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8. The chief of the central bureau of accounts shall be "the accounting officer."

He shall not be permitted to assume office until he has furnished a bond the amount of which shall be fixed by the Sanitary, Maritime, and Quarantine Board.

He shall, under the direction of the Committee on Finance, supervise the operations of the employees whose duty it is to receive the sanitary and quarantine dues.

He shall draw up the statements and accounts which are to be transmitted to the Ministry of the Interior after being adopted by the Committee on Finance and approved by the Board.

9. The sanitary inspector general shall have supervision of all the services under the Board. He shall exercise this supervision under the conditions provided in article 19 of the Decree dated June 19, 1893.

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.

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.

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