CO129-394 - Governor Sir May & Public Offices - 1912 [12] — Page 425

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would also point out that in Article I of the Brussels

Agreement of November 29th, 1906, respecting the

unification of the pharmacopoeical formulae for potent

drugs, opil pulvis appears in the list of medicinal

substances.

Further as a question of practical convenience,

it was found that it would be difficult to apply

literally the specific provisions contemplated in the

case of raw opium, which is largely exported in bulk

from the producing countries, to relatively small con-

sigrments of granulated and powdered opium which had

been worked up in intermediate countries.

As indicated in our telegram of the 8th instant

opium which is simply powdered and granulated would as

the definition now stands remain raw opium.

To go

further than this, to demand for the convenience of

British trade that all powdered and granulated opium

however treated should be considered as raw oplum,

would, in our opinion, be entirely at variance with

the endeavours we are making, under instructions from

His

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