711.192/92: Telegram
The Minister in Panama (South) to the Secretary of State
[Received 8:10 p.m.]
91. Your 64 September 18, 5 p.m. The President informed me this morning that he agrees to the proposals contained in the Department’s above-mentioned telegram. In regard to paragraph 1 of the Department’s telegram, the alternative financial arrangement of prorating the cost of roads as construction progressed was unnecessary and therefore not mentioned by me. The President is inclined to leave the direction of the road to the engineers and sees no objection to using any road now built or contemplated which would be practicable.
The matter mentioned in paragraph 2 of the Department’s telegram is no longer insisted upon.
As to paragraph 3 of the Department’s telegram, the President desires the boundary line to be established along the middle of the streets; the construction and maintenance of one half the street paving is satisfactory. The Panaman engineers will be ready Monday morning to cooperate in any way with the Zone authorities in surveying and preparing the new metes and bounds.
The Department’s proposals in paragraphs 4, 5 and 6 of its above-mentioned telegram are accepted.
Concerning paragraph 7 of the Department’s telegram the 20-year period and subsequent 7-year periods are acceptable provided the United States will give two instead of one year’s notice of denouncement or abrogation before the expiration of the 20-year or any of [Page 536] the 7-year periods. I hope that the Department will find it convenient to meet this request.
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