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day of all the arrivals in the ports of a limited quantity for

persone and destinutions.equally limited and perfectly known.

When the total of the importe shall have reached, soy 16,000 kg:

1.- The specially authorised importers (whose individuel

imports at the time of the warning the administration will

always know) will be warned that they my not import for the

current year more than the remainder which will be fixed for the

rest of the year, in proportion to what they have already imperted,

op in any other equitable manner,

2.- The bonded warehouses in the ports (or frontier towne)

where imports are authorised will also be warned by the central

Government of the quantities they may still receive, by a

proportionate quota of the kind which hus just boen explained.

3.- Any quantity arriving in a port for an authorised consignee,

in excess of what remains due to him of his total annual quote, will

be hole at his disposal for the following year and kept without his

being obligud to pay any dues in the bonded warehouse. This gratuity

is justified by the fact that the order has been given by the

interested party before he know his quota for the current year had

been reached.

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This only applies to manufacturers transforming raw stuffs.

Pharmaceutical chemists whose profession is regulated, or should

be in all countries, will have to sustain the stoppage of the

importa of raw opium to be used in ordinary medicines. But the port bonded warehouses, which will always have an excess of raw stuffs,

will be authorised to provide tome in the interior where the pher-

maceutical chemists have an insufficient quantity of raw oplum, if this raw opium is really required by them. Nothing can prevent a Stute administration from ensuring this necessary margin. ("volant"). Let it be said in passing that it may even be questioned whether a State

monopoly of the introduction of the raw stuffs would not bo