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PALESTINE-PARCEL POST-Sept.
1944
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which accompany them, or the empty bags as the case may be, against
the particulars entered on the relative parcel bill and, if necessary,
shall report missing articles or other irregularities by means of a veri-
fication note.
2. Any discrepancies in the credits and accounting shall be notified
to the dispatching office of exchange by verification note. The accepted
verification notes shall be attached to the parcel bills to which they
relate. Corrections made on parcel bills not supported by vouchers
shall not be considered valid.
ARTICLE 21.
Accounting for credits.
1. Each Administration shall cause each of its offices of exchange
to prepare monthly for all the parcel mails dispatched to it during
the month by each of the offices of exchange of the other Administra-
tion a statement of the total amounts entered on the parcel bills,
whether to its credit or to its debit.
2. These statements shall be afterwards summarized by the same
Administrations in quarterly accounts which, accompanied by the
parcel bills relating thereto, shall be forwarded to the corresponding
Administration in the course of the quarter following that to which
it relates.
3. The recapitulation, transmission, examination, and acceptance of
these accounts must not be delayed. After acceptance, the accounts
shall be summarized in a quarterly general account prepared by the
Administration to which the balance is due and payment of the bal-
ance shall take place, at the latest, at the expiration of the following
quarter. After expiration of this term, the sums due from one Admin-
istration to the other shall bear interest at the rate of 5 per cent per
annum to be reckoned from the date of expiration of the said term.
The balance due must be paid by sight draft drawn on New York,
or by some other means mutually agreed upon by correspondence.
ARTICLE 22.
Entry into force and duration of the Detailed Regulations.
The present Detailed Regulations shall come into force on the
day on which the Parcel Post Agreement comes into force and shall
have the same duration as the Agreement. The Administrations con-
cerned shall, however, have the power by mutual consent to modify
the details from time to time.
Done in duplicate and signed at Washington, on the sixth day of
signatures.
September 1944, and at Jerusalem, on the tenth day of May 1943.
[EL]
K. P. ALDRICH
Acting PostmasterGeneral of the
United States of America.
G. H. WEBSrr
Postmaster General of Palestine.
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