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 BAHAMAS-PARCEL POST AGREEMENT Oct. 29 1936 Dec. 21. 1936 ARTICLE XXIX Matters not provided for in the present Agreement. 1. Unless they are provided for in the present Agreement, all questions concerning requests for recall or change of address of par- cels and the obtaining and disposition of return receipts and settle- ment of indemnity claims in connection with insured parcels shall be treated in accordance with the provisions of the Universal Postal Convention and its Regulations of Execution, in so far as they are applicable and are not contrary to the foregoing provisions. If the case is not provided for at all, the domestic legislation of the United States of America or the Bahamas, or the decisions made by one country or the other, are applicable in the respective country. 2. The details relative to the application of the present Agreement will be fixed by the two Administrations in Regulations of Execu- tion, the provisions of which may be modified or completed by com- mon consent by way of correspondence. A similar agreement through correspondence may be made with a view to the exchange of collect- on-delivery parcels. 3. The two Administrations notify each other mutually of their laws, ordinances and tariffs concerning the exchange of parcel post, as well as of all modifications in rates which may be subsequently made. ARTICLE XXX Durationof the Agreement. 1. This Agreement substitutes and abrogates the Parcel Post Con- vention signed at Washington, December 20, 1887, and at Nassau, January 9, 1888. 2. It shall become effective on ratification, but pending ratifica- tion, it may be put into force administratively on a date to be mutually settled between the Administrations of the two countries. 3. It shall remain in effect as long as it has not been terminated six months in advance by one or the other of the two Administrations. Done in duplicate and signed at Washington, the 21" ' day of December 1936, and at Nassau, the 29 th day of October 1936. J. HERBERT PEET, The ColonialPostmaster,The Bahamas. [SEAL] JAMES A FARLEY, The PostmasterGeneral of the United States of America. The foregoing Agreement between the United States of America and the Bahamas for the exchange of parcels by parcel post 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. [SEAL] FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT By the President: R. WALTON MooRE Acting Secretary of State. WASHINGTON, December £9, 1936. 1481 Matters not herein provided for. Universal Postal Convention, etc., pro- visions to govern. 49 Stat. 2741. Details to be fixed by common consent. Mutual notice of postal laws, etc. Former Convention abrogated. 25 Stat. 1407. Entry into force, etc. Duration. Signatures. Approval by the President. 125151°- 37-PT 11 - 36

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