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Administration.
2. The Hongkong Post Office or the British Postal Agencies in China on its behalf will accept from the Chinese Post Offices mails, closed or à découvert, destined for Chinese or Foreign Post Offices established in or out of China, and will undertake to transmit them to destination by any means of transport at the disposal of the Hongkong Administration.
3. Each Administration will support the cost of maintenance of the transport services, ordinary or special, which it may establish for the carriage of mails, but will be entitled to claim payment of the transit charges hereunder stipulated in Article V.
Article III.
Remitting of Mails.
1. The remitting of mails, closed or à découvert, from one Administration to the other will take place at the Office or any other authorised places for exchange and will be made from hand to hand between agents regularly appointed for this duty.
2. The duplicate copy of the Way Bill, called "Part", brought by the remitting agent and indicating the number of packages or bags remitted, will be at once signed by the receiving agent and handed back to him as acknowledgment of receipt. Inside each package or bag a "Feuille d'avis" will be enclosed, containing the particulars called for in Article XX of the Règlement appended to the International Convention of Washington.
3. From the moment this agent has taken delivery of the mails and issued an acknowledgment of receipt without making any observation as to the number or condition of the packages or bags, the despatching office will be discharged of further responsibility, which thereafter will lie with the receiving office.
Article IV.