The Panama Canal: Treaties and Acts of Congress Relating to the Isthmian Canal |
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... tion , maintenance , and operation of the canal shall be deemed to be part thereof , for the purposes of this Treaty , and in time of war , as in time of peace , shall enjoy complete immunity from attack or injury by belligerents , and ...
... tion , maintenance , and operation of the canal shall be deemed to be part thereof , for the purposes of this Treaty , and in time of war , as in time of peace , shall enjoy complete immunity from attack or injury by belligerents , and ...
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... tion of all such engineers and other persons employed under this Act shall be fixed by said Commission , subject to the approval of the President . The official salary of any officer appointed or employed under this Act shall be ...
... tion of all such engineers and other persons employed under this Act shall be fixed by said Commission , subject to the approval of the President . The official salary of any officer appointed or employed under this Act shall be ...
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... TION OF A SHIP CANAL TO CONNECT THE WATERS OF THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIO OCEANS . Signed at Washington , November 18 , 1903 . Ratification advised by the Senate , February 23 , 1904 . Ratified by the President , February 25 , 1904 ...
... TION OF A SHIP CANAL TO CONNECT THE WATERS OF THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIO OCEANS . Signed at Washington , November 18 , 1903 . Ratification advised by the Senate , February 23 , 1904 . Ratified by the President , February 25 , 1904 ...
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... tion of water in the said cities of Panama and Colon , which , in the discretion of the United States may be necessary and convenient for the construction , maintenance , operation , sanitation and protection of the said Canal and ...
... tion of water in the said cities of Panama and Colon , which , in the discretion of the United States may be necessary and convenient for the construction , maintenance , operation , sanitation and protection of the said Canal and ...
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... tion which in any of its terms may be incompatible with the terms of the present convention , the Republic of Panama agrees to cancel or modify such treaty in due form , for which purpose it shall give to the said third power the ...
... tion which in any of its terms may be incompatible with the terms of the present convention , the Republic of Panama agrees to cancel or modify such treaty in due form , for which purpose it shall give to the said third power the ...
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Act entitled act making appropriations Act to provide America in Congress approved June twenty-eighth ARTICLE Atlantic and Pacific bonds cable and telegraph canal connecting Canal Zone Caribbean Sea centum cities of Panama common carrier compensation Congress assembled connecting the waters construction and engineering contingent expenses Convention departments of construction detailed for duty disbursements and examination enacted ending June thirtieth entitled An Act equipment examination of accounts fifty thousand dollars fiscal year ending fiscal year nineteen Government hereafter House of Representatives hundred and eight hundred and nine hundred thousand dollars injury Interstate Commerce Commission Isthmian Canal Commission Isthmus of Panama maintenance Majesty nineteen hundred officers and employees operation Pacific oceans paid Panama and Colon Panama Railroad Company persons Plenipotentiary present treaty quarters and subsistence Republic of Colombia Republic of Panama salaries Senate and House skilled and unskilled stationery and printing supplies telegraph service temporarily detailed thereof United vessels watchmen
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Page 5 - ... to any other practicable communications, whether by canal or railway, across the isthmus which connects North and South America, and especially to the interoceanic communications should the same prove to be practicable, whether by canal or railway, which are now proposed to be established by the way of Tehuantepec or Panama.
Page 32 - An Act to provide revenue, equalize duties, and encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes.
Page 7 - President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.
Page 9 - ... and to prepare and issue therefor coupon or registered bonds of the United States in such form as he may prescribe, and in denominations of twenty dollars or some multiple of that sum, redeemable in gold coin at the pleasure of the United States...
Page 33 - The jurisdiction of the courts of the United States under this act shall be concurrent with that of the courts of the several States, and no case arising under this act and brought in any State court of competent jurisdiction shall be removed to any court of the United States.
Page 23 - ... any case where the violation by such common carrier of any statute enacted for the safety...
Page 16 - Until Congress shall provide for the government of such islands all the civil, judicial, and military powers exercised by the officers of the existing government in said islands shall be vested in such person or persons and shall be exercised in such manner as the President of the United States shall direct; and the President shall have power to remove said officers and fill the vacancies so occasioned.
Page 3 - Britain take advantage of any intimacy, or use any alliance, connection, or influence that either may possess with any State or Government through whose territory the said Canal may pass, for the purpose of acquiring or holding, directly or indirectly, for the...
Page 7 - It against lawlessness and disorder. 3. Vessels of war of a belligerent shall not revictual nor take any stores in the canal except so far as may be strictly necessary ; and the transit of such vessels through the canal shall be effected with the least possible delay...
Page 11 - States would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory within which said lands and waters are located to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights, power or authority.