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His Majesty the King of Siam:
His Excellency Phya Akharaj Varadhara, His Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at London, The Hague and Brussel; Mr. Wm. J. Archer, C. M. G., His Counsellor of Legation.
Who after having deposited their full powers which have been found to be in good and due form are agreed to that which follows:
CHAPTER I.
Raw opium.
Definition. By raw opium shall be understood:
The spontaneously coagulated sap obtained from capsules of the soporific poppy (Papaver somniferum), and which shall not have been subjected to any but the processes necessary to the packing and the transportation thereof.
Article 1.
The Contracting Powers shall enact efficacious laws or regulations for the control of the production and distribution of raw opium, un. lese existing laws or regulations have already regulated the matter.
Article 2.
The Contracting Powers, taking into account the differences in their trade conditions, shall limit the number of towns, ports or other places through which the importation or exportation of raw opium shall be permitted.
Article 3.
The Contracting Powers shall take measures:
4. to prevent the exportation of raw opium to countries which shall have prohibited the entry thereof, and
b. to control the exportation of raw opium to countries which shall bave limited the importation thereof,
Unless existing measures have already regulated the matter.
Article 4.
The Contracting Powers shall issue regulations to provide that every package containing raw opium destined for exportation shall be marked in such a manner as to indicate its contents, providing the consignment shall exceed 5 kilograms.
Article 5.
The Contracting Powers shall not permit the importation and ex- portation of raw opium except through duly authorized persons.
CHAPTER II.
Prepared opium.
Definition. By prepared opium shall be understood:
The product of raw opium obtained by a series of special processes, particularly by dissolution, boiling, heating and fermentation, and
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which is meant to be made into the form of an extract suitable for consumption.
Prepared opium comprises dross and all other residues of smoked opium.
Article 6.
The Contracting Powers shall take measures for the gradual and efficacious suppression of the manufacture, the internal traffic in and the use of prepared opium in so far as the different conditions peculiar to each nation shall allow of this, unless existing measures have Aready regulated the matter.
Article 7.
The Contracting Powers shall prohibit the importation and expor- tation of prepared opium; however, those nations which are not yet ready to prohibit the exportation of prepared opium at once, shall prohibit such exportation as soon as possible.
Article 8.
The Contracting Powers which are not yet prepared to prohibit at once the exportation of prepared opium:
a. shall limit the number of towns, ports or other places through which it shall be possible for prepared opium to be exported;
b. shall prohibit the exportation of prepared opium to the countries which now prohibit, or which shall later prohibit the importation thereof;
c. shall prohibit, in the meanwhile, that any prepared opium be sent to a country which desires to limit the entry thereof, unless the exporter shall conform to the regulations of the importing country; d. shall take measures to the effect that each package exported containing prepared opium shall bear a special mark indicating the nature of its contents;
e. shall not permit the exportation of prepared opium except through the agency of persons especially authorized.
CHAPTER III.
Medicinal opium, morphine, cocaine, etc.
Definitions. By medicinal opium shall be understood:
raw opium which shall have been heated to 60 degrees centigrade whether or not powdered or granulated, or whether or not mixed with neutral substances, and which shall not contain less than 10% of morphine.
By morphine shall be understood:
the principal alkaloid of opium, expressed by the chemical formula
By cocaine shall be understood:
the principal alkaloid of the leaves of Erythroxylon Coca, expressed by the formula C„{„ÑO......
By heroin shall be widerstood:
morphine-diacetylate, expressed by the formula C„H„NO,.
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