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 3396 Classification of ac knowledgments. INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS OTHER THAN TREATIES [62 STAT. 4. Such remittances are entered, by both the creditor and the debtor Administrations, at the bottom of the tables which they ad- dress to the International Bureau. 5. The acknowledgments transmitted to the International Bureau with the tables are classified according to Administrations. They serve as the basis for settlement of the accounts of each of the Adminis- trations concerned. In the balance sheet shall appear: (a) The sums relative to the special accounts concerning the various exchanges; (b) The total of the sums resulting from all the special accounts relating to each of the Administrations concerned; (c) The totals of the sums due to all the creditor Administrations for each branch of the service, as well as their grand total. The latter must be equal to the debit appearing in the recapitulation. 6. At the bottom of the balance sheet, the balance is struck between the debit and the credit resulting from the tables addressed by the Administrations to the International Bureau. The net amount of the debit or credit must be equal to the debit or credit balance carried into the general balance sheet. Moreover, the sheet indicates the Administrations in favor of which the payment is to be effected by the debtor Administration. 7. The balance sheets shall be sent to the Administrations con- cerned by the International Bureau by the 22d of each month at the latest. ARTICLE 180. Payment. 1. Payment of the sums due, by virtue of a settlement, by one Administration to another Administration, shall be made as soon as possible, and at the latest fifteen days after receipt of the balance sheet by the debtor Administration. The provisions of Article 163, An, p. 338. Section 1, are applicable in regard to the other conditions of payment. The provisions of Section 6 of the said Article govern in case of non- payment of the balance within the period fixed. small balance. 2. Debit or credit balances not exceeding 500 francs may be carried over to the settlement for the following month; provided the Adminis- trations concerned are in monthly communication with the Inter- national Bureau. Mention is made of such carrying over in the recapitulations and in the settlement accounts for the creditor and debtor Administrations. The debtor Administration, should occa- sion arise, sends the creditor Administration an acknowledgment of the sum due, to be carried over to the next table. ARTICLE 181. Communications to be addressed to the International Bureau. 1. Administrations shall communicate to one another, through the intermediary of the International Bureau, a triplicate collection of their postage stamps and specimen impressions of their stamping

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