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The President will appoint as Comissioners not

more than three persons, familiar with the subject,

and Congress will be asked to appropriate a sum of

money not to exceed $20,000 for the expenses of the

Commission.

It is the idea of my Government that each Com-

mission should proceed independently and immediately

with the investigation of the Opium question on be-

half of their respective countries with a view:

(1) to devise means to limit the use of Opium

in the Possessions of that country,

(2) to ascertain the best means of suppressing

the opium traffic, if such now exists, among their

own nationals in the Far East,

(3) to be in a position, when the various Com-

missions meet in Shanghai, to co-operate and offer

jointly or severally definite suggestions of measures

which their respective Governments may adopt for the

Eradual suppression of Opium cultivation, traffic,

and use within their Eastern Possessions, and thus

to assist China in her purpose of eradicating the

evil from that Empire.

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