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"unless regulations on the subject are already in existence."

"Article 12."

"Due regard being had to the difference in their condi- "tions, the contracting Powers shall use their best endeavours "to restrict to authorised persons the import of morphine, "cocaine, and their respective salts."

"Article 13."

"The contracting Powers shall use their best endeavours to "adopt, or cause to be adopted, measures to ensure that mor- "phine, cocaine, and their respective salts shall not be exported "from their countries, possessions, colonies and leased terri- "tories to the countries, possessions, colonies and leased ter- "ritories of the other contracting Powers, except when consign- "ed to persons furnished with the licences, or permits provid- "ed for by the laws or regulations of the importing country." "With this object each Government may communicate "from time to time to the Governments of the exporting "countries lists of the persons to whom licences or permits "for the import of morphine, cocaine, and their respective "salts have been granted."

"Article 14."

"The contracting Powers shall apply the laws and regula- "tions on the manufacture, the import, the sale or the export "of morphine, cocaine and their respective salts also to:

"a. medical opium;

"b. all preparations (prepared on medical prescriptions or "not, the so-called anti-opium-remedies included) containing "more than 0,2 pct. morphine or more than 0,1 pct. cocaine; "c. heroïne, its salts and its preparations containing "more than 0,1 pct. heroïne;

"d. every new derivative of morphine, cocaine or their re- "spective salts, or to every other alcaloid of opium, which on "the ground of generally admitted scientific experiments

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"could lead to similar abuses and could have the same "noxious consequences as result."

The regulations of this chapter are also fulfilled. The possession, as property or as stock, the transport, the manufacture or production, and the sale of raw or prepared opium, of morphine, preparations of opium, substances or liquids containing morphine, or mixed together with opium or morphine, of cocaine, z and 3 eucaine and all other materi- als, which could be considered as substitutes for morphine *), when they are destined for medical use, is permitted to:

pharmacists;

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b. physicians, qualified to have a dispensary;

c. veterinary surgeons, where no dispensary exists, or where there was no dispensary, when they established them- selves there.

These latter are however not qualified to possess, etc. so- called opium-pills, opiumpowders, anti-opium powders or other remedies, which are said to be useful for breaking the habit of using opium.

Import of medical opium, morphine, cocaine, etc., destined for medical use is permitted to qualified persons as pharmacists, physicians, veterinary surgeons, in quantities as may be required, but at the discretion of the proper medical authority.

Export of the above-mentioned substances for medical or scientific purposes is allowed, when it is evident from a de- position, that the import is approved of by the competent authority at destination.

The production or manufacture, the possession, etc. and the sale of cocaïne for permitted export-purposes, is also per- mitted to those, who have a licence for it from the Gover- nor-General.

*) What must be considered as a substitute of morphine, is decided by the Civil Medical Service. Separate regulations as meant sub d of Article 14 are thus superfluous.

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