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“...Republic of Panama the sum of ten million dollars
($ 10,000,000) in gold coin of the United States on the exchange
of the ratification of this convention, and also an annual payment
during the life of this convention of two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars ($ 250,000) in like gold coin, beginning nine
years after the date aforesaid.
The provisions of this article shall be in addition to all
other benefits assured to the Republic of Panama under this
convention.
But no delay or difference of opinion under this article or
any other provisions of this treaty shall affect or interrupt the
full operation and effect of this convention in all other respects.
Article XV.
The joint commission referred to in Article VI. shall be
established as follow :—
The President of the United States shall nominate two persons
and the President of the Republic of Panama shall nominate
two persons, and they shall proceed to a decision; but in case
of disagreement of the commission (by reason of their being
equally...”
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“...created by this
Act having jurisdiction of like cases, matters, and duties.
All existing laws in the Canal Zone governing practice and
procedure in existing courts shall be applicable and adapted to
the practice and procedure in the new courts.
The Circuit Court of Appeals of the Fifth Circuit of the United
States shall have jurisdiction to review, revise, modify, reverse, or
affirm the final judgments and decrees of the District Court of the
Canal Zone and to render such judgments as in the opinion of the
said appellate court should have been rendered by the trial court in
all actions and proceedings in which the Constitution, or any statute,
treaty, title, right, or privilege of the United States, is involved and
a right thereunder denied, and in cases in which the value in con-
troversy exceeds one thousand dollars, to be ascertained by the oath
of either party, or by other competent evidence, and also in criminal
causes wherein the offense charged is punishable as a felony. And
such...”
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“...service not in conflict
with the provisions of this paragraph. The commission may on
its own motion or the application of any shipper institute procee-
dings to inquire into the operation of any vessel in use by any
railroad or other carrier which has not applied to the commission
and had the question of competition or the possibility of com-
petition determined as herein provided. In all such cases the order
of said commission shall be final.
If the Interstate Commerce Commission shall be of the opinion
that any such existing specified service by water other than through
the Panama Canal is being operated in the interest of the public
and is of advantage to the convenience and commerce of the
people, and that such extension will neither exclude, prevent, nor
reduce competition on the route by water under consideration,
the Interstate Commerce Commission may, by order, extend the
time during which such service by water may continue to be
operated beyond July first, nineteen hundred and fourteen...”
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“...laws relating to the rendition of fugitives from justice as between
the several States and Territories of the United States, shall extend
to and be considered in force in the Canal Zone, and for such
purposes and such purposes only the Canal Zone shall be consi-
dered and treated as an organized Territory of the United States.
Sec. 13. That in time of war in which the United States shall
be engaged, or when, in the opinion of the President, war is
imminent, such officer of the Army as the President may designate
shall, upon the order of the President, assume and have exclusive
authority and jurisdiction over the operation of the Panama Canal
and all of its adjuncts, appendants, and appurtenances, including
the entire control and government of the Canal Zone, and during
a continuance of such condition the governor of the Panama
Canal shall, in all respects and particulars as to the operation of
such Panama Canal, and all duties, matters, and transactions
affecting the Canal Zone, be subject...”
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“...wise, and specifi-
cally the protest challenges the right of the Congress to exempt
American shipping from the payment of tolls for the use of the
Panama Canal or to refund to such American ships the tolls which
they may have paid, and this without regard to the trade in which
such ships are employed, whether coastwise or foreign. The protest
states “the proposal to exempt all American shipping from the
payment of the tolls would, in the opinion of His Majesty’s Govern-
ment, involve an infraction of the treaty (Hay-Pauncefote), nor is
there, in their opinion, any difference in principle between charg-
ing tolls only to refund them and remitting tolls altogether. The
result is the same in either case and the adoption of the alternative
method of refunding tolls in preference of remitting them, while
perhaps complying with the letter of the treaty, would still con-
trovert its spirit.” The provision of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
involved is contained in article 3, which provides :
The United...”
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