ARNEXY.
P.0.0. 48 (1)
OPTU PRETERAPORY COMMITULE.
Koto by Monsieur feuri XRNIER, on a cystem of cobrol with
judireat limitativo effect.
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The Landate entrusted by the Council to the Committee is
to prepare a series of agreements with a view to the limitation of the production of morphine, heroin, cocaine and the raw materials which have to be exported for the manufacture of the se
drugo.
Limitation of production:
such is the essential ai
It is possible to differ as to the mocus to achieve this aim; all that matters is that it should be achieved in the best possible
way.
The system of direct limitation raises objections which it is useless to re-state, as they have been fully presented and disoupsed at the former sessions. It is sufficient to recall here that, admitting that the figure of 450 milligrammes of opium per head per annum can be considered as reasonable ( and it will
the real difficulty certainly be critiosed with some ground)
will lie in the apportionigg, especially in en apportionnent which can be continually revised.
Speaking in my capacity of
director-general of a chamber of commerce, of things which I know by daily practico, I do not think in all sincerity, that it will be possible to obtain in advance from a manufacturer (or, which comes to the same thing, from the country party to the agreement, on his account), who will have laid out large sums of money, the equipment of a manufacture, proportioned at a given monen ↑ to
a given market the ongagoment to surrender his share of a legitimate market,
for