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The President will appoint as Commissioners not more than three persons, familiar with the subject, and Congress will be asked to appropriate a sum of money not to exceed $20,000 for the expenses of the Commission.
It is the idea of my Government that each Commission should proceed independently and immediately with the investigation of the Opium question on behalf of their respective countries with a view:
(1) to devise means to limit the use of Opium in the Possessions of that country,
(2) to ascertain the best means of suppressing the opium traffic, if such now exists, among their own nationals in the Far East,
(3) to be in a position, when the various Commissions meet in Shanghai, to co-operate and offer jointly or severally definite suggestions of measures which their respective Governments may adopt for the gradual suppression of Opium cultivation, traffic, and use within their Eastern Possessions, and thus to assist China in her purpose of eradicating the evil from that Empire.
.JIBA .58