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1 Interoceanic Canal 1 (1901)

handle is hein.ustreaties/intcana0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 57stSession. S SENATE. DOCUMENT INTEROCEANIC CANAL. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STA TES, Decemnber 19, 1901. Ordered, That there be published in one Senate document the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty; the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, with amendments thereto by the Senate at the last session of Congress, and the treaty that was ratified on December sixteenth, nine- teen hundred and one, together with amendments proposed thereto, and the votes and pairs on said amendments, and the vote by which that treaty was ratified. Attest: CHARLEs G. BENNETT, Secretary. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, Alpd 3, 1902. Ordered, That Senate Document No. 85, Fifty-seventh Congress, first session, together with the proceedings had on the treaty known aS the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, of February fifth, nineteen hundred, be reprinted. Attest: CFrARLES G. BENNETT, ','cretary. By HENRY M. ROSE, Chief Clerk. CLAYTON-BULWER TREATY OF APRIL 19, 1850. The United States of America and Her Britannic Majestv. being desirous of consolidating the relations of arnity which so happily subsist between them, by setting forth and fixing in a convention their views and intentions with reference to any means of communication by ship- canal wihich may be constructed between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans by the way of the river San Juan de Nicaragua and either or both of the lakes of Nicaragua or Maaagua, to any port or place on the Pacific Ocean, the President of the United States has conferred full powers on John M. Clayton, Secretary of State of the United Stat(-, and Her Britannic Majesty on the Right Honorable Sir Henry Lytton Buher, a meml)er of Her Majestys most honorable privy council, knight com- mander of the most honorable Order of the Bath, and envoy extraordi- nary and minister plenipotentiary of Her Britannic Majesty to the United States, for the aforesaid purpose; and the said plenipotentiaries having exchanged their full powers, which were found to be in proper form, have agreed to the following articles: ARTICLE 1. The Governments of the United States and Great Britain hereby declare that neither the one nor the other will ever obtain or maintain for itself any exclusive control over the said ship canal; agreeing that neither will ever erect or maintain any fortifications commanding the same or in the vicinity thereof, or occupy, or fortify, or colonize, or assume, or exercise any dominion over Nicara'gua. Costa Rica, the -[os- (uuito coast, or any 1'a-ct of ('entral Xnei ic. nor will either make use of any protection which citilic 11i0rds o may afford, or any alliance Digitized from Best Copy Available

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