RECUEIL GÉNÉRAL DE TRAITÉS ET AUTRES ACTES RELATIFS AUX RAPPORTS CONTINUATION DU GRAND RECUEIL DE G. FR. DE MARTENS PAR Heinrich Triepel Conseiller intime de justice Professeur de droit public à l'Université de Berlin. TROISIÈME SÉRIE. TOME IX. PREMIÈRE LIVRAISON. LEIPZIG LIBRAIRIE DIETERICH THEODOR WEICHER 1916 1. ETATS-UNIS D'AMÉRIQUE. Loi modifiant la Loi sur le Canal maritime de Panama du 24 août 1912;*) du 15 juin 1914. Publication officielle. An Act to Amend Section Five of „An Act to Provide for the Opening, Maintenance, Protection, and Operation of the Panama Canal and the Sanitation and Government of the Canal Zone“, Approved August Twenty-Fourth, Nineteen Hundred and Twelve. [Approved, June 15, 1914.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the second sentence in section five of the Act intitled "An Act to provide for the opening, maintenance, protection, and operation of the Panama Canal, and the sanitation and government of the Canal Zone", approved August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, which reads as follows: No tolls shall be levied upon vessels engaged in the coastwise trade of the United States", be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Sec. 2. That the third sentence of the third paragraph of said section of said Act be so amended as to read as follows: When based upon net registered tonnage for ships of commerce the tolls shall not exceed $ 1.25 per net registered tou, nor be less than 75 cents per net registered ton, subject, however, to the provisions of article nineteen of the convention between the United States and the Republic of Panama, entered into November eighteenth, nineteen hundred and three: **) Provided, That the passage of this Act shall not be construed or held as a waiver or relinquishment of any right the United States may have under the treaty with Great Britain, ratified the twenty-first of February, nineteen hundred and two,***) or the treaty with the Republic of Panama, ratified February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and four,t) or otherwise, to discriminate *) V. N. R. G. 3. s. VII, p. 22. **) V. N. R. G. 2. s. XXXI, p. 605. ***) Traité Hay-Pauncefote du 18 novembre 1901; v. N. R. G. 2. s. XXX, p. 631. †) Traité du 18 novembre 1903, v. supra. in favor of its vessels by exempting the vessels of the United States or its citizens from the payment of tolls for passage through said canal, or as in any way waiving, impairing, or affecting any right of the United States under said treaties, or otherwise, with respect to the sovereignty over or the ownership, control, and management of said canal and the regulation of the conditions or charges of traffic through the same. 2. ETATS-UNIS D'AMÉRIQUE, PANAMA. Convention en vue de délimiter la Zone du Canal de Panama; signée à Panama, le 2 septembre 1914.*) Treaty Series, No. 610. Boundary Convention. Convención de límites. Whereas, Gen. George W. Davis, Los Gobiernos de los Estados Unidos then Governor of the Canal Zone, on de América y de la República de behalf of the United States of America, Panamá, considerando: que el 15 de and Messrs. Tomás Arias and Ramón Junio de 1904 se celebró un conValdés López, then Secretary of venio entre el General George W. Foreign Affairs and Attorney General, Davis, que era Gobernador de la Zona respectively, of the Republic of Pa- del Canal, en representación de los nama, acting on behalf of that Re- Estados Unidos de América y los public, entered into an agreement on señores Tomás Arias, por entonces the 15th day of June, 1904, by the Secretario de Relaciones Exteriores terms of which the Republic of Pa-y Ramón Valdés López, en esa fecha nama delivered over to the United Procurador General de la Nación, States of America, the use, occupation, and control in perpetuity of the zone of land ten miles in width described and mentioned in articles II and III of the Canal Treaty between the United States of America and the Republic of Panama, dated November 18, 1903, **) and the boundary lines of said zone, as well as those of the cities of Panama and Colon and their adjacent harbors, were subsequently located upon the ground and monumented; ambos en representación de la Repú- *) Les ratifications ont été échangées à Panama, le 11 février 1915. |