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the date of the telephone call or the date the covering letter was received. This procedure should be followed because the claim was not acceptable until we received the the missing information. The application and certificate should be annotated as follows:

*Added as per telephone call from ________________ received on _________________. See correspondence file.

or:

*Added from letter signed by __________________ received on ___________________ and filed with correspondence.

Cases where necessary information is missing from the appli­cation should be distinguished from those where there is an ambiguity which is later clarified by correspondence and annotation. For example, instead of sending a new application clarifying an authorship variance, the applicant may state in a letter that the person listed at the author­ship line is an employer for hire of the person named on the copy. We may add this clarification to the application. The annotation will usual1y show the date of receipt of the letter. We should not, however, add this date to the "application received" boxes because the application was correct and contained all the required information when it was first filed.

For further infomation on the problem of applying dates see Supplementary Practices no. 22: DATES OF RECEIPT APPEARING ON THE APPLICATIION AND COPIES OR COPY.

[May 1968]