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INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [55 STAT. ANNEX III. SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR INDIVIDUAL TERRITORIES. (A)-Special Provisions appertaining to Bermuda. (1) THE United States will not close the existing channels from Ferry Point Bridge to St. George's Harbour or from St. George's Harbour through Stocks Harbour to Tucker's Town, unless it first provide alternative channels to give facilities at least as adequate as those given by the present channels. Ante, p. 1661. (2) In its application to Bermuda, Article 1 (2) (e) of this Agree- ment shall be construed as including the right, power and authority to install, maintain, use and operate under-sea and other defences, defence devices and controls, including detecting and other similar facilities, in the entrance of Castle Harbour; but the United States will not close the channels through Castle Roads to the open sea. (3) The United States shall have the right to construct a causeway between Tucker's Island and King's Point in Sandys Parish, but a channel will be preserved and maintained between Tucker's Island and King's Point sufficient for such vessels as now use the channel at present existing. (4)-(a) In respect of the waters in the vicinity of Morgan's Island and Tucker's Island the United States shall have the right, power and authority to fill the whole or any part of the area generally described as follows:- Beginning at the most northerly point of Tucker's Island, a line drawn easterly for a distance of twenty-one hundred feet, passing through a point approximately fifty feet north of the most northerly point of Morgan's Island, to a point; thence southeasterly along a line tangent to Morgan's Island to its most southeasterly point; thence a line to the most southwesterly point of Morgan's Island; thence a line to the most southerly point of Tucker's Island; thence following the shoreline of Tucker's Island to the point of beginning. (b) The United States shall also have the right, power and authority to fill any indentations in the shoreline in the vicinity of King's Point in Sandys Parish in order to straighten the shoreline. (5) The United States will not interrupt highway communication between Hamilton Parish and St. George's Island; and if its works or operations shall prevent the continued use of the present highway facilities between Blue Hole and the Swing Bridge on St. George's Island, and it does not provide alternative facilities, as satisfactory as the said present facilities, directly between those points, it will pro- vide such alternative facilities between the main north shore road at Bailey's Bay and the main road at Mullet Bay, and will for that purpose construct and maintain a suitable drawbridge between Coney Island and Ferry Point. 1590