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PARCEL POST CONVENTION-MACAO. i'!~: ::: ~:: ministration may claim also the sum due to it for any additional territorial or sea service provided, together with any amounts due to an,!' other AdministratIOn or Administrations concerned. 3. For every parcel weighing up to one kilogram (two pounds), whether ordinary, registered, or insured, despatched by one Admin- istration to the other, a payment of 55 centimes gold shall be madA by the despatching Admmistration to the receiving Administration; for every parcel weighing over one kilogram and not over five kilo- grams (eleven pounds), 75 centimes gold; and for every parcel weighing over five kilograms and up to ten kilograms (twenty-two pOlmds), 1.15 francs gold. XXIV. Accounting. 1. Terminal parcels. At the end of each quarter the creditor country shall prepare an account of the amount due to it in respect of the parcels received in excess of those despatched. 2. Transit parcels. Each Adniinistration shall also prepare quarterly an account showing the sums due for parcels sent by the other Administration for onward transmission. ' 3. These accounts shall be submitted to the examination of the corresponding Administration in the course of the month which follows the quarter to which they relate. 4. The compilation, transmissIOn, verification and acceptance of the accounts must be effected as early as possible and the payment resulting from the balance must be made at the latest before the end of the following quarter. 5. Payment of the balances due on these accounts between the two Administrations shall be effected by means of drafts on New York or in any other manner which may be agreed upon mutually by correspondence between the two Administrations, the expense attendant on the payment being at the charge of the indebted Admin- istration. XXV. Matters not Provided for in the Convention. 2451 Rates. Accounting. Terminal paroeIa. TraDlIlt parceia. Time for su!Jmlttlng. Verlllc&tion, etc. Payment of balanOiol. Matten not provided for. 1. All matters concerning the exchange, and requests for recall or u~g~ve;rTarmstroBot (talk)stt: return of registered or insured parcels, the obtaming and disposi- IOVern. tion of return receipts therefor, and the adjustment of indemnity claims in connection therewith, not covered by this Convention shall be governed by the p'rovisions of the Universal Postal Union Convention and the Detailed ResuIations for its Execution, in 80 far a.& they are applicable and not mconsistent with the provisions of this Convention, and then if no other arrangement has been made, Internal legls)ation, the internal legislation, regulations, and rulings of the Uni~ Stll.tes etc. , to govern. of America and Macao, according to the country involved, shall govern. Changes etc hy 2. The Postmaster General of the United States of America and mutual '(l()~Pond. the Postmaster General of Macao shall have authority jointly to ence. make from time to time by correspondence such changes and modifi- cations and further regulations of order and detail as may become necessary to facilitate the operations of the services contemplated by this Convention as well as to provide arrangements for the exchange of parcels subject to collect-on-delivery charges, should both countries at any time desire such service. Mutual communlca- 3. The Administrations shall comunicate to each other from time tionofparcelpostlawl, to time the provisions of their laws or regulations applicable to the etc. conveyance of parcels by Parcel Post.