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that is required; and I doubt if the task is really an insuperable one when limited to vessels actually infected with plague and to Asiatics under surveillance.
Section 6. The view taken by the Secretary of State in the latter part of this paragraph is of primary importance. One of the principal objects of the Venice and other like Conventions has been that countries communicating with others should know what restrictions their shipping and passengers will be subject to on arrival in port; and this object is defeated if, after laying down certain regulations, a paragraph is inserted that those regulations may be varied at the will of an individual.
Section 7. I would only further observe that perusal of the two sets of Regulations circulated by the Secretary of State, makes it clear that they were not drawn up with a view to compliance with the terms of the Venice Convention; and that if it should be determined to draw up a code of regulations which shall not run counter to that document it would be desirable:-
1st. To use, as far as practicable, the actual terms of the Venice Convention. This would, amongst other things, avoid the use of the antiquated term "Quarantine", which finds no place in any modern Sanitary Convention.
2nd. To bear in mind that the Venice Convention is...