_in_ JÄGERNDORF
[2]_Conto Nr._ 800.000
* * * * *
........................ _den_ ...................... _189.._
[3]_Das_ =K.k. Postparacassen-Amt in Wien= _zahle gegen diesen_ =Check=
_den Betrag von_:
_Fl._
[4]_öst. W._
[5]Unterschrift des Ausstellers:
_Gulden_ _kr._ _öst. W._
* * * * *
[6]Tausender 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
[7]Hunderter 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
[8]Zehner 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
[9]Einer 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
* * * * *
[1] Holder of the current account.
[2] Number of the current account.
[3] The Post Office Savings Bank at Vienna is requested to pay as
against this cheque the sum of....
[4] Austrian Standard.
[5] Signature of the drawer.
[6] Thousands.
[7] Hundreds.
[8] Tens.
[9] Units.]
This cheque will be sent by him to the Central Office at Vienna. There
are special envelopes for the transmission of these advices which are
sold by the Office to the possessors of cheque books. The Central
Office will immediately transmit to the person designated an assignment
of payment and the cheque will be paid to him on his returning this
assignment, signed by him as a receipt. He will detach from it, in
order to preserve it, a portion on which is noted the amount of the sum
he has received, who the holder of the account is, the said portion
bearing also the stamp of the Postal Office at Vienna.
A notice to the post office where it is payable will have been sent at
the same time, giving authority to pay the cheque. (Fig. IV.)
Everyday 4,000 to 5,000 of these authorisations to pay cheques are
issued. Ladies write out these authorisations by means of type-writing
machines: their fingers work the machine with astounding rapidity.
According to the data given me each of them prints every day 400 to 500
assignments of payment to the persons designated and authorisations to
the post-offices to pay; and the hours of work averaging seven, they
write about one a minute.
_Thirdly. (Postanweisungen.)_
The cheque can be drawn in favour of a person living in Hungary or a
foreign country. It is enough that on the back is noted:--«for the
issue of a post office order in favour of N ...», and that it is
signed. The Central Office at Vienna will send immediately a post
office order of corresponding import. The telegraphic order can even be
used.
Statistics distinguish these three categories of cheques and enable us
to follow their movement.