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 54 STAT.] UNIVERSAL POSTAL CONVENTION-MAY 23, 1939 d'identit6 et d'en approvisionner, sur leur demande, les Administra- tions. ARTICLE 189. Balance et liquidation des comptes. 1.- Le Bureau international est charge d'operer la balance et la liquidation des comptes de toute nature relatifs au service interna- tional des postes entre les Admi- nistrations qui declarent vouloir emprunter son intermediaire. Celles-ci se concertent, a cet effet, entre elles et avec ce Bureau. 2. -Sur la demande des Ad- ministrations int6ressees, les de- comptes tdlgraphiques peuvent aussi etre indiques au Bureau international pour entrer dans la compensation des soldes. 3.- Chaque Administration con- serve le droit d'etablir a son choix des decomptes speciaux pour di- verses branches du service et d'en op6rer a sa convenance le regle- ment avec ses correspondants, sans employer l'intermediaire du Bureau international, auquel elle se borne A indiquer pour quelles branches de service et pour quels pays elle r6clame ses offices. 4.- Les Administrations qui em- pruntent l'intermediaire du Bu- reau international pour la balance et la liquidation des decomptes peuvent cesser d'user de cet inter- mediaire trois mois apres en avoir donne avis. ARTICLE 190. Etablissement des comptes. 1.-Lorsque les comptes parti- culiers ont ete debattus et arr- tesd'un commun accord,lesAdmi- nistrations d6bitrices transmettent aux Administrations creancieres, pour chaque nature d'op6rations, une reconnaissance, etablie en francs et centimes, du montant de la balance des deux comptes particuliers, avec l'indication de i'objet de la creance et de la p- riode a laquelle elle se rapporte. manufactured, and with supply- ing them to the Administrations on request. ARTICLE 189 Balancing and settlement of accounts 1. The International Bureau is charged with effecting the balanc- ing and settlement of accounts of all kinds relating to the inter- national postal service between Administrations which express their desire to use its inter- mediary. The latter come to an agreement to that effect between themselves and with the Bureau. 2. At the request of the Ad- ministrations concerned, tele- graphic accounts may also be transmitted to the International Bureau, to be included in the striking of balances. 3. Each Administration re- serves the right to make up, at its option, special accounts for various branches of the service, and to settle them, at its con- venience, with its correspondents, without employing the interme- diary of the International Bureau, to which it merely gives notice of those branches of the service and the countries for which it requests its offices. 4. Administrations which em- ploy the intermediary of the In- ternational Bureau in balancing and settling accounts may cease to use that intermediary three months after having given notice thereof. ARTICLE 190 Preparationof accounts 1. When the detailed accounts have been checked and agreed upon, the debtor Administrations transmit to the creditor Adminis- trations, for each class of opera- tions, an acknowledgment, stated in francs and centimes, of the amount of the balance of the two detailed accounts, with indica- tion of the subject of the credit and the period to which it relates. Balancing and set- tlement of accounts. Telegraphic accounts. Special accounts. Use of intermediary. Detailed accounts. 2179

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