ANDEX VII.
Mooting of the Fifth Seacion of the Opium ävisory
Committee in My, 1923.
Resolution II.
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The Advisory Committee, having regard to the large amount of detailed information now available, recomenda
the Council to invite the Dowols with Far Eastern terri
tories where the use of opium for smoking is temporarily continued in pursuance of Chapter II of the Opium Convention,
to enter into immediate negotiations, by means of calling
a special conference of representatives of these Goverments,
or otherwise, to consider what measures should be taken to
give a more effective application to Chapter II of the
Convention and to bring about a reduction of the amount of
oping used, and whether, on the lines of the suggestions set
out below or on other lines, en agreement or understanding
could not now be reached for the adoption of a uniform policy
on the matter:
I.
That the form system, where it is still in operation,
should be abolished, and that the opium business should be made a Government monopoly and kept entirely in the hands of the Government,
II. As a corollary of paragraph 1, that the retail sele
of prepared opium should be made only from Government shops, and that all private shops should be abolished. Persons in charge of Government chops should be paid a fixed salary without any a oniesion on the amount of business done, and therefore would here no temptation to push the sales.
III.That a wiform maximum limit should be fixed. for the amount of propered opium placed on sale for con- sumption, calculated according to the number of the edult Chinoso malo population, e.c. x taels' per 10,000 adult Chinese males in the territory. cnd that the canuel imports of raw opium should be limited to the amount required for that rate of consumption.