Panama-Canalen i 1912

TILLÆG I CLAYTON-BULWER TRACTATEN AFSLUTTET DEN 19. APRIL 1850 IMELLEM ENGLAND OG DE FORENEDE STATER Articles I. Declarations as to control of canal, occupation of terri- tory, and commercial advantages. II. Neutrality of canal in case of war. III. Protection of construction. IV. Mutual influence to facilitate construction. V. Guarantee of neutrality. VI. Cooperation of other States. VII. Mutual encouragement to speedy construction. VIII. Protection to other communications. XI. Ratification. The United States of America and Her Britannic Majesty, being desirous of consolidating the relations of amity 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, which may be constructed be- tween the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by the way of the River San Juan de Nicaragua and either or both of the Lakes of Nica- ragua or Managua, 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 States; and Her Britannic Majesty on the Right Honorable Sir Henry Lytton Bul- wer a member of Her Majesty’s Most Honorable Privy Council,