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 120 SIXTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cns. 155, 156. 1924. the general supervision over the execution of agreements with regard to * * * the trafiic in opiums and other dangerous drugs * * * ;” and Whereas the United States, for the reasons that it is only b international cooperation that the suppression of the world-widb traiiic in habit-forming narcotic drugs can be accomplished, and that this Government is bound by The Hague Opium Convention equally with other governments to work toward this end, accepted an invitation from said agency to cooperate with it in the execution of said treaty; and Whereas as the result of conferences in January, May, and September of 1923, between the representatives of the United States and governments represented by the League of Nations, the latter governments a eed that the United States construction of The Vol 42.p·1433- Hague Opium gmvention, as provided in Public Resolution Numbered 96, Sixty-seventh Congress, approved March 2, 1923, re - resented the objects which the treat was intended to accomplish, and that any other construction would render the treaty ineffective and of no ractical value, and accordingly it was decided: " 1. If the purpose of The Hague Opium Convention is to be achieved according to its spirit and true intent; it must be recognized that the uw of opium products for other than medical and scientific purposes is an abuse and not legitimate. “ 2. In order to prevent the abuse of these products it is necessary to exercise the control of the production of raw opium in such a manner that there will be no surplus available for nonmedical and nonscientiiic purposes "; and Whereas it was further decided at said conferences that two international conferences should be called in the latter part of the year 1924 to agree upon a plan to enforce said treaty in accordance with said construction and interpretation bearing in mind that the gradual suppression of the traiiic in and use of prepared opium as provided in Chapter II of the convention is not yet accomplished, reservations to_ that effect having been noted by certain Eowers (Great Britain, France, Germany, Netherlands, Japan, ritish India, and Siam, in regard to prepared opium) : Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and H ouee of Regresentatives of the United thegggggfigmggg State; of America in Congress assemble, That the appropriation cogtgteneegéz of such sum as may be_necessary, not to exceed $40,000, for the ’°‘ ‘ articipation of the United States in one or both of these con- Ferences, or any postponement thereof, to be expended under the ggvggion direction of the Secretary of State, is hereby authorized: Provided, ` That the representatives of the United States shall si no agreement which does not fulfill the conditions necessary lblr the suppression of the habit-forming narcotic drug traiiic as set forth in the preamble. Approved, May 15, 1924. %I¤YIg7%z2z**j QHAP, 156,—An Act To extend for the_period of one year the provisions of Title II of the Food (`ontrol and the Distnct of Columbia Rents Act, approved ' October 22, 1919, as amended. _ _ _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Re esentattves of the R,l?,§?{{f,§f"C°*“m“‘“ United States of America in Congress assembZer£TTliat it is hereby ,0f§gg§;=§; d°°**“’°d declared that the emergency described in Title II of the Food Conve1.4i,p.2as. trol and the District Rents Act still exists and continues in the District of Columbia, and that the present housing and rental con-