Check Cameroon's 1955 pharmacy-code order

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+# Cameroon follow-up: the 1955 pharmacy-code order
+
+26 October 2026. Follow-up to [the Cameroon pass](history-cameroon-gap-2026-10-21.md). That pass
+left the 1955 Order 2772 entry `checked: false` because the local scan had not been recovered; it
+had read the indexed one-page text and the French law that the order promulgated. The UN PDF is now
+downloadable, so this note records the scan read and closes the unchecked status. No score changed.
+
+## The document
+
+**United Nations, E/NL.1956/147, 5 October 1957.** The one-page PDF is a scan of the French
+transmission to the Secretary-General under Article 21 of the 1931 convention. It reproduces:
+
+> ARRETE No 2772 DU 19 AVRIL 1955
+>
+> PROMULGUANT L'ARTICLE 6 DE LA LOI 53-1270 DU 24 DECEMBRE 1953 MODIFIANT ET COMPLETANT LES
+> DISPOSITIONS LEGISLATIVES RELATIVES A LA REPRESSION DU TRAFIC ET DE L'USAGE ILLICITE DES
+> STUPEFIANTS.
+
+The order recites the decrees of 23 March 1921, 21 February 1925, 13 February 1937 and 16 April
+1924, then the poisonous-substances decree of **9 October 1926** (promulgated by an order of **27
+November 1926**) and the decree of **9 November 1937** (promulgated by an order of **10 July 1938**).
+Article 1 promulgates Article 6 of Law 53-1270 of 24 December 1953 in Cameroon. Article 2 provides
+for registration, publication and communication. The order is signed at **Yaoundé on 19 April
+1955** by the Secretary General, Spenale, for the High Commissioner. The UN's 5 October 1957 date is
+the circulation date, not the date of the order.
+
+## What it confirms and what it does not
+
+The scan confirms the entry's date, the instrument number, the promulgated article and the two
+earlier decrees that the indexed text described. It does not print the French law's penalty and
+treatment provisions; those remain supported by the OFDT gazette already cited in the entry
+(Articles 3–4 and 6, Journal officiel of 25 December 1953, pp. 11535–11536). The order is a
+pharmacy-code extension, not a general cannabis ban, so it does not date Cameroon's first
+restriction. The 1900–1920 estimate remains.
+
+The entry is now **checked: true**. Its category stays `other` and it remains unscored: the order
+extends an existing narcotics chapter, and the comparison with the locally applicable predecessor
+rules is still incomplete. The source locator now records the scan details and distinguishes the
+1955 order date from the 1957 UN circulation date.
+
+## Verification
+
+- `node scripts/data-status.cjs`: 3,159 entries, 3,090 checked, 9 unchecked, 62 estimated first bans.
+- `node scripts/data-status.cjs chain cm`: 1900 100 → 9 estimate; 0 flags.
+- `npm run history:test`: 38 of 38 passed.
+- `npm run answers:test`: 16 of 16 passed.
+- `npm run build`: passed, 4,153 pages.
+- Built page inspected: `/history/french-cameroon-pharmacy-drug-rules-1955/` shows the checked
+  status and both references.
+
+## Remaining gaps
+
+- The original 1926 decree scan and its local publication remain unrecovered; the 1927 report
+  reproduction is still the source for the 1926 rules.
+- The 1955 local gazette was not read; the UN reproduction is the read text. The French law's
+  Articles 3–4 and 6 were read from the OFDT gazette in the earlier pass.
+- The 1976 poisonous-substances decree (76/214 of 4 June) is still identified only through legal
+  inventories. The rules applied to British Cameroon and after reunification remain unread.
+- The 2017 preliminary bill's fate is still unconfirmed. The 1900–1920 first-restriction estimate
+  remains unverified; no earlier cannabis-specific instrument was found in this follow-up.

@@ -37,5 +37,5 @@ colonial rule, sentencing, trade, retail and police powers. The article concerns
 Cameroon; it does not claim the same decree applied to British-administered Cameroon.
 
-## 1955: extension recovered as indexed text, scan pending
+## 1955: extension recovered as indexed text, then as the scan
 
 [E/NL.1956/147](https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/1296336/files/e-nl-1956-147-f.pdf)
@@ -45,5 +45,8 @@ poisonous-substances chapter, including narcotics. It cites local promulgation o
 1926 decree on 27 November 1926 and the 1937 decree on 10 July 1938. Those are distinct
 from the original metropolitan signature dates. The local PDF downloads failed or
-returned HTML, so the new 1955 event is explicitly `checked: false` pending scan recovery.
+returned HTML in the first pass; the UN scan was later downloaded and read, and the entry is
+now `checked: true`. The scan details and the distinction between the 1955 order date and the
+1957 UN circulation date are recorded in the [follow-up
+note](history-cameroon-followup-2026-10-26.md).
 
 The [actual French law](https://bdoc.ofdt.fr/doc_num.php?explnum_id=4) was downloaded
@@ -117,9 +120,11 @@ The 1992 committee and 2025 seizure also receive relevant tags.
 ## Remaining gaps
 
-Recover the original 1926 scan and its local publication; the 1955 local scan; the full
-1976 poisonous-substances decree (76/214 of 4 June, currently only identified in legal
-inventories); and the rules applied to British Cameroon and after reunification. No
-event was fabricated from the 1976 decree's title alone. Establish the fate of the 2017
-preliminary bill from a later enacted text before describing its proposals as law.
+Recover the original 1926 scan and its local publication; the 1955 local gazette (the UN
+reproduction is now read); the full 1976 poisonous-substances decree (76/214 of 4 June,
+currently only identified in legal inventories); and the rules applied to British Cameroon
+and after reunification. No event was fabricated from the 1976 decree's title alone.
+Establish the fate of the 2017 preliminary bill from a later enacted text before describing
+its proposals as law. The 1955 order's checked status is closed in the
+[follow-up note](history-cameroon-followup-2026-10-26.md).
 
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