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THE DANUBE ACT OF 1881.
ment of the sanitary staff, the organization and working of

the offices, the establishment and maintenance of a lazaretto, and the method of levying the sanitary dues, and the objects to which shall be devoted the proceeds of these dues, which shall form a special fund.

The flag and badge of the Commission.Art. VIII. In order to ensure at all times to the staff, as well as to the property and works of the European Commission, the benefits of neutrality guaranteed to them by Art. XXI of the Public Act of the 2nd November, 1865, and Art. VII of the Treaty of London of the 13th March, 1871, the engineers, employes, and workmen of the European Commission may be furnished with a badge, bearing on a blue ground the white letters ' C. E. D.' Moreover, the Commission shall not be compelled to hoist upon its establishments, of whatsoever nature, and upon its boats, any flag other than its own, which is composed of five parallel stripes perpendicular to the staff, arranged in the following order of colour : — red, white, blue, white and red, the blue stripe having a height double that of each of the other stripes, and bearing in white the letters 'C.E.D.'

Art. IX. All the provisions of the Public Act of the 2nd November, 1865, which are not expressly modified by the present Additional Act, retain all their force and efficiency.

The Regulations of Navigation and of Police, and the Tariff of Navigation Dues, shall be eventually revised by the European Commission, in order to be placed in accord with the position created by the Treaty of Berlin.

Art. X. The present Act shall be ratified.

Each of the High Contracting Parties shall give one ratification only. The ratifications shall he deposited within a t/ear, or sooner if possible, in the archives oftheEurojpean Commission of the Danube[1].

In witness whereof the respective Delegates and Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Additional Act, and have thereto affixed their seals.

Done at Galatz, the 28th day of May, 1881.

H. T. SIBORNE.N. REVEST.
J. ARENDT.PENCOVICI.
de HAAN.A. ROMANENKO.
CAMILLE BARRÈRE.Const. et. CARATHÉODORY.
  1. The ratifications of all the signatory Powers were so deposited accordingly on 20th May, 1883.
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