7. The £22,200,000 of Gold belonging to Italy, which was deposited under the Agreements of 1915 against the Italian war debt, will be retained by Great Britain as a non-interest-bearing deposit and will be released to Italy, as to the sum of £1,000,000, in eight equal instalments on the 15th September and 15th March of each of the four years commencing 15th September, 1928, and terminating the 15th March, 1932, and, as to the balance, in equal half-yearly instalments commencing the 15th September, 1932, and terminating the 15th September, 1987, provided always that all the annuities due under Article 1 of this Agreement have been integrally paid to date.

8. Upon the execution of this Agreement and the delivery to Great Britain of the bonds of Italy to be issued hereunder, duly executed, the British Treasury will cancel and surrender to Italy the Italian Treasury bills held by Great Britain.

Signed in duplicate at London on the twenty-seventh day of January, 1926.

For the Kingdom of Italy:

GIUSEPPE VOLPI DI MISURATA,
Minister of Finance.

For the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland:
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL,
Chancellor of the
Exchequer.

ANNEX.

Dated

FORM OF BOND.

1926. Maturing

THE Government of the Kingdom of Italy for value received promises to pay to the Government of His Britannic Majesty, or order, on the 15th March/15th September, 19, the sum of pounds sterling at the Bank of England,

London.

The payment due under this bond shall be exempt from all Italian taxation, present or future.

This bond is issued by the Government of the Kingdom of Italy pursuant to the agreement of the twenty-seventh day of January, 1926, for the funding of the Italian War Debt to Great Britain.

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Cmd. 2741

Agreement between the United Kingdom and the Netherlands regarding the Sanitary Control over Mecca Pilgrims at Kamaran Island.

Signed at Paris, June 19, 1926.

THE Governments of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of India of the one part and the Government of the Netherlands for the Netherlands and for the Netherlands East Indies of the other part recognising that the treatment of pilgrims travelling to the Hejaz from the South at Kamaran Quarantine Station is their common concern, and being desirous to establish by agreement provisions for its efficacious administration,

Have agreed upon the following provisions :

Measures to be applied on Pilgrim Ships and at the Quarantine Station.

1. The British and Indian Governments of the one part and the Netherlands Government for the Netherlands and for the Netherlands East Indies of the other part agree that the measures prescribed in the Schedule to this Agreement shall be applied with effect from the date on which this Agreement enters into force, pending the ratification of the revised International Sanitary Convention on behalf of India and the Netherlands East Indies.

Internal Organisation.

2. The Civil Administrator of the Island of Kamaran appointed by the Government of India shall be the Director of the Quarantine Station, and in that capacity shall exercise general supervision and control over the whole staff of the station. He shall be assisted by two medical officers, one of whom shall be appointed by the Government of India, and the other by the Government of the Netherlands East Indies. It is agreed in principle that these two medical officers shall be on a footing of complete equality. order, however, to ensure necessary co-ordination in matters of common concern in regard to the internal administration of the Quarantine Station it is agreed that the relative seniority of the two officers shall be determined as follows:

Each medical officer shall be appointed in the first instance for a period of two years, during the first of which he shall be described as Deputy Medical Superintendent and during the second as Medical Superintendent. For the first year from the date on which this Agreement enters into force the medical officer appointed by the Government of India Government of India shall be Medical

Superintendent. If at the end of the period of two years from first appointment the Medical Superintendent continue to be employed on the staff of the Quarantine Station, he shall revert to the position of Deputy Medical Superintendent for the first year of his second term of office or of any further term. Should the Medical Superintendent for any cause vacate his appointment before the end of his term of office, he will be succeeded by the Deputy Medical Superintendent, who will act as Medical Superintendent for the remainder of the term without losing his right to be Medical Superintendent for the next year.

3.

The Medical Superintendent shall be the chief technical officer of the Quarantine Station.

4. The nature of the measures to be applied in the case of ships containing only pilgrims from the Netherlands East Indies shall be determined by the medical officer appointed by the Government of the Netherlands East Indies irrespective of his position as Medical Superintendent or Deputy Medical Superintendent. Similarly, the measures to be applied in the case of ships not containing pilgrims from the Netherlands East Indies shall be determined by the medical officer appointed by the Government of India. In the case of ships containing pilgrims both from the Netherlands East Indies and from elsewhere the decision of the Director of the Quarantine Station as to the measures to be applied shall be final.

5. It shall be open to the Governments of India and of the Netherlands East Indies to appoint medical and sanitary assistants to be attached to the medical officers appointed by their respective Governments.

Epidemiological Intelligence.

6. The Government of India undertake to communicate to the Far Eastern Epidemiological Bureau at Singapore information regarding cases of plague or cholera which have manifested themselves on board pilgrim ships calling at Kamaran or at the Quarantine Station.

Pilgrim Dues.

Financial Administration.

7. The amount of the dues to be paid to the Quarantine Station in respect of each pilgrim carried on all ships required to call at Kamaran shall remain fixed at Rs. 10 until the Governments of India and of the Netherlands East Indies determine otherwise by agreement.

Financial Responsibility of the various Governments concerned in the administration of the Quarantine Station and Repayment of Advances made by them.

8. The British and Indian Governments of the one part and the Government of the Netherlands for the Netherlands and for the Netherlands East Indies of the other part agree in principle— (1) that the sums advanced by the British and Indian Governments to meet deficits which were incurred in the 3598 Wt.

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.administration of the Quarantine Station up to the 31st March, 1922, shall be repaid to these Governments out of the revenue of the Quarantine Station;

(2) that responsibility for any further deficit incurred after the date on which this agreement enters into force shall be shared in proportion to the number of pilgrims by whom dues are paid to the Quarantine Station; this proportion to be calculated in accordance with the number of pilgrims embarking from British or Netherlands territory from the date on which the agreement enters into force.

9. For the purpose of repayment of the advances already madeby the British and Indian Governments and of creating a reserve to meet future contingencies, provision shall be made for the maintenance in India of a fund to be called "the Kamaran Quarantine Station Fund" with effect from the date on which the agreement enters into force. To this fund shall be paid

(a) 5 per cent. of the amount collected annually from pilgrim dues, which shall forthwith be paid in equal moieties to the British and Indian Governments, as an instalment of the amount due to those Governments in respect of the advances referred to in article 8 (1) until the whole of that amount is liquidated;

(b) any surplus available in respect of the previous financial year after provision has been made for the expenditure required during the forthcoming year, which surplus shall bear compound interest at 5 per cent.

Annual Report and Budget.

10. The annual budget estimates of the Quarantine Station shall be prepared by the director, together with an annual report. These shall be submitted, with the observations of the Medical Superintendent and Deputy Medical Superintendent, to the Government of India six months before the commencement of the forthcoming financial year. Copies of the annual report, the actual figures for the preceding year and the budget estimates for the forthcoming year, together with the balance sheet of the Kamaran Quarantine Station Fund, and the observations of the Medical Superintendent and the Deputy Medical Superintendent thereon, shall be communicated forthwith by the Government of India to the Government of the Netherlands East Indies. The observations of the Government of India shall be communicated to the Government of the Netherlands East Indies not later than three months before the commencement of the ensuing financial year. The budget of the Quarantine Station shall not be approved until the Government of the Netherlands East Indies have signified their acceptance of it, or such amendments have been made as are accepted by the Governments of India and of the Netherlands East Indies.

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