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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0727.00003] The authors study the quantity \[ X(N,M,\nu,\mu;f)= \sum_{n\in{\mathbb{Z}} ,\;n\neq 0,\;nN + M\neq 0} f(1 + nN/M)\;\tau_ \nu(n)\;\tau_ \mu(nN + M), \] where \(N,M\in\mathbb{Z},\) \((N,M)=1\), \(\nu,\mu\in\mathbb{C}\), \(f\) is a test function, and \(\tau_ \nu(n) = | n| ^{\nu-1/2} \sum_{d\mid n} d^{1-2\nu}\). They show that \(X(N,M,\nu,\mu;f)\) can be expressed in terms of spectral data for the Laplacian acting on the quotient of the upper half plane by the congruence subgroup \(\Gamma_ 0(N)\) of the modular group. Related results for the case \(N=1\) were considered in \textit{N. V. Kuznetsov} [Zap. Nauchn. Semin. LOMI 129, 43--84 (1983; Zbl 0507.10016)]. In an intermediate result in the proof the quantity \(X(N,M,\nu,\mu;f)\) is expressed in terms of sums \[ \sum_{q\geq 1,\;q\equiv 0\bmod N} g(16\pi^ 2 mnq^{-2}) q^{-1} S_ q(m,n;\pm M). \] Here \(S_ q(m,n;M)\) is a generalized Kloosterman sum, and \(g\) depends on \(f\) by an integral transformation. This is reduced to the case \(M=1\), for which \(S_ q(m,n;1)\) is the classical Kloosterman sum \(S(m,n;q)\). This makes it possible to use the Kuznetsov sum formula for \(\Gamma_ 0(N)\) to relate \(X(N,M,\nu,\mu;f)\) to the automorphic spectrum.