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Show States to the federal government of the power to own and hold property in trust for tho benefit of all the states and their inhabitants; hence it is beyond the reach or sovereign power of any one State. 4-9 Virginia next made a compact with its western territory south of the Ohio permitting it to become a new State called Kentucky. The compact provided that r« ». -, the use and navigation of the river Ohio, so far as the territory of bho proposed State., or the territory which shall remain within the limits of this Commonwealth lies therein., shall "be free and common to the citizens of the United States; and the respective jurisdictions cf this Commonwealth and of the proposed State, on the river aforesaid shall "be concurrent only with the States which shall possess the opposite snores of the said river »'-50 This was the now well known Virginia Compact, fixing sovereign rights in the Ohio River throughout almost the whole of its course; and constituting a continuing offer on the part of Virginia and Kentucky to the States to be created northwest of the river, which, as later formed with the consent of Congress, did accept the offer and become parties to the compact And so the States to the south control the bed of the river from the Pennsylvania line to the Mississippi; but the States to the north have equal jurisdiction upon its waters . The Virginia Compact was incorporated in the first constitution -of Kentucky when it became the second new State of the Union 51 While North Carolina and Georgia were following in the footsteps of Virginia and similarly ceding to the United States all the remaining 'soil and juris- diction- south of the Ohio River and bordering upon the Mississippi to the . international boundary of Spanish West Florida 5^ the north end of the American Union was expanded over the independent republic of Vermont by its admission as the first new State, Its people reserved from the hazards of legislation or interstate compacts their right in perpetuity "? « : to fish in all boatable and other waters., not private property 53 States and Texas, Apr 25, 1638, 8 Stat, at L. 511, 2 Malloy's Treaties, 1779- It so remained as between States later created Oklahoma v» Texas, 256 \US- 70, 41 Sup, Ct 420 65 L. Ed 831 (1920). "^ The power of the government-to reserve the waters and exempt them from appropriation under the state laws is not denied, and could not be «t: Winters v."United States, 207 U.S. 564,, 577; 28 Sup. Ct* 207. 212, 52 L, Ed« 340 346- 347 (1908) ¦, citing authorities c -^ 13 Henning's Va Stat, at L. 17, 19, consult also, Act cf Feb, 4 179 1* 1 Stat, at L. 189, 3 Thorpe's Constitutions., 1264; Kentucky Const, of 1792- Art* VIII,. p 7, 3 Thorpe's Constitutions, 1272; Indiana v< Kentucky. 136 U'-=Sr 479, 10 Sup. Cto 1051, 3J4 L, Rdo 329 (1890)5 Wedding v. Meyler, 192 U.S. 573> 2J4. Sup* Ct. 322. i|8 L. Ed. 570, 66 L.R-.A. 833 (190U); Niooulin v. O'Brisnr 2lxB U.S» 113; 39 Sup, Otr 23? 63 L. Ed« I55 (1918)0 SI . Art. VIII,, p 7,, of the first constitution of Kentucky, 1792, provides that; "The coirpact with the State of Virginia, subject to such alterations as may be made thereins agreeably to the mode prescribed by said compact.. ,*shall |