 | United States. Tax Court - Taxation - 1984 - 1122 pages
...a 1903 treaty between the United States and the Republic of Panama. In that treaty, Panama granted to the United States "all the rights, power and authority within the [Canal] zone * * * which the United States would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign."2 Under... | |
 | International law - 1977 - 886 pages
...Article III of the US-Panama treaty of 1903 (33 Stat. 2234; TS 431; 10 Bevans 663) provides: The Republic of Panama grants to the United States all the rights,...authority within the zone mentioned and described in Artic|e II of this agreement and within the limits of all auxiliary lands and waters mentioned and... | |
 | Lars Schoultz - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 500 pages
...swooned on the platform."36 Bunau-Varilla had signed away a 10-mile- wide strip of the isthmus, giving "the United States all the rights, power and authority within the zone . . . which the United States would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory... | |
 | Michael L. Conniff - History - 2001 - 244 pages
...controversial (and harmful from Panama's point of view) change was Bunau-Varilla's clause that finally read, "Panama grants to the United States all the rights, power and authority . . . which the United States would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory... | |
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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. 
