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From Wikipedia: The Torrijos–Carter Treaties are two treaties signed by the
United States and Panama in Washington, D.C.,
PANAMA CANAL TOLL RATES.
By the President of the
United States of America, Washington, 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
Canal and the sanitation and government of the canal zone, do hereby
prescribe and proclaim the following rates of toll be paid, by vessels using
the Panama Canal.
1. On merchant vessels carrying passengers or cargo
one dollar and twenty cents ($1.20) per net vessel ton—each one hundred
(100) cubic feet—of actual earning capacity.
[Pg 344]2. On vessels in
ballast without passengers or cargo forty (40) per cent. less than the rate
of tolls for vessels with passengers or cargo.
3. Upon naval vessels,
other than transports, colliers, hospital ships, and supply ships, fifty
(50) cents per displacement ton.
4. Upon army and navy transports,
colliers, hospital ships and supply ships 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.
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