Executive Order No. 46 (1913)

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, EXECUTIVE BUREAU.

MANILA, June 26, 1918.

EXECUTIVE ORDER |

No. 46. |

Executive Order Numbered Ten, current series, as amended by Executive Order Numbered Thirty-four, current series, is hereby further amended to read as follows: :

“Albert M. Easthagen, city examiner, Bureau of Audits; George H. Tilbury, chief of inspection division, Bureau of Internal Revenue; and A. P. Brown, agent, Bureau of In-ternal Revenue, are hereby appointed a committee, to be known as the Opium Committee, the duty of which shall be to destroy by burning in the boiler furnace of the division of cold storage, Bureau of Supply, or in the city crematory all opium, cocaine, and other drugs, and all instruments and apparatus for the unlawful use of such drugs, seized and confiscated under the provisions of Act Numbered Seven-teen hundred and sixty-one, as amended; unless such drugs, and so forth, are found by said committee to have a legiti-mate commercial value.

“All such drugs, instruments, and apparatus now on hand in the Bureau of Customs and Internal Revenue shall be turned over to this committee on duly executed invoices whenever called for by the committee. All such drugs, in-struments, and apparatus hereafter forfeited to the Govern-ment of the Philippine Islands shall be turned over in the same manner to the Opium Committee as soon as they shall have served their purpose as evidence.

“Immediately upon receipt of any opium or other drugs the committee shall determine whether or not the same possess a legitimate commercial value; if not, then same shall forthwith be destroyed as above provided. If the com-mittee shall decide that said drugs have a legitimate com-mercial value, it shall deliver such drugs to the Purchasing Agent, who shall ship the same to the United States or some foreign country where their morphia content can be extracted: Provided, however, That when the drugs in question are in such form that they may be legally imported into the Phil-ippine Islands and a better price can be obtained by their sale in the Philippine Islands than by export as herein pro-vided, said committee is hereby authorized to sell said drugs to responsible persons duly authorized by law to deal in such commodities in the Philippine Islands.

“The Opium Committee will make certified reports in trip-licate of all drugs destroyed or otherwise disposed of by it, and one copy of each such report shall be delivered to the Insular Auditor, one to the Insular Collector of Customs, and one to the Collector of Internal Revenue.

“Mr. Easthagen will serve as chairman and Mr. Brown as recorder of this committee.”

W. CAMERON FORBES, Governor-General.