scope of the jurisdiction of the Superior Board of Health of Constantinople, to a committee appointed entirely from among the members of this Board and composed of representatives of the various Powers which shall have adhered to the present convention.
The number of representatives of Turkey on this committee shall be three, one of them being president thereof. In case of a tie in voting, the president shall have the casting vote.
Art. 172. A corps of diplomaed physicians, disinfectors, and skilled mechanics, as well as of sanitary guards recruited from among persons who have performed military service as officers or noncommissioned officers, shall be created for the purpose of insuring the proper operation, under the direction of the Superior Board of Health of Alexandria, of the various sanitary establishments enumerated in and instituted by the present convention.
Art. 173. The health authority of the Ottoman port of call or arrival, who discovers a violation of the regulations, shall draw up a report thereof, on which the captain may enter his observations. A certified copy of this report shall be transmitted, at the port of call or arrival, to the consular officer of the country whose flag the vessel flies. The latter officer shall see that the fine is deposited with him. In the absence of a consul, the health authority shall receive this fine on deposit. The fine shall not be finally credited to the Superior Board of Health of Constantinople until the Consular Commission referred to in the following Article has pronounced upon the validity of the fine.
A second copy of the certified report shall be transmitted by the health authority who has discovered the violation to the President of the Board of Health of Constantinople, who shall communicate the document to the Consular Commission.
A minute shall be made on the bill of health by the health or consular authority, noting the violation discovered and the deposit of the fine.
Art. 174. At Constantinople there shall be created a Consular Commission to pass judgment upon the contradictory declarations of the health officer and the captain under charge. It shall be appointed each year by the consular corps. The Health Department may be represented by an agent acting as public prosecutor. The consul of the nation interested shall always be summoned and shall be entitled to vote.
Art. 175. The expenses of the establishment, within the jurisdiction of the Superior Board of Health of Constantinople, of the permanent and temporary sanitary posts contemplated by the present convention, shall be borne by the Ottoman Government as far as the construction of buildings is concerned. The Superior Board of Health of Constantinople is authorized, if there is urgent need, to advance the necessary sums out of the reserve fund; these sums shall be furnished it upon demand by "the Mixed Commission in charge of the revision of the sanitary tariff." It shall, in this case, see to the construction of these establishments.
