File 2908/1907 Pt 3 ‘Persian Gulf:- Quarantine; German complaint’ [‎93r] (185/250)

(2.) The price of tickets;
(o.) The daily lation of food and water allowed to each
pilgrim;
(4.) The price of articles, not included in the daily ration
which may he procured on extra payment.
Ait. 105. The heavy baggage of pilgrims shall he registered
numbered, and put in the hold. Pilgrims may keep with them
only such things as are absolutely necessary. The nature, amount,
and dimensions of these things shall be decided by regulations
framed by each Government for its own ships.
Art. 106. The provisions of Chapter I, of Sections I, II and
III of Chapter II, and of Chapter III, of Part III of’this
Convention shall be posted up, in the form of regulations, in the
language of the country to which the ship belongs, and also in the
languages chiefly spoken in the countries inhabited by the pilgrims
to be embarked, in a conspicuous and accessible place on every
deck and between-decks of every ship carrying pilgrims.
Section II .—Measures before Departure,
Art. 107. The captain or, in his default, the owner or agent
of every pilgrim-ship must, not less than three days before
departure, declare to the competent authority of the port of
departure his intention to embark pilgrims. At ports of call, the
captain or, in his default, the owner or agent of every pilgrim-ship
must make the same declaration twelve hours before the departure
of the ship. This declaration must specify the proposed date of
departure and the destination of the ship.
Art. 108. On receipt of the declaration provided for by the
preceding Article the competent authority shall proceed, at the
expense of the captain, to inspect and measure the ship. The
consular authority of the country to which the ship belongs may
be present at this inspection.
Inspection alone shall take place if the captain already has a
certificate of measurement furnished by the competent authority
of his country, unless it be suspected that the certificate no longer
represents correctly the real condition of the ship.*
Art. 109. The competent authority shall not permit the
departure of a pilgrim-ship until satisfied—
(«.) That the ship has been thoroughly cleaned and, if
necessary, disinfected;
* At present the competent authority is: in British India, an officer
appointed for the purpose by the Local Government (Native Passengers’
Ships Act, 1877, Article 7); in the Dutch Indies, the master of the port ;
in Turkey, the sanitary authority ; in Austria-Hungary, the port authority ,
in Italy, the captain of the port; in France, Tunis, and Spain, the sanitary
authority ; in Egypt, the sanitary quarantine authority.
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