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The Netherland Resolution was in the following
terms:- "The Governments taking part in the Conference bind themselves to prohibit, as a general regulation, the importation and exportation of prepared opium. How+ ever in so far as exportation 16 concerned, they shall
be ampowered to permit in certain well fixed cases that
opium be taken on board ships for the personal use of
the crow during the course of the voyage. "
The second paragraph of this resolution was by
common consent withdrawn as relating to a question of
domestic regulation. In regard to the main part of the
resolution, The Portuguese Dologation declared their
inability to accept it unless the word "gradually" was
inserted after "prohibit", ak proposed this alteration
as an whendment. The amendment was however rejected,
and the vote taken on the resolution itself, when eight delegations accepted the resolution; one, Siam, accepted with a reserve; Portugal voted against 11; and Great
Britain accepted it ug referendum. The same evening we
sent a telegram to you enquiring whether we were
authorised to vote in favour of the resolution.
In order to enable the Delegations to discuss in-
formally among themselves the important principles which
were