By cheques
By cheques to particular persons By foreign
payable to bearer paid at the Post Post Office
(Cassa checks)[I] Offices[J] Orders[K]
1884 13,639,555 25,791,497 83,834
1885 78,375,622 132,053,520 777,914
1886 141,052,319 220,198,781 1,420,668
1887 178,365,871 278,559,689 1,583,098
1888 180,295,982 280,241,673 1,705,948
1889 223,060,247 303,720,753 2,008,593
1890 271,660,264 335,293,896 2,469,268
1891 318,239,728 361,727,429 2,611,044
1892 347,410,842 398,456,797 2,558,398
1893 386,027,972 437,492,243 2,590,614
1894 433,377,459 472,345,574 3,028,639
1895 463,540,198 524,212,798 3,781,586
It will be seen that in the last ten years the movement of the cheques
payable to bearer has been more rapid than that of cheques paid at the
post offices; the amount of the former has more than tripled.
_Fourthly._
The possessors of cheque books can cause purchases to be made by the
Post Office in the public funds up to the amount of their account. The
order ought to be explained by the transmission of a cheque of a value
corresponding to that of the stocks to be bought. The rights acquired
by the Post Office will either be sent on to the purchaser of the
stocks, or at his request kept by the Office and under its guarantee.
The Office banks the dividend warrants on their payments and places
them to the credit of its client unless he requires them to be sent to
him or the money remitted.
[Illustration: FIGURE IV.
[1]K. k. Postsparcassen-Amt in Wien
[2]Aviso
über eine Zahlungsanweisung
_N^o_ ddto
per
[3]zahlbar an
[4]bei dem aus der Aussenseite bezeichneten Postamte.
[5]Ausgezahlt:
[6]Ohne Büchel auszuzahlen.