Bisbee daily review., 1914-07-12
RULES FOR PASSAGE
 OF SHIPS THROUGH
 CANAL ARE PUBLISHED

PANAMA. July tspeciaD - Since the Panama canal is now about finished and ready for business. Col onel Goethals has had published in official circulars an the details that must be compiled with by vessels seeking passage through the new wa terway. The most important of these provide that the tolls must be paid in cash, or that some financial guar antee for their payment. acceptable to the governor of the zone, must be deposited with the canal treasurer before a ship will be allowed to enter any lock.
 The amount of the tolls each ship will have to pay will be determined by what is called its Panama canal tonnage certiucate' In non-techni- cal language this is a document show ing that all parts of the vessel have been carefully measured and that after deducting all the space to be used for tho crew. machinery and ships stores of every kind, it has ] been found that the vessel has cer- | tain number of cubic feet which are available for passengers or cargo, or | for learning capacity" For every one hundred cubic feet of this earn . ] ing capacity" the Panama canal tolls will be S1.20 As the rules regula- tions and laws of the Panama canal providing what space or spaces in ship shall be considered earning ca- pacity are different from those of the Suez and other canals, an vessels that expect to use the Panama canal must be remeasured As this Is somewhat lengthy and tedious work. best performed when a vessel is emp ty. Colonel Goethals has authorized the collector of the port of New York the collectors in some of the other large cities of the United States and certain properly designated officials abroad to measure vessels under what will now be known as the Panama rules and issue the required tonnage certificates
 While the canal authorities espec- ially reserve the right to check and correct any measurement or certin- cate issued elsewhere than at the canal, ships are advised by the gov. ernor of the zone to provide them selves with these tonnage cerufi- cates before coming to the canal, to save themselves delay in transit
 What ships coming to the canal shall do at sea in the way of medical work is specifically mentioned in the 1u published by Colonel Goethals.
 While these requirements at sea. the governor Of the zone announces, 'are largely advisory in character, a true and careful compliance with them will tend to relieve largely the stringency of the quarantine measure at the (canaD port of arrival"
 In this way the canal will promote a greater care for the sick on passen- ger steamers at sea.
 Vessels that arrive from infected ports in which the regulations pre-. scribed to be observed in foreign ports have not been carried out will be placed in quarantine.
 How other ports of the world will be warned against vessels the health conditions of which were not satisfac- tory to the canal authorities is made clear by the following regulation just made public
 Vessels entering the ports for pas sing through the canal, that have had cases of quaTantinable diseases on board during the voyage will be al- lowed to proceed to the port of desti. nation, after the persons sick of the quarantinable disease have been re. moved and the necessary disinfection carried out. In such cases the vessel should be passed through the canal in quarantine. In these cases Col Goethals' new regulations provide that "a sealed letter attached to the bill of health and forming a part of the ships papers should be addressed 10 the health officer of the port of destination and the Dratique granted the vessel shall have a notation of the facts entered thereon"
 That the canal authorities are pre- pared 10 guarantee the healthfulness of the isthmus IS made plain by an. other of the new quarantine reguIa. uons, which provides that when the quarantine officer at the canal re- leases a vessel "that has in all re- spects compiled with the quarantine regulations prescribed by the Canal Zone government" he shall issue a certificate stating that fin the opin ion of the quarantine officer she will not convey quaranunable disease and that said vessel Is granted free pratique to enter her port of destina. ton, the name of which shall be em. bodied in the certificate"
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