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Suggestions adopted at a meeting helst3the Coreign

Office on November 27th. 1911, as to the attitude to be

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adopted by the British Delegates to the Opium Conference in

regard to the regulation of the manufacture of, and trade

in, morphia and cocaine.

At this meeting were present:-

Sir Cecil Clementi-Smith,

Sir William Meyer,

Mr. W. Max Muller.

Mr. Stanley,

Mr. Fountain

Delegates.

Board of Trade.

Mr. Cunningham

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Customs.

1. That all manufacturers of, and dealers in morphia

and cocaine should be required to take out a license.

Persons manufacturing or dealing in the above articles with-

out license shall be liable to penalty.

2. All such manufacturers and dealers will be re-

quired to keep a record of all transactions in such drugs,

including the names and addresses of all persons from whom

they obtain or to whom they sell them and the quantity in-

volved in each transaction.

3. It is advisable to prohibit the sale of these drugs

except to persons authorised to purchase the same by license

or