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Rh "With respect to the question of an International Bureau of Health (art. 181 and annex III of the Convention), the Government of His Majesty renews the reservations made by its delegation in the Ways and Means Committee concerning the usefulness of such an establishment.

"With respect to articles 81, 82, and 180 (sanitary station of Ormuz), it renews the declaration made by its delegation at the sixth plenary session of the Conference, adding to it the following reservations, which it also attaches to its acceptance of the said articles:

"Let it be clearly understood: (1) that the mixed committee for revision of the sanitary fees is authorized to provide funds for the construction of the said station only with the agreement of all its members, and (2) that the said station may be opened only after the reorganization of the Superior Board of Health of Constantinople, in accordance with the provisions of the present Convention.

"The British plenipotentiaries declare, furthermore, that the provisions of the present Convention shall not be applicable to any of the colonies, possessions or protectorates of His Britannic Majesty until after notification to this effect shall have been sent by the Representative of His Britannic Majesty at Paris to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the French Republic in the name of such colony, possession, or protectorate.

"It is understood by the British Government that the right to denounce the present Convention, as well as the right of the Powers to agree on the introduction of modifications in the text of the Convention, stands, as it resulted from the Convention of Venice of 1897.

"With respect to the cost of deratization when this measure is taken by a company or a private individual, the delegation of England shares in the wish expressed by the delegation of Germany."

The Conference acknowledged this declaration.

Mr. de Piza, delegate of Brazil, stated that he would sign the Convention ad referendum.

Mr. de Suzzara, delegate of Austria-Hungary, read the following declaration, which was acknowledged by the Conference:

"Austria-Hungary, in signing the Convention, does not think that it can depart from the reservations made by its delegation during the discussions of the Ways and Means Committee concerning the establishment provided for in article 181 of the Convention."

The delegates of the United States of America declared that they were ready to sign the Convention ad referendum, making reservations only with respect to the substitution of observation for surveillance, in view of the particular legislation of the various States of the Union.

The Conference acknowledged this declaration.

Mr. Popovitch, delegate of Servia, stated that he was in a position to sign the Convention ad referendum.