Chapter II. Arrivals by land
SECTION I. GENERAL RULES
Art. 83. The measures taken on land routes against arrivals from regions infected with plague or cholera shall conform to the sanitary principles formulated by the present convention.
Modern disinfecting methods shall be substituted for land quarantines. To this end disinfecting chambers and other disinfecting appliances shall be installed at well chosen points along the routes followed by travelers.
The same means shall be employed on railroad lines already built or to be built.
Freight shall be disinfected according to the principles of the present convention.
Art. 84. Each Government shall be free to close, when necessary, a part of its frontiers against passengers and freight at places where the organization of a sanitary supervision is attended with difficulties.
SECTION II. TURKISH LAND FRONTIERS
Art. 85. The Superior Board of Health of Constantinople shall, without delay, organize the sanitary establishments of Hanikin and Kisil Dizie, near Bayazid, on the Turko-Persian and Turko-Russian frontiers.
Title III. Provisions specially applicable to pilgrimages
Chapter I. General provisions
Art. 86. The provisions of articles 46 and 47 of Title II are applicable to persons and objects to be embarked on a pilgrim ship sailing from a port of the Indian Ocean and Oceania, even if the port is not infected with plague or cholera.
Art. 87. When cases of plague or cholera exist in the port, no embarkation shall be made on pilgrim ships until after the persons, assembled in a group, have been subjected to an observation for the purpose of ascertaining that none of them is stricken with plague or cholera.
It shall be understood that, in executing this measure, each Government may take into account the local circumstances and possibilities.
Art. 88. If local circumstances permit, the pilgrims shall be obliged to prove that they possess the means absolutely necessary to complete the pilgrimage, especially around-trip ticket.
Art. 89. Steamships shall alone be permitted to engage in the long-voyage transportation of pilgrims, all other vessels being forbidden to engage in this traffic.
Art. 90. Pilgrim ships engaged in coasting trade and used in making the conveyances of short duration called "coasting voyages" shall be subject to the provisions contained in the special regulations applicable to the Hedjaz
