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Rh The Post-Office Department of either of the contracting countries will not be responsible for the loss or damage of any parcel; but either country is at liberty to indemnify the sender of any parcel which may be lost or destroyed in its territory.

Each country shall retain to its own use the whole of the postages, registration and delivery fees, it collects on said parcels; consequently, this Convention will give rise to no separate accounts between the two countries.

The Postmaster-General of the United States of America, and His Majesty’s Minister of State for Communications, shall have authority to jointly make such further regulations of order and detail as may be found necessary to carry out the present Convention from time to time; and may, by agreement, prescribe conditions for the admission in parcels exchanged under this Convention of any of the articles prohibited by Article II.

This Convention shall take effect and operations thereunder shall begin on the first day of August, 1904, and shall continue in force until terminated by mutual agreement, but may be annulled at the desire of either Department, upon six months’ previous notice given to the other. Done in duplicate, and signed at Washington the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and four.

, Postmaster-General of the United States.

, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary

of his Majesty the Emperor of Japan.

The foregoing Parcels-Post Convention between the United States of America and the Empire of Japan has been negotiated and concluded with my advice and consent, and is hereby approved and ratified. In testimony whereof I have caused the Seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed.

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By the President: Secretary of State. , July 1, 1904.