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above and all killing of seals except such as may be necessary for the support of the natives on the islands may be suspended until the number of such seals again exceeds six thousand five hundred (6,500) enumerated in like manner.

ARTICLE XIV.

It is agreed on the part of Great Britain that in case any seal herd hereafter resorts to any islands or shores of the waters defined in Article I subject to the jurisdiction of Great Britain, there shall be delivered at the end of each season during the term of this Convention ten per cent (10%) gross in number and value of the total number of sealskins annually taken from such herd to an authorized agent of the United States Government, ten per cent (10%) gross in number and value of the total number of sealskins annually taken from such herd to an authorized agent of the Japanese Government, and ten per cent (10%) gross in number and value of the total number of sealskins annually taken from such herd to an authorized agent of the Russian Government.

ARTICLE XV.

It is further agreed between the United States and Great Britain that the provisions of this Convention shall supersede, in so far as they are inconsistent therewith or in duplication thereof, the provisions of the treaty relating to the fur seals, entered into between the United States and Great Britain on the 7th day of February,

1911.1

ARTICLE XVI.

This Convention shall go into effect upon the 15th day of December, 1911, and shall continue in force for a period of fifteen (15) years from that date, and thereafter until terminated by twelve (12) months' written notice given by one or more of the Parties to all of the others, which notice may be given at the expiration of fourteen years or at any time afterwards, and it is agreed that at any time prior to the termination of this Convention, upon the request of any one of the High Contracting Parties, a conference shall be held forthwith between representatives of all the Parties hereto, tó consider and if possible agree upon a further extension of this Convention with such additions and modifications, if any, as may be found desirable.

ARTICLE XVII.

This Convention shall be ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, by His Britannic Majesty, by His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, and by His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias; and ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as practicable.

In faith whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed this Convention in quadruplicate and have hereunto affixed their seals.

For text see p. 2629.

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Done at Washington the 7th day of July, in the year one thousand nine hundred and eleven.

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1912.

INTERNATIONAL SANITARY CONVENTION.

Signed at Paris January 17, 1912; ratification advised by the Senate with reservation February 19, 1913; ratified by the President March 22, 1913; ratification of the United States deposited with the Government of France October 17, 1920; proclaimed December 11, 1920.1

(Treaty Series, No. 649; 42 Statutes at Large.)

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CHAPTER I. RULES TO BE OBSERVED BY THE COUNTRIES SIGNING THE CONVENTION AS SOON AS PLAGUE, CHOLERA, OR YELLOW FEVER APPEARS IN THEIR TERRITORY.

SECTION I. Notification and subsequent communications to the other countries.

1. Notification,

2. Contents.

3. To whom addressed.

4. Governments to be regularly informed as to the progress of epidemic. 5. Importance of.

6. Information service of neighboring countries.

SECTION II. Conditions which warrant considering a territorial area as being contaminated or as having become healthy again.

7. Measures prescribed not applicable to single case,

8. Measures prescribed applicable only to arrivals from contaminated areas. 9. Requirements for considering area no longer contaminated.

SECTION III. Measures in contaminated ports upon the departure of vessels. 10. Embarkation of persons, etc., under what circumstances prevented. CHAPTER II. MEASURES OF DEFENSE AGAINST CONTAMINATED TERRITORIES.

SECTION I. Publication of the prescribed measures.

11. Publication and communication of; revocation or modification of

measures.

The proclamation of the President of December 11, 1920, states that, in addition to the United States, the convention had been ratified by the Governments of Belgium, Denmark, Ecuador, Spain, France, Great Britain, Italy, Norway, Panama, the Netherlands, Persia, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, and Egypt, and their ratifications were, in pursuance of Article 160 of the said Convention, deposited with the Government of the French Republic on October 7, 1920."

Subsequently to the deposit of the procès-verbal of ratifications the ratifications of the Governments of Colombia, Germany, Honduras, Rumania, Serb-Croat-Slovene State, and Uruguay were deposited. Accessions have been made on behalf of Australia (with reservations), Monaco, and Newfoundland.

SECTION II. Merchandise-Disinfection-Importation and transit-Baggage. 12. Contaminated merchandise defined.

13. Merchandise, when to be disinfected; when entry is prohibited.

14. Transit of merchandise not prohibited through infected area under certain conditions.

15. Limitation as to time of shipping merchandise from infected area. 16. Mode and place of disinfection determined by authorities of country of destination; damages as result of disinfection determined by each nation. 17. Letters, correspondence, etc., not including parcels, not subject to restriction or disinfection; parcels included in case of yellow fever.

18. Merchandise, detention of, prohibited; measures relative to.
19. Merchandise, owner of, entitled to certificate of disinfection.
20. Clothing, household goods, etc., when subject to disinfection.

SECTION III. Measures in ports and at maritime frontiers.
A. Classification of vessels.

21. Vessels "infected," "suspicious," or

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uninfected," how determined.

B. Measures concerning plague.

22. Ships infected with plague; measures applicable thereto.

23. Vessels suspected of plague; measures applicable thereto.

24. Vessels uninfected with plague, pratique granted immediately; measures applicable thereto.

25. Plague-stricken rats on uninfected vessels; measures to be applied to vessel and crew.

26. Recommendation for periodical destruction of rats.

C. Measures concerning cholera.

27. Vessels infected with cholera; medical inspection, isolation, surveillance, and disinfection.

28. Vessels suspected of cholera; measures applicable thereto.

29. Vessels uninfected with cholera to be granted pratique; measures applicable thereto.

D. Measures concerning the yellow fever.

30. Vessels infected with yellow fever; medical inspection, isolation, and protection from mosquito bites; surveillance.

31. Vessels suspected of yellow fever subject to six days' surveillance, and measures applicable thereto.

32. Vessels uninfected with yellow fever granted pratique after medical inspection.

33. Countries to which articles 30 and 31 apply.

E. Provisions common to all three diseases.

34. Rules for applying measures set forth in articles 22 to 33.

35. Special measures, when may be prescribed.

36. Election of vessel to submit to regulations, or put to sea; how cargo only may be landed.

37. Conditions under which vessels shall not be subjected to sanitary measures at each succeeding port.

38. Contents of certificate issued by sanitary officer and captain, etc. 39. Contents of certificate issued by sanitary officer to passengers.

40. Coasting vessels, establishment by mutual agreement of special measures. 41. Privilege of riparian nations to modify by special agreements sanitary

measures.

42. Organization and equipment required at one or more ports to be designated.

43. Recommendation for proper treatment and care of crew and inhabitants of large ports.

44. Sanitary measures of country of departure to be considered in treatment accorded arrivals.

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SECTION IV. Measures on land frontiers-Travelers-Railroads-Frontier

zones-River routes.

45. Land quarantines not permitted; detention at frontiers; right to close part of frontiers.

46. Surveillance of passengers by railroad employees.

47. Limitation of medical interference of passengers.

48. Duration of surveillance of passengers on arrival from infected localities. 49. Reservation of right to take special measures respecting gypsies, vagabonds, and others.

50. Cars not subjected to detention at frontiers; disinfection of.

51. Companies or departments concerned shall determine measures for crossing frontiers by railroad and postal employees.

52. Contiguous nations shall determine frontier traffic by special arrangements.

53. Riparian nations to regulate sanitary conditions of river routes by special arrangements.

TITLE II. SPECIAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ORIENTAL AND FAR EASTERN COUNTRIES.

SECTION I. Measures in ports contaminated upon the departure of vessels.

54. Examination of persons embarking on vessels.

SECTION II. Measures with respect to ordinary vessels hailing from contaminated northern ports and appearing at the entrance of the Suez Canal or in Egyptian ports.

55. Uninfected vessels permitted to pass through Suez Canal and continue their route under observation.

56. Uninfected vessels for Egyptian ports may stop at Alexandria or Port Said to complete observation.

57. Sanitary regulations to be applied to such vessels; acceptance of regula tions by various powers.

SECTION III. Measures in the Red Sea.

A. Measures with respect to ordinary vessels hailing from the south and appearing in ports of the Red Sea or bound toward the Mediterranean.

58. Vessels coming from the south and entering Red Sea subject to ensuing articles, independent of general provisions.

59. Observation period for uninfected vessels.

60. Suspected vessels; presence of physician and disinfecting apparatus to be considered in treatment of; isolation and disinfection of passengers Egyptian bound.

61. Infected vessels classified:

(a) With physician and apparatus.

(b) Without physician and apparatus; regulations with reference

thereto.

B. Measures with respect to ordinary vessels hailing from the infected ports of Hedjaz during the pilgrimage season.

62. Shall be regarded and treated as suspected vessels.

SECTION IV. Organization of surveillance and disinfection at Suez and Moses Spring.

63. Medical inspection to be made in daytime, except when vessel is lit by electricity.

64. Number, qualification, and appointment of physicians at Suez station; inadequacy of force to be augmented by surgeons of navies of the several nations.

65. Corps of sanitary guards.

66. Number of guards and manner of appointment.

67. Classification of guards.

68. Compensation of guards.

69. Authority vested in guards.

SECTION V. Passage through the Suez Canal in quarantine.

70. Passage through quarantine; how granted.

71. Notification of passage to each power.

72. Penalties for abandonment of route; exceptions.

73. Interrogatories as to stokers and other workmen to be answered by captain under oath.

74. Health officer and guards to accompany vessel and enforce measures. 75. Embarkations, landings, and transshipments of passengers or cargo forbidden during passage.

76. Docking during passage forbidden; exception.

77. Regulations for conveying troops.

78. Vessels forbidden to stop in harbor of Port Said; exception and treatment thereunder.

79. Coaling of vessels at Port Said. and regulation thereof.

80. Disinfection of pilots, electricians, and others.

81. Regulations concerning the passage of war vessels.

82. Regulations respecting the transit through Egyptian territory of mails and passengers in quarantine trains.

SECTION VI. Sanitary measures applicable to the Persian Gulf.

83. Regulations established applicable, subject to certain reservations. TITLE III. PROVISIONS SPECIALLY APPLICABLE TO PILGRIMAGES.

CHAPTER I. GENERAL PROVISIONS.

84. Persons on pilgrim ships subject to provisions of article 54, Title II. 85. Pilgrims shall not embark when plague or cholera exists in port. 86. Evidence showing ability to complete pilgrimage required.

87. Steamships alone permitted to engage in transportation of pilgrims. 88. Coasting-trade vessels subject to regulations applicable to Hedjaz pilgrimage.

89. "Pilgrim ship" determined by number of pilgrims embarking.

90. Pilgrim ships in Ottoman waters subject to special regulations applicable to Hedjaz pilgrimage.

91. Sanitary taxes from pilgrims payable by captain.

92. Disposition of pilgrims at point of debarkation.

93. Provisions of pilgrims to be destroyed if necessary.

CHAPTER II. PILGRIM SHIPS-SANITARY ARRANGEMENTS.

SECTION I. General arrangement of vessels.

94. Space required on board ship for each pilgrim.

95. Reservation of place and supply of sea water for needs of pilgrims.

96. Water-closets for use of pilgrims.

97. Arrangements for cooking by pilgrims.

98. Infirmaries and sanitary arrangements for lodging the sick.

99. Free medicines, disinfectants, etc., for pilgrims.

100. Ship required to carry physician.

101. Allowance of food and water and cost of extras to be posted.

102. Baggage of pilgrims shall be registered, etc.

103. Regulations to be posted in various languages.

SECTION II. Measures to be taken before departure.

104. Intent to embark pilgrims, the day of sailing, and destination of vessel to be declared by captain.

105. Inspection and measurement of vessel.

106. Departure of vessel dependent upon compliance with regulations.

107. Passenger list to be viséd by competent authority and bill of health required before departure.

SECTION III. Measures to be taken during the passage.

108. Freedom of deck for use by passengers.

109. Space between decks to be cleaned daily.

110. Cleansing and disinfecting water-closets.

111. Collection of plague or cholera infected excretions and dejections.

112. Disinfection of infected articles of bedding, etc.

113. Disinfection of quarters occupied by patients.

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