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He shall, under his own actual personal responsibility, designate the employee to be in charge of the receipt of the sanitary and quarantine dues.

The chiefs of sanitary agencies or posts shall also be accounting officers, and shall be personally charged with collecting the dues.

The agents charged with the collection of the dues must conform, as regards the guarantees to be given, the keeping of the documents, the time of payments, and in general everything relating to the financial part of their service, to the regulations issued by the Ministry of Finance.

ART. 23. The expenses of the Sanitary, Maritime, and Quarantine Service shall be defrayed with the means at the disposal of the Board itself, or, with the consent of the Ministry of Finance, from such fund as the latter may designate.

Cairo, June 19, 1893.

RIAZ.

[Translation.]

PROCES-VERBAL OF THE DEPOSIT OF THE RATIFICATIONS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SANITARY CONVENTION SIGNED AT PARIS, JANUARY 17, 1912.

(Treaty Series, No. 649.)

In execution of Article 160 of the International Sanitary Convention signed at Paris, January 17, 1912, by Germany, the United States of America, the Argentine Republic, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, Ecuador, Spain, France, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Italy, Luxemburg, Mexico, Montenegro, Norway, Panama, the Netherlands, Persia, Portugal, Rumania, Russia, Salvador, Servia, Siam, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Egypt and Uruguay, the undersigned met at the ministry of foreign affairs at Paris to proceed under the conditions hereinbelow stated with the deposit into the hands of the Government of the French Republic of the ratifications of the said Convention by the Governments they represent.

The Representative of the British Government declared that: "The stipulations of that Convention should not apply to any one of the colonies, possessions, or protectorates of His Britannic Majesty, the Empire of India included. However, the British Government reserves for each of its colonies, possessions, and protectorates, including the Empire of India, the right to adhere to the Convention as soon as any one of those Governments should have manifested a desire so to do, and also the power to give a separate notice of termination without being bound by the decision of the British Government relative to the United Kingdom. Whenever any one of the British colonies, possesssions, or protectorates shall adhere to or denounce the Convention, a notice to that effect shall be given by the representative of His Britannic Majesty at Paris to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the French Republic in behalf of the aforesaid colony, possession or protectorate.

"It is understood by the British Government that the right to denounce the present Convention as well as that of the powers to de

vise modifications in the texts of the Convention subsists in accordance with the provisions of the Convention of Venice of 1897, and of that of Paris of 1903."

The representative of the Government of the United States of America declared that his Government ratified, subject to the reservation, that nothing in Article 9 of the convention shall be considered as prohibiting the United States from taking such specific quarantine methods against the contamination of its ports as may be required by unwonted sanitary conditions. In making this reservation the United States Government does not intend to infringe in any way the fundamental regulations of the Convention.

The representative of the Spanish Government declared that his Government reserves to itself the right of interpreting in the broadest sense possible and in accordance with the scientific principles of modern hygiene, paragraph 2 of Article 9, in order to avoid, so far as possible, the importation into Spanish ports of the plague and yellow fever, but declares that it is not in mind to refuse its adhesion to anything affecting the fundamental points of the Convention.

The representative of the government of Panama declared that his government ratified, subject to the reservation that the provisions of Article 9 would not prevent the government of Panama or that of the United States, in accordance with the treaty signed between the two countries under date of November 18, 1903, from ordering in the ports of the Canal Zone and in those under the jurisdiction of the Republic of Panama such quarantine measures as circumstances may require.

The undersigned made a formal acknowledgment of the reservations hereinabove stated and declared that their respective countries reserved to themselves the right to claim the benefit thereof with respect to arrivals from the United States of America, Spain, and Panama.

The instruments of ratification produced on this date having been found upon examination to be in due form are intrusted to the French Republic to be deposited in the archives of the Department of Foreign Affairs.

With regard to the ratifications of the Powers signatory to the Convention which were not in position to deposit on this date, the French Republic will receive them later and so notify all the contracting Powers.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF the present procés-verbal, of which a certified copy will be sent by the Government of the French Republic to each one of the Powers signatory to the Sanitary Convention of January 17, 1912, was drawn up.

Done at Paris, October 7, 1920, at 16 o'clock:

For the United States of America:

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CONVENTION AND FINAL PROTOCOL FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE ABUSE OF OPIUM AND OTHER DRUGS.1

Signed at The Hague January 23, 1912, and July 9, 1913; ratification advised by the Senate October 18, 1913; ratified by the President October 27, 1913; ratification of the United States deposited with the Netherlands Government December 10, 1913; proclaimed March 3, 1915.2

For legislation responsive to the provisions of this convention see the acts of January 17 and December 17, 1914, 38 Statutes at Large, 277 and 783. U. S. v. Jin Fuey Moy, 241 U. S. 394.

As of September 1, 1922, the status of the convention was as follows:

States for which the convention came into force before January 10, 1920: United States of America, Belgium, China, Honduras, Netherlands, and Norway.

States for which the convention came into force on January 10, 1920, by reason of peace-treaty provisions: Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Liberia, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Serb-Croat-Slovene State, Siam, and Uruguay.

Other States: Denmark, Spain, and Sweden.

States ratifying the convention but not having signed the protocol putting it into force: Ecuador and Venezuela. Members of the League of Nations: Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, and Union of South Africa.

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His Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia in the name of the German Empire; The President of the United States of America; His Majesty the Emperor of China; The President of the French Republic; His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India; His Majesty the King of Italy; His Majesty the Emperor of Japan; Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands; His Imperial Majesty the Shah of Persia; the President of the Portuguese Republic; His Majesty the Emperor of All the Russias; His Majesty the King of Siam

being desirous to take one step further in the way marked out by the International Commission at Shanghai in 1909;

resolved to pursue progressive suppression of the abuse of opium, morphine, cocaine as well as drugs prepared or derived from these substances giving rise or which may give rise to analogous abuses; taking into consideration the necessity and the mutual profit of an international understanding on this point;

being convinced that they will meet in this humanitarian effort the unanimous adhesion of all the nations interested,

have resolved to conclude a Convention for this purpose and have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries, to wit:

His Majesty the German Emperor, King of Prussia:

His Excellency Mr. Félix de Müller, His present Privy Counsellor, His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at The Hague;

The convention and final protocol having been signed and certified only in the French language, the proclamation of the President promulgated the French text as the sole binding one. The translation here given is the one appended to the convention and final protocol as proclaimed in Treaty Series, No. 612.

Mr. Delbrück, His Superior Privy Counsellor;

Dr. Grunenwald, His Counsellor of Legation;

Dr. Kerp, His Privy Counsellor, Director at The Imperial Health Office;

Dr. Rössler, Imperial Consul at Canton.

President of the United States of America:

Bishop Charles H. Brent;

Dr. Hamilton Wright;

Mr. H. J. Finger.

His Majesty the Emperor of China:

His Excellency Mr. Liang Cheng, His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Berlin;

The President of the French Republic:

Mr. Henry Brenier, Inspector of the Agricultural and Commercial Services of Indo-China;

Mr. Pierre Guesde, Administrator of the Civil Services of IndoChina.

His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, Emperor of India:

The Right Honorable Sir Cecil Clementi Smith, G. C. M. G., Member of the Privy Council;

Sir William Stevenson Meyer, K. C. I. E., Chief Secretary of the Government of Madras;

Mr. William Grenfell Max-Müller, C. B., M. V. O., His Counsellor of Embassy;

Sir William Job Collins, M. D., Deputy Lieutenant of the County of London.

His Majesty the King of Italy:

His Excellency Count J. Sallier de la Tour, Duke of Calvello, His Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at The Hague.

His Majesty the Emperor of Japan:

His Excellency Mr. Aimaro Sato, His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at The Hague;

Dr. Tomoe Takagi, Engineer of the General Government of For

mosa;

Dr. Kotaro Nishizaki, Technical Specialist attached to the Laboratory of Hygienic Service.

Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands:

Mr. J. T. Cremer, Her Former Minister of the Colonies, President of the Dutch Commercial Company;

Mr. C. Th. van Deventer, Member of the First Chamber of the States General;

Mr. A. A. de Jongh, Former Inspector General and Chief of the Opium Régie Service in the Dutch Indies;

Mr. J. G. Scheurer, Member of the Second Chamber of the States General;

Mr. W. G. van Wettum, Inspector of the Opium Régie in the Dutch Indies.

His Imperial Majesty the Shah of Persia:

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