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“...of the contracting parties over the commerce
of the other, or by imposing oppressive exactions or unreasonable
tolls upon passengers, vessels, goods, wares, merchandise, or other
articles. Neither party, however, shall withdraw the aforesaid protec-
tion and guarantee without first giving six months’ notice to the other.
Article VI.
The contracting parties in this convention engage to invite
every state with which both or either have friendly intercourse,
to enter into stipulations with them similar to those which they
have entered into with each other ; to the end that all other
states may share in the honour and advantage of having contri-
buted to a work of such general interest and importance as the
canal herein contemplated. And the contracting parties likewise
agree, that each shall enter into treaty stipulations with such of
the Central American States as they may deem advisable, for the
purpose of more effectively carrying out the great design of this
convention, namely, that of...”
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the same, but salaries or compensation fixed hereunder by the
President shall in no instance exceed by more than twenty-five
per centum the salary or compensation paid for the same or
similar services to persons employed by the Government in con-
tinental United States. That upon the completion of the Panama
Canal the President shall cause the same to be officially and
formally opened for use and operation.
Before the completion of the canal, the Commission of Arts may
make report to the President of their recommendation regarding
the artistic character of the structures of the canal, such report
to be transmitted to Congress.
Sec. 5. That the President is hereby authorized to prescribe
and from time to time change the tolls that shall be levied by
the Government of the United States for the use of the Panama
Canal: Provided, That no tolls, when prescribed as above, shall be
changed, unless six month’s notice thereof shall have been given by
the President by proclamation. No tolls shall...”
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“...traffic which has been brought
to the port or is carried from the port by a common carrier by water.
“(d) If any rail carrier subject to the Act to regulate com-
merce enters into arrangements with any water carrier operating
from a port in the United States to a foreign country, through
the Panama Canal or otherwise, for the handling of through
business between interior points of the United States and such
foreign country, the Interstate Commerce Commission may require
such railway to enter into similar arrangements with any or all
other lines of steamships operating from said port to the same
foreign country.”
The orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission relating
to this section shall only be made upon formal complaint or in
proceedings instituted by the commission of its own motion and
after full hearing. The ordres provided for in the two amendments
to the Act to regulate commerce enacted in this section shall be
served in the same manner and enforced by the same penalties
and proceedings...”
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