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Payments to Clearing Committee.
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5. (1.) The Postmaster-General shall from time to time, and at least once in every three months, and, within seven weeks after the expiration of the period to which such accounts respectively relate, render to the railway companies parties to the arrangement under this Act, through the medium of the London Railway Clearing Committee, such accounts as may be reasonably necessary to show the sums due to railway companies in respect of railway remuneration under this Act, and shall keep all such accounts as are reasonably necessary for that purpose, and shall afford reasonable inspection thereof to the secretary to the London Railway Clearing Committee on behalf of the railway companies, and shall as soon as may be, and at least within one week after the delivery of the account, pay to the railway companies through the medium of the said committee the amount, appearing from the said accounts to be so due, and may pay the same out of the moneys for the time being to the credit of the Postmaster-General at the Bank of England; but such payments shall be charged in the accounts of the Post Office to the gross receipts in respect of parcels.
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