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 maintenance and the administration of all the lighthouses forming the system of lighting the mouths of the Danube ; consequently, the proportion of the total amount of dues levied at Soulina, representing the light dues, shall belong, without deduction, to the Navigation Fund.

VI. The sanitary Regulations applicable to the mouths of the Danube, including the tariffs of sanitary dues, shall be elaborated and modified, in concert with the European Commission, by the International Council, to be established at Bucharest.

The present Regulations shall remain in force until otherwise ordered, reserving, however, the right of the European Commission to demand the immediate abrogation of those which may be in opposition to the interests of the navigation and to the principles laid down in Articles XVIII, XIX, and XX of the Public Act of the 2nd November, 1865.

In order to determine more exactly the sense of the stipulations of the said Art. XX relative to measures of quarantine, properly so called, which are put in force in time of epidemic, it is expressly understood and agreed that these measures are exclusively applicable to vessels and travellers coming from infected localities, and in non-infected ports ; and that any exceptional and restrictive measures shall be abolished, with regard to inter-communication between riverain ports, as soon as the epidemic has become general along its banks.

And in order to facilitate, in time of epidemic, the maintenance of the river police, it is further agreed that the Inspector of Navigation, the Chancellor of the Inspection, and the sectional Sub-Inspectors, shall continue, as hitherto, to pass freely to and fro on the river, under the sole condition that they must submit, in caiie they may have rendered themselves liable to infection ('en cas de compromission') to the same precautions as are laid down by the regulations for the Health Officers. The same immunities shall be extended, in case of necessity, to the engineers, employes, and workmen of the European Commission.

VII. In regard to matters specially concerning the administration of the sanitary service at Soulina, the International Council at Bucharest shall come to an understanding with the Commission with respect to the nomination and pay-