Zone piers so soon as Panamanian port facilities are in satisfactory operation in Colón. 11. The United States agrees that the term "auxiliary works" as used in the Treaty includes the Armed Forces of the United States of America. On the part of the Republic of Panama: 1. The Republic of Panama will lease to the United States of America, free of all cost save for the recited consideration of one Balboa, for a period of 99 years, two parcels of land contiguous to the present United States Embassy residence site, as designated on the sketch (No. SGN-9-54, dated November 19, 1954) and accompanying descriptions prepared by the Comisión Catastral of the Republic of Panama, attached hereto. 2. The Republic of Panama assures the United States of America that the property, shown and described on the attached map (No. SGN-6-54, dated October 1954) and accompanying description prepared by the Comisión Catastral of the Republic of Panama, in front of the United States Embassy office building site and between the Bay of Panama and Avenida Balboa as it may be extended between 37th and 39th Streets, will be preserved permanently as a park and not developed for commercial or residential purposes. 3. So long as the United States of America maintains in effect those provisions of Executive Order No. 6997 of March 25, 1935 governing the importation of alcoholic beverages into the Canal Zone, the Republic of Panama will grant a reduction of 75 percent in the import duty on alcoholic beverages which are sold in Panama for importation into the Canal Zone pursuant to such Executive Order. 4. In connection with the authorization granted to the United States of America in Article VIII of the Treaty, the United States shall have free access to the beach areas contiguous to the maneuver area described in said Article VIII for purposes connected with training and maneuvers, subject to the public use of said beach as provided under the Constitution of Panama. The provisions of this Memorandum of Understandings Reached shall enter into force upon the exchange of instruments of ratification of the Treaty signed this day by the United States of America and the Republic of Pahama. Post, facing p. 2350. Peat, facing p. 2380. DONE in duplicate in the City of Panamá, in the English and Spanish languages, this 25th day of January 1955. HECHO en duplicado en la ciudad de Panamá, en Inglés y en Español, a los 25 díar del mes de Enero de 1955. FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Bilde Chafin Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Panama WHEREAS the Senate of the United States of America by their resolution of July 29, 1955, two-thirds of the Senators present concurring therein, did advise and consent to the ratification of the said Treaty and related Memorandum of Understandings Reached; WHEREAS the said Treaty and related Memorandum of Understandings Reached were duly ratified by the President of the United States of America on August 17, 1955, in pursuance of the aforesaid advice and consent of the Senate, and were duly ratified on the part of the Republic of Panama; WHEREAS it is provided in Article XIII of the said Treaty that the Treaty shall enter into force on the date of the exchange of instruments of ratification thereof; WHEREAS it is provided in the said Memorandum of Understandings Reached that the provisions thereof shall enter into force upon the exchange of instruments of ratification of the said Treaty; AND WHEREAS the respective instruments of ratification of the said Treaty and related Memorandum of Understandings Reached were duly exchanged at Washington on August 23, 1955; Now, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and make public the said Treaty of Mutual Understanding and Cooperation and the said related Memorandum of Understandings Reached, to the end that the same and every article and clause. thereof may be observed and fulfilled in good faith on and after August 23, 1955 by the United States of America and by the citizens of the United States of America and all other persons subject to the jurisdiction thereof. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. DONE at the city of Washington this twenty-sixth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand nine [SEAL] hundred fifty-five and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred eightieth. DWIGHT D EISENHOWER By the President: HERBERT HOOVER Jr Acting Secretary of State #122. The Exchange of Documents of Ratification for the 1950 Conventions on Highways and the Colon Corridor, April 11, 1955* On April 11 at Panama City the U.S. Ambassador to Panama, Selden Chapin, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Panama, Octavio Fabrega, exchanged documents of ratification of the Conventions on Highways and the Colón Corridor. These agreements were originally signed by representatives of both countries in 1950.1 They have now been ratified by both Governments. The Highways Convention grants the United States free use of Panamanian public roads, with the Republic of Panama covering maintenance costs of such roads while the United States agrees to maintain the Trans-Isthmian Highway in good order. Prior to the signing of the convention, maintenance costs of public roads in Panama used periodically by the Armed Forces of the United States were shared by the United States with the Republic of Panama. The Colón Corridor agreement, through boundary adjustments, places the Trans-Isthmian Highway solely within Panamanian territory. It also gives to the city of Colón, for the first time since the construction of the Canal, a direct connection with the rest of the Republic of Panama over a route under Panamanian jurisdiction. The exchange of documents is another manifestation of the cordial relations which have been maintained between the Republic of Panama and the United States over a long period of years. Department of State Bulletin, v. 32, April 25, 1955, p. 700, footnotes 2 and 3 added. 1BULLETIN of Sept. 25, 1950, p. 500. 36 UST 480. Ratified by U.S. on July 18, 1952; by Panama on April 4, 1955. 36 UST 461. Ratified by U.S. on August 21, 1950; by Panama on April 4, 1955. (1007) TREATY OF MUTUAL UNDERSTANDINGS WITH THE REPUBLIC OF PANAMA 55119 JULY 26, 1955.-Ordered to be printed with an illustration *Senate Executive Report No. 11, 84th Congress, 1st Session. J74.A36. The Committee's Hearings on the [1955] Panama Treaty were held on July 15, 18, and 20, 1955, 84th Congress, 1st Session. JX1428.P2U52. The Senate gave its advice and consent on July 29, 1955. |