Each shall likewise assume responsibility for any damage or injury which may hereafter result to it or to its inhabitants from the regulation of the level of Lake of the Woods in the manner provided for in the present Convention. ARTICLE X Mutual release The Governments of the United States and Canada shall each be released from responsibility for any claims of responsibility. or expenses arising in the territory of the other in connection with the matters provided for in Articles VII, VIII, and IX. Payment by Canada for designated protective, United States. In consideration, however, of the undertakings of the United States as set forth in Article VIII, the Government of Canada shall pay to the Government of the etc.. measures by United States the sum of two hundred and seventyfive thousand dollars ($275,000) in currency of the United States. Should this sum prove insufficient to cover the cost of such undertakings one-half of the excess of such cost over the said sum shall, if the expenditure be incurred within five years of the coming into force of the present Convention, be paid by the Government of Canada. ARTICLE XI No diversion shall henceforth be made of any waters from the Lake of the Woods watershed to any other watershed except by authority of the United States or the Dominion of Canada within their respective territories and with the approval of the International Joint Commission. ARTICLE XII The present Convention shall be ratified in accordance with the constitutional methods of the High Contracting Parties and shall take effect on the exchange of the ratifications, which shall take place at Washington or Ottawa as soon as possible. In faith whereof the above named Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention and affixed thereto their respective seals. Done in duplicate at Washington, the 24th day of [SEAL] CHARLES EVANS HUGHES AND WHEREAS the said convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the ratification of the two Governments were exchanged in the city of Washington on the seventeenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five; NOW, THEREFORE, be it known that I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States of America, have caused the said convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause there Restriction on diversion of waters hereafter. Exchange of rat ifications. Signatures. Ratifications exchanged. Proclamation. Protocol. Agreement of may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. DONE at the city of Washington, this seventeenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and fiftieth. [SEAL] By the President: FRANK B KELLOGG Secretary of State. CALVIN COOLIDGE PROTOCOL ACCOMPANYING CONVENTION TO of At the moment of signing the Convention between the Plenipotentiaries. United States of America, and His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India, in respect of the Dominion of Canada, regarding the regulation of the level of Lake of the Woods, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries have agreed as follows: Plans for enlarging capacity of outlets to be re national Control 1. The plans of the necessary works for the enlargement of the outflow capacity of the outlets of Lake of the ferred to Inter Woods provided for in Article VII of the Convention, as well as of the necessary works and dams for controlling and regulating the outflow of the water, shall be referred to the International Lake of the Woods Control Board for an engineering report upon the suitability and sufficiency for the purpose of permitting the discharge of not less than forty-seven thousand cubic feet of water per second (47,000 c. f. s.) when the level of the lake is at elevation 1061 sea level datum. Any disagreement between the members of the International Lake of the Woods Control Board in regard to the matters so referred shall be immediately submitted by the Board to the International Joint Commission whose decision shall be final. Canada allowed representation on tribunal to deter mine cost of flow age easement in United States. Ante, p. 118. 2. Should it become necessary to set up a special tribunal to determine the cost of the acquisition of the flowage easement in the United States provided for in Article VIII of the Convention, the Government of Canada shall be afforded an opportunity to be represented thereon. Should the cost be determined by means of the usual judicial procedure in the United States, the Government of Canada shall be given the privilege of representation by counsel in connection therewith. Plans for pro States to be re Inter national Control Board. 3. Since Canada is incurring extensive financial obliga- tective measures, tions in connection with the protective works and meas- etc., in United ures provided for in the United States along the shores of red to Lake of the Woods and the banks of Rainy River, under Article VIII of the Convention, the plans, together with the estimates of cost, of all such protective works and measures as the Government of the United States may propose to construct or provide for within five years of the coming into force of the Convention shall be referred to the International Lake of the Woods Control Board for an engineering report upon their suitability and sufficiency for the purpose of the regulation of the level of the lake under the Convention. Any disagreement between the members of the International Lake of the Woods Control Board in regard to the matters so referred shall be immediately submitted by the Board to the International Joint Commission whose decision shall be final. Canadian Con Board. 4. In order to ensure the fullest measure of cooperation between the International Lake of the Woods Control trol Board to have 8 representative Board and the Canadian Lake of the Woods Control of International Board provided for in Article III of the Convention, the Government of Canada will appoint one member of the Canadian Board as its representative on the International Board. Limitation on ters from the Lake. Ante, p. 118. 5. Until the outlets of Lake of the Woods have been enlarged in accordance with Article VII of the Conven- discharge of wation, the upper limit of the ordinary range in the levels. of the lake provided for in Article IV of the Convention shall be elevation 1060.5 sea level datum, and the International Lake of the Woods Control Board may advise the Canadian Lake of the Woods Control Board in respect of the rate of total discharge of water from the lake which may be permitted. In faith whereof the undersigned Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Protocol and affixed thereto their respective seals. Done in duplicate at Washington the 24th day of [SEAL] CHARLES EVANS HUGHES CHAP. 2.-An Act To punish counterfeiting, altering, or uttering of Government transportation requests. December 11, 1926. [H. R. 8128.] Vol. 44, p. 917. Government transportation re quests. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives Public, No. 524.] of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whoever shall falsely make, forge, or counterfeit, or cause or procure to be falsely made, forged, or counterfeited, or shall willingly aid or assist in falsely making, counterfeiting, alforging, or counterfeiting, in whole or in part, any form tering, uttering, or request in similitude of the form or request provided by the Government for requesting a common carrier to Punishment for etc., of. Punishment for possessing, mak printing such counterfeits. furnish transportation on account of the United States or any department or branch thereof, or shall knowingly alter, or cause or procure to be altered, or shall willingly aid or assist in so altering, any form or request provided by the Government for requesting a common carrier to furnish transportation on account of the United States or any department or branch thereof, or whoever shall knowingly pass, utter, publish, or sell, or attempt to pass, utter, publish, or sell, any such false, forged counterfeited, or altered form or request, shall upon conviction be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. SEC. 2. That whoever, except by lawful authority, shall ing, etc., plates for have control, custody, or possession of any plate, stone, or other thing, or any part thereof, from which has been printed or may be printed any form or request for Government transportation, or shall use such plate, stone, or other thing, or knowingly permit or suffer the same to be used in making any such form or request or any part of such a form or request, or whoever shall make or engrave, or cause or procure to be made or engraved, or shall assist in making or engraving, any plate, stone, or other thing, in the likeness of any plate, stone, or other thing designated for the printing of the genuine issues of the form or request for Government transportation; or whoever shall print, photograph, or in any other manner make, execute, or sell, or cause to be printed, photographed, made, executed, or sold, or shall aid in printing, photographing, making, executing, or selling, any engraving, photograph, print, or impression in the likeness of any genuine form or request for Government transportation, or any part thereof; or whoever shall bring into the United States or any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof, any plate, stone, or other thing, or engraving, photograph, print, or other impression of the form or request for Government transportation, shall upon conviction be fined not more than $5,000, or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. Authority to ar tors. SEC. 3. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorrest, etc., viola- ized to direct and use the Secret Service Division of the Treasury Department to detect, arrest, and deliver into custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this Act. Approved, December 11, 1926. January 21, 1927. Rivers and bar ments. CHAP. 47.-An Act Authorizing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives borsimprove of the United States of America in Congress assembled, author That the following works of improvement are hereby adopted and authorized, to be prosecuted under the direc Work ized. tion of the Secretary of War and supervision of the Chief of Engineers, in accordance with the plans recommended in the reports hereinafter designated: Thames River, Thames River, Connecticut, in accordance with the Conn. report submitted in House Document Numbered 107, Sixty-ninth Congress, first session. Waterway Jamaica Bays, Waterway connecting Gravesend Bay with Jamaica Gravesend and Bay, New York, in accordance with the report submitted N. Y. in House Document Numbered 111, Sixty-eighth Congress, first session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document. Great Kills, N. Y. Great Kills, Staten Island, New York, in accordance Staten Island, with the report submitted in House Document Numbered 252, Sixty-ninth Congress, first session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document. Hudson River. Channel, Weehawken and modified. The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to modify an existing project adopted by an Act entitled "Authoriz- Edgewater, N. J., ing the construction, repair, and preservation of certain public works on rivers and harbors, and for other purposes," approved on March 5, 1925, for the improvement of Hudson River Channel at Weehawken and Edgewater, New Jersey, by omitting the first condition on page 17, of House Document Numbered 313. Passaic River, Passaic River, New Jersey, in accordance with the N. J. report submitted in House Document Numbered 284, Sixty-ninth Congress, first session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document. Hackensack Hackensack River, New Jersey, in accordance with River, N. J. the report submitted in House Document Numbered 429, Sixty-ninth Congress, first session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document. Baltimore, Md. New location of harbor anchorage. Baltimore Harbor, Maryland: The Secretary of War and the Chief of Engineers are hereby authorized to modify the existing project with reference to the anchorage area at the intersection of the Fort McHenry Channel with the Ferry Bar Channel by the selection of a new location at such point as may be found, after full consideration, to be most advantageous to shipping interests. Appomattox River, Virginia, in accordance with the River, Va. report submitted in House Document Numbered 215, Sixty-ninth Congress, first session, and subject to the conditions set forth in said document. Appomattox Newport News, Channel to Newport News, Virginia, in accordance Va., channel. with the report submitted in House Document Numbered 486, Sixty-seventh Congress, fourth session. Mulberry Shallotte River, Mulberry Creek, Lancaster County, Virginia, in ac- Creek, Va. cordance with report submitted in House Document Numbered 482, Sixty-eighth Congress, second session. Shallotte River, North Carolina, in accordance with N. C. the report submitted in House Document Numbered 273, Sixty-ninth Congress, first session. Neuse and Neuse and Trent Rivers, North Carolina, in accordance Trent Rivers, with the report submitted in House Document Numbered N. C. 299, Sixty-seventh Congress, second session, and subject to the condition set forth in said document. |