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5. The payment of the indemnity by the despatching Office ought to take place as soon as possible, and at the latest within a year of the date of the application. The responsible Office is bound to refund to the despatching Office, without delay, the amount of the indemnity paid by the latter.

The Office of origin is authorised to make payment to the sender on account of the Office, whether intermediate or of destination, which, after application has been made in due course, has let a year pass without settling the matter. Moreover, in cases where an Office whose responsibility is duly established has at the outset declined to pay the indemnity such Office must take upon itself, in addition to the indemnity, the subsidiary expenses resulting from the unwarranted delay in payment.

6. It is understood that the application for an indemnity is only entertained if made within a year of the posting of the registered article; after this term the applicant has no right to any indemnity.

7. If the loss has occurred in course of conveyance without its being possible to ascertain on the territory or in the service of what country the loss took place, the Administrations concerned bear the loss in equal shares.

8. Administrations cease to be responsible for registered articles for which the owners have given a receipt and accepted delivery.

Article 9

Withdrawal of articles; correction of address, etc.

1. The sender of a letter or other article can have it withdrawn from the post or have its address altered, so long as such article has not been delivered to the addressee.

2. The request for such withdrawal is sent by mail or by telegraph at the expense of the sender, who must pay as follows:

1^o For every request by mail, the amount payable for a registered single letter;

2^o For every request by telegraph, the charge for a telegram according to the ordinary tariff.

3. The sender of a registered article marked with a trade charge can, under the conditions laid down for requests for alteration of address, demand the total or partial cancelling of the amount of the trade charge.

4. The stipulations of this Article are not obligatory for countries of of which the legislation does not permit the sender to dispose of an article in its course through the post.

Article 10

Fixing of rates in money other than the franc

Those countries of the Union which have not the franc for their monetary unit fix their charges at the equivalents, in their respective currencies, of the