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 1294 INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [59 STAT. or prohibition is not to be exercised on any part of any main highway. 6. Labor for the Canal Zone. The Government of the United States is aware of the immigration policies of the Republic of Panama as stated in Article XXIII of the Constitution of that Republic, promulgated on January 2, 1941 and, although jurisdiction over immigration into the Canal Zone rests solely with the Government of the United States, that Government will cooperate to the extent feasible under present circumstances in meeting the expressed policy of Panama in this matter. Specifically, the Government of the United States will endeavor so far as practi- cal to fill the needs for labor in the Canal Zone with classes of persons whose immigration is permitted by the Republic of Panama and will forbid the entry into the territory of the Republic, except as may be necessary on brief routine official business, of those persons whom Canal Zone authorities have found or may find it necessary to intro- duce into the Canal Zone but whose immigration into the Republic is prohibited by the Republic of Panama. Such persons will be repatriated when their services are no longer required. 7. Desire of the Panamanian Governmment that our military and Zone police be armed only with billies while in the territoryof Panama. The Government of the United States agrees that only the com- missioned officers of the military police and the commissioned officers of the shore patrols of the United States when on duty in the cities of Panama and Col6n may carry side arms. It agrees that members of the Canal Zone municipal police may not carry side arms of any sort while in the Republic of Panama, and similarly, the Government of the Republic of Panama will agree that members of the police of the Republic of Panama shall not carry side arms while in the Canal Zone, except when the latter pass through the Zone in transit to other territory of the Republic. 8. Provisionof electrical current from the Alhajuela Damr for use in the Republic. The Government of the United States agrees that electrical energy, whenever an excess beyond the needs of the United States is available in commercial quantities at the generating station of the Panama Canal at Madden Dam, will be furnished upon request of the Pana- manian Government, to the cities of Panama and Col6n at a price and at points to be agreed upon between the two Governments. 9. The assumption by the United States of the entire cost of the Rio Hato Highway. The Government of the United States will, after the necessary funds have been obtained by appropriation from the Congress, liquidate the credit of $2,500,000 made available to the Republic of Panama by the Export-Import Bank for the construction of Panama's share of the Chorrera-Rio Hato road. 10. The moving of the railroadstation at Panamd. The Government of the United States agrees to comply with the wishes of the Republic of Panama regarding the removal from their present site of the terminal facilities of the Panama Railroad in

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