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INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [61 STAT. Spain, which may be utilized gratuitously for the transportation of AnC,p. so their correspondence, under the conditions laid down by Article 3. j) Publishing the tariff of postage rates of the domestic service of each of the countries concerned. k) Preparing a table of equivalents of the money of the coun- tries concerned in gold francs and dollars. 1) Publishing and distributing among the countries of the Postal Union of the Americas and Spain, annually, a report of the work which it performs. m) Carrying out studies and works requested of it in the inter- est of the contracting countries, relative to work of social, economic and artistic cooperation for which purpose the International Office will always be at the disposal of the said countries, to furnish them any special information which they require on matters relative to the Americo-Spanish postal service. n) Taking part and collaborating in the organization and con- vening of Congresses and Conferences of the Postal Union of the Americas and Spain. o) Distributing among the Administrations of the Postal Union of the Americas and Spain the postal laws and regulations of each; said Administrations accordingly being obligated to furnish the Office mentioned twenty-five copies of the laws and regulations in question. p) Organizing a special section charged with collecting the stamps sent to the Administrations in compliance with Article 113, Pot,p. 352. Section 1, paragraph (k), of the Regulations of Execution, and centralizing philatelic information about the countries of the Postal Union of the Americas and Spain. q) Intervening as the compensating Administration in the liquidation of postal accounts, at the request of the Administrations concerned. r) Preparing international insignia of the Postal Union of the Americas and Spain consisting of an emblem for the personal use of the functionaries of the Administrations belonging to the Union. s) Printing and furnishing the reply coupons provided for by Al ap.3 w paragraph 7 of Article 7. 3. The International Office of the Postal Union of the Americas and Spain will also publish an official compilation of all the data relative to the execution of the Convention and its Regulations in each country which is of special interest to Americo-Spanish postal services, in accordance with the information submitted to it by the Administrations. The same Office will also publish similar compilations concerning ., PP. 324 . the execution of the Agreements relative to Parcel Post and Money Orders. special expens. 4. The special expenses arising from the preparation of the Annual Report and the Table or Information concerning Postal Communica- tions of the contracting countries, and those arising on account of 3514