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MULTILATERAL-NARCOTIC DRUGS. JULY 13, 1931. 1543 Multilateral convention and protocol oj signature concerning narcotic J'uly13, 1G31. drugs, concluded at Geneva, July 13, 1931; ratification advised by the Senate, March 31, 1932; ratified bv. the President, April 8, 1932; ratijication oj the United States deposited at Geneva, April 28, 1932; proclaimed, July 10, 1933. By THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION W C . fLimi·· hMf dR Narcotic drugs re- HEREAS a onventlOn or ting t e anu acture an egu- striction convention. lating the Distribution of Narcotic Drugs, dated Geneva, July 13, Preamble. 1931, and left open for signature until December 31, 1931, was signed by the respective Plenipotentiaries of the United States of America, (with reservations); Germany; Argentine Republic; Austria; Bel- gium; Bolivia; Brazil; Great Britain and Northern Ireland and all parts of the British Empire which are not separate members of the League of Nations; Canada; India; Chile; Costa Rica; Cuba; Denmark; Free City of Danzig; Dominican Republic; Egypt; Spain; Ethiopia; France (with a reservation); Greece; Guatemala; Rejaz, Nejd and Dependencies; Italy; Japan (with a reservation as recorded in the protocol of signature); Liberia; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Mexico; Monaco; Panama; Paraguay; The Netherlands; Persia; Poland; Portugal; Rumania; San Marino; Siam (with a reserva- tion) ; Sweden; Switzerland; Czechoslovakia; Uruguay and Venezuela, together with a Protocol of Signature, the original of which Con- vention and Protocol, being in the English and French languages, are word for word as follows: