AGREEMENT CONCERNING THE EXCHANGE OF POSTAL PARCELS CONCLUDED BETWEEN THE DEPARTMENT PF CMMUNICATIONS OF THE EMPIRE OF JAPAN AND THE POST OFFICE OF THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS

　The Department of Communications of the Empire of Japan and the Post Office of the Straits Settlements have agreed upon the following articles for the establishment of a regular exchange of parcels between the Empire of Japan and the Straits Settlements:-

ARTICLE 1.
1. Parcels may be forwarded by Parcel Post from the Empire of Japan to the Straits Settlements up to the weight of 1,320 momme, and from the Straits Settlements to the Empire of Japan up to the weight of eleven pounds English. 

2. The parcels thus exchanged may be insured up to the sum of 3,000 francs.

ARTICLE 2.
1. The two Post Offices guarantee the right of transit for parcels over their territory to or from any country with which they respectively have Parcel Post Communication; and they undertake responsibility for transit parcels within the limits determined by Article 11 below.

2. In the absence of any arrangement to the contrary between the Administrations concerned, the conveyance of parcels thus exchanged will be effected a decouvert.

ARTICLE 3.
　The prepayment of the postage on parcels shall be compulsory, except in the case of redirected parcels.

ARTICLE 4.
1. The Post Office of the country of origin shall pay to the Post Office of the country of destination the territorial postage of the latter and also the sea postage if the latter office provides for the sea service, calculated in accordance with the following table:

　
2.The totals thus arrived at shall from the basis determining the sums to be collected from the senders, but in fixing the rates of postage either Administration shall be at liberty to adopt such approximate amounts as may be convenient in its own currency.

ARTICLE 5.
1.Each administration shall have the right to fix its own scale of fees for insurance provided that the scale does not include any rate exceeding 1/4 per cent. on the sum declared.

2. The Post Office of the country of origin shall pay to the Post Office of the country of destination a share of the insurance fee at the rate of 5 centimes for each sum of 300 francs or fraction of 300 francs insured and shall also pay a sea insurance fee of 10 centimes for each sum of 300 francs or fraction of 300 francs insured if the latter Office provides and guarantees responsibility for the sea conveyance.

ARTICLE 6.
　The sender of a parcel may obtain an acknowledgement of receipt on prepayment of a fixed fee not exceeding 25 centimes. The same fee may be applied to requests for information about the disposal of a parcel which are made after it has been posted, if the sender has not already paid the special fee to obtain an acknowledgement of receipt. The whole of this fee is retained by the Administration of the country of origin.

ARTICLE 7.
　In the case of parcels originating in or forwarded by one of the two contracting countries and sent in transit through the other, the Post Office of the intermediate country shall be credited by the other Post Office with the sums due to the former for the conveyance and insurance of such parcels, in accordance with tables to be mutually communicated.

ARTICLE 8.
　The parcels to which the present Agreement applies can not be subjected to any postal charge other than those contemplated by the different articles of this Agreement.

ARTICLE 9.
　For the redirection of parcels from one country to the other, as well as for the return of undelivered parcels, a supplementary charge on the basis of the rates fixed by Articles 4 and 5 shall be collected from the addressees or the senders, as the case may be. A supplementary charge may also be made for warehousing.

ARTICLE 10.
1. It is forbidden to send by post:-

(a) Parcels containing letters, or communications of the nature of a letter, live animals, except bees in properly constructed boxes, or articles the admission of which is not authorised by the Customs or other laws or regulations of either country (a parcel may, however, contain an open invoice in its simplest form);

(b) Parcels containing explosive or inflammable articles, and in general articles, the conveyance of which is dangerous.

2. It is equally forbidden to send coin, anything made of gold or silver, or other precious articles from one country to the other in uninsured parcels.

3. If a parcel contravening any of these prohibitions shall be handed over by one Administration to the other, the latter shall proceed in the manner and with the formalities prescribed by its law or in1and regulations.

ARTICLE 11.
1. In all cases of loss, abstraction or damage, except such as are beyond control, the sender, or, in default or at the request of the sender, the addressee shall be entitled to an indemnity corresponding with the actual amount of the loss, abstraction or damage, unless the damage has arisen from the fault or negligence of the sender or from the nature of the article, and provided always that the indemnity does not exceed, in the case of an uninsured parcel, 25 francs, and in the case of an insured parcel, the sum for which it has been insured. The sender of a parcel which has been lost, or of which the contents have been completely destroyed in the post, shall also be entitled to the return of the postage as well as of the postal enquiry fee when the enquiry has arisen from an error on the part of the Postal Administration. In any case the Insurance fee is retained by the Postal Administrations.

2. The obligation of paying the indemnity shall rest with the Administration to which the despatching office is subordinate. To that Administration is reserved a remedy against the Administration responsible, that is to say, against the Administration on the territory or in the service of which the loss, abstraction or damage took place.

3. Until the contrary is shown, the responsibility shall rest with the Administration which, having received the parcel without making any observation, can not prove its delivery to the addressee, or, in the case of a transit parcel, its regular transfer to the following Administration.

4. The payment of the indemnity to the sender or addressee ought to take place as soon as possible, and at the latest within a year of the date of the application. The Administration responsible will be bound to make good, without delay, the amount of the indemnity paid.

5. It is understood that no application for an indemnity will be entertained unless made within a year of the posting of the parcel; after this term the applicant will have no right to any indemnity.

6. If the loss, abstraction or damage shall have occurred in course of conveyance between the exchanging offices of the two countries, and it shall not be possible to ascertain on the territory or in the service of which the loss, abstraction or damage took place, each Administration shall pay half of the indemnity.

7. The Administrations will cease to be responsible for parcels of which the owners have accepted delivery.

ARTICLE 12.
1. No parcel may be insured for an amount above the real value of its contents.

2. In case the sender of an insured parcel, with intent to defraud shall declare the contents to be above their real value, he shall lose all claim to compensation; and the enforcement of this rule shall not prejudice any legal proceedings admitted by the law of the country of origin.

ARTICLE 13.
　The cost of the receptacles in which parcel mails are exchanged between the two countries shall be shared equally between the two Administrations.

ARTICLE 14.
　In extraordinary circumstances such as will justify the measure, any Administration may temporarily suspend the Parcel Post, either entirely or partially, on condition of giving immediate notice, if necessary by telegraph, to the Administration interested.

ARTICLE 15.
1. The internal legislation of both the Empire of Japan and the Straits Settlements shall remain applicable as regards everything not provided for by the stipulations contained in the present Agreement.

2. The Administrations shall communicate to each other from time to time, the provisions of their laws or regulations applicable to the conveyance of parcels by Parcel Post.

ARTICLE 16.
　The two Postal Administrations shall indicate the offices or localities which they admit to the international exchange of parcels; they shall regulate the mode of transmission of these parcels, and fix all other measures of detail and order necessary for ensuring the performance of the pre-sent Agreement.

ARTICLE 17.
　This Agreement shall come into operation on the day to be fixed by common consent between the two Postal Ad-ministrations and shall be terminable on a notice of one year by either party.

　Done in duplicate at Tokio the 11th day of the 7th month of the 41st year of Meiji and at Singapore the 20th May 1909.

　Viscount MASAYASU HOTTA,
Minister of State for Communications.

　Empire of Japan.
ARTHUR YOUNG,
Officer Administrating the Government.

ARTICLE 1.
　The Department of Communications of the Empire of Japan and the Post Office of the Straits Settlements agree to cancel the table of postage of paragraph 1 of Article 4 of the Parcel Post Agreement of the 11th day of the 7th month of the 41st year of Meiji and the 20th day of May 1909, and to substitute therefor the following:-

ARTICLE 2.
　These additional Articles shall come into operation on the day to be fixed by common consent between the two Postal Administrations.

　Done in Duplicate and signed at Tokio on the 16th day of the 7th month of the 13th year of Taisho, and at Singapore on the 14th day of January 1924.

　KI INUKAI.
Minister of Communications of the Empire of Japan.

　HERBERT C. SELLS.
Postmaster General of the Straits Settlements.

　ADDITIONAL ARTICLES AMENDING THE PARCEL POST AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS OF THE EMPIRE OF JAPAN AND THE POST OFFICE OF THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, SIGNED AT TOKIO ON THE 11TH DAY OF THE 7TH MONTH OF THE 41ST YEAR OF MEIJI AND AT SINGAPORE ON THE 20TH DAY OF MAY 1909, AND AMENDED BY VIRTUE OF THE ADDITIONAL ARTICLES WHICH WERE SIGNED AT TOKIO ON THE 16TH DAY OF THE 7TH MONTH OF THE 13TH YEAR OF TAISHO AND AT SINGAPORE ON THE 14TH DAY OF JANUARY 1924.

ARTICLE 1.

　The Department of Communications of the Empire of Japan and the Post Office of the Straits Settlements agree upon the following amendments to be introducted to the Parcel Post Agreement of the 11th day of the 7th month of the 41st year of Meiji and the 20th day of May 1909, which was amended by virtue of the Additional Articles of the 16th day of the 7th month of the 13th year of Taisho and the 14th day of January 1924.

(1)Substitute for the Preamble the following:-

　The Department of Communications of the Empire of Japan and the Post Office of the Straits Settlements agree to effect a regular exchange of parcels between the Empire of Japan and the Straits Settlements as well as the onward transmission of parcels addressed to a third country and delivered in closed mails from one of the services to the other.

　The regulations of the present Agreement shall be generally applicable, not only to parcels exchanged direct between the Empire of Japan and the Straits Settlements, but also to parcels sent a decouvert and in transit to or form one of the two countries through the other, except the items such as specially agreed upon between the Chiefs of the Postal Administrations of the two contracting countries.

　To be accepted by one of the services for onward transmission, parcels for a third country which are delivered in closed mails form the other shall be subject to the conditions agreed upon between the Chiefs of the Postal Administrations of the two contracting countries, in respect to the limits of weight, the rates of postage, and the responsibility thereof, etc.

(2)In Article 1, substiute for paragraph 1 the following:-

1.Parcels may be forwarded by Parcel Post from the Empire of Japan to the Straits Settlements up to the weight of 5 kilogrammes, and from the Straits Settlements to the Empire of Japan up to the weight of 11 pounds English.

(3)Substitute for Article 4 the following:-

1.The territorial rates and sea rates of the parcels exchanged between the Empire of Japan and the Straits Settlements are shown in the following tables:-

(a)Parcels originating in the Empire of Japan addressed to the Straits Settlements:

(b)Parcels originating in Straits Settlements addressed to the Empire of Japan:-

　For parcels addressed to or sent from one of the Postal Administrations of Japan proper, Chosen, and the other Japanese Dependencies through the intermediary of either service thereof, each intermediate service may collect sup-plementarily as the charge for transit conveyance a sum equal to the territorial rate of the Empire of Japan provided in the preceding clause and a sea rate of 50 centimes as the case may be. As to the collection of this charge, due notice shall be given to the Straits Settlements.

　The Chiefs of the Postal Administrations of the two contracting countries have authority to reduce the rates fixed in the preceding two clauses or to increase the same within a maximum of 100 per cent by agreement made in advance.

　The totals thus arrived at shall form the basis for determining the sums to be collected as postage from the senders in the country of origin.

2.The Post Office of the country of origin shall pay to the Post Office of the country of destination the territorial rate of the latter and also the sea rate if the latter office provides for the sea service as well as the transit charge fixed by the second clause of the first paragraph of the present Article as the case may be.

3.The Post Office of the country of destination may collect from the addressee for the delivery of the parcels and for the performance of Customs formalities a fee not exceeding 50 centimes for each parcel.

(4)Substitute for Article 5 the following:-

1.The Post Office of the country of origin shall collect as insurance fee 5 centimes for each land conveyance and 10 centimes for sea conveyance for each 300 francs or fraction thereof of the insured value.

　The Post Office of the country of origin, however, and collect an inclusive insurance fee not exceeding 50 centimes for each 300 francs or fraction thereof of the insured value.

　For parcels addressed to or sent from one of the Post Administrations of Japan proper, Chosen, and the other Japanese Dependencies through the intermediary of either services thereof, each intermediate service may charge sup-plementarily as the insurance fee for transit conveyance a sum as provided in the first clause of the present paragraph. As to the collection of this charge, due notice shall be given to the Straits Settlements.

2.The Post Office of the country of origin shall pay to the Post Office of the country of destination, for each sum of 300 francs of franction thereof insured, the insurance fee at the rate of 5 centimes and a sea insurance fee of 10 centimes if the latter Office provides and guarantees responsibility for the sea conveyance as well as a transit insurance fee as prescribed by the third clause of the first paragraph as the case may be.

3.The Post Office of the country of origin is also entitled to collect from the sender of each insured parcel and to retain a registration fee not exceeding 50 centimes.

(5)Substitute for Article 6 the following:-

　The sender of a parcel may obtain an acknowledgment of receipt on payment of a fixed fee not exceeding 40 centimes However, as to requests for an acknowledgment of receipt which are made subsequent to the posting of the parcel and for information about the disposal of a parcel which are made after it has been posted if the sender has not already paid the special fee to obtain an acknowledgment of receipt, the Administration may collect a sum double that prescribed above. The whole of these fees in retained by the Administration of the country of origin.

(6)Substitute for Article 9 the following:-

1.Parcels may be redirected within the territory of the country of destination and the Administration of that country may collect a redirection charge fixed in its internal regulations.

2.For the redirection of parcels from one country to the other by the request either of the sender or of the addressee, as well as for the return of undelivered parcels, a supplementary charge on the basis of the rates fixed by Articles 6 and 5 as well as a redirection charge prescribed by the preceding paragraph if any, shall be collected from the addressees or the senders, as the case may be. A supplementary charge may also be made for warehousing.

3.In the case of returning parcels to the country of origin on account of containing prohibited articles, the charges for conveyance resulting from its return shall also be collected supplementarily in accordance with the preceding paragraph.

(7)In Article 11, substitute for paragraph 1 the following:-

1.In all cases of loss, abstraction or damage, except such as are beyond control and the case where the parcel contained any of the prohibited articles which are provided in the preceding Article, the sender shall be entitled to an indemnity corresponding with the actual amount of the loss, abstraction or damage, unless the damage has arisen from the fault or negligence of the sender or from the nature of the article, and provided always that the indemnity does not exceed, in the case of an uninsured parcel, 25 francs, and in the case of an insured parcel, the sum for which it has been insured. The sender of a parcel which has been lost, or of which the contents have been completely destroyed in the post, shall also be entitled to the return of the postage as well as of the postal enquiry fee when the enquiry has arisen from an error on the part of the Postal Administration. In any case the insurance fee is retained by the Postal Administrations.

　The addressee shall be entitled to a formal indemnity either when he takes delivery of a pilfered or damaged        parcel against reserve, or when he can prove that the sender has waived his rights in the addressee's favour.

(8)In Article 11, substitute for paragraph 7 the following:-

7.The Administrations will cease to be responsible for parcels of which the owners have taken delivery without making any reservations and for parcels of which no investigation can be made in consequence of the destruction of official documents through a case beyond control.

(9)In Article 15, add the following:-

3.The franc regarded as the monetary unit in the provisions of the present Agreement is the gold franc of 100 centimes of a weight of 10/31 of a gramme and of a fineness of 0.900.

　In fixing the postage rates either Administration shall be at liberty to adopt such approximate amounts as may be convenient in its currency.

ARTICLE 2.

　These additional Articles shall come into operation on the day to be fixed by common consent between the Chiefs of the Postal Administrations of the two contracting countries.

　Done in duplicate and signed at Tokio on the 8th day of the 12th month of the 2nd year of Showa and at Kuala Lumpur on the 7th day of May 1927.

　K.MOCHIZUKI
Minister of State for Communications of the Empire of Japan.

  HERBERT C. SELLS
Secretary for Postal Affairs,
S. S. and F. M. S.

ARTICLE 1. 
1. The exchange of parcels in closed mails between the Empire of Japan and the Straits Settlements shall be carried on by the direct sea service between the two countries.

2. The two postal Administrations shall communication to each other the office of exchange for parcel Post, which shall be designated respectively.

ARTICLE 2. 
1. The two Postal Administrations shall acquaint each other which of the regular sea services maintained by them may be employed for the conveyance of parcels.

2. The two Administrations, after a preliminary understanding has been arrived at with the countries concerned, shall communicate to each other:-

(a) A list of the countries with regard to which they may respectively serve as medium for the conveyance of parcels.

(b) The routes available for the transmission of the said parcels, from the point of entry on their territories or into their services.

(c) The total amount of the charges to be paid to them under this head, for each destination, by the Office which consigns the parcels to them.

3. By means of this information the Administrations will determine the routes to be employed for the transmission of their parcels and the Postage to be collected from the senders

ARTICLE 3. 
　Parcels Posted in the Empire of Japan for the Straits Settlements must not exceed 31/2 shaku in length, or 6 shaku in length and girth combined; and parcels Posted in the Straits Settlements for the Empire of Japan must not exceed 3 feet 6 inches English in length, or 6 feet in length and girth combined.

ARTICLE 4. 
　The two Postal Administrations shall furnish each other with a list of prohibited articles.

ARTICLE 5. 
1. No parcel must be accepted for conveyance by parcel Post unless it bear the exact direction of the addressee. The address of parcels containing coin, articles of gold or silver, jewellery, or other precious objects, must be written on the actual covering of the parcel.

2. Every parcel must be packed in a manner adequate for the length of the journey and for the protection of the contents.

　Liquids and substances which easily liquefy must be despatched in a double receptacle. Between the first receptacle (bottle, flask, pot, box, etc.) and the second (box of metal or of strong wood), a space is left as far as possible. This space must be filled with sawdust, bran, or some other absorbing material.

3. Every insured parcel must be seald by means of sealing wax, lead, or otherwise, in such a way that it cannot be opened without either breaking the seals or leaving obvious traces of violation. For instance, seals must be placed over each join or loose flap of the covering of a parcel, and if string be used in packing, a seal must be placed on the ends of the string where they are tied. The seals must be of the same kind of wax lead, etc., and must bear distinct impressions of the same private device; and the device must not consist merely of straight, crossed or curved lines, which could be readily imitated.

4. Every insured parcel must bear on the cover, and also on the Despatch Note, a statement of the sum for which it is insured, without erasure or addition, even if certified, When this statement is expressed in Japanese or Straits Settlements money, the sender, or the Post Office of the country of origin, must indicate by new figures placed be
side or below the others, the equivalent of the amount in francs and centimes.

ARTICLE 6. 
1. Each parcel must be accompanied by a Despatch Note and by Customs Declarations in conformity with, or analogous to specimens A and B hereto appended. The Administrations shall inform each other of the number of Customs Declarations to be furnished for each country of destination.

　The sender may add upon the counterfoil of the Despatch Note communications respecting the parcel, provided that this is not prohibited by the legislation of the country of origin.

2. One Despatch Note, and, if the Customs laws permit, one Customs Declaration, may be used for two or three (but not more) parcels sent from the same sender to the same addressee. This provision does not apply to insured parcels, each of which must be accompanied by a separate Despatch Note.

3. The amount of postage paid, when not indicated b3 Postage stamps affixed to the Despatch Note, should be notified upon the Despatch Note.

4. The exact weight of an insured parcel must be entered by the office of origin, both on the cover of the parcel and on the Despatch Note in the place provided for the purpose.

5. The Administrations decline all responsibility for the correctness of the Customs Declarations.

ARTICLE 7. 
1. Each parcel, as well as the Despatch Note relating to it, must bear a label or an impression of a stamp, in conformity with, or analogous to, specimen C hereto annexed, indicating the registered number and the name of the office of origin.

2. The Despatch 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 word "Insured" or "Valeur Declaree" upon it.

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

ARTICLE 8. 
　The parcels shall be entered by the despatching 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 Despatch Notes, the Customs Declarations and, if any, the acknowledgments of receipt must be securely attached to the parcel bill.

ARTICLE 9. 
1. When an acknowledgment of receipt of a parcel is asked for, the office of origin writes on the parcel in a very conspicuous manner the words "Avis de Reception" or stamps it with the letters "A.R."

2. The acknowledgment of receipt is made out in conformity with, or analogous to, specimen H hereto annexed, by the office of origin or by any other office which the despatching Administration may appoint. If it does not reach the office of destination, the latter makes out officially a new acknowledgment or receipt.

3. The office of destination, after having duly filled up the form returns it, either directly or through the office of exchange, to the office of origin, which delivers it to the sender of the parcel.

4. When, after a parcel has been posted, the sender applies for an acknowledgment of its receipt, the office of origin enters on a form of acknowledgment of receipt an exact description of the parcel (office of origin, date or posting, number, address). The form is transmitted to the receiving office of exchange with an indication of the mail in which the parcel under enquiry was delivered to the office of exchange of the corresponding Administration. The office of destination completes the form, and returns it to the office of origin in the way prescribed by the preceding paragraph 3.

5. If an acknowledgment of receipt, duly applied for by the sender at the time of posting, is not received back in the office of origin after a proper interval, enquiry for the missing acknowledgment is instituted in accordance with the procedure prescribed by the preceding paragraph 4. The office of origin writes at the top of the form the words "Duplicata de l'Avis de Reception, etc."

ARTICLE 10 
1. On the receipt of a parcel-bill the receiving office of exchange shall proceed to verify the parcels and the various documents, and, if needful, shall report missing articles or any irregularities by means of a verification note in conformity with the annexed specimen E.

2. Any differences which may arise in the credits and accounting must be notified to the despatching office by verification note. The accepted verification notes must be attached to the parcel bills to which they relate. Corrections not supported by vouchers are not admitted.

ARTICLE 11. 
1. Missent parcels shall be forwarded to their destination by the most direct route at the disposal of the Office re-transmitting them. When this retransmission shall involve the return of the parcel to the office of origin, the re-transmitting office of exchange refunds to the said Office of origin the amounts credited, after having called attention to the error by means of a verification note. When a parcel contravenes any of the prohibitions provided for in Article 10 of the Agreement and has, for this reason, to be returned to the country of origin, the procedure followed is the same as if the parcel had to be sent back to the despatching Office in consequence of missending.

2. In other cases, and if the amount credited to the re-transmitting Office shall be insufficient to cover the expenses of re-transmission which it has to defray, it shall recover the difference by raising the amount entered to its credit in the parcel bill of the despatching office of exchange. The reason for this rectification shall be notified to the said office by means of a verification note.

3. Parcels re-directed to a country which participates in the Parcel Post between the Empire of Japan and the Straits Settlements 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 re-directing Office, and to each intermediate Office, if there be any.

4. Each office which forwards a re-directed 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 re-directed 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 re-transmitting country to the country of destination, and delivered without any postal charge to the addressee.

6. The senders of parcels which can not be delivered shall be consulted as to the disposal of the parcels, unless they have asked for the immediate return of the parcels or for their delivery to another addressee, by a notice (specimen 1) placed both on the Despatch Note and on the parcel itself.

7. If, within six months after the despatch of a letter of enquiry, the office of destination shall not have received instructions from the sender, the parcel shall be returned to the office of origin.

8. Articles liable to deterioration or corruption, and these only, 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. The sum realized by the sale shall be used in the first place to defray the charges upon the parcel. Any balance which there may be shall be remitted to the office of origin to be paid to the sender. If for any reason a sale is impossible the spoilt or worthless articles are destroyed or taken possession of by the State.

9. Parcels which have to be returned to the country of origin shall be entered on the parcel bill with the addition of the word "Rebut"' (undeliverable) in the column for observations. They shall be dealt with and charged as redirected Parcels are.

10. Any parcel, the addressee of which has left for a country not participating in the Parcel Post between the Empire of Japan and the Straits Settlements shall be dealt with as undeliverable, unless the Office of the first destination be in a Position to forward it to the addressee.

11. Subject to the provisions in Article 9 of the Agreement, the customs duties properly so called on parcels which have to be sent back to the country of origin or redirected to a third country shall be cancelled both in the Empire of Japan and the Straits Settlements.

ARTICLE 12. 
1. Each Administration shall cause each of its exchanging offices to prepare quarterly 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 statement 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 statement F, the parcel bills, and if any, the verification notes relating thereto, shall, be submitted to the examination of the other Administration in the course of the quarter which follows that to which it relates.

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

5. The payment resulting from the balance of these accounts between the two Administrations shall be made by the indebted Office in francs, in specie, or by means of bills drawn on Paris or on the capital or one of the commercial towns of the country to which the balance is due, or in any other manner that may be mutually agreed upon: the expense attendant on the payment being at the charge of the indebted Office.

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 year. After the expiration of this term, the sums due from one Administration of the other, shall bear interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, to be reckoned from the date of expiration of the said term.

ARTICLE 13. 
　The present Detailed Regulations shall come into force on the day of the execution of the Agreement, and shall have the duration as the Agreement. The Administrations interested have, however, the power by common consent to modify the details from time to time.

　Done in duplicate at Tokio the 11th day of 7th month of the 41st year of Meiji and at Singapore the 20th May 1909.

　Viscount MASAYASU HOTTA
Minister of State for Communications, Empire of Japan.

　ARTHUR YOUNG
Officer Administrating the Government.

　ADDITIONAL ARTICLES AMENDING THE DETAILED REGULATIONS FOR THE EXECUTION OF THE AGREEMENT CONCERNING THE EXCHANGE OF POSTAL PARCELS CONCLUDED BETWEEN THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS OF THE EMPIRE OF JAPAN AND THE POST OFFICE OF THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, SIGNED AT TOKIO ON THE 11TH DAY OF THE 7TH MONTH OF THE 41ST YEAR OF MEIJI, AND AT SINGAPORE ON THE 20TH DAY OF MAY 1909.

ARTICLE 1.

　The Department of Communications of the Empire of Japan and the Pose Office of the Straits Settlements agree upon the following amendment to be introduced to the Detailed Regulations for the execution of the Parcel Pose Agreement of the 11th day of the 7th month of the 41st year of Meiji and the 20th day of May 1909.

(1)In Article 11 of the Detailed Regulations, substitute for paragraphs 6 and 7 the following:-

6.The sender of a parcel may request at the time of posting that, if the parcel cannot be delivered as addressed, it may be treated as abandoned or tendered for delivery at a second address in the country of destination. If the sender avails himself of this facility his request must be written on the parcel, or on a form affixed to the parcel in conformity with, or analogous to, specimen I appended hereto, and on the relative Dispatch Note.

7.In the absence of a definite request for abandonment, a parcel which cannot be delivered at the original address, or at an alternative address if one is furnished, within the period of detention prescribed by the internal regulations of the country of destination, shall be returned to the sender, without previous notification, at his expense.

(2)Substitute for specimen I the following:-

　Notice.

　Number of parcel...................Addressee.............

　If this parcel is undeliverable as addressed it should be,

(a)considered as abandoned,

(b)tendered for delivery to

　(The alternative not required should be struck out.)

ARTICLE 2.

　These Additional Article amending the Detailed Regulations shall come into operation on the day to be fixed by common consent between our two postal Administrations.

　Done in duplicate, and signed at Tokio on the 18th day of the 7th month of the 13th year of Taisho and at Singapore on the fifth day of May 1924.

　KI INUKAI.

　Minister of State for Communications of 
the Empire of Japan.
HERBERT C.SELLS.
Postmaster General of the 
Straits Settlements.

　ADDITIONAL ARTICLES AMENDING THE DETAILED REGULATIONS FOR THE EXECUTION OF THE AGREEMENT CONCERNING THE EXCHANGE OF POSTAL PARCELS CONCLUDED BETWEEN THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS OF THE EMPlRE OF JAPAN AND POST OFFICE OF THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS, SIGNED AT TOKIO ON THE 11TH DAY OF THE 7TH MONTH OF THE 41ST YEAR OF MEIJI AND AT SINGAPORE ON THE 20TH MAY 1909, AND AMENDED BY VIRTUE OF THE ADDITIONAL ARTICLES WHICH WERE SIGNED AT TOKIO ON THE 18TH DAY OF THE 7TH MONTH OF THE 13TH YEAR OF TAISHO AND AT SINGAPORE ON THE FIFTH DAY OF MAY 1924.

ARTICLE 1. 
　The Department of Communications of the Empire of Japan and the Post Office of the Straits Settlements agree upon the following amendments to be introduced to the Detailed Regulations for the Execution of the Parcel Post Agreement of the 11th day of the 7th month of the 41st year of Meiji and the 20th May 1909, which were amended by virtue of the Additional Articles of the 18th day of the 7th month of the 13th year of Taisho and the fifth day of May 1924.

(1) Substitute for Article 3 the following:-

　Parcels posted in the Empire of Japan for the Straits Settlements must not exceed 1 metre 5 centimetres in length, or 1 metre 80 centimetres in length and girth combined; and parcels posted in the Straits Settlements for the Empire of Japan must not exceed 3 feet 6 inches English in length, or 6 feet in length and girth combined.

(2) In Article 11, substitute for paragraph 1 the following:-

1. Missent 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 parcel to the Office of origin, the re-transmitting office of exchange refunds to the paid Office of origin the amounts credited, after having called attention to the error by means of a verification note.

(3) In Article 11, add the following at the end of paragraph 4:--

　The same procedure is followed in the case of returning parcels to the country of origin on account of containing prohibited articles.

ARTICLE 2. 
　These additional Articles shall come into operation of the day to be fixed by common consent between the Chiefs of the Postal Administrations of the two contracting countries. 

　Done in duplicate and signed at Tokio on the 8th day of the 12th month of the 2nd year of Showa and at Kuala Lumpur on the seventh day of May 1927.

　K. MOCHIZUKI
Minister of State for Communications of the Empire of Japan.

　HERBERT C. SELLS
Secretary for Postal Affairs.S. S. and F. M. S.