .water-craft moored at or' landing at the wharves.
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Epjroe to tbe Supreme Court of the State of Iowa. The act of the legislature of Iówa creating the city of Keokuk a municipal corporation gave to the city council power to establish and regulate wharves, and to fix the rates of landing and wharfage of all boats, rafts, and .water-craft moored at or' landing at the wharves. By virtue of this power, the city coun-roil, on the 26th of February, 1872, passed an' ordinance, the first section of which ordained that all the ground then lying", or which might thereafter be made, between Water Street, in the said city, and the middle channel of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Strong
The principal question presented by the record of' this, case is,, whether a municipal corporation of a State, having by the law of its organization an exclusive right to make wharves, collect wharfage, and regulate wharfage rates, can, consistently with the Constitution of the. United States* charge and collect wharfage proportioned to the tonnage.of the vessels from the' owners of enrolled and licensed steamboats mooring and landing at' the wharves constructed cm- the banks of a navigable river.
The city of Keokuk is such a corporation, existing by virtue of a special charter granted by the…
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