He shall, at least once a year, inspect each of the sanitary offices, agencies, or posts.

Besides, the President shall, upon the recommendation of the Council and according to the needs of the service, determine the inspections which the Inspector General shall make.

In case of impediment of the Inspector General, the President shall designate, with the consent of the Board, the official who is to take his place.

Every time the Inspector General has visited an office, agency, sanitary post, sanitary station, or quarantine camp, he shall give an account to the President of the Board, in a special report of the results of his inspection.

During the intervals between his rounds of inspection, the Inspector General shall, under the authority of the President, take part in the direction of the general service. He shall take the place of the President in case of absence or impediment.

TITLE II. SERVICE OF PORTS, QUARANTINE STATIONS, AND SANITARY STATIONS.

ART. 10. The sanitary maritime, and quarantine policing along the Egyptian coast of the Mediterranean and Red Seas, as well as on the land frontiers, in the direction of the desert, shall be intrusted to the directors of the health offices, the directors of sanitary stations or quarantine camps, the chiefs of sanitary agencies or sanitary posts, and the employees under their orders.

ART. 11. The directors of the health offices shall have the direction of and be responsible for the service both of the office at the head of which they are placed and of the sanitary posts thereunder.

They shall see to the strict enforcement of the regulations on sanitary, maritime, and quarantine police. They shall obey the instructions they receive from the President of the Board and shall give the necessary orders and instructions to all the employees of their office, as well as to the employees of the sanitary posts attached thereto. They shall be charged with the examination and speaking of vessels and with the application of the Quarantine measures, and, in the cases provided by the regulations, they shall proceed to make medical inspections and inquiries regarding violations of quarantines.

In administrative matters they shall correspond only with the President, to whom they shall transmit all sanitary information which they gather while discharging their duties.

ART. 12. In regard to salary the directors of the health offices shall be divided into two classes:

The first class offices, which are four in number, viz: Alexandria, Port Said, Suez Basin and camp at Moses Spring, and Tor.

The second class offices, three in number, viz: Damietta, Souakim, and Kosseir.

ART. 13. The chiefs of the sanitary agencies shall have the same duties and powers, as regards the agency, as the directors as regards their office.

ART. 14. There shall be a single agency at El Ariche.

ART. 15. The chiefs of the sanitary posts shall have under their orders the employees of the post which they are directing. They shall be under the orders of the director of one of the health offices.

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They shall not be permitted to issue any bill of health or authorized to visé any bills of health except those of vessels departing with pratique.

They shall compel vessels arriving at their ports with a foul bill of health or under irregular conditions to put into a port where there is a health office.

They can not make sanitary inquests themselves, but they must call upon the director of their office for this purpose.

Outside of cases of absolute urgency, they shall correspond only with the director in all administrative matters. In urgent sanitary and quarantine matters, such as the measures to be taken in regard to an arriving vessel, or the annotation to be made on the bill of health of a departing vessel, they shall correspond directly with the President of the Board; but they must communicate this correspondence to their director without delay.

They shall be obliged to give notice, by the quickest route, to the President of the Board regarding shipwrecks of which they have knowledge.

ART. 16. The sanitary posts shall be six in number, as follows:

Posts of Port Neuf, Aboukir, Brullos, and Rosetta, under the Alexandria office.

Posts of Kantara and of the inland port of Ismailia, under the Port Said office.

The Board may create new sanitary posts, according to the needs of the service and its resources.

ART. 17. The permanent or temporary service of the sanitary stations and quarantine camps shall be intrusted to directors having under their orders sanitary employees, guards, porters, and servants. ART. 18. It shall be the duty of the directors to compel persons sent to the sanitary station or the camp to submit to quarantine. They shall cooperate with the physicians in isolating the different categories of quarantined persons and in preventing any jeopardization. Upon the expiration of the period fixed, they shall grant or withhold pratique in accordance with the regulations, cause merchandise and wearing apparel to be disinfected, and apply quarantine to the persons employed in this operation.

ART. 19. They shall exercise constant supervision over the execution of the measures prescribed, as well as over the state of health of the quarantined persons and the employees of the establishment.

ART. 20. They shall be responsible for the progress of the service and shall give an account thereof, in a daily report, to the President of the Sanitary, Maritime, and Quarantine Board.

ART. 21. The physicians attached to the sanitary stations and quarantine camps shall be under the directors of these establishments. They shall have the druggists and hospital attendants under their orders.

They shall watch over the state of health of the quarantined persons and of the employees, and shall direct the infirmary of the sanitary station or of the camp.

Pratique shall not be granted to persons in quarantine until an inspection and favorable report have been made by the physician. ÁRT. 22. In each sanitary office, sanitary station, or quarantine camp, the director shall also be "accounting officer."

He shall, under his own actual personal responsibility, designate the employee to be in charge of the receipt of the sanitary and quarantine dues.

The chiefs of sanitary agencies or posts shall also be accounting officers, and shall be personally charged with collecting the dues.

The agents charged with the collection of the dues must conform, as regards the guarantees to be given, the keeping of the documents, the time of payments, and in general everything relating to the financial part of their service, to the regulations issued by the Ministry of Finance.

ART. 23. The expenses of the Sanitary, Maritime, and Quarantine Service shall be defrayed with the means at the disposal of the Board itself, or, with the consent of the Ministry of Finance, from such fund as the latter may designate.

Cairo, June 19, 1893.

RIAZ.

[Translation.]

PROCES-VERBAL OF THE DEPOSIT OF THE RATIFICATIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SANITARY CONVENTION SIGNED AT PARIS, JANUARY 17, 1912.

(Treaty Series, No. 649.)

In execution of Article 160 of the International Sanitary Convention signed at Paris, January 17, 1912, by Germany, the United States of America, the Argentine Republic, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Ecuador, Spain, France, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Italy, Luxemburg, Mexico, Montenegro, Norway, Panama, the Netherlands, Persia, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Salvador, Servia, Siam, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Egypt and Uruguay, the undersigned met at the ministry of foreign affairs at Paris to proceed under the conditions hereinbelow stated with the deposit into the hands of the Government of the French Republic of the ratifications of the said Convention by the Governments they represent.

The Representative of the British Government declared that: "The stipulations of that Convention should not apply to any one of the colonies, possessions, or protectorates of His Britannic Majesty, the Empire of India included. However, the British Government reserves for each of its colonies, possessions, and protectorates, including the Empire of India, the right to adhere to the Convention as soon as any one of those Governments should have manifested a desire so to do, and also the power to give a separate notice of termination without being bound by the decision of the British Government relative to the United Kingdom. Whenever any one of the British colonies, possesssions, or protectorates shall adhere to or denounce the Convention, a notice to that effect shall be given by the representative of His Britannic Majesty at Paris to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the French Republic in behalf of the aforesaid colony, possession or protectorate.

"It is understood by the British Government that the right to denounce the present Convention as well as that of the powers to de

vise modifications in the texts of the Convention subsists in accordance with the provisions of the Convention of Venice of 1897, and of that of Paris of 1903."

The representative of the Government of the United States of America declared that his Government ratified, subject to the reservation, that nothing in Article 9 of the convention shall be considered as prohibiting the United States from taking such specific quarantine methods against the contamination of its ports as may be required by unwonted sanitary conditions. In making this reservation the United States Government does not intend to infringe in any way the fundamental regulations of the Convention.

The representative of the Spanish Government declared that his Government reserves to itself the right of interpreting in the broadest sense possible and in accordance with the scientific principles of modern hygiene, paragraph 2 of Article 9, in order to avoid, so far as possible, the importation into Spanish ports of the plague and yellow fever, but declares that it is not in mind to refuse its adhesion to anything affecting the fundamental points of the Convention.

The representative of the government of Panama declared that his government ratified, subject to the reservation that the provisions of Article 9 would not prevent the government of Panama or that of the United States, in accordance with the treaty signed between the two countries under date of November 18, 1903, from ordering in the ports of the Canal Zone and in those under the jurisdiction of the Republic of Panama such quarantine measures as circumstances may require.

The undersigned made a formal acknowledgment of the reservations hereinabove stated and declared that their respective countries reserved to themselves the right to claim the benefit thereof with respect to arrivals from the United States of America, Spain, and Panama.

The instruments of ratification produced on this date having been found upon examination to be in due form are intrusted to the French Republic to be deposited in the archives of the Department of Foreign Affairs.

With regard to the ratifications of the Powers signatory to the Convention which were not in position to deposit on this date, the French Republic will receive them later and so notify all the contracting Powers.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the present procés-verbal, of which a certified copy will be sent by the Government of the French Republic to each one of the Powers signatory to the Sanitary Convention of January 17, 1912, was drawn up.

Done at Paris, October 7, 1920, at 16 o'clock:

For the United States of America:

CONVENTION AND FINAL PROTOCOL FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE ABUSE OF OPIUM AND OTHER DRUGS.1

Signed at The Hague January 23, 1912, and July 9, 1913; ratification advised by the Senate October 18, 1913; ratified by the President October 27, 1913; ratification of the United States deposited with the Netherlands Government December 10, 1913; proclaimed March 3, 1915.2

For legislation responsive to the provisions of this convention see the acts of January 17 and December 17, 1914, 38 Statutes at Large, 277 and 783. U. S. v. Jin Fuey Moy, 241 U. S. 394.

As of September 1, 1922, the status of the convention was as follows:

States for which the convention came into force before January 10, 1920: United States of America, Belgium, China, Honduras, Netherlands, and Norway.

States for which the convention came into force on January 10, 1920, by reason of peace-treaty provisions: Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Liberia, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Serb-Croat-Slovene State, Siam, and Uruguay.

Other States: Denmark, Spain, and Sweden.

States ratifying the convention but not having signed the protocol putting it into force: Ecuador and Venezuela. Members of the League of Nations: Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, and Union of South Africa.