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 1584 MULTILATERAlr-NARCOTIC DRUGS. JULy 13,1931. EN FOI DE QUOI les pIenipoten- tiaires susmentionnes ont signe la presente Convention. FAIT 8. Geneve, Ie treize juliet mil neuf cent trente et un, en un seul exemplaire, qui sera depose dans les archives du Secretariat de la Societe des Nations, et dont les copies certifiees conformes seront remises 8. tous les Membres de la Societe des Nations et aux Etats non membres mentionnes a l'article 27. ALLEMAGNE IN FAITH WHEREOF the above- mentioned Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Convention. DONE at Geneva the thirteenth day of July, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-one, in asingle copy, Which shall remain depos- ited in the archives of the Secre- tariat of the League of Nations, and certified true copies of which shall be delivered to all the Members of the League and to the non-member States referred to in Article 27. GERMANY Freiherr VON RHEINBABEN Dr. KAHLER u=n:'=oIbIU:~ :a;;TATS-UNIS D'AM:a;;RIQUE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA loa. John K. CALDWELL Harry J. ANSLIGER Walter Lewis TREADWAY. Sanborn YOUNG. (1) The Government of the United States of America reserves the right to impose, for purpose of internal control and control of import into and export from territory under its jurisdiction, of opium, coca leaves, all of their derivatives and similar substances produced by synthetic process, measures stricter than the provisions of the Convention. (2) The Government of the United States of America reserves the right to impose, for purposes of controlling transit through its territories of raw opium, coca leaves, all of their derivatives and similar substances produced by synthetic process, measures by which the production of an import permit issued by the country of destination may be made a condition precedent to the granting of permission for transit through its territory. (3) The Government of the United States of America finds it impracticable to undertake to send statistics of import and export to the Permanent Central Opium Board short of sixty days after the close of the three-months' period to which such statistics refer. (4) The Government of the United States of America finds it impracticable to undertake to state separately amounts of drugs purchased or imported for Government purposes. (5) Plenipotentiaries of the United States of America formally declare that the signing of the Convention for Limiting the Manufacture and Regulating the Distribution of Narcotic Drugs by them on the part of the United States of America on this date is not to be construed to mean that the Government of the United States of America recognises a regime or entity which signs or accedes to the Convention as the Government of a country when that regime or entity Is not recognised by the Government of the United States of America as the Government of that country. (6) The plenipotentiaries of the United States of America further declare that the participation of the United States of America in the Convention for limiting the manufacture of and regulating the distribution of narcotio drugs, signed on this date, does not involve any contractual obligation on the part of the United States of America to a country represented by a regime or entity which the Gov- ernment of the United States of America does not recognise as the Government