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Rh all the sanitary employees of their district. They shall be responsible for the proper performance of the service.

17. The chief of the sanitary agency of El Ariche shall have the same powers and duties as those entrusted to the directors by the foregoing article.

18. The directors of the sanitary stations and quarantine camps shall have under their orders all the employees of the medical and administrative service of the establishments under their direction.

19. The sanitary inspector general shall have the supervision over all the services under the Sanitary, Maritime, and Quarantine Board.

20. It shall be the mission of the delegate of the Sanitary, Maritime, and Quarantine Board at Djeddah to furnish the Board with information as to the sanitary condition of Hedjaz, especially in time of pilgrimage.

21. A disciplinary committee composed of the President, the Inspector General of the Sanitary, Maritime, and Quarantine Service, and the three delegates elected by the Board, shall be intrusted with an examination of the complaints lodged against the agents belonging to the Sanitary, Maritime, and Quarantine Service.

It shall draw up a report on each case and submit it to the consideration of Board convened in general assembly. The delegates shall be renewed every year. They shall be reeligible.

The decision of the Board shall be submitted by its President to the sanction of the Minister of the Interior.

The disciplinary committee may inflict, without consulting the Board: 1st Censure and 2d suspension of pay up to one month.

22. The disciplinary penalties shall be:

1. Censure.

2. Suspension of pay from eight days to three months.

3. Transfer without indemnity.

4. Dismissal.

All without prejudice to any actions to be brought for common law crimes or offenses.

23. Sanitary and quarantine dues shall be collected by the agents belonging to the Sanitary, Maritime, and Quarantine Service.

The latter shall conform, in regard to accounts and book keeping, to the general regulations established by the Ministry of Finance.

The accounting officers shall address their accounts and the proceeds of their collections to the President of the Board.

The accounting officer who is chief of the central bureau of accounts shall acquit them over the visa of the President of the Board.