...instrument making the grant was article II of the 1903 Treaty, pertinent part of which reads : The Republic of Panama grants to the United States in perpetuity...land under water for the construction, maintenance — and so forth. There then follows the description of the land granted. There was nothing left to...

...Constitution." An act approved August 24, 1912, provided that the zone of land and land under water of the width of ten miles extending to the distance of five miles on each «Ide of the centre line of the route of the canal now being con • Panama «tructed thereon, which...

...zone above described, shall not be included within this grant. The Republic of Panama further granted to the United States In perpetuity the use, occupation and control of any other lands and waters outalde of the zone above described which may be necessary and convenient...

...zone above described, shall not be Included within this grant The Republic of Panama further granted to the United States In perpetuity the use, occupation and control of any other lands and waters outsldi of the zone above described which may be necessary and convenient...

...Looking to the treaty of November 18, 1903, 33 Stat. 2234, we find that the Republic of Panama granted to the United States, in perpetuity, " the use, occupation and control " of the said Zone, with " all the rights, power and authority * * * which the United States would possess...

...Government is powerless to do anything of the kind therein. Article 2 of the treaty, heretofore referred to, "grants to the United States in perpetuity the use,...maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of said 204 US Opinion of the Court. canal." By article 3, Panama "grants to the United States all the rights,...

...Canal Company and the Panama Railroad Company, and provided also that the United States shall have in perpetuity the " use, occupation, and control of...protection of said canal, of the width of ten miles, together with all its lands within the limits of the zone above described, and, in addition thereto,...

...Republic of Panama granted to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation and control of the zone of land and land under water for the construction,...sanitation and protection of said canal of the width of tPn miles, extending to the distance of five miles on each side of the central line of the route of...

...Republic of Panama. 25 ARTICLE II. 26 The Republic of Panama grants to the United States in perpetuity 27 the use, occupation and control of a zone of land and land under 28 water for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation 29 and protection of said Canal of...

...of the zone above described, shall not be included within this grant. The Republic of Panama further grants to the United States in perpetuity the use, occupation, and control of any other lands and waters outside of the zone above described which may be necessary and convenient...