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CHILE:
His Exc. JORJE HUNEEUS, E. E. & M. P. at Brussels and the Hague, Delegate,
CHINA:
His Exc. W. W. YES, E. E. & M. P. at Berlin, First Plenipotentiary Delegate. Dr. WC LIEN-TEн, M. A., M. D. (Cambridge) Surgeon Major, Director of the Medical Service, Physician of the Foreign Office, Plenipotentiary Delegate.
COLOMBIA:
Mr. CH. HISCHEMÖLLER, Consul at Rotterdam, Delegate.
COSTA RICA:
His Exc. MANUEL M. DE PERALTA. E. E. & M. P. at Paris and the Hague, Delegate.
DENMARK:
Mr. J. G. DE GREVENKOP CASTENSKJOLD, Minister Resident at Brussels and the Hague, Delegate.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC:
His Exc. Dr. José LAMARCHE, E. E. & M. P., Delegate.
ECUADOR:
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His Exc. JORJE HUNEEUS, E. E. & M. P. of Chile at Brussels and the Hague, Delegate.
SPAIN:
Mr. MANUEL GARCIA DE ACILU Y BENITO, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim at the Hague, Delegate.
FRANCE:
His Exc. MARCELLIN PELLET, E. E. & M. P. at the Hague, Delegate.
GREAT BRITAIN:
Mr. WILLIAM Grenfell, Max-MÜLLER C. B., M. V. O., Counsellor of Ambassy, Delegate.
Sir WILLIAM J. Collins, D. L., M. D., F. R. C. S., former President of the London City Council, Delegate.
HAITI:
Mr. STENIO VINCENT, Chargé d'Affaires at the Hague, Delegate.
ITALY:
Marquis ALEXANDRE COMPANS DE BRICHANTEAU, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim at the Hague. Delegate.
JAPAN:
Mr. JUMPER SHINOBU, Chargé d'Affaires ad interim at the Hague, Delegate.
LUXEMBURG:
His Exc. Baron ALBÉRIC FALLON, E. E. & M. P. of Belgium at the Hague, Delegate.
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MEXICO:
His Exc. FEDERICO GAMBOA. E. E. & M. P. at Brussels and the Hague, Delegate.
THE NETHERLANDS:
Mr. J. T. CREMER, Former Minister of the Colonies. Former President of the Netherlands Commercial Company, Member of the First Chamber of the States-General, First Delegate.
Dr. C. TH. VAN DEVENTER, Member of the First Chamber of the States- General, Delegate.
Mr.' A. A. DE JONGH, Former Inspector General. Chief of the Opium Regie in the Dutch East Indies, Delegate.
Dr. J. G. SCHEURER, Member of the Second Chamber of the States-General, Delegate.
PORTUGAL:
His Exe. AxTONIO MARIA BARTHOLOMEU FERREIRA, E. E. & M. P. at the Hague, Delegate.
RUSSIA:
His Exc. A. SWÉTCHINE, E. E. & M. P. at the Hague, Delegate. Professor STAXISLAS PRZIBYTEK, Member of the Academy of Medicine at St. Petersburg, Delegate.
SIAM:
His Exc. PHYA SUDHAM MAITRI, E. E. & M. P. at London, Brussels and the Hague, Delegate.
Mr. WILLIAM J. ARCHER, Counsellor of the Legation at London and the Hague, Delegate.
the Conference,
In a series of meetings held from July 1st to having examined the question submitted to it by paragraph 2 of article 23 of the International Opium Convention of January 23, 1912, (has decided that the deposit of ratifications may now take place).
and unanimously adopted the following resolution:
Desiring to continue, in the direction indicated by the International Commis- sion of Shanghai of 1909 and by the First Conference at the Hague in 1912, the progressive suppression of the abuse of opium, morphine and cocaine, as well as of the drugs prepared or derived from these substances, and more than ever convinced of the necessity and mutual advantage of an international agreement on this matter, the Second International Opium Conference,
1st. Expresses the wish that the Government of the Netherlands may be pleased to inform the Governments of Austria-Hungary, Norway and Sweden that the signature, ratification, preparation of legislative measures, and the enfor cement of the Convention, constitute four distinct stages which allow these Powers to proceed at once to supplemental signature,
Indeed, it is provided by Articles 23 and 24 that a period of six months may elapse between the enforcement of the Convention and the preparation of bills, regulations and other measures contemplated by the Convention. Also, the third paragraph of Article 24 allows the Contracting Powers to come to an agreement after ratification, as to the date of the enactment of such legislative measures.
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