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2444 PARCEL POST CONVENTION-MACAO. May 21.1927. luly 29, 1m. Live IIIIimals, except (C) Any live animal (except bees, which must be enclosed in boxes bees. so as to avoid all danger to postal officers and to allow the contents to be ascertained), Admission not au· (d) Any article of which the admission is not authorized by the thorlzed. Customs or other laws or regulations in force in either country. Explosives. (e) Any explosive or inflammable article, and, in general, any article of which the conveyance is dangerous. Erroneously trans- 2. When a parcel contravening any of these prohibitions is handed mitted. over by one Administration to the other, the latter shall· proceed in accordance with its laws and its inland regulations. List of prohibited 3. The two Postal Administrations shall furnish each other with a artICles to be fucIllShed Ii f hib' d . Ibhill hbdk Customs duties. To be collected on dellvery. Exehange of parcels. Sealed sacks. st0 pro Ite artIces; utt eyw nott ereyunertaeany responsibility whatever towards the police, the Customs Authorities, or the senders of parcels. V. Customs Duties. The parcels shall be subject in the country of destination to all customs duties and all customs regulations in force in that country for the protection or its customs revenue, and the custoIns duties properly chargeable thereon shall be collected on delivery, in accord- ance WIth the customs regulations of the country of destination. VI. Method of Exchange of Parcels. 1. The parcels shQll be exchanged, in sacks duly fastened and sealed, by the Offices appointed by afeement between the two Administrations, and shall be despatche to the country of destina- tion by the country of origin at its cost and by such means as it provides. Reglsu-red and in· 2. Remstered and insured parcels shall be enclosed in separate I!UIed parcels sepa· b' mtely. sacks from those in which ordinary parcels are contained and in Billing of parcels. separate sacks from each other, and the labels of sacks containing registered or insured parcels shall be marked with such distinctive symbols as may from time to time be agreed upon. VII. Billing of Parcels. Parcel bills. 1. The ordinary (unregistered and uninsured) parcels included in each despatch shall be advised on a parcel bill by the simple entry of their total number. Beparnte bills forench 2. Ordinary, registered, and insured parcels shall each be entered class. in separate parcel bills and the registered and insured parcels shall be listed individually. The entries shall show in respect to each registered and insured parcel the registration or insurance number, as the case may be, and the office (and state or country) of origin. Returned parcels. 3. The entry on the bill of any returned parcel must be followed by the word "Returned". pafc~'{;,~:m~.bY des· b'1l4. ~acthh despatchin l ' f ghoffidce of exchange sh~ll numhber the Pfarcehl Ism e upper e t- an corner, commencmg eae year a res series for each office of exchange of destination. The last number of the year shall be shown on the parcel bill of the first despatch of the following year. Articles in transit. 5. The exact method of advising parcels or the receptacles con- taining them sent by one AdministratIOn in transit through the other together with any details of procedure in connection with the advice of such parcels or receptacles for which provision is not made in this Convention shall be settled by mutual agreement through corre- spondence between the two Administrations.