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The Secretary of State (Hull) to the Panamanian Ambassador (Boyd)

EXCELLENCY:

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

WASHINGTON
July 25, 1939

I understand from the debate in the Senate of the United States yesterday on the treaties signed with Panama, March 2, 1936, that the question was raised as to whether the Assembly of Panama had the notes and minutes of the treaty negotiations before it at the time the treaties were considered and ratified by that body.

I shall thank you to advise me definitely as to whether the notes and minutes of the negotiations were before the Assembly of Panama and were thoroughly understood and considered by the Assembly in connection with its ratification of the aforesaid treaties.

Accept, Excellency, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration.

His Excellency
Señor Dr. DON AUGUSTO S. BOYD,

CORDELL HULL

Ambassador of Panama

The Panamanian Ambassador (Boyd) to the Secretary of State (Hull)

EMBAJADA De Panama

WASHINGTON
July 25, 1939

EXCELLENCY:

I am in receipt of Your Excellency's note of this date in which you state that you understand from the debate in the Senate of the United States yesterday on the Treaties with Panama signed March 2, 1936, that the question was raised whether the Assembly of Panama had the notes and minutes of the treaty negotiations before it at the time the treaties were considered and ratified by that body.

I think that the best answer I may give to Your Excellency is to transcribe textually, in translation, law No. 37 of 1936 which was passed by our Assembly on the twenty-fourth of December, 1936, and which reads as follows:

The National Assembly of Panama Decrees

Only article: there are hereby approved and ratified in all their parts the General Treaty, the Radio Communications Convention, the Convention on the Transfer of the stations of La Palma and Puerto Obaldía and the Convention on the Trans-Isthmian Highway, signed in the city of Washington, March 2, 1936, by plenipotentiaries of the Governments of the Republic of Panama and of the United States of America, which is done taking into account the Minutes and the Exchanges of Notes signed on the same date and which contain interpretations and explanations of certain important aspects of the General Treaty and of the Conventions aforementioned.

From the law quoted above Your Excellency will observe that the minutes and the notes were before the Assembly and were considered and understood by it at the same time that the Assembly ratified the Treaty and Conventions above mentioned.

Accept, Excellency, the sentiments of my highest consideration.

His Excellency

CORDELL HULL,

Secretary of State.

AUGUSTO S. BOYD

[NOTE.-The above treaty was signed at Washington March 2, 1936; ratification advised by the Senate of the United States July 25, 1939; ratified by the President of the United States July 26, 1939; ratified by Panama July 17, 1939; ratifications exchanged at Washington July 27, 1939; proclaimed by the President of the United States July 27, 1939.]

(Whereupon, at 1:10 p. m., the hearings on appropriations for the War Department-Civil Functions were concluded.)

INDEX

A

Amendments requested by the War Department--
American citizens, employment of, in United States.

Page

1-3

239

American citizenship for certain employees in the Canal Zone

2,

3, 22, 24, 31, 111, 208, 224

208
111, 224
24

American Federation of Government Employees..

American Federation of Labor...

American Federation of Teachers, Local No. 227, Balboa, C. Z.
Andersen, Hon. H. Carl__

Archibald, Walter..

Arkansas Valley, limit of flood-control authorization in

187, 190
211, 212

85,257,258

261

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209

177

169, 213

135

Bonneville Dam, Columbia River, Oreg

Building and Construction Trades Department, American Federation of
Labor__

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Agriculture Department, increase in funds for cooperation with
Amount that could be spent profitably in fiscal year 1941
Appropriations in prior years__

75, 88, 90, 98, 103, 145, 209, 211, 256

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Construction operations, 1941, effect of reduced appropriation on. 86

Emergency flood control on tributaries other than those of Mis-

150

211

181, 183

186

76, 102

Increase in appropriation requested for. 146, 148, 152, 153, 160, 163, 191
Land, nontaxable, question as to-

Ohio Valley, flood control in..

Projects:

Allocation of funds for:

101, 257

209

Allocation of funds based on a $25,000,000 increase - -
Allocation of funds based on $30,000,000 increase....
Allocation of funds included in Budget estimate.
Allocation of funds under amount that can be expended
profitably in 1941..

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Manford, Okla..

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Land obtained for projects becoming nontaxable, question
as to...

Limitation in bill on amount available for projects on
account of which allotments have previously been made.
Lugert-Altus, Okla..

New projects proposed under House 10-percent recommen-

101, 257

87, 259

101

256,257

146

Authorization, limit of

Portsmouth, Ohio..

Prattville, Ala.

Sacramento River, flood control on-

Increase needed..

Levees, repair of

Provision in bill for.

Reclamation Bureau project at.

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State cooperation__.

Santa Fe, Calif...

Tenkiller, Okla.

Willamette Valley.

Wister, Okla.

83

77

85, 100, 256, 257

99

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85, 100, 256, 257

Ten percent of funds for new projects under bill as passed by
House.

Hydroelectric power.

Bonneville Dam, Columbia River, Oreg-

150

76, 77, 259

169, 213

169, 179, 213

213

169, 176

213

222

171

214, 223

221

219, 222

Interconnecting transmission line, construction of

219

215

218, 219, 220

174, 213, 214

Budget estimate, additional, question as to request for..
Effect of reducing funds for...

Foundations for units 7-10, increased appropriation needed
for..

Reasons for putting in at this time foundations for units
7-10_.

Grand Coulee, power available from..

Limitation by House on number of units..

Materials used, source of..

Power, market for additional_

Extent of power capacity.

Present sale of power-

Revenue from project, estimated.

Public power districts.

Rates, fixing of....

Rivers and Harbors-

Unemployment, effect of project on..

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Amendment requested by War Department..

Appropriations and expenditures on, 1925-40-
Budget estimate, amount of___

Amount that can be profitably expended..

Canals, operation and care of

Decreasing appropriation for, effect of.......

Corps of Engineers-Continued.

Rivers and Harbors-Continued.

Expenditure on rivers and harbors between mouth of Missouri and

Page

Minneapolis...

194

Farmer, savings to

195, 207, 208

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Additional allocations based on an increase of $25,000,000--
Allocation of funds included in figure allowed by House for
new work

97

95

Allocation of funds that can be profitably expended, 1941.- 206, 255
Maintenance, allocation of funds for, 1941-

199

Surveys and mapping in United States_

105

Coyne, John P..

136

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Guyandotte Flood Wall Association, Huntington, W. Va...--

H

Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, obligation of United States under..

Harding, Warren G

255

161

47

229

Hayden, Hon. Carl..

77-78, 105, 224

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