Signed at Washington, March 2, 1909; Proclaimed, April 24, 1909.

The President of the United States of America and His Majesty the King of Italy, considering it appropriate to supplement by an additional agreement the commercial agreement signed between the two governments at Washington, on February 8, 1900, have appointed as their plenipotentiaries, to wit:

The President of the United States of America, the Honorable Robert Bacon, Secretary of State of the United States; and

His Majesty the King of Italy, His Excellency the Baron Mayor des Planches, His Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Washington,

Who, after an exchange of their respective full powers, found to be in due and proper form, have agreed upon the following articles:

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ARTICLE I.

It is agreed on the part of the United States, in accordance with the provisions of section 3 of the Tariff Act of the United States approved July 24, 1897, that the rates of duty heretofore imposed and collected, under the said Act, on Italian sparkling wines upon entering the United States, including the island of Porto Rico, shall be suspended during the continuance in force of this agreement, and, instead, the following duties shall be imposed and collected, to wit:

On all sparkling wines, in bottles containing not more than one quart and more than one pint, six dollars per dozen; containing not more than one pint each and more than one-half pint, three dollars per dozen; containing one-half pint each or less, one dollar and fifty cents per dozen; in bottles or other vessels containing more than one quart each, in addition to six dollars per dozen bottles on the quantities in excess of one quart, at the rate of one dollar and ninety cents per gallon.

ARTICLE II.

It is reciprocally agreed on the part of Italy, in consideration of the provisions of the foregoing article, that during the term of this additional agreement the duty to be assessed and collected on mowers and tedders, included in item No. 240, paragraph "f," of the customs tariff of Italy, products of the industry of the United States, imported into Italy, shall not exceed the rate of four lire per one hundred kilograms.

ARTICLE III.

When official notification of His Majesty's ratification shall have been given to the government of the United States, the President of the United States shall publish his proclamation, giving full effect to the provisions contained in article I of this agreement. From and after the date of such proclamation this agreement shall be in full force and effect, and shall continue in force until the expiration of one year from the time when either of the high contracting parties shall have given notice to the other of its intention to terminate the same.

In winess whereof we, the respective plenipotentiaries, have signed this agreement, in duplicate, in the English and Italian texts, and have affixed hereunto our respective seals.

Done at Washington, this second day of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and nine.

ROBERT BACON. [SEAL]

E. MAYOR DES PLANCHES. [SEAL]

SANITARY CONVENTION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER POWERS.1

Signed at Washington, October 14, 1905; Ratified, May 29, 1906; Proclaimed, March 1, 1909.

The presidents of the republics of Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, United States. of America, and Venezuela:

Having found that it is useful and convenient to codify all the measures destined to guard the public health against the invasion and propagation of yellow fever, plague and cholera, have designated as their delegates, to wit:

Republic of Chile, Sr. Dr. D. Eduardo Moore, professor of the Medical Faculty, Hospital Physician;

Republic of Costa Rica, Sr. Dr. D. Juan J. Ulloa, Ex-Vice-President, Ex-Minister of the Interior of Costa Rica, Ex-President of the Medical Faculty of Costa Rica;

Republic of Cuba, Sr. Dr. D. Juan Guiteras, member of the Superior Board of Health of Cuba, director of the "Las Animas" Hospital, professor of General Pathology and Tropical Medicine of the University of Havana, and Sr. Dr. D. Enrique B. Barnet, Executive Chief of the Health Department of Havana, member and secretary of the Superior Board of Health of Cuba;

Republic of Ecuador, Sr. Dr. D. Serafin S. Wither, Chargé d'Affaires and Consul-General of Ecuador in New York, and Sr. Dr. D. Miguel H. Alcívar, member of the Superior Board of Health of Guayaquil, Professor of the Medical Faculty and Surgeon of the General Hospital of Guayaquil;

Republic of the United States of America, Dr. Walter Wyman, Surgeon General of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service of the United States; Dr. H. D. Geddings, assistant Surgeon General of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service of the United States, and representative of the United States at the Sanitary Convention of Paris; Dr. J. F. Kennedy, secretary of the Board of Health of the State of Iowa; Dr. John S. Fulton, secretary of the Board of Health of the State of Maryland; Dr. Walter D. McCaw, Major, Surgeon in the United States Army; Dr. J. D. Gatewood, Surgeon in the United States Navy; Dr. H. L. E. Johnson, member of the American Medical Association. (member of the Board of Trustees);

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Republic of Guatemala, Sr. Dr. D. Joaquín Yela, Consul-General of Guatemala in New York;

Republic of Mexico, Sr. Dr. D. Eduardo Licéaga, President of the Superior Council of Health of Mexico, director and professor of the National School of Medicine, member of the Academy of Medicine;

Republic of Nicaragua, Sr. Dr. D. J. L. Medina, member of the Second Pan-American Medical Congress of the City of Havana in 1901; Republic of Peru, Sr. Dr. D. Daniel Eduardo Lavorería, professor of the Medical Faculty, member of the National Academy of Medicine, Physician of the "Dos de Mayo" Hospital, Chief of the Division of Hygiene of the Ministry of Fomento;

Dominican Republic, Sr. D. Emilio C. Joubert, Minister Resident in Washington; and

Republic of Venezuela, Sr. D. Nicolás Veloz-Goiticoa, Chargé d'Affaires of Venezuela,

Who, having made an interchange of their powers, and found them good, have agreed to adopt, ad referendum, the following propositions:

CHAPTER I. Regulations to be observed by the powers signatory to the convention as soon as plague, cholera or yellow fever may appear in their territory.

SECTION I. Notification and subsequent communications to other countries.

ARTICLE I. Each government should immediately notify other governments of the first appearance in its territory of authentic cases of plague, cholera or yellow fever.

ARTICLE II. This notification is to be accompanied, or very promptly followed, by the following additional information:

(1) The neighborhood where the disease has appeared.

(2) The date of its appearance, its origin, and its form.

(3) The number of established cases, and the number of deaths.

(4) For plague: the existence among rats or mice of plague, or of an unusual mortality; for yellow fever: the existence of stegomyia fasciata in the locality.

(5) The measures taken immediately after the first appearance.

ARTICLE III. The notification and the information prescribed in articles I and II are to be addressed to diplomatic and consular agents in the capital of the infected country; but this is to be construed as not preventing direct communication between officials charged with the public health of the several countries.

For countries which are not thus represented, they are to be transmitted directly by telegraph to the governments of such countries.

ARTICLE IV. The notification and the information prescribed in articles I and II are to be followed by further communications dispatched in a regular manner in order to keep the governments informed of the progress of the epidemic.

These communications, which are to be made at least once a week, and which are to be as complete as possible, should indicate in detail the precautions taken to prevent the extension of the disease.

They should set forth: first, the prophylactic measures taken relative to sanitary or medical inspection, to isolation and disinfection; second, the measures taken relative to departing vessels to prevent the exportation of the disease, and, especially under the circumstances mentioned in paragraph 4 of article II of this section, the measures taken against rats and mosquitoes.

ARTICLE V. The prompt and faithful execution of the preceding provisions is of the very first importance.

The notifications only have a real value if each government is warned in time of cases of plague, cholera or yellow fever and of suspicious cases of those diseases supervening in its territory. It can not then be too strongly recommended to the various governments to make obligatory the declaration of cases of plague, cholera or yellow fever, and of giving information of all unusual mortality of rats and mice especially in ports. ARTICLE VI. It is understood that neighboring countries reserve to themselves the right to make special arrangements with a view of organizing a service of direct information between the chiefs of administration upon the frontiers.

SECTION II. Conditions showing a given territorial area to be infected, or to have been freed from infection.

ARTICLE VII. Information of a first case of plague, cholera or yellow fever does not justify against a territorial area where it may appear, the application of the measures prescribed in chapter II as hereinafter indicated.

Upon the occurrence of several non-imported cases of plague, or a non-imported case of yellow fever or when cases of cholera form a focus, the area is to be declared infected.

ARTICLE VIII. To limit the measures to the affected regions alone, governments should only apply them to persons and articles proceeding from the contaminated or infected areas.