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The International Opium Commission1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2017

Hamilton Wright
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The International Opium Commission proposed by the United States and accepted by Austria-Hungary, China, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Persia, Portugal, Russia, and Siam convened at Shanghai on the 1st of last February, completed its study of the opium problem throughout the world, and based on that study, issued nine unanimous declarations. The Commission adjourned on February 27th.

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Research Article
Information
American Journal of International Law , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , July 1909 , pp. 648 - 673
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1909

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Footnotes

1

The various treaties and statutes mentioned herein appear in the Supplement, pp. 253–276.

References

2 Vide infra, p. 667.

3 P. 269.

4 P. 255.

5 Chapter 18, 32 Stat. at L. 33 ; see Supplement, p. 256.

6 Vide infra, p. 669.

7 The picul being 133% lbs. avoirdupois.

8 China Correspondence, 1859, p. 396.

9 R. C. Report 1, p. 90.

10 China Correspondence, 1859, p. 394.

11 Vide Supplement, p. 269.

12 Vide Supplement, p. 262.

13 China Correspondence, 1859, p. 401.

14 Ibid. 4, p. 425.

15 Vide Supplement, p. 263.

16 Idem, p. 264.

17 Vide Supplement, p. 259.

18 Pp. 260-1.

19 So Lord Morley in the House of Commons, May 30, 1906.

20 Supra, pp. 656-7.

21 Supra, p. 668.

22 China, No. 1, 1908.

23 Idem.

(The second part of this article will appear in the October Journal.)