Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...for the goods against which this draft is drawn; duplicate and triplicate of the same will follow by next mail. Recommending our draft to your kind protection, We are, dear Sirs, Yours faithfully, G. Parker & Co. When a bill is received from a customer, the first thing to da is to get it accepted, if that has not been done already. If the drawee is in the same town as the holder, the bill is left at the drawee's address, with a memo, attached stating by whom it isleft. It is called for on the following day. When the bill is drawn on a firm carrying on business in another town, the bill is forwarded to them for acceptance with a. letter frequently written in this form:--Bradford, 27ĞA Oct., 1897. Messrs. J. A. Gill & Co., Cleckiieaton, Dear Sirs, We beg to enclose a draft on your goodselves at 3 m/d for £260 7s. Cd., which we will thank you to accept and return to us in due course, made payable in London. Yours faithfulry, Amos Fletcher & Co. SETS AND COPIES OF BILLS 127. Very frequently the bill is forwarded to another firm in the same town to procure acceptance. An addressed stamped envelope should always be enclosed in either case. Hills for acceptance.--Bills received as remittances are entered in a book called the "Bill Book" or "Bills Receivable Book," whilst bills drawn on and accepted by the firm are entered in a book called the "Bills Payable Book." Firms who frequentlv receive from other firms bills to which they are asked to procure acceptance, keep a third book, viz., the "Bills for Acceptance Book," in which particulars of these bills are entered, including the date of receipt and the date returned or otherwise disposed of. Sets and Copies of Bills.--We have already explained that For...
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