OF

INTERNATIONAL LAW

AS EMBODIED IN

DIPLOMATIC DISCUSSIONS, TREATIES AND
OTHER INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS, INTERNATIONAL
AWARDS, THE DECISIONS OF MUNICIPAL COURTS, AND .

THE WRITINGS OF JURISTS,

AND ESPECIALLY IN

DOCUMENTS, PUBLISHED AND UNPUBLISHED,
ISSUED BY PRESIDENTS AND SECRETARIES OF STATE OF

THE UNITED STATES,
THE OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEYS-GENERAL, AND THE
DECISIONS OF COURTS, FEDERAL

AND STATE.

BY

JOHN BASSETT MOORE, LL. D.,

Hamilton Fish Professor of International Law and Diplomacy, Columbia University,
New York: Associate of the Institute of International Law: Sometime
Third Assistant Secretary of State and Assistant Secre-

tary of State of the United States;
Author of a Treatise on Extradition and Interstate Rendition, of American Notes on
the Conflict of Laws, of a History and Digest of Internation
tions, of an Exposition of the Spirit and Achievements

of American Diplomacy, etc.

IN EIGHT VOLUMES
(THE EIGHTH BEING INDEXICAL).

VOLUME III.

WASHINGTON:
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE,

1906.

CONTENTS OF WOLUME III.

CHAPTER IX.

INTEROCEANIC COMMUNICATIONS.

I. Early declarations of American policy. $ 336.

Instructions to delegates to Panama Congress.

Senate resolution, 1835.

House resolution, 1839.

Duty of local sovereign.

II. Isthmus of Panama.

| 1. Article XXXV., treaty of 1846. § 337.

_ (1) President Polk's message. § 338.

so (2) Subsequent acts and interpretations. § 339.

*~ (3) Negotiations of 1856–57. § 340.

o (4) Negotiations of 1868–1870. § 341.

* (5) Negotiations of 1881. § 342.

2. Guaranty of neutrality and sovereignty. § 343.

3. Guaranty of free and open transit.

(1) Domestic disturbances. § 344.

*y. Panama riot, 1856.

o Subsequent discussions.

o, Insurrection of 1884–85, and after.

so The Republic of Panama, 1903.

> (2) Passports. § 345.

(3) Transit of the mails. § 346.

(4) Taxation and commercial regulations. § 347.

Tonnage taxes.

Capitation tax.

(5) Transit of troops. § 348.

(6) Fugitives from justice. § 349.

(7) Telegraphic communication. § 350.

III. Clayton-Bulwer treaty.

1. The treaty and its antecedents. § 351.

2. Variant interpretations.

(1) Belize, or British Honduras. § 352.

(2) Ruatan, and other Bay Islands. § 353.

(3) Mosquito protectorate. § 354.

Mr. Buchanan's instructions to Mr. Hise.

Action of Mr. Clayton.

Webster-Crampton arrangement.

* Position of Mr. Marcy.

Buchanan-Clarendon negotiations.

3. Historical summary, 1851–1858. § 355.

4. Arrangement of 1858–1860. § 356.