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 54 STAT.] BARBADOS-PARCEL POST-A 1, 1939 1853 sept. 13, 1939 6. The total number of sacks comprising each dispatch must also be shown on the parcel bills. 7. 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. 8. The exact method of advising parcels or the receptacles contain- ing 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 correspond- ence between the two Administrations. ARTICLE 20. Check by offices of exchange. Notification of irregularities. 1. Upon receipt of a dispatch, the exchange office of destination excha^byoftficaiof proceeds to verify it. The entries in the parcel bill must be verified of irregularities. exactly. Each error or omission must be brought immediately to the knowledge of the dispatching exchange office by means of a bulle- tin 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 investigation or for examination 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. In either case, the weight of the parcel will be verified before and after repacking, and indicated on the wrapper of the parcel itself. That indication will be followed by the note "Repacked at - " and the signature of the agents who have effected such repacking. ARTICLI 21. Accounting for credits. 1. At the end of each quarter, the creditor Administration makes oredting for up an account on the basis of the parcel bills. 2. These accounts shall be submitted to the examination of the corresponding Administration in the course of the month following the quarter to which they relate. 3. The recapitulation, transmission, examination, and acceptance of these accounts must not be delayed. The payment of the balances shall take place, at the latest, at the expiration of the following quarter.

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