Annual Report of the Isthmian Canal Commission ...

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1906 - Canal Zone
 

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Page 77 - The two Governments shall make adequate provision by future agreement for the pursuit, capture, imprisonment, detention, and delivery within said zone and auxiliary lands to the authorities of the Republic of Panama of persons charged with the commitment of crimes, felonies or misdemeanors without said zone and for the pursuit, capture, imprisonment, detention, and delivery without said zone...
Page 14 - An act relating to' the limitation of the hours of daily service of laborers and mechanics employed upon the public works of the United States and of the District of Columbia...
Page 135 - Surety, are held and firmly bound unto the United States of America, hereinafter called the Government, in the penal sum of dollars, lawful money of the United States, for the payment of which sum well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, administrators, and successors, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents. The condition of this obligation is such, that whereas the principal...
Page 14 - That purchases of material and equipment for use in the construction of the Panama Canal shall be restricted to articles of domestic production and manufacture, from the lowest responsible bidder, unless the President shall, in any case, deem the bids or tenders therefor to be extortionate or unreasonable.
Page 13 - That a lock canal be constructed across the Isthmus of Panama connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, of the general type proposed by the minority of the Board of Consulting Engineers, created by order of the President dated January twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and five, in pursuance of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans," approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two.
Page 13 - Canal, under the provisions of section eight of ,An act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans...
Page 130 - ... (2) The Government will secure the co-operation of these powerful interests in keeping full the ranks of foremen, locomotive engineers, steamshovel men, and mechanics of all classes and with the best men of each class. "(3) The Government will know exactly what the work costs in every part, and as it progresses, and will know it is only paying a fair and reasonable profit on same. "(4) The plan offers every incentive for speedy and economical construction by penalizing extra time and cost and...
Page 151 - ... laborers, and with the fixing of their salaries and wages; with the commercial operation of the Panama Railroad Company and its steamship lines as common carriers; with the utilization of the railroad as a means of constructing the Canal; with the making of contracts for construction and excavation, and with all other matters incident and necessary to the building of a waterway across the Isthmus of Panama, as provided by the act of Congress of June 28, 1902.
Page 5 - Not only do they seem to be disqualified by lack of actual vitality, but their disposition to labor seems to be as frail as their bodily strength. Few of them are steady workers. The majority of them work just long enough to get money to supply their actual bodily necessities, with the result that while the Commission is quartering and caring for about 25,000 men, the daily effective force is many thousands less.
Page 75 - Republic who seek refuge in the territory of the Canal Zone, hereby decrees that: ARTICLE 1. All persons who have been convicted, prosecuted, or accused before the courts of the Canal Zone as authors or accomplices of crimes, transgressions, or offenses against the laws of said Zone, and who seek refuge in the Republic of Panama, shall be, upon apprehension, taken into custody by the authorities of the Republic and delivered to the authorities of the Canal Zone in compliance with the procedure hereinafter...

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