Acts of Congress, Treaties, Proclamations, and Decisions of the Supreme Court ... Relating to Noncontiguous Territory and Cuba, and to Military Affairs: Fifty-eighth Congress--March 4, 1903, to March 3, 1905. Supreme Court Cases--January 1, 1898, to December 3, 1906U.S. Government Printing Office, 1907 - 380 pages |
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Page 257 - That the government of Cuba shall never enter into any treaty or other compact with any foreign power or powers which will impair or tend to impair the independence of Cuba, nor in any manner authorize or permit any foreign power or powers to obtain by colonization or for military or naval purposes or otherwise, lodgment in or control over any portion of said Island.
Page 252 - 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 131 - It shall be the duty of the adverse claimant, within thirty days after filing his claim, to commence proceedings in a court of competent jurisdiction, to determine the question of the right of possession, and prosecute the same with reasonable diligence to final judgment; and a failure so to do shall be a waiver of his adverse claim.
Page 130 - ... shall post a copy of such plat, together with a notice of such application for a patent, in a conspicuous place on the land embraced in such plat previous to the filing of the application for a patent, and shall file an affidavit of at least two persons, that such notice has been duly posted...
Page 198 - Philosophical and scientific apparatus, utensils, instruments, and preparations, including bottles and boxes containing the same, specially imported in good faith for the use and by order of any society or institution...
Page 129 - ... shall be open to relocation in the same manner as if no location of the same had ever been made, provided that the original locators, their heirs, assigns, or legal representatives, have not resumed work upon the claim after failure and before such location.
Page 245 - States in perpetuity the use, occupation and control of any other lands and waters outside of the zone above described which may be necessary and convenient for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of the said Canal...
Page 245 - ... treaty or by reason of the operations of the United States, its agents or employees, or by reason of the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of the said Canal or of the works of sanitation and protection herein provided for, shall be appraised and settled by a joint Commission appointed by the Governments of the United States and the Republic of Panama...
Page 243 - States guarantees and will maintain the independence of the Republic of Panama." By Article II, "the Republic of Panama grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation and control of a zone of land and land under water for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of said Canal of the width of ten miles extending to the distance of five miles on each side of the center line of the route of the Canal to be constructed...
Page 249 - The two Governments shall make adequate provision by future agreement for the pursuit, capture, imprisonment, detention and delivery within said zone and auxiliary lands to the authorities of the Republic of Panama of persons charged with the commitment of crimes, felonies or misdemeanors without said zone and for the pursuit, capture, imprisonment, detention and delivery without said zone to the authorities of the United States of persons charged with the commitment of crimes, felonies and misdemeanors...
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| Title | Acts of Congress, Treaties, Proclamations, and Decisions of the Supreme Court ... Relating to Noncontiguous Territory and Cuba, and to Military Affairs: Fifty-eighth Congress--March 4, 1903, to March 3, 1905. Supreme Court Cases--January 1, 1898, to December 3, 1906 |
| Author | United States. Bureau of Insular Affairs |
| Contributors | United States, United States. Supreme Court, United States. Army |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1907 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 31 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 380 pages |
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