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If taxes are levied by a sanitary authority, either directly or through 
the agency of any company or agent, to insure measures for the destruction 
of mosquitoes on board ships, the amount of these taxes ought to be fixed 
by a tariff published in advance, and the result of these measures should 
not be a source of profit for either state or sanitary authorities. 
Article XVI. — In case of Yellow fever postal parcels are not to be 
subjected to any restrictions or disinfection. 
Articles X VII. and XVIII. — Relate to merchandise requiring disinfec- 
tion more especially in the case of plague. 
Article XIX.— Baggage.— There shall be no disinfection of bao-gao-e 
on account of Yellow fever. 
Article XX. — Classification of Ships. — A ship is considered as infected 
which has plague, cholera or Yellow fever on board, or which has presented 
one or more cases of plague or cholera within seven days, or a case of Yellow 
fever at any time during the voyage. 
A ship is considered as suspected on board of which there have been 
a case or cases of plague or cholera at the time of departure or during 
the voyage, but no new case within seven days ; also such ships as have 
lain in such proximity to the infected shore as to render them liable to 
the access of mosquitoes. 
The ship is considered indemne, which, although coming from 
»m infected port, has had neither death nor case of plague, cholera or 
Yellow fever on board, either before departure, during the voyage, or at 
the time of arrival, and which in the case of Yellow fever has^ not lain 
in such proximity to the shore as to render it liable, in the opinion of 
the sanitary authorities, to the access of mosquitoes. 
Articles X XI. to XXXI. deal with cholera and plague. 
Article XXXII. — Ships coming from a contaminated port, which have 
been disinfected, and which may have been subjected to sanitary measures 
applied in an efficient manner, shall not undergo a second time the 
same measure upon their arrival at a new port, provided that no new 
case shall have appeared since the disinfection was practised, and that 
the ships have not touched in the meantime at an infected port. 
When a ship only disembarks passengers and their baggage, or the 
mails, without having been in communication with terra firma, it is not to 
be considered as having touched at a port, provided that in the case of 
\ ellow fever it has not approached sufficiently near the shore to permit the 
access of mosquitoes. 
Article XXXIII. — Passengers arriving on an infected ship have the 
right to demand of the sanitary authority of the port a certificate showing 
the date of their arrival, and the measures to which they and their baggage 
have been subjected. 
Article XXXIV. — Packet boats shall be subjected to special regula- 
tions, to be established by mutual agreement between the countries 
interested. 
Article XXXV. — Without prejudice to the right which Governments 
possess to agree upon, the organisation of common sanitary stations, each 
country should provide at least one port upon each of its seaboards, with an 
organisation and equipment sufficient to receive a vessel, whatever may be 
its sanitary condition. 
When an indemne vessel, coming from an infected port, arrives in a 
large mercantile port, it is recommended that she be not sent to another 
port for the execution of the prescribed sanitary measures. 
In every country ports liable to the arrival of vessels from ports 
infected with plague, cholera or Yellow fever, should be equipped in such a 
