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 1782 HAITIANIZATION AGREE:MENT. ARTICLE XII All payments of Government funds shall continue to be made by checks prepared by the Service of Payments. The existing ar- rangement, as agreed upon be- tween the two Governments on August 5, 1931, shall continue to govern this service except that all checks henceforth will be signed by the Secretary of State for Finance, or his delegate, re- serve being made in the case of those checks drawn against the funds deposited at the National Bank of the Republic of Haiti to tbe credit of the Fiscal Repre- sentative, which checks shall be signed only by the latter, or his delegate. ARTICLE XIII Each year, by January 31st at the latest, the Fiscal Representa- tive shall present a detailed esti- mate of receipts for the following fiscal year. Except by special agreement, the budget of the Republic shall not exceed the amount of probable ways and means which the Secretary of State for Finance and the Fiscal Representative shall have agreed upon. ARTICLE XIV The Haitian Government may authorize any appropriations whatsoever if unobligated funds are available, or derivable at an early date from the ordinary revenues, to cover such appro- priations after setting up such reserves as may appear to the Secretary of State for Finance and the Fiscal Representative to be necessary. ARTICLE XII Tous les paiements sur les fonds du Gouvernement continueront A ~tre effectulis par cheques prli- parlis par Ie Service des Paie- ments. L'arrangement existant, suivant l'Accord du 5 aollt 1931, entre les deux Gouvernements, continuera a rligir ce service, sauf que tous les cheques seront dorli- navant signlis par Ie Secretaire d'Etat des Finances ou son dli- lliguli, reserve faite des cheques tires sur les fonds deposlis a la Banque N ationale de Ia Repu- blique d'Haiti au credit du Reprli- sentant Fiscal, lesquels seront signes par ce dernier seulement, ou son delliguli. ARTICLE XIII Chaque annee au 31 janvier au plus tard, Ie Representant Fiscal presentera une estimation de- taillee des recettes pour l'annee budgetaire suivante. Le budget de la Republique, ~ moins d'une entente spliciale, ne devra pas depasser Ie montant des voies et moyens probable qui aura eM arrete par Ie Secretaire d'Etat des Finances et Ie Representant Fiscal. ARTICLE XIV Le Gouvernement haitien est libre d'autoriser tout credit quel qu'il soit, si des fonds non af- fecMs sont disponibles ou peuvent, a une date rapprochoo, ~tre tires des recettes ordinaires, pour servir de voies et moyens A ce credit, apres la constitution des reserves qui pourront paraitre necessaires au Secretaire d'Etat des Finances et au Representant Fiscal.