62 STAT.] MULTILATERAI-UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION-JULY 5, 1947 ARTICLE 155. Preparationof statements for closed mails. 1. As soon as possible after the close of statistical operations, the offices of destination prepare, in as many copies as there are Adminis- trations concerned, including that of the country of origin, statements conforming to Form C 17 hereto appended, and transmit such state- ments to the exchange offices of the dispatching Administration to be indorsed with their acceptance. Such offices, after having accepted the statements, transmit them to their central Administration, which distributes them among the Administrations concerned. 2. If the Forms C 17 have not reached the exchange offices of the Administration of origin, or if they have not arrived there in sufficient numbers, within a period of three months (four months in exchanges with distant countries), counting from the date of dispatch of the last mail to be included in the statistics, the offices themselves make up the said forms in sufficient numbers in accordance with their own records, and enter on each one of them the note: Les releves C 17 du bureau destinataire ne sont pas parvenus dans le delai reglementaire (The Forms C 17 from the office of destination did not arrive within the prescribed period). They then transmit them to their central Administration, which distributes them among the Administrations concerned. ARTICLE 156. List of closed mails exchanged in transit. 1. As soon as possible, and at the latest within a period of three months after each statistical period, except in cases where the route could not be determined within that period, the Administrations which have sent dispatches in transit send a list of such dispatches on a form conforming to Form C 18 hereto appended to the various Administrations whose intermediary they have employed. 2. If the list indicates dispatches in transit which, in accordance with the provisions of Article 153, do not give rise to the preparation of a Form C 17, it shall bear an explanatory note, such as: Sacs vides (empty sacks), Correspondances exemptes (correspondence exempt from transit charges). ARTICLE 157. Closed mails exchanged with warships. 1. It is incumbent upon the Administrations of countries to which warships belong to make up the Forms C 17 relative to the mails dispatched or received by such vessels. Mails dispatched during the statistical period and destined for warships shall bear, on labels, the date of dispatch. 2. In case that such dispatches are forwarded, the forwarding Administration so advises the Administration of the country to which the vessel belongs. 3383 Ante, p. 3269 . Procedure if forms not received, etc. Ante, p. 3269. Exchange of lists. Ante, p. 3270. Explanatory notes. Ante, p. 3269.
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