Court : US Supreme Court
Decided on : Jan-01-1845
..... from their laws to have doubted their own power or the power of congress. but we do not understand that pennsylvania now upon any ground disputes the validity of the compact or denies her obligation to perform it; on the contrary, she asserts her readiness to fulfill it in all its parts, according to ..... the rates which the state had authorized upon an artificial road that she had established from the susquehanna, opposite the borough of harrisburg, to pittsburgh. then in the act of 1831 are enumerated the subjects of toll, and the rates prescribed as to each of those subjects. amongst the former are mentioned chariots, coaches, coachees, stages ..... advantage which the government of the united states may have proposed to itself or to others in undertaking this road; such purposes or objects could legitimate no acts either expressly forbidden or not plainly authorized. if the mere appropriation or disbursement of money can create rights in the government, they may extend this principle .....
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