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 UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION. June 28,1929. 2653 de chaque trimestre au plus tard. A defaut, il n 'est compris que dans la liquidation du mois ou du trimestre suiva.n .t. 3.-Le Bureau international, constate, en rapprochant les re- connaissances, SI les tableaux sont exacts. Toute rectification neces- sme est notifiee aux Offices interesses. Le Doit de chaque Office envers un autre est reporte dans un ta- bleau recapitulatifj afin d'etablir Ie total dont chaque Office est debiteur, il suffit d'additionner les diverses colonnes de ce tableau recapitulatif. ARTICLE 88. Balance generale. I. -Le Bureau international reu- nit les tableaux et les recapitu- lations en une balance generale indiquant: a) Ie total du Doit et de l'Avoir de chaque Office; b) Ie solde debiteur ou Ie solde crediteur de chaque Office j c) les sommes a payer par Us 0jJices delmeurs et la repartition ik ces sommes entre Us Ojfices cr&liteurs. n vellie, dans la mesure du possible, a ce que chaque Office n'ait a. effectuer, pour se liberer, <J.u'un ou deux payements dis- tincts. Toutefois, l'Office qui Be trouve habituellement a decouvert vis-a- vis d'un autre Office pourune som- Ine superieure a 50,000 francs a!e droit de reclamer des acomptes. Ces a.comptes sont inscrits, tant par l'Office crediteur que par I'Office debiteur, au bas des tableaux a adresser au Bureau international. 2.-Les leconnaissances trans- mises au Bureau international avec les tableaux sont classees par Office. Elles servent de base pour l'etablissement de la liquidation des comptes de chacun des Offices ihteresses. Dans cette liquida- tion doivent figurer: of each quarter at the latest. Otherwise it is carried over for settlement to the a.coount for the following month or quarter. 3. The International Bureau Determination by determines, by comparing the Bureau. acknowledgments, whether the tables are correct. Notice of any necessary correction is given to the Administrations concerned. The debit of each Administra- tion to another is carried over to a recapitulatory table; in order to determine the total amount owed by each Administration, it is suffi- cient to add up the various col- umns of this recapitulatory table. ARTICLE 88 General balance General balance. 1. The International Bureau Preparation by Bu- assembles the tables and the re- reau. capitulations into a general bal- ance sheet indicatin~: (a) The total debIt and credit of each Administration; (b) The debit or credit balance of each Administration; (c) The sums to be paid by the debtor Administrations, and the distribution of those sums among the creditor Administrations. It sees as far as possible, that each Administration does not have to make more than one or two separate payments in order to settle Its obligations. However, an Administration which habitually finds a sum exceeding 50,000 francs due to it by another Administration has the right to claim payments on account. These remittances are entered, by both the creditor and the debtor Administration, at the bottom of the tables which they address to theInternationa1 Bureau. 2. The acknowledgments trans- Classification of ao- mitted to the International Bu- knowledgments. reau with the tables are classified according to Administrations. They serve as the basis for the making up of the balance of the accounts of each of the Adminis- trations concerned. In that bal- ance shall figure: