court, and there were 2,203 convictions and 333 acquittals. Collections on account of fines and fees amounted to $7,674.14.

In the magistrate's court for the Cristobal subdivision 3 cases were pending on July 1, 1914, 2,400 cases were docketed during the year, 2,398 cases were decided, leaving 5 pending at the close of business on June 30, 1915. Of the cases decided 164 were civil and 2,236 were criminal. The criminal cases resulted in 1,709 convictions, 337 acquittals, 69 dismissals, 9 cases compromised under sections 359 and 360 of the Code of Criminal Procedure and 112 cases committed to the district court. A total of $5,898.38 was collected in fees and fines.

MARSHAL.

The office of marshal for the district of the Canal Zone is created and his duties defined in section 8 of the Panama Canal act, approved August 24, 1912. He is assisted by the deputy marshal.

Nine hundred and sixty writs of process in civil and criminal cases were served during the year and a total of $8,269.37 was collected and disbursed by the marshal and his deputy.

SPECIAL ATTORNEY AND DISTRICT ATTORNEY.

The reports of the special attorney and of the district attorney are printed as appendices to the Governor's report.

RELATIONS WITH PANAMA.

Negotiations by correspondence or personal conference between the executive secretary and the secretary of foreign affairs of the Republic of Panama included, among others, the following subjects in addition to routine matters: The issuance of transportation on the Panama Railroad to employees and officials of the Panama Government and the abuse of the pass privilege; the granting of the commissary privilege to nonemployees with the sanction of the Republic of Panama; the decrease in infant mortality by preventing practice by incompetent midwives; filling in low land at national exposition grounds with material from Panama Bay; the matter of granting permission to American aviators to make flights over the city of Panama during the national exposition and the Panama Canal exhibit; examination by officials of the Republic of Panama of records of The Panama Canal from 1910, having reference to the reimbursement of the United States for the cost of waterworks, sewers, and pavements constructed within the cities of Panama and Colon, and the matter of reduction of water rents in the city of Colon; construction of a telegraph line for the Republic of Panama between Panama city and Empire and thence to the Canal Zone boundary in the direction of the town of Paja; transmission of messages over the Panama Canal telephone line to El Vigia; the contract and revocable license respecting the rental of two wires in the transisthmian duct line of the Panama Railroad between Panama and Colon; the strict enforcement of laws restricting immigration so as to prevent the landing of immigrants for whom there was little likelihood of employment and who were likely to become public charges; the delay in the promulgation, through the Republic of Panama Official Gazette, of sanitary ordinances prepared by the Panama Canal health officials; the health ordinances

respecting the registration of births and deaths in the cities of Panama and Colon; the increase of import duties on goods entering the Republic of Panama and the proposed requirement that The Panama Canal secure a permit in each instance for the clearance of materials and goods through the Panama customs; the regulation of private hospitals in the cities of Panama and Colon and the reduction in rates at Colon hospital for Panama residents of Colon; unauthorized entry upon Canal Zone territory and exercise of police powers by Panaman police in pursuit of fugitives; the delivery of orders of sequestration or embargo decreed by Panaman courts against the wages of Panama Railroad employees, and the matter of maintaining a representative in the city of Colon by the Panama Railroad Company to receive such orders of garnishment; the segregation of stables in the city of Panama; the proposed sale of the American wharf in the city of Panama to the Republic of Panama, and the lease entered into between the Panama Railroad Company and Messrs. Pinel Bros. for the use of the wharf in the city of Panama known as the "English wharf"; the changes recommended to avoid confusion between lighthouses established by The Panama Canal and the Republic of Panama; the right of the Republic of Panama to refuse to honor a request for the extradition of a citizen of Panama from the Republic of Panama to the Canal Zone; the boundary convention between The Panama Canal and the Republic of Panama, changing the boundaries in the district known as Las Savanas and in the water of Colon Bay; the payment of 40 per cent of the face value of United States postage due stamps used in Canal Zone post offices to the Republic of Panama; the fire in the city of Colon April 30, 1915, the rebuilding of the city, and the housing and care of the refugees; the construction of lighthouses at Cape Mala and Bona Island; the prevention of the sale of liquor near Canal Zone boundaries; and the right of Panama to collect import duties on material for fuel-oil tanks in the Canal Zone.

It has been difficult to secure the cooperation of Panama respecting measures necessary for the public health in Panama city and Colon, and it seems probable that (as contemplated by the treaty) greater executive powers may have to be exercised in those cities to accomplish the ends desired.

The Taft agreement has become in many respects disadvantageous to both Governments and should be superseded by an agreement more in accord with our present mutual needs and with our rights under the treaty.

LEGISLATION.

An appendix to the Governor's report contains the acts of Congress affecting The Panama Canal and the Executive orders relating to the Canal Zone.

Respectfully submitted.

C. A. McILVAINE,

Executive Secretary.

Maj. Gen. GEO. W. GOETHALS, United States Army,

Governor, The Panama Canal,
Balboa Heights, Canal Zone.

APPENDICES TO THE REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY. TABLE 1. Statement of vessels entered and cleared and of seamen shipped and dis

charged at Balboa and Cristobal.

TABLE 2. Statement, by months, of estates of deceased and insane employees admin

istered.

TABLE 3. Postal receipts and expenditures.

TABLE 4. Business of Canal Zone post offices.

TABLE 5. Postal-savings bank transactions.

TABLE 6. Amount of money orders, by offices, payable to the remitter and drawn on the issuing office, remaining unpaid on June 30, 1915.

TABLE 7. Number and destination of dispatches of mail by the exchange office at Cristobal.

TABLE 8. Letters and parcels registered, by offices.

TABLE 9. Number of insured and C. O. D. parcels and registered articles delivered,

by offices.

TABLE 10. Number of pouches, sacks, and registered sacks handled by railway-mail messengers.

TABLE 11. Actual strength of police personnel on June 30, 1904 to 1915.

TABLE 12. Actual strength of stations and substations, July 1, 1914, and June 30, 1915. TABLE 13. Number of arrests, by fiscal years, 1904 to 1915.

TABLE 14. Number of arrests, by months.

TABLE 15. Statement of convictions.

TABLE 16. Charges against persons arrested.

TABLE 17. Nationality of persons arrested.

TABLE 18. Occupation of persons arrested.

TABLE 19. Crimes committed by convicts confined in the penitentiary on June 30, 1915, and their aggregate sentences.

TABLE 20. Occupation of convicts confined in the penitentiary on June 30, 1915.
TABLE 21. Nationality of convicts confined in the penitentiary on June 30, 1915.
TABLE 22. Ages of convicts confined in the penitentiary on June 30, 1915.
TABLE 23. Causes of deaths investigated by the coroner.

TABLE 24. Nationality of persons whose death was investigated by the coroner.
TABLE 25. Statement of accidents investigated involving personal injury.

TABLE 26. Fire personnel June 30, 1915.

TABLE 27. Distribution of fire personnel by stations.

TABLE 28. Statement of damage resulting from fires.

TABLE 29. Statement of fires, losses, and property involved, 1907 to 1915.

TABLE 30. Monthly enrollment and average daily attendance in the Canal Zone schools. TABLE 31. Enrollment for the year, by schools.

TABLE 32. Enrollment by grades.

TABLE 33. Number of teachers employed.

TABLE 34. Business transacted in the district court, division of Balboa.

TABLE 35. Business transacted in the district court, division of Cristobal.

TABLE 36. Business transacted in the magistrate court, subdivision of Balboa. TABLE 37. Business transacted in the magistrate court, subdivision of Cristobal.

TABLE NO. 1.-Statement of vessels entered and cleared and of seamen shipped and dis charged at Balboa and Cristobal, fiscal year 1915.

TABLE NO. 2.-Statement showing number of estates received and settled, and amount of funds handled, during fiscal year ended June 30, 1915.

Number of unsettled estates on hand June 30, 1915..
Balance of cash on deposit with collector on June 30, 1915.

TABLE NO. 3.--Postal receipts and expenses.

TABLE NO. 4.-Business of Canal Zone postal system for the fiscal year ended June 30,

175, 263. 42
64,521.19

151,121,59

TABLE NO. 4.-Business of Canal Zone postal system for the fiscal year ended June 30,

1915-Continued.

TABLE NO. 5.-Postal savings-bank transactions for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915.