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tions, or shall make an official declaration thereof to the competent authorities.
(c) To demand of these persons to register on their books the quantities manufactured, the importations, the sales or any other transfer and exportations of morphine, cocaine, and their respective salts. This rule shall not apply necessarily to medical prescriptions and to sales made by duly authorized pharmacists.
ARTICLE 11. The contracting powers shall take measures to pro- hibit in their internal commerce all transfer of morphine, cocaine, and their respective salts to all nonauthorized persons, unless existing measures have already regulated the matter.
ARTICLE 12. The contracting powers, taking the differences in their conditions into account, shall use their best efforts to limit the importation of morphine, cocaine, and their respective salts to authorized persons.
ARTICLE 13. The contracting powers shall use their best efforts to adopt, or cause to be adopted, measures to the end that the exporta- tion of cocaine, morphine, and their respective salts from their coun- tries, possessions, colonies, and leased territories to the countries, possessions, colonies, and leased territories of the other contracing powers, except in case the persons for whom the drugs are intended shall have received authorizations or permits granted in conformity with the laws or regulations of the importing country.
To this end every government may from time to time communicate to the governments of the exporting countries lists of the persons to whom authorizations or permits to import morphine, cocaine, and their respective salts shall have been granted.
ARTICLE 14. The contracting powers shall apply the laws and regulations for the manufacture, importation, sale, or exportation of morphine, cocaine, and their respective salts:
(a) To medicinal opium;
(b) To all preparations (officinal and nonofficinal, including the so-called antiopium remedies) containing more than 0.2 per cent of morphine or more than 0.1 per cent of cocaine;
(c) To heroin, its salts and preparations containing more than 0.1 per cent of heroin;
(d) To every new derivative of morphine, cocaine or their respec- tive salts or to any other alkaloid of opium which might after gen- erally recognized scientific investigations give rise to similar abuse and to result in the same injurious effects.
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ARTICLE 15. The contracting powers having treaties with China (treaty powers) shall take, in concert with the Chinese Government, the measures necessary for the prevention of the smuggling, as well with respect to Chinese territory as with respect to their colonies in the Far East and the leased territories which they occupy in China, of raw and prepared opium, morphine, cocaine, and their respective salts, as well as of the substances indicated in article 14 of the present convention. On its side the Chinese Government shall take analogous measures for the suppression of the smuggling of opium and the other substances hercinbefore indicated, from China to foreign colonies and leased territories.
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ARTICLE 16. The Chinese Government shall promulgate pharmacy laws for its subjects, regulating the sale and distribution of morphine, cocaine, and their respective salts and of the substances indicated in article 14 of the present convention, and shall communicate these laws to the Governments having treaties with China, through the intermediary of their diplomatic representatives at Pekin. The contracting powers having treaties with China shall examine these laws, and, if they find them acceptable, shall take the necessary measures to the end that they be applied to their nationals residing in China.
ARTICLE 17. The contracting powers having treaties with China shall undertake to adopt the measures necessary for the restraint and control of the opium-smoking habit in their leased territories, "settlements," and concessions in China, for the suppression pari passu with the Chinese Government of the opium divans or similar establishments which may still exist there, and for the prohibition of the use of opium in houses of amusement and of prostitution.
ARTICLE 18. The contracting powers having treaties with China shall take effective measures for the gradual reduction, pari passu with the effective measures which the Chinese Government shall take to the same end, of the number of shops, intended for the sale of raw and prepared opium, which may still exist in their leased territories, settlements, and concessions in China. They shall adopt efficacious measures for the restraint and control of the retail trade in opium in the leased territories, settlements, and concessions, unless existing measures have already regulated the matter.
ARTICLE 19. The contracting powers who have post offices in China shall adopt efficacious measures to prohibit the illegal impor- tation into China, in the guise of a postal package, as well as the illegal transmission from one locality to another in China through the intermediary of these post offices, of opium, whether raw or prepared, of morphine and of cocaine and their respective salts, and of other substances indicated in article 14 of the present convention.
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ARTICLE 20. The contracting powers shall examine into the possi- bility of enacting laws or regulations making the illegal possession of raw opium, prepared opium, morphine, cocaine, and their respective salts liable to penalties, unless existing laws or regulations have already regulated the matter.
ARTICLE 21. The contracting powers shall communicate to each other, through the Netherlands ministry for foreign affairs:
(a) The text of the laws and the administrative regulations in existence which concern matters aimed at by the present convention or enacted by virtue of its clauses;
(b) Statistical information with respect to that which concerns the traffic in raw opium, prepared opium, morphine, cocaine, and their respective salts, as well as all other drugs or their salts or prepa- rations aimed at by the present convention.
These data shall be furnished with as much detail and in as short a time as shall be deemed possible.
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