parcels sent from the same sender to the same addressee; but the same dispatch note must not be used with both insured and uninsured parcels.

3. The exact weight of an insured parcel in kilogrammes and grammes must be entered by the office of origin both on the cover of the parcel and on the dispatch note in the place provided for the purpose.

4. The contracting Administrations will not be responsible for the correctness of the Customs declarations.

VIII.-1. Each parcel, as well as the dispatch note relating to it, must bear a label in conformity with, or analogous to, specimen (C) hereto appended, indicating the registered number and the name of the office of origin.

2. The dispatch note shall, moreover, be impressed by the office of origin, on the address side, with a stamp indicating the place and date of posting.

3. Each insured parcel must bear a red label with the words "valeur déclarée " upon it.

4. The labels on parcels containing coin, anything made of gold or silver, jewellery, or other precious objects, must be so placed that they cannot serve to conceal injuries to the cover. They must not be folded over two sides of the cover so as to hide the edge.

IX. When the exchange takes place through an intermediate territory, the parcels must follow the routes agreed upon by the Administrations concerned. Parcels exchanged between Austria. and Hungary and the United Kingdom in closed mails by way of Hamburg shall be inclosed in sealed bags, baskets, or boxes.

X. The parcels shall be entered by the dispatching Office of Exchange on a parcel bill, in conformity with specimen (D) appended to the present Regulations, with all the details required by this form. The dispatch notes and the Customs declarations shall be securely attached to the parcel bill.

XI. On the receipt of a parcel bill, the receiving Office of Exchange shall proceed to verify the parcels and the various documents entered on the bill, and, if needful, shall report missing articles or any irregularities by means of a verification certificate in conformity with the appended specimen (E).

XII-1. Mis-sent parcels shall be forwarded to their destination by the most direct route at the disposal of the office retransmitting them. When this retransmission shall involve the return of the parcels to the office of origin, the amounts credited in the parcel bill of that office shall be cancelled, and the retransmitting Office of Exchange shall send back the parcels to the office from which it received them, simply recording them on the parcel bill. Attention shall be called to the error by means of a verification certificate.

2. In other cases, and if the amount credited to the retransmitting office shall be insufficient to cover the expenses of retransmission which it has to defray, it shall recover the difference by raising the amount entered to its credit in the parcel bill of the dispatching Office of Exchange. The reason for this rectification shall be notified to the said Office by means of a verification certificate.

3. Parcels redirected to a country which participates in the parcel post between Austria and Hungary and the United Kingdom will be subjected by the delivering office to a charge, to be paid by the addressees, representing the sums due to this latter office, to the redirecting office, and to each intermediate office, if there be

any.

4. Each Office which forwards a redirected parcel shall claim on the parcel bill the amount due for the conveyance of the parcel.

5. But if the amount chargeable for the further conveyance of a redirected parcel shall be paid at the time of its redirection, the parcel shall be dealt with as if it had been addressed direct from the retransmitting country to the country of destination, and shall be delivered without any postal charge to the addressee.

6. The senders of parcels which cannot be delivered shall be consulted as to the disposal of the parcels.

Articles liable to deterioration or corruption may, however, be sold immediately, without previous notice or legal formality, for the benefit of the right party. An account of the sale shall be drawn_up.

If necessary, such sale may take place before the parcel has reached the place of destination, whether on the outward or the return journey.

After deducting expenses and the amount of any charges on the parcel, the sum realized by the sale shall be remitted to the sender by official money order.

7. If, within two months after the dispatch of a letter of inquiry, the office of destination shall not have received instructions from the sender, the parcel shall be returned to the office of origin. The interval shall be extended to six months in the case of countries beyond sea.

8. Parcels which have to be returned to the country of origin shall be entered on the parcel bill with the addition of the word "undeliverable" in the column for observations. They shall be dealt with and charged like redirected parcels, in accordance with section 3 of this Article.

9. Any parcel, the addressee of which has left for a country not participating in the parcel post between Austria and Hungary and the United Kingdom, shall be dealt with as undeliverable,

unless the office of the first destination be in a position to forward it to the addressee.

XIII.--1. Each Administration shall cause each of its exchanging offices to prepare monthly for all the mails received from the exchanging offices of the other Administration a statement, in conformity with specimen (F) appended to the present Regulations, of the sums entered in each parcel bill, whether to its credit or to its debit.

2. The statements (F) shall be afterwards recapitulated by the same Administration in an account conforming to specimen (G), also appended to the present Regulations.

3. This account, accompanied by the monthly statements, the parcel bills, and, if any, the verification certificates relating thereto, shall be submitted to the examination of the other Administration concerned in the course of the month which follows that to which it relates.

4. The monthly accounts, after having been verified and accepted on both sides, shall be included in a general quarterly account by the Administration to which the balance is due.

5. The payment resulting from the balance of these accounts between the Administrations shall be effected through the International Bureau of the Universal Postal Union.

6. The drawing up, transmission, and payment of the accounts must be effected as early as possible, at the latest before the expiration of the following quarter. After the expiration of this term, the sums due shall bear interest at the rate of 5 per cent per annum, to be reckoned from the date of expiration of the said term.

XIV. The Administrations shall communicate to each other from time to time the provisions of their inland laws or regulations applicable to the conveyance of parcels by parcels post.

XV. The present detailed Regulations shall come into force on the day of the execution of the Agreement, and shall have the same duration as the Agreement. The Administrations interested shall have, however, the power by common consent to modify the details from time to time.

Done in triplicate

In London, the 31st day of December, 1896.

(L.S.) NORFOLK.

In Vienna, the 28th day of November, 1896.

(L.S.) DR. NEUBAUER.

(L.S.) SZALAY.

In Buda-Pesth, the 13th day of November, 1896.