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LAWS

OF THE

CANAL ZONE

ISTHMUS OF PANAMA

ENACTED BY THE

ISTHMIAN CANAL COMMISSION

AUGUST 16, 1904, to MARCH 31, 1914

STANFORD LIBRARY

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297478

Compiled and Annotated
by

J. J. MCGUIGAN

Under direction of the
Governor, The Panama Canal,

1921.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Chronological list of acts of the Isthmian Canal Commission.

Chronological list of ordinances of the Isthmian Canal Commission.

Introduction.....

Acts of the Isthmian Canal Commission

Ordinances of the Isthmian Canal Commission..

Index.......

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CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF ACTS OF THE ISTHMIAN CANAL

COMMISSION.

Act No. 1.-An Act to provide for the organization of a judiciary and the

exercise of judicial powers in the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama, and

for other purposes...

Act No. 2.-An Act authorizing the appointment of notaries public, defining

their duties, fixing their term of office, prescribing their fees, and for

other purposes..

Act No. 3.-An Act reciting an Executive Order of the President of the United

States and to provide for the suppression of lotteries and similar enterprises

in the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama, and for other purposes..

Act No. 4.-An Act to prohibit gambling in the Canal Zone, Isthmus of

Panama, and to provide for the punishment of violations thereof, and

for other purposes.....

Act No. 5.-An Act to authorize the alcaldes of the several municipalities

of the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama, temporarily to continue to exercise

the judicial powers and jurisdiction heretofore exercised by them..

Act No. 6.-An Act authorizing the exercise of the right of expropriation

within the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama, as to real estate and im-

movable property, and as to personal property and property that is partly

personal and partly real, and providing the method of procedure for exer-

cising that right.

Act No. 7.-An Act to provide for the organization of the municipal gov-

ernments in the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama

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Act No. 8.-An Act to provide for the organization of the Executive Branch

of the Government of the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama..

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Act No. 9.-An Act to provide sanitary rules and regulations for the Canal

Zone, Isthmus of Panama, and for the enforcement thereof..

Act No. 10.-An Act to provide maritime quarantine regulations for the

ports and harbors of the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama..

Act No. 11.-An Act designating the days which shall be observed as public

holidays in the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama

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Act No. 12.-An Act creating a penitentiary for the Canal Zone, Isthmus of

Panama..

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Act No. 13.-An Act to provide for the temporary performance of the duties

of the marshal of the Supreme Court, marshals of the Circuit Courts, clerk

of the Supreme Court, and clerk of the Circuit Courts of the Canal Zone,

Isthmus of Panama

Act No. 14.-An Act to establish a Penal Code for the Canal Zone, Isthmus

of Panama.

Act No. 15.-An Act to establish a Code of Criminal Procedure for the Canal

Zone, Isthmus of Panama

Act No. 16.-An Act prescribing a method of determining the salaries of

Army and Navy officers, and of officers of the United States Public Health

and Marine Hospital Service employed by the Isthmian Canal Commis-

sion and stationed on the Isthmus of Panama

Act No. 17.-An Act to amend Act No. 1, Laws of the Canal Zone, Isthmus

of Panama, entitled "An Act to provide for the organization of a judiciary

and the exercise of judicial powers in the Canal Zone, Isthmus of Panama,

and for other purposes".

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