United States Congressional Serial Set

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1909
Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
 

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Seite 224 - States in perpetuity the use, occupation and control of a zone of land and land under water for the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection of said Canal of the width of ten miles extending to the distance of five miles on each side of the center line of the route of the Canal to be constructed...
Seite 298 - Mass., in 1920. on the occasion of the celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of that city.
Seite 44 - Government is divided into the legislative, executive, and judicial branches, the former consisting of two houses, the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. The Senate has 63 members...
Seite 119 - Nuevitas and took possession of the country in the name of the King of Spain.
Seite 223 - Two mountain chains traverse the territory of the Republic. Inclosing a number of valleys and plains which afford excellent pasturage for cattle and in which all the products of the Tropical Zone are raised.
Seite 86 - Three chains of mountains which cross the country produce a variety of climate and products, ranging from the temperate to the tropical. Coffee, cacao, sugar cane, tobacco, and bananas, are successfully grown and largely exported, and the extensive forests contain a number of valuable cabinet and other useful woods, and medicinal plants. Vegetable ivory and india rubber are other products of export, also "Panama" hats, in the manufacture of which the natives have acquired considerable skill.
Seite 63 - Republic has more than 10,000 miles of navigable waterways open to river steamers and ocean-going vessels, and 20,000 miles additional which are navigable for lightdraft and flat-bottom boats.

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