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Rh 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

They shall be charged with the duty of carrying out the sanitary quarantine measures called for by the regulations.

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 this 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.

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


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