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 2800 PARCEL POST CONVENTION-DUTCH GUIANA. . July 9, 1930. August 18. 1930. Prohibitions, IV. Prohibitions. Articles specified. 1. The following articles are prohibited transmission by parcel post: Letters, etc. (a) A letter or a communication having the nature of a letter. With ditIerent ad· dre<;s. Live animal. Admission not au· thorized. Explosives, etc. Nevertheless it is permitted to enclose in a parcel an open invoice, confined to the particulars which constitute an invoice, and also a simple copy of the address of the parcel, that of the sender being added. (b) An enclosure which bears an address different from that placed on the cover of the parcel. (c) Any live animal. (d) Any article of which the admissiun is not authorized by the customs or other laws or regulations in force in either country. (e) Any explosive or inflammable article, and, in general, any article of which the conveyance is dangerous. mTarmstroBot (talk)d~eoUSIY trans· 2. When a parcel contravening any of these pl'ohibitions is handed over by one Administration to the other, the latter shall proceed in accordance with its laws and its inland regulations. Iist of prohibited3Tht PtIAd..tt· hIIf.hhth ·th articles to be furnished • ewoOSa mlmsraIOnssa urms eac 0 erWI a. list of prohibited articles; bllt they will not th~reby undertake any responsibility whatever towards the police, the customs authorities, or the senders of parcels. Customs duties. Collection of, on de- livery. Exchange of parools. V. Customs Duties. The parcels shall be subject in the country of destination to all customs duties and all customs regulations in force in that country for the protection of its customs revenues, an i the customs duties properly chargeable thereon shall be collected on delivery, in ac- cordance with the customs regulations of the country of destination. VI. Method of Exchange of Parcels. Sealed sacu. 1. The parcels shall be exchanged, in sacks duly fastened and sealed, by the Offices appointed by agreement between the two Administra- tions, and shall be despatched to the country of destination by the country of origin at its cost and by such means as it provides. =«flior. 2. Insured parcels shall be enclosed in separate sar,ks from those in which ordinary parcels are contained, and the labels of sacks con- Distlnctlvemarking. taining insured parcels shall be marked with such distinctive sym- bols as may from time to time be agrl;led upon. Billing of p8l'cels. VII. Billing of Parcels. Uninsured parcels. 1. The ordinary (uninsured) parcels included in each despatch shall be advised on a parcel bill by the simple entry of their totaillumber. Separatebillsforeach 2. Ordinary and insured parcels shall each be entered on separate class. parcel bills and the insured parcels shall be listed individually. The entries shall show in respect to each insured parcel the insur- ance number, and the office (and state or country) of origin. Returned parcels. 3. The entry on the bill of any returned parcel must be followed by the word" Returned." NTarmstroBot (talk)g, by des· 4. Each despatching office of exchange shall number the parcel biBs patc mg 0 ceo in the upper left-hand corner, commencing each year a fresh series for each office of exchange of destination. The last Humber of the year shall be shown on the parcel bill of the first despatch of the following year. Artkles In transit. 5. The exact method of advising parcels or the receptacles containing them sent by one Administration in transit through the other to-