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 of every other State which is willing to grant thereto such protection as Great Britain and the United States engage to afford.

The Ratifications of this Convention shall be exchanged at Washington within six months from this day, or sooner if possible.

In faith whereof we, the respective Plenipotentiaries, have signed this Convention, and have hereunto affixed our seals.

Done at Washington, the nineteenth day of April, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and fifty.

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between the United Kingdom and the United States of America relative to the establishment of a communication by Ship-Canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Signed at Washington, November 18, 1901.

(Ratifications exchanged at Washington, February 21, 1902.) His Majesty Edward the Seventh, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, and Emperor of India, and the United States of America, being desirous to facilitate the construction of a ship-canal to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, by whatever route may be considered expedient, and to that end to remove any objection which may arise out of the Convention of the 19th April, 1850, commonly called the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, to the construction of such canal under the auspices of the Government of the United States, without impairing the 'general principle' of neutralization established in Article VIII of that Convention, have for that purpose appointed as their Plenipotentiaries:—

His Majesty Edward the Seventh, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions