Architectural and Engineering Drawings and Maps of the Panama Canal
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United States. Panama Canal Company. Engineering and Construction Bureau
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The Engineering and Construction Bureau, headed by an active duty colonel in the Corps of Engineers, had jurisdiction over the planning, design and supervision of all construction, most maintenance work in the Canal Zone and the supply of water and power....
United States. First Isthmian Canal Commission
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The proposal of the Compagnie Nouvelle de Canal de Panama in December 1898 to transfer its rights and properties in the canal in Panama to the United States, and the increasing awareness of the need for shorter interoceanic communications in time of war, prompted Congress on March 3, 1899, to authorize an exhaustive series of investigations to determine the most practical route for a canal, which should be owned and controlled by the United States. Accordingly, on June 10, 1899, President Willia...
United States. Panama Canal Commission
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The Panama Canal Commission was established by an act of October 1, 1979. The Commission was responsible for managing, operating, maintaining, and improving the Panama Canal. On February 10, 1996, with the signing of Public Law 104-106 (110 Stat. 638), the Commission became a Government corporation. U.S. responsibility for the canal was terminated by stipulations of the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977, which transferred responsibility for the Panama Canal to the Republic of Panama, effective Decembe...
