The Panama Treaty: Hearings Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, First Session, on Executive F, 84th Congress, 1st Session, the Treaty of Mutual Understandings and Cooperation with the Republic of Panama. July 15, 18, and 20, 1955

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1955 - Panama - 203 pages

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Page 158 - II which the United 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.
Page 189 - As the price or compensation for the rights, powers, and privileges, granted in this convention, by the Republic of Panama to the United States, the Government of the United States agrees to pay to the Republic of Panama...
Page 18 - The Republic of Panama grants to the United States in perpetuity a monopoly for the construction, maintenance and operation of any system of communication by means of canal or railroad across its territory between the Caribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean.
Page 17 - XX 1. Subject to the provisions of paragraphs 2 and 3 of this Article, the present Agreement shall apply only to the metropolitan territory of a Contracting Party.
Page 158 - Government of the United States agrees to pay to the Republic of Panama the sum of ten million dollars ($10,000,000) in gold coin of the United States, on the exchange of the ratification of this convention, and also an annual payment during the life of this convention of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) in like gold coin, beginning nine years after the date aforesaid.
Page 66 - (3) be charged, except as otherwise provided by law, with the performance of the various duties connected with the civil government, including health, sanitation and protection, of the Canal Zone.
Page 23 - The exemption is to be extended to the auxiliary railway for the transportation of persons in the service of the Republic of Panama, or of the police force charged with the preservation of public order outside of said zone, as well as to their baggage, munitions of war and supplies. Article XX. If by virtue of any existing treaty in relation to the territory of the Isthmus of Panama, whereof the obligations shall descend...
Page 158 - The provisions of this Article shall be in addition to all other benefits assured to the Republic of Panama under this convention.
Page 19 - Panama agrees to save the Government of the United States harmless from any and all claims which may arise incident to the conveyance of the area known as PAITILLA POINT to the Republic of Panama. ARTICLE VI Article V of the Boundary Convention, signed September 2, 1914, between the United States of America and the Republic of Panama, shall be replaced by the following provisions : "It is agreed that the permanent boundary line between the City of...
Page 1 - To the Senate of the United States : With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification...

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