The Panama Canal Part 13

By the President of the United States of America, Was.h.i.+ngton, November 14, 1912.

A PROCLAMATION.

I, William Howard Taft, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power and authority vested in me by the Act of Congress, approved August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, to provide for the opening, maintenance, protection and operation of the Panama Ca.n.a.l and the sanitation and government of the ca.n.a.l zone, do hereby prescribe and proclaim the following rates of toll be paid, by vessels using the Panama Ca.n.a.l.

1. On merchant vessels carrying pa.s.sengers or cargo one dollar and twenty cents ($1.20) per net vessel ton--each one hundred (100) cubic feet--of actual earning capacity.

2. On vessels in ballast without pa.s.sengers or cargo forty (40) per cent. less than the rate of tolls for vessels with pa.s.sengers or cargo.

3. Upon naval vessels, other than transports, colliers, hospital s.h.i.+ps, and supply s.h.i.+ps, fifty (50) cents per displacement ton.

4. Upon army and navy transports, colliers, hospital s.h.i.+ps and supply s.h.i.+ps one dollar and twenty cents ($1.20) per net ton, the vessels to be measured by the same rules as are employed in determining the net tonnage of merchant vessels.

The Secretary of War will prepare and prescribe such rules for the measurement of vessels and such regulations as may be necessary and proper to carry this proclamation into full force and effect.

THE END.