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The existence and uniqueness of solutions to the systems \[ \frac{\partial u_1(x,y)}{\partial x}=f_1(u_1,u_2)(x,y),\qquad \frac{\partial u_2(x,y)}{\partial y}=f_2(u_1,u_2)(x,y),\tag{1} \] \[ u_1(0,y)=0\quad \text{for} \quad 0\leq y\leq b,\qquad u_2(x,0)=0\quad \text{for} \quad 0\leq x\leq a,\tag{2} \] are considered, where \(f_i:C(D_{ab};\mathbb{R}^n)\times C(D_{ab};\mathbb{R}^n)\rightarrow C(D_{ab};\mathbb{R}^n)\;(i=1,2),\;D_{ab}=[0,a]\times [0,b] \)are continuous Volterra operators. Under certain conditions on \(f_i\;(i=1,2)\), a theorem on existence and a theorem on uniqueness are obtained. As an application, the author considers as a particular case of (1) a system of integro-differential equations and its equivalent Goursat problem for a second order hyperbolic system with retarded arguments: \[ \frac{\partial^2u(x,y)}{\partial x\partial y}=g(x,y,u(\alpha_1(x),\beta_1(y)),\;\frac{\partial u}{\partial x}(\alpha_2(x),\beta_2(y)),\;\frac{\partial u}{\partial y}(\alpha_3(x),\beta_3(y))), \] \[ u(0,y)=0\quad \text{for} \quad 0\leq y\leq b,\qquad u(x,0)=0\quad \text{for} \quad 0\leq x\leq a. \] Then he obtains corollaries for the existence and uniqueness of this problem.