819.7961/65
The Minister in Panama (South) to
the Secretary of State
Panama, April 22, 1929.
[Received April
29.]
No. 1999
Sir: Confirming my telegram No. 41 of April 22,
12 M,15 I have the honor
to report that I exchanged notes with Señor J. D. Arosemena, the Panaman
Secretary of Foreign Relations this morning effecting an agreement for
regulations governing commercial aviation in Panama.16
. . . . . . .
A copy of my note of acceptance is enclosed herewith.
I have [etc.]
For the Minister:
Benjamin
Muse
Second Secretary of
Legation[Enclosure]
The American Minister (South) to the Panaman Minister for Foreign Affairs
(Arosemena)
Panama, April 22, 1929.
No. 937
Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of Your Excellency’s Note of April 22, 1929, reading as
follows:
“Mr. Minister:
“With reference to our conversations concerning the
regulation of commercial aviation in the Republic, I have
the honor to inform [Page 729] Your Excellency that the National Government, recognizing
the importance which the security of The Panama Canal has
for the United States of America, agrees that three members
of the Aviation Board shall always be appointed on
designation by Your Excellency’s Government.
“The Government of Panama recognizes, as I have said, the
special interest which Your Excellency’s Government has in
the protection of The Panama Canal and, in view of that,
considers further that the regulations which we have
recently discussed are acceptable and suitable at the same
time to insure that protection in terms decorous for both
countries, with the following modifications:
- “(a) The proposed Joint
Commission shall be called simply Aviation Board; it
will be presided over by the Secretary of Government
and Justice and its members will be appointed by the
President of the Republic, three of them on
designation by Your Excellency’s Government;
- “(b) The licenses to
operate aircraft in the Republic and for the crews
of the same shall be issued by the Aviation
Board;
- “(c) In the descriptive
lists of passengers and crew shall be included not
only Chinese, but also all individuals belonging to
races whose immigration may be prohibited or
restricted in accordance with the laws of the
country;
- “(d) Aircraft arriving in
the territory of the Republic, outside of the cities
of Panama and Colon, their adjacent harbors and the
flying fields based thereon, shall give reports of
communicable diseases to the respective Panaman
authorities and the latter shall communicate them to
the health authorities of the Panama Canal;
- “(e) All aircraft, with the
exception of those which may pertain to the
defensive forces of The Panama Canal and those which
may pertain to and be officially operated by the
Panaman Government, and all aviation fields or
centers in the Republic of Panama, shall be subject
to inspection at any time by the Aviation Board, and
by each of its members.
“If the foregoing modifications are acceptable to Your
Excellency’s Government, the Panaman Government will be
disposed to promulgate and will promulgate the decree, a
copy of which I enclose herewith and which embraces
substantially all the provisions of the draft discussed,
with the modification to which I referred.
“I beg Your Excellency to accept the assurances of my highest
and most distinguished consideration.
“J. D. Arosemena.”
Under instructions from my Government, I have the honor to inform
Your Excellency that the modifications proposed by you in the
regulations governing commercial aviation in the Republic of Panama
are acceptable to it as well as the decree enclosed with your Note
which Your Excellency states the Panaman Government will now
promulgate.
Accept [etc.]
[File copy not signed]
