I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the as ances of my highest consideration. Having noted the contents of Your Excellency's esteemed communicat No. 221, of the 18th instant, I have the honor to inform you that the Gover ment of the Republic, being as it is, greatly interested in giving the Gove ment of the United States all facilities in all that relates to the constructio conservation, service and protection of the Canal, in accordance with stipulation of the Bunau Varilla-Hay Treaty, has no objection to the tran through national territory of the troops and reconnaissance parties refer to in that communication. It only desires, in order to prevent difficulties with the authorities of t districts through which such troops and reconnaissance parties are to pa that it may be advised in advance of their departure in order to issue t necessary orders. I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assu ances of my highest consideration. His Excellency H. PERCIVAL DODGE, EDUARDO CHIARI Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States, City. #86. The Executive Order of December 5, 1912, Pursuant to the Panama Canal Act, Requiring the Depopulation of the Canal Zone* EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 2. By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Act of Congress entitled "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 24, 1912, Į hereby declare that all land and land under water within the limits of the Canal Zone are necessary for the construction, maintenance, operation, protection and sanitation of the Panama Canal, and the Chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission is hereby directed to take possession, on behalf of the United States, of all such land and land under water; and he may extinguish, by agreement when practicable, all clains and titles of adverse claimants to the occupancy of said land and land under water. THE WHITE HOUSE, WM H TAFT December 5th, 1912. Annual Report of the Isthmian Canal Commission, 1913, pp. 614-615. TC774.U52. See #63 above for the text of the Panama Canal Act of 1912. The Final Report of the U.S.Panama Joint Land Commission, established by the 1903 Treaty to provide compensation for private land holders, was filed on March 10, 1920. HE537.9.L3A5 1920. (725) I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assu ances of my highest consideration. Having noted the contents of Your Excellency's esteemed communicati No. 221, of the 18th instant, I have the honor to inform you that the Gover ment of the Republic, being as it is, greatly interested in giving the Gover ment of the United States all facilities in all that relates to the constructio conservation, service and protection of the Canal, in accordance with t stipulation of the Bunau Varilla-Hay Treaty, has no objection to the tran through national territory of the troops and reconnaissance parties refer to in that communication. It only desires, in order to prevent difficulties with the authorities of t districts through which such troops and reconnaissance parties are to pa that it may be advised in advance of their departure in order to issue t necessary orders. I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assu ances of my highest consideration. His Excellency H. PERCIVAL DODGE, EDUARDO CHIARI Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States, City.... #86. The Executive Order of December 5, 1912, Pursuant to the Panama Canal Act, Requiring the Depopulation of the Canal Zone* EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 2. By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Act of Congress entitled "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 24, 1912, I hereby declare that all land and land under water within the limits of the Cana! Zone are necessary for the construction, maintenance, operation, protection and sanitation of the Panama Canal, and the Chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission is hereby directed to take possession, on behalf of the United States, of all such land and land under water; and he may extinguish, by agreement when practicable, all clains and titles of adverse claimants to the occupancy of said land and land under water. THE WHITE HOUSE, WM H TAFT December 5th, 1912. Annual Report of the Isthmian Canal Commission, 1913, pp. 614-615. TC774.U52. See #65 above for the text of the Panama Canal Act of 1912. The Final Report of the U.S.Panama Joint Land Commission, established by the 1903 Treaty to provide compensation for private land holders, was filed on March 10, 1920. HE537.9.L3A5 1920. (725) I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assu ances of my highest consideration. Having noted the contents of Your Excellency's esteemed communicati No. 221, of the 18th instant, I have the honor to inform you that the Gover ment of the Republic, being as it is, greatly interested in giving the Gover ment of the United States all facilities in all that relates to the constructio conservation, service and protection of the Canal, in accordance with t stipulation of the Bunau Varilla-Hay Treaty, has no objection to the tran through national territory of the troops and reconnaissance parties refer to in that communication. It only desires, in order to prevent difficulties with the authorities of t district's through which such troops and reconnaissance parties are to pa that it may be advised in advance of their departure in order to issue t necessary orders. I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the ass ances of my highest consideration. His Excellency H. PERCIVAL DODGE, EDUARDO CHIARI Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States, City.... |