Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 61 Part 4.djvu/673

 61 STAT.] PHILIPPINES--MILITARY BASES-MAR. 14, 1947 ARTICLE III DESCRIPTION OF RIGHTS 1. It is mutually agreed that the United States shall have the rights, power and authority within the bases which are necessary for the es- tablishment, use, operation and defense thereof or appropriate for the control thereof and all the rights, power and authority within the limits of territorial waters and air space adjacent to, or in the vicinity of, the bases which are necessary to provide access to them, or appro- priate for their control. 2. Such rights, power and authority shall include, inter alia, the right, power and authority: (a) to construct (including dredging and filling), operate, maintain, utilize, occupy, garrison and control the bases; (b) to improve and deepen the harbors, channels, entrances and anchorages, and to construct or maintain necessary roads and bridges affording access to the bases; (c) to control (including the right to prohibit) in so far as may be required for the efficient operation and safety of the bases, and within the limits of military necessity, anchorages, moorings, landings, takeoffs, movements and operation of ships and water- borne craft, aircraft and other vehicles on water, in the air or on land comprising or in the vicinity of the bases; (d) the right to acquire, as may be agreed between the two Governments, such rights of way, and to construct thereon, as may be required for military purposes, wire and radio communications facilities, including submarine and subterranean cables, pipe lines and spur tracks from railroads to bases, and the right, as may be agreed upon between the two Governments to construct the neces- sary facilities; (e) to construct, install, maintain, and employ on any base any type of facilities, weapons, substance, device, vessel or vehicle on or under the ground, in the air or on or under the water that may be requisite or appropriate, including meteorological systems, aerial and water navigation lights, radio and radar apparatus and elec- tronic devices, of any desired power, type of emission and fre- quency. 3. In the exercise of the above-mentioned rights, power and au- thority, the United States agrees that the powers granted to it will not be used unreasonably or, unless required by military necessity determined by the two Governments, so as to interfere with the neces- sary rights of navigation, aviation, communication, or land travel within the territories of the Philippines. In the practical application outside the bases of the rights, power and authority granted in this Article there shall be, as the occasion requires, consultation between the two Governments. 4021

�