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His Excellency Baron Albéric Fallon, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Brussels and at The Hague, delegate.

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His Excellency Mr. Federico Gamboa, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Brussels and at The Hague, delegate.

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Mr. J. T. Cremer, former Minister for the Colonies, former president of the Netherlands Society of Commerce, Member of the First Chamber of the States-General, first delegate;

Dr. C. Th. van Deventer, Member of the First Chamber of the States-General, delegate;

Mr. A. A. de Jongh, former inspector-general, head of the opium monopoly in the Dutch Indies, delegate;

Dr. J. G. Scheurer, Member of the Second Chamber of the States-General, delegate.

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His Excellency Mr. Antonio Maria Bartholomeu Ferreira, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at The Hague, delegate.

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His Excellency Mr. A. Swétchine, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at The Hague, delegate;

Professor Stanislas Przibytek, member of the Academy of Medicine at St. Petersburg, delegate.

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His Excellency Mr. Phya Sudham Maitri, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at London, Brussels and The Hague, delegate;

Mr. William J. Archer, Counsellor of Legation at London and The Hague, delegate.

In a series of meetings held July 1–9, 1913, the Conference after examination of the question put before it by paragraph 2 of Article 23 of the International Opium Convention of January 23, 1912,

I. Decided that ratifications may be deposited from this moment.

II. Unanimously adopted the following resolution:

Desirous of following up in the path opened by the international commission of Shanghai of 1909 and the first conference of 1912 at The Hague, the progressive suppression of the abuse of opium, morphine, cocaine, as well as of drugs prepared with or derived from those substances, and deeming it more than ever necessary and mutually advantageous to have an international agreement on that point, the Second International Conference—