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VII. SCEAR AND EXPOSE OF BIR MALOCIM DELEVINGNE.

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The British draft agreement only deals with the limitation of the manufacture of cocaine and the produc- tion of the coca lecf, but, as already stated, British proposals include the application of measures analogous to those proposed in the draft agreement to

The following is a synopsis morphine, heroin and orium,

of this plan.

All countries would be invited to become parties to the agreement, whether manufacturing the drug or producing the raw material at the present time or not.

The scheme proposed the limitation of the manufacture of the drug to a definite average quantity yearly and of the production of the raw material to the amount required to manufacture that quantity of the

drug.

Those quantities would be based on the estimates furnished by the States themselves of their annual consumption for medical and scientific purposes, with e sufficient margin for contingencies, and would be fixed by the agreement, but would be capable of revision from year to year. In the case of States which supplied no figure as an estimate of their requirements,

League of Kations. amount would be assessed by the

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Zaog country at present manufacturing the drug would be assigned by the agreemont the quota of the total' average quantity of the drug to be manufactured annually, and would bind itself by agreement not to exosed its qucta, not to import for the purpose of such