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further exple of the difficulties encountered by very
state administration in the world in these matters.
From 1913 to 1923 the agreement signed in London
on June 14th, 1913, on the basis of the conclusions of the
Hague Convention (1912), was in force in Macao, which received
500 cases from India for its own consumption and trade.
This Agree ent was denounced on February 4th, 1923,
and as the colony could then no longer obtain opium from India,
it signed a three-year contract with a concessionaire, under
which the latter was allowed to import from any source*, 360
cases in the first year, 340 in the second and 100 in the third,
The stock-in-hand at the end of 1924 consisted of 258 cases, the
concessionnaire having taken over a stock of 125 cases when he
received the monopoly.
The opium imported was not uand for the manufacture of
morphine or med cinal opium or for other medical or scientific
purposes,
Apart from very small quantities hich were employed
for pharmaceutical purposes, it was used solely for the prepara-
tion of opium for moking.
Authorisation was given to re-export 463 cases of
Persian rar opium t Paraguay, which does not prohibit the opium
trade. Nevertheless the question of the prohibition of re-exporta
on the present concession comes to an end.
tion will be considered
At the end of December 1925, the concessionnaire had a
stock of 300 cases, No opium in transit was declared to the
Portuguese authorities.
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