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 308 Verification by ex- change office. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES The total amounts to be credited by one Administration to the other and the total number of sacks comprising each dispatch must also be shown on the parcel bills. 3. Insured parcels shall be entered individually on the parcel bills to show the insurance number and the name of the office of origin. In the case of insured parcels for the Netherlands, the parcel bills must also show the indication of the division of weight to which the parcel belongs. In the case of insured parcels for the United States of America, the parcel bills must also show the total net weight of the parcels. 4. Parcels sent "a decouvert" must be entered separately on the parcel bills. 5. Redireoted or returned parcels shall be entered individually. Redirected parcels shall be designated as such in the parcel bills by means of the note "Redirected"; returned parcels by the note "Re- turned". A statement of the charges which may be due on these par- cels should be shown in the "Observations" column. 6. Each dispatching exchange office numbers the parcel bills in the upper left-hand corner in accordance with an annual series. The last number of the preceding year must be mentioned on the first bill of the following year. 7. The exact method of advising parcels or the receptacles con- taining them sent by one Administration in transit through the other together with any details of procedure in connection with the advice of such parcels or receptacles for which provision is not made in this agreement, shall be settled by mutual agreement through correspondence between the two Administrations. ARTICLE 8. Verification by the ex-change office. 1. Upon receipt of a dispatch, the exchange office of destination proceeds to verify it. The entries in the parcel bill must be verified exactly. Each error or omission must be brought immediately to the knowledge of the dispatching exchange office by means of a bulletin of verification. A dispatch is considered as having been found in order in all regards when no bulletin of verification is made up. If an error or irregularity is found upon receipt of a dispatch, all objects which may serve later on for investigations, or for examina- tion of requests for indemnity, must be kept. 2. The dispatching exchange office to which a bulletin of verifica- tion is sent returns it after having examined it and entered thereon its observations, if any. That bulletin is then attached to the parcel bills of the parcels to which it relates. Corrections made on a parcel bill which are not justified by supporting papers are considered as devoid of value. 3. If necessary, the dispatching exchange office may also be advised by telegram, at the expense of the Office sending such telegram. 4. In case of shortage of a parcel bill, a duplicate is prepared, a copy of which is sent to the exchange office of origin of the dispatch. 5. The office of exchange which receives from a corresponding office a parcel which is damaged or insufficiently packed must redispatch such parcel after repacking, if necessary, preserving the original packing as far as possible. If the damage is such that the contents of the parcel may have been abstracted, the office must first officially open the parcel and verify its contents.

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