The Panama Canal: An Elucidation of Its Governmental Features as Prescribed by Treaties; a Discussion of Toll Exemption and the Repeal Bill of 1914; and Other Pertinent Chapters |
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... respect to the rates for the service of the Panama Canal , it be- came necessary to discuss every possible question in the whole field of legal , moral and economic right , whether contained in treaties , or inhering in the laws ...
... respect to the rates for the service of the Panama Canal , it be- came necessary to discuss every possible question in the whole field of legal , moral and economic right , whether contained in treaties , or inhering in the laws ...
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... respecting a wholly imaginary canal . But the dawning of the nineteenth century brought definite ideas about the making of a strait connecting the two oceans . Alexander von Humboldt came to America in 1799 and remained in Mexico and ...
... respecting a wholly imaginary canal . But the dawning of the nineteenth century brought definite ideas about the making of a strait connecting the two oceans . Alexander von Humboldt came to America in 1799 and remained in Mexico and ...
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... respect of the conditions or charges of traffic or otherwise . Such conditions and charges of traffic shall be just and equitable . " Section 2 , provides that the canal shall not be blockaded nor shall any act of war or hostility be ...
... respect of the conditions or charges of traffic or otherwise . Such conditions and charges of traffic shall be just and equitable . " Section 2 , provides that the canal shall not be blockaded nor shall any act of war or hostility be ...
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... respects comply with the provisions and requirements of said act . " " Tolls may be based upon gross or net registered tonnage , displacement tonnage , or otherwise , and may be based on one form of tonnage for warships and an- other ...
... respects comply with the provisions and requirements of said act . " " Tolls may be based upon gross or net registered tonnage , displacement tonnage , or otherwise , and may be based on one form of tonnage for warships and an- other ...
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... respecting a nation to interpret with too strain- ed or refined a reading the words of our promises just because we have power enough to give us leave to read them as we please . The large thing to do is the only thing that we can ...
... respecting a nation to interpret with too strain- ed or refined a reading the words of our promises just because we have power enough to give us leave to read them as we please . The large thing to do is the only thing that we can ...
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