CO129-486 - Public Offices - 1924 — Page 268

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I can only very shortly point out at the end of this note, which is already too long (but hich was drafted in great haste and in peculiar circumstances, in an insufficient form) some of the complementary measures which are none the less essential and which will have to find their place in the

international agreement.

1.. The H.C.P. will have to bind themselves to publish, within a delay which will have to be specified, legislative and administrative measures on the basis which will have been agreed upon. They will have to bind themselves to communi cate these measures in their entirety to one another in a certain number of copies at the same time as they will be centralised by the League of Nations. The same rule will have to apply to any modification of these laws or enactments.

2.- The League of Nations will have the right to be informed by annual reports of the measures taken and of the results

obtained.

3.- Penal sanctions of a severo character, and as far as possible identical, or in any case analogous, will have to be provided for. Statistice of legal prosecutions will have

to be mutually communicated and sent to the League of Nations. The more important cases of contraband will have to be notified immediately, with all useful detaile, to the government or governments interested and to the League of Nationa.

The future convention will have to contain precise stipulations on the form of the statistics to be supplied and the period within which they must be forwarded.

It will be necessary, among other things, that the convention should specify that the interior customs statistios of each country will have to take a special form for the drugs in question without waiting for each country to proceed itself to a comilute revision of its system of statistics.

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