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 2592 INTERNATIONAL SANITARY CONVENTION. JUNE 21, 1926. (3) The measures to be taken for the disinfection of cattle ships, of skins, and of other animals' derivatives, shall be as in the past in chaI"ge of the Sanitary, Maritime, and Quarantine Board. (4) The foreign personnel now in the veterinary service of the Sanitary, Maritime and Quarantine Board will be granted the benefit of the salaries appropriated by Law No. 28 of 1923, re- garding the conditions of service and the retirement or discharge of officialsl employees or agents of foreign nationality. Gradmg of salaries shall be as provided by the abov8-Dentioned law. The other details will be fixed by an agreement between the Egyptian Government and the Sanitary, Mantime and Quarantine Board. tl~:t~Ja:i~lnlstra. III. On account of the great distance between the Port of Suakim and the headquarters of the Egyptian Sanitary, Maritime and Quar- antine Board at Alexandria, and the fact that the pilgrims and passengers who disembark in this port of Suakim concern from the sanitary point of view only the territory of the Soudan, the sanitary administration of this port will be detached from the said Board. ARTICLE 164. Payment of ordinary Th rd' . f. . fh 8J:penses. eo mary expenses resultm~ rom the proVISIOns 0 t e present convention, especially those relatmg to the mcrease of the 'personnel belonging to the Sanitary, MaritIme, and Quarantine Board of Egypt, shall be covered by means of an annual supplementary pay- ment by the Egyptian Government of the sum of 4,000 Egyptian p'ounds, which may be taken from the surplus revenues from the lighthouse service remaining at the disposal of said Government. However, the proceeds of a supplementar;y quarantine tax of ten tariff dollars per pilgrim to be collected at Tor shall be deducted from this sum. In case the Egyptian Government should find difficulty in bearing this share of the expenses, the Powers represented in the Sanitary, Maritime, and Quarantine Board shall reach an understanding with that Government in order to insure the participation of the latter in the expenses contemplated. ARTICLE 165. re{:: etc.. of The Sanitary, Maritime, and Quarantine Board of Egypt shall undertake the task of bringing the provisions of the present con- vention into conformity with the regulations at present enforced by it in regard to the plague, cholera, and yellow fever, as well as with the regulations relative to arrivals from the Arabian ports of the Red Sea during the pilgrim season. To the same end it shall, if occasion arises, revise the general regu- lations of the sanitary, maritime, and quarantine police at present in force. Miscellaneotlll. These regulations, in order to become effective must be accepted by the various powers represented on the Board. II. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. ARTICLE 166. eJ.seofsanitarytaxes. The proceeds from the sanitary taxes and fines collected by the Sanitary, Maritime and Quarantine Board shall in no case be em- ployed for objects other than those within the province of the said Board.

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