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This document summarizes a Supreme Court case from 1879 involving a corporation that operated steamboats and barges on the Mississippi River between states. The corporation paid wharfage fees to the city of St. Louis under protest. The case considered whether these fees violated the US Constitution. The Court found that the city had authority from its charter to regulate wharf use and collect fees, and that the duties of the harbor master aided rather than burdened commerce. The fees were also reasonable co

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