A Guide to the Unprotected in Every-Day Matters Relating to Property and Income, by a Banker's Daughter [M. S. Welsman]

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...for which he gets a commission. It is not considered professional for a Broker to deal in Stock on his own account See Index. Scrip, is from the Latin word Scriptum, something written. Many new Shares are represented by Scrip, or unregistered certificates. Shares of a new Company are often issued as Scrip, as soon as the first deposit has been paid. Many of the foreign Railways continue to deal in Scrip. TELEGRAM. Printed forms can be obtained at any Post Office. You should bear in mind, that if the person to whom you telegraph, lives some miles M from a Telegraph Office, he has to pay extra for each mile that the messenger walks or rides from the boundary of the district, within which no porterage is levied, in order to convey the message to the house indicated in the telegram. If the sender requires his telegram to be forwarded by post, or by train, from the terminal telegraph, he must write the words " by post " or "by train." Most of the Telegraph Offices in the United Kingdom are closed from 8 P.M. to 8 A.M. INDEX. Acceptance, 69, 145. Account-keeping, 133 to 142; with a Banker, 21; casual, 49; deposit, 20, 47; open-ing, 43; overdrawing, 23. "Act and deed," 12. Accountant, 145. A/c, 145. Address, change of, 15; letters of business, 13. Administration, letters of, 146. Administrator. See Wills, 146. Advice, asking, 5. Agents' charges, 121. Agreements in writing, 125. Annual subscriptions, through a Banker, 42. Annuities, 59, 118, 126 and. 127, 160. Appeals against rates, 104. Arrangement of papers, 8. Arrears of dividend, 94; of rent, 103. Assessed taxes, 128. Assets, 146. Assurance. See Insurance. Attorney, letter or power of, 60, 64, 66. Backing a bill, 147. Balance, 146; balancing pass-book, 22....