INTERN"ATIONAL SANITARY CONVENTION. JUNE 21,1926. Tho Plenipotentiary of Portugal declares that he is authorized P«tugal. by his Government. to sign the Convention ad referendum with the reservations entered in the minutes of the last plena.ry session. The Plenipotentiary of Turkey declares that Turkey would not Turkey. relin~uish by any treaty the right of beiIlg represented in the Sani- tary, Maritime and Quarantine Board of E~t. On the other hand taking into consideration the stipulations In the Convention of the Straits signed at Lausanne and the special conditions of the Straits of Bos1?horus and Dardanelles, he reserns the right for the Sanitary AdminIstration of Turkey to put a sanitary guard on board any merchant vessel ~oing through the Straits without a physician and coming from an mfected port 80 tl.8 to prevent that vessel from call- ing at any Turkish port. It is understood, however,that the delay 2607 and expenses that such a guard may entail will be very slight. The Plenipotentiaries of the Union ot the Soviet SOCIalist Repub- Boylet dooaJist Re- lics, clllling to mind the declarations made by them on May 26, at public. the session of the first Commission concerning article 7 of the draft of Convention declare they have no objection to offer to the pro- visions relative to the right of the International Office of Public Hygiene to make arrangements with other sanitary agencies; but they are of the opinion that that,right flows from the arrangement of Rome of 1907 which defines the functions of the Office. They therefore believe that the provision hereinabove referred to is but a confinnil.tion of that right and should only appear in the minutes and not be made an article of the Convention itself. The Plenipotentiaries of the Union of the Soviet and Socialist Republics call to mind that at the time article 12 of the Convention was under considerati.on they cast their votes against the provision grantingthe Governments the right to prolong In exceptional cases the application of sanitary measures notwithstanding the declara- tion of the State concerned that there is no longer any danger of the disease. They hold that that provision may infringe upon one of the fun- damental principles of the previous conventions and become a cause of misunderstanding that could arise from its application. Ther therefore declare that in the spirit of the Convention that proviSIon can only be considered in exceptional cases when the Gov- ernment to which the afflicted district belongs does not meet the obli- gations laid down by the Convention in that respect. The Plenipotentiaries of the Soviet Socialist Republics call to mind that the reservations already made by them in second Commission concerning the functions, duties and powers of the sanitary, mari- time and quarantine board of Egypt. They particularly wish to emphasize the fact that articles 70 and 164 in particular confer upon that board the right to set up different sanitary, maritime and quarantine police regulations on condition that those regulations in order to be capable of execution must be accepted by the different Powers represented in the Council. Inasmuch as the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics is not yet represented in the sanitary, maritime and quarantine board of Emt, the Delegation of the Union wishes to reserve the rights of Its Government to accept or not to accept the measures worked out by that board. The undersigned make a fonnal acknowledgment of the reserva- 1Il:~Fo}~Uo~2' tions hereinabove set forth and declare that theh own countries . reserve to themselves the right to invoke the benefit thereof as against the countries in whose name 6ey were made.
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