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“...Nevertheless they may station vessels of war in the ports of
access of Port Said and Suez, the number of which shall not
exceed two for each power.
This right shall not be exercised by belligerents.
Article VIII.
The agents in Egypt of the signatory powers of the present
treaty shall be charged to watch over its execution. In case of
any event threatening the security or the free passage of the
canal, they shall meet on the summons of three of their number
under the presidency of their Doyen, in order to proceed to the
necessary verifications. They shall inform the Khedival government
of the danger which they may have perceived, in order that that
government may take proper steps to ensure the protection and
the free use of the canal. Linder any circumstances, they shall
meet once a year to take note of the execution of the treaty.
The last-mentioned meetings shall take place under the
presidency of a special commissioner nominated for that purpose
by the Imperial...”
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“... to the governor of
the Panama Canal, who shall perform all such executive and
administrative duties required by existing law. The President is
authorized to determine or cause to be determined what towns
shall exist in the Canal Zone and subdivide and from time to
time resubdivide said Canal Zone into subdivisions, to be desig-
nated by name or number, so that there shall be situated one
town in each subdivision, and the boundaries of each subdivision
shall be clearly defined. In each town there shall be a magistrate’s
court with exclusive original jurisdiction coextensive with the
subdivision in which it is situated of all civil cases in which the
principal sum claimed does not exceed three hundred dollars, and
all criminal cases wherein the punishment that may be imposed
shall not exceed a fine of one hundred dollars, or imprisonment
not exceeding thirty days, or both, and all violations of police
regulations and ordinances and all actions involving possession
or title...”
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“... materials for the construction
and repair of vesséls in the United States. This is objected to
on the ground that it will interfere with the shipbuilding interests
of the United States. I can not concur in this view. The number
of vessels of the United States engaged in foreign trade is so
small that the work done by the present shipyards is almost
wholly that of constructing vessels for the coastwise trade or
Government vessels. In other words, there is substantially no
business for building ships in the foreign trade in the shipyards
of the United States which will be injured by this new provision
It is hoped that this registry of foreign-built ships in American
foreign trades will prove to be a method of increasing our foreign
shipping. The experiment will hurt no interest of ours, and we
can observe its operation If it proves to extend our commercial
flag to the high seas, it will supply a long-felt want.
Third. Section 5 of the interstate commerce act is amended
by...”
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