The Inter-oceanic Canal of Nicaragua: Its History, Physical Condition, Plans and Prospects |
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A. G. Menocal advantages amount ARTICLE Atlantic and Pacific basin bonds building Callao Cape Horn capital cent Central America commerce Company of Nicaragua concession Congress construction contract cost Costa Rica Daniel Ammen depth distance dredging earthquakes eastern embankments employés engineers enterprise estimate excavation feet Government of Nicaragua granted Greytown harbor Headquarters Hospital inter-oceanic canal interest Isthmus Isthmus of Darien Juan del Norte Lake Managua Lake Nicaragua lands laws locks Managua Maritime Canal Company Mazatlan ment miles nations navigation necessary Nicaragua and Costa Nicaragua Canal Nicaragua Canal Association Ochoa officers Ometepe operation Pacific coast Pacific Ocean parties ports present President privileges railroad railway Republic of Nicaragua Rio Lajas rock route San Carlos San Francisco San Juan River secure Senate streams Suez Canal surveys telegraph line territory of Costa tion tons traffic transit treaty United Valparaiso vessels volcanic voyage western width
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Page 63 - That the Northern Pacific Railroad Company be, and hereby is authorized to issue its bonds to aid in the construction and equipment of its road, and to secure the same by mortgage on its property, and rights of property of all kinds and descriptions, real, personal and mixed, including its franchise as a corporation...
Page 38 - Dutchess and shall be paid quarterly on the first days of January, April, July and October in each year...
Page 31 - States, or upon the vessels or effects of any other country intended, bona fide, for transit across the said routes of communication, and not for consumption within the Republic of Nicaragua. The United States shall also be at liberty, on giving notice to the Government or authorities of Nicaragua, to carry troops and munitions of war in their own vessels, or otherwise, to either of...
Page 32 - ... should deem that the persons or company undertaking or managing the same adopt or establish such regulations concerning the traffic thereupon as are contrary to the spirit and intention of this convention, either by making unfair discriminations in favor of the commerce of one of...
Page 33 - After ten years from the completion of a railroad or any other route of communication through the territory of Nicaragua, from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean, no company which may have constructed or be in possession of the same shall ever divide, directly or indirectly, by the issue of new stock, the payment of dividends or otherwise, more than fifteen per cent, per annum...