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2330 PARCEL POST AGREEMENT-LEEWARD ISLANDS. Mill 27. 1929. Jull 11, 1929. Transit paroels. 2. Transit 'parcels. Each Administration shall also prepare quarterly an account show- ing the sums due for parcels sent by the other Administration for onward transmission. Examination. 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. Prompt verfieation. 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. Payment of balances. 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 Administration. Matters not provirled tor. XXIV. Matttrs not proviiledjor in t"M agreement. sari?~tTarmstroBot (talk)o~nic:~: 1. All matters concerning the exchange of insured parcels the vention t.() govem. obtaining and disposition of return receipts therefor, and the adiust- ment of indemnity claims in connection therewith not covered by this Agreement shall be governed by the provisions of the Universal Postal Union Convention and the Detailed Regulations for its execu- tion, in so far as they are applicable and not inconsistent with the provisions of this agreement, and then if no other arran~ent has been made, the internal legislation, regulations, and rulings of tho United States of America and the Leeward Islands, according to the country involved, shall govern. m~l:!~'~or~!~ponbl 2. The Postmaster General of the United States of America and enoe. the Governor of the Leeward Islands shall have authority jointly to ~ake from !Jme to time by_corresfondence such ch~ges and modifica- tIOns and turther regulations 0 order and detail as may become necessary to facilitate the operation of the services contemplated by this .Agreement as well as to provide arrangements for the exchange of registered parcels and parcela subject to collect-on-deliver charges should both countries at any time desire such service. tI16:21, 18 January 2013 (UTC)~~ • 3. The. Administrb~i?ns shall ?Ommunicate to .each ot~er from etc. tlme to time the rroVlSlons of thell' laws or regulations applicable to the conveyance 0 parcels by Parcel Post. Pu bstltuted tor tor· mer agreement. VoL 71, p. 860. XXV. Duration oj agreemem. 1. This Agreement substitutes and abrogates that signed at Washington on April 3rd, 1889, and shall take effect and operations thereunder shall begin on a date to be mutually settled between the Administrations of the two countries. ~. It shall remain in force until one of the two contracting Admin- Istrations has given notice to the other, six months in advance, of its intention to terminate it. 8!~eTarmstroBot (talk)an:':~: Either Administration may temporarily suspend the insurance Ice. service, in whole or in part, when there are speCIal reasons for doing so, or restrict it to certain offices; but on the condition that previous and opportune notice of such a measure is given to the other Administration, such notice to be given by the most rapid mef'.nS if necel)8ary .