The Panama Canal: Treaties and Acts of Congress Relating to the Isthmian Canal |
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... Department . * * * Approved , February 3 , 1905 . * * * * An Act Fixing the ... construction , and for other purposes . Be it enacted by the Senate and ... construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans ...
... Department . * * * Approved , February 3 , 1905 . * * * * An Act Fixing the ... construction , and for other purposes . Be it enacted by the Senate and ... construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans ...
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... construction and engineering and administration departments , two million six hundred and fifty thousand five hundred and twelve dollars ; For skilled and unskilled labor on the Isthmus , for the departments of construction and engineering ...
... construction and engineering and administration departments , two million six hundred and fifty thousand five hundred and twelve dollars ; For skilled and unskilled labor on the Isthmus , for the departments of construction and engineering ...
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... departments of construction and engineering , auditing , disbursing , and labor , quarters and subsistence , two million seven hundred and seventy - two thousand dollars ; For skilled and unskilled labor on the Isthmus , including ...
... departments of construction and engineering , auditing , disbursing , and labor , quarters and subsistence , two million seven hundred and seventy - two thousand dollars ; For skilled and unskilled labor on the Isthmus , including ...
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... departments of construction and engineering and administration , " shall be trans- ferred to the appropriation " For skilled and unskilled labor engaged in the health and sanitation departments on the Isthmus of Fanama " of the same Act ...
... departments of construction and engineering and administration , " shall be trans- ferred to the appropriation " For skilled and unskilled labor engaged in the health and sanitation departments on the Isthmus of Fanama " of the same Act ...
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... departments of construction and engineering , auditing , disbursing , and labor , quarters and subsistence , two hundred and ten thou- sand and seven hundred dollars . For skilled and unskilled labor on the Isthmus , including engineers ...
... departments of construction and engineering , auditing , disbursing , and labor , quarters and subsistence , two hundred and ten thou- sand and seven hundred dollars . For skilled and unskilled labor on the Isthmus , including engineers ...
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Act entitled act making appropriations Act to provide actual necessary traveling 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 court department of civil departments of construction detailed for duty disbursements and examination enacted ending June thirtieth entitled An Act equipment examination of accounts fiscal year ending fiscal year nineteen fortifications Government hereafter House of Representatives hundred and eight hundred and nine hundred thousand dollars Interstate Commerce Commission Isthmian Canal Commission Isthmus of Panama maintenance material million nineteen hundred officers and employees operation Pacific oceans paid Panama and Colon Panama Railroad Company persons purposes Republic of Colombia Republic of Panama salaries Secretary Senate and House skilled and unskilled stationery and printing supplies telegraph service temporarily detailed thereof tion United vessels watchmen
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Page 27 - Act to recover damages for personal injuries to an employee, or where such injuries have resulted in his death, the fact that the employee may have been guilty of contributory negligence shall not bar a recovery, but the damages shall be diminished by the jury in proportion to the amount of negligence attributable to such employee...
Page 27 - ... resulting in whole or in part from the negligence of any of the officers, agents, or employees of such carrier, or by reason of any defect or insufficiency, due to its negligence, in its cars, engines, appliances, machinery, track, roadbed, works, boats, wharves, or other equipment.
Page 13 - VII. That to enable the United States to maintain the independence of Cuba, and to protect the people thereof, as well as for its own defense, the government of Cuba will sell or lease to the United States lands necessary for coaling or naval stations at certain specified points to be agreed upon with the President of the United States. VIII. That by way of further assurance the government of Cuba will embody the foregoing provisions in a permanent treaty with the United States.
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 27 - That no such employee who may be injured or killed shall be held to have been guilty of contributory negligence in any case where the violation by such common carrier of any statute enacted for the safety of employees contributed to the injury or death of such employee.
Page 19 - ... 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 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 citizens or subjects of the one, any rights or advantages in regard to commerce or navigation through the said canal which shall not be offered on the same terms to the citizens or subject?
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 7 - Treaty shall be ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof , and by His Britannic Majesty; and the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington or at London at the earliest possible time within six months from the date hereof.
Page 53 - An Act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans...