and inhabitants of the Canal Zone and appurtenant territory and the Republic of Panama; also a readjustment of customs duties and tariff regulations so as to secure uniformity of rates and privileges and avoid the disadvantages resulting from different schedules, duties, and administrative measures in limited territory subject to the same conditions and not separated by natural obstacles. The Governor shall report as to such negotiations and proposed agreement to the Chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission, for submission and consideration by the Commission and such action by competent authority as may be necessary to render said agreement effective in the Canal Zone. This order will be proclaimed and enforced in the Canal Zone at Panama. WM. H. TAFT. APPENDIX II. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, June 24, 1904. To the CHAIRMAN OF THE ISTHMIAN CANAL COMMISSION. SIR: The necessities of the inhabitants and the due administration of the affairs of government in the Canal Zone at Panama require the establishment of post offices and postal service in that territory. It is therefore ordered: That a post office be established in each of the following-named towns of the Canal Zone, to wit: Cristobal, Gatun, Boheo. Gorgona, Bas Obispo, Empire, Culebra, La Boca, and Ancon. The post offices at Cristobal and Ancon shall be money-order offices. The Governor of the Canal Zone is hereby authorized to appoint postmasters for the post offices herein established and fix the compensation therefor, subject to the approval of the Isthmian Canal Commission. The Governor of the Canal Zone is directed to formulate a plan for a practical and efficient postal service in said Canal Zone, and including such measures and provisions of the Postal Service of the United States as are not inapplicable to the conditions of law and fact existing in the Canal Zone, and to report said plan to the chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission for such action as the discretion of the commission shall approve. Pending the establishment of the postal service by act of the commission or other competent authority, the Governor of the Canal Zone is hereby authorized to establish post offices at such additional places in the. Canal Zone as in his judgment the interests of the public require, and to appoint postmasters therefor and fix their compensation, subject to the approval or other action thereon by the Isthmian Canal Commission. The Governor of the Canal Zone is also authorized to adopt and enforce such temporary rules, regulations, provisions, and requirements as may be necessary to secure a practical and efficient postal service in said Canal Zone, and to employ such temporary assistants and employees as the exigencies of the service require. By direction of the President: WM. H. TAFT, Secretary of War. PANAMA, December 6, 1904. SECTION 1. Consignments of goods, wares, and merchandise which by virtue of section 1 of the above mentioned order of December 3, 1904, cannot be entered for importation at the ports of Ancon or Cristobal may nevertheless, at the option of the consignor, if accompanied by the proper consular invoices of the consul of the Republic of Panama at the port of consignment, be landed at Ancon or Cristobal, respectively, in transit to any part of the Canal Zone or the republic upon payment of the proper duties to the Republic of Panama, under suitable arrangements similar to those provided for by section 2 of said order of December 3, 1904. But such goods, wares, and merchandise not accompanied by consular invoice of the consul of the republic shall not be permitted to land at Ancon or Cristobal. SEC. 2. The order of December 3, 1904, shall be construed to permit free exportation and consignment of goods, wares, and merchandise and free transit of persons and vehicles from the republic through the Canal Zone and from the terminal ports thereof. By direction of the President: WM. H. TAFT, Secretary of War. WAR DEPARTMENT, SIR: By direction of the President, it is ordered that there shall be substituted for the order of June 25, 1904, relating to the establishment and administration of the customs service in the Canal Zone of the Isthmus of Panama, which was revoked by the order of December 16, 1904, the following: "SECTION 1. For the purpose of customs administration in the Canal Zone there is hereby established a customs district, which comprises all the lands and waters within the control and jurisdiction of the United States on the Isthmus of Panama and the maritime waters contiguous to the shores of the said Canal Zone extending to the distance of three marine miles from mean low-water mark, but not including any maritime waters that pertain to the harbors of the cities of Panama and Colon in the Republic of Panama, the harbors of which are sufficiently defined under the provisional agreement of delimitation signed by the proper representatives of the governments of Panama and of the Canal Zone on the 15th day of June, as modified by the consent of the parties in accordance with the description contained in section 5 of the Executive Order of December 3, 1904. "SEC. 2. There shall be two ports of entry in the Canal Zone, to wit: Ancon, at the Pacific terminus of the canal, and Cristobal, at the Atlantic terminus, at which goods, wares, and merchandise may be imported or exported and vessels may be entered or cleared in accordance with the Executive Orders of December 3, 1904, and December 6, 1904. "SEC. 3. The subdivision of the executive branch of the Government of the Canal Zone, known as the Department of Revenues, shall include the administration of the customs laws and tariff regulations in force in the said zone. The collector of revenues, who by act of the Isthmian Canal Commission is ex-officio the collector of customs, shall receive the salary which may be allowed by law, and shall perform the duties of collector of customs as required by the laws now in force in the Canal Zone or that may hereafter be enacted. "SEC. 4. The deputy collectors and inspectors of customs, the health officers, and port captains at the ports of Ancon and Cristo bal shall receive such compensation as may be allowed by law, and will perform their duties at said ports as required by the laws and regulations in force in the zone. SEC. 5. The order of December 16, 1904, revoking the order of June 24, 1904, together with this order, shall be proclaimed in the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama, and shall be in force from the date of the promulgation." Very respectfully, The CHAIRMAN OF THE ISTHMIAN CANAL COMMISSION, Washington, D. C. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C., January 7, 1905. By direction of the President, it is hereby ordered that— 1. To entitle goods, wares, and merchandise to entry at Ancon and Cristobal, the terminal ports of the Isthmian Canal, Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama, it is necessary that it be established by the certificate of a member of the Isthmian Canal Commission, or of the chief engineer of the Isthmian Canal Commission, or of the chief of the Department of Material and Supplies, that said goods, wares, and merchandise are necessary and convenient for the construction of the Isthmian Canal or for the use and consumption of certain officers and employees in the service of the United States and of the Government of the Canal Zone and their families, stationed on the Isthmus of Panama, and are to be devoted to that purpose exclusively. 2. The certificates above required shall be granted only when the goods, wares, and merchandise to be certified are (1) the property, including live stock and forage, of or under contract of purchase by the United States and intended for use in the work of constructing the canal or the sanitation of the Isthmus; or for the service of the Government of the Canal Zone; (2) the property, including live stock and forage, of or under contract of purchase by a contractor with the United States or the Government of the Canal Zone for work on the construction of the Isthmian Canal, the sanitation of the Isthmus of Panama, provided that any goods, wares, or merchandise that are to be offered for sale by any contractor to his employees or otherwise shall not be entitled to such entry; (3) the property of the Government of the Canal Zone or of any municipality of said zone; (4) property and provisions intended for sale in commissaries established and operated by the Isthmian Canal Commission to officers, employees, and contractors of the Isthmian Canal Commission, of the Panama Railroad Company, or of any contractor with the Isthmian Canal Commission for work on the Isthmus (together with the families of such persons), who are citizens of the United States or who received compensation on what is known as the gold pay roll of the Commission, of the railroad company, or such contractor; (5) household furniture of such officers 29479-S. Doc. 348, 67-4- -20 and employees of the Isthmian Canal Commission stationed in the Canal Zone, or Republic of Panama, including such articles, effects, and furnishings as pictures, books, musical instruments, chinaware, bed and table linen, and kitchen utensils; also wearing apparel, toilet objects, and articles for personal use; books, portable tools, and instruments; jewelry and table services, in quantities and of the class suitable to the rank and position of such officers and employees and intended for their own use and benefit and not for barter or sale, imported from the United States. 3. This order contemplates the exclusion from benefits of the commissaries established and maintained by the Commission of all employees and workmen who are natives of tropical countries wherein prevail climatic conditions similar to those prevailing on the Isthmus of Panama, and who therefore may be presumed to be able to secure the articles of food, clothing, household goods and furnishings, of the kind and character to which they are accustomed, from the merchants of Panama, Colon, and the towns of the Canal Zone, and whose ordinary needs may be supplied without recourse to the Government commissaries. Should it develop hereafter that said merchants charge prices in excess of legitimate profit, or practice other extortion, the United States, for the protection and assistance of all its employees, whether from the tropical or temperate zone, will supply its commissaries with such staple articles as are required and desired by the inhabitants of tropical countries, and permit all its employees and workmen and those of its contractors to avail themselves of the benefits and privileges afforded by said Government commissaries.1 This order is to take effect on the 7th day of January, 1905. WM. H. TAFT, The CHAIRMAN OF THE ISTHMIAN CANAL COMMISSION, Washington, D. C. Orders: WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, January 5, 1911. 1. By direction of the President, it is ordered that the first proviso of section 1 of the Order issued by the Secretary of War, by direction of the President, on December 3, 1904, which was promulgated in Circular No. 4, Isthmian Canal Commission, December 30, 1904, be amended to read as follows: "Provided, however, That this order shall cease to be operative"First. If the Republic of Panama should at any time increase the rate of duty on imported articles described in class 2 of the Act of the National Convention of Panama passed July 5, 1904, and effective October 12, 1904, above 15 per centum ad valorem, provided for in said Act; or if the said Republic should increase at any time the rates of duty on the imported articles described in the other schedules of said Act, except on all forms of imported Revoked by sec. 2 of the Executive order of January 5, 1911. wines, liquors, alcohols and opium, upon which the Republic may fix higher rates. "Second. If Article thirty-eight of the Constitution of the Republic of Panama, as modified by Article one hundred and fortysix thereof, is repealed or modified at any time in so far as the importation and sale of all kinds of merchandise are concerned. Third. If the consular fees and charges of the Republic of Panama, in respect to the entry of all vessels and importations into the said ports of Colon and Panama, are increased beyond the rates now in force which rates are understood to be sixty per centum of the rates in force prior to the promulgation of said order of December 3, 1904; or, "Fourth. If goods imported into the ports of Colon and Panama, consigned to or designated for any port in the Canal Zone, are at any time subjected in the Republic of Panama to any other direct or indirect impost or tax whatever." 2. Paragraph 3 of the Order issued by the Secretary of War, by direction of the President, on January 7, 1905, which contemplates the exclusion from the benefits of the commissaries established and maintained by the Canal Commission of all employees and workmen who are natives of tropical countries is hereby revoked. J. M. DICKINSON, 1913. DECLARATION EFFECTED BY EXCHANGE OF NOTES PERMITTING CONSULS TO TAKE NOTE IN PERSON, OR BY AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVES, OF DECLARATIONS OF VALUES OF EXPORTS MADE BY SHIPPERS BEFORE CUSTOMS OFFICERS. Signed at Washington April 17, 1913. (Treaty Series, No. 578.) The undersigned, W. J. BRYAN, Secretary of State of the United States of America, duly authorized thereto, in virtue of a reciprocal Declaration made by J. E. Lefevre Chargé d'Affaires of the Republic of Panama at Washington, does hereby declare that from and after June 1, 1913, and until the expiration of one month after the date on which either the United States of America or the Republic of Panama shall give notice of the withdrawal of said Declaration, the consuls of the Republic of Panama in the United States of America shall be permitted to take note in person, or through their authorized representatives, of the declaration made by shippers before the American customs officers in which they state the value of the merchandise exported to the Republic of Panama. The consuls of the Republic of Panama shall be given certified copies of the said declarations when requested by them. W. J. BRYAN Secretary of State of the United States. WASHINGTON, April 17, 1913. |