EXECUTIVE ORDER No. 10
Albert M. Easthagen, city examiner, Bureau of Audits; George H. Tilbury, chief of Inspection division, Bureau of Internal Revenue, and Walker U. Anderson, clerk, Bureau of Customs, 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 Bureaus of Supply, or in the city crematory all opium cocaine, and other drugs, seized and apparatus for the unlawful use of such drugs, seized and confiscated under the provisions of the laws of the Philippine Islands, unless such drugs, and so forth, are found by said committee to have a legitimate commercial value.
All such drugs, instruments, and apparatus now on hand in the Bureaus 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, instruments and apparatus hereafter forfeited to the Government 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 determined whether or not same possess a legitimate commercial value; if not then same shall forthwith be destroyed as above provided. If the committee shall decide that same has a legitimate commercial value it shall immediately deliver such drugs to the Purchasing Agent, who shall ship to the United States or some foreign country where their morphia content can be extracted.
The opium committee will make certified reports in triplicate of all drugs destroyed or otherwise disposed 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. Anderson as recorder of this committee.
W. CAMERON FORBES,
Governor-General
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