Military Reservations

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War Department, 1943
 

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Page 7 - described in Article II of this agreement and within the limits of all auxiliary lands and waters mentioned and described in said Article II which the United States would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign of the territory within which said lands and waters
Page 4 - the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, and Emperor of India, the Right Honourable Lord Pauncefote, GCB, GCMG, His Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States; Who, having communicated to each other their full powers which were found to be in due and proper form, have agreed upon the following Articles:—
Page 7 - ARTICLE VII The Republic of Panama grants to the United States within the limits of the cities of Panama and Colon and their adjacent harbors and within the territory adjacent thereto the right to acquire by purchase or by exercise of the right of eminent domain, any lands, buildings, water rights or other properties necessary
Page 6 - The Republic of Panama further grants in like manner to the United States in perpetuity all islands within the limits of the zone above described and in addition thereto the group of small islands in the Bay of Panama, named Perico, Naos, Culebra, and Flamenco. Article
Page 13 - interest which has been so acquired by the United States, whether before or after the passage of this act, shall be and the same is hereby ceded to the United States for all purposes herein provided except the service upon such sites of all civil and criminal process of the courts of this State, which
Page 4 - IV It is agreed that no change of territorial sovereignty or of the international relations of the country or countries traversed by the before-mentioned canal shall affect the general principle of neutralization or the obligation of the High Contracting Parties under the present Treaty.
Page 6 - jurisdiction of the United States of America outside of the zone as described in Article II of the aforesaid Convention, which may be necessary and convenient for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of the Panama Canal or of any auxiliary canals or other works necessary and convenient for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of the said enterprise.
Page 92 - shall retain a concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and over the tracts of land aforesaid, so far as that civil process, in all cases, and such criminal process as may issue under the authority of the state of New-York, against any person or persons charged with crimes committed without
Page 94 - shall retain a concurrent jurisdiction with the United States in and over the said tracts of land, so far as that civil process in all cases, and such criminal process as may issue under the authority of the state of New-York, against any person or persons charged with crimes committed

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