not in
10.
ivecesary.
"The
replies to
my
three alternative proposals.
11.
(a)
+
bab
by
letter contain
i check should be explicshed
meat
of tell take machinery.
recording the number of in- pressions made.
(b) That receipts should be giver for
all payments
pressed stamps.
on accorent of im-
(e) That impressed stamps should no
Conger be
required.
on bills of
lading, their pince Saving taken by
adhesive ditto.
As
regards (a) ( apart altogether my belief that the check afforded
superion
by adhesive stamps would be to that obtainable by machinery) it will be readily seen that, where a machine records, as ours do, various values, running from 1 cent to $1,000, indication of the number of impressions recorded by it is, by itself, valveless.
At
The
No b
to list of existing
223.
The machines costing £ 50-80, sach is supplied with a number of metal stamps of different values, which are fitted in as occasion demands. The hell-tale would be attached to the
chive
separate machine world be required for cach value of impres sion. Even if several impressions were
on each iwkuwent so as to mopa
wade
ergo
up the desired total, it would probably be found necessary
to keep
a stock of
some 30 presses at prevent we keep 39
, I reveivise stawps dies) and this clock world to a
Sched)
large.
extent have to be Left in duplicate in case of breakdowns. Sixty presses at £oo
each warld be
would require
LL
[1
costly stock, and
large
room for storage.
It is possible that smaller and cheaper presses have been invented with tell- told machinery attacked. The Crown Agents could, no darbs, obtain infor. mation on this point, if desired.
1.
(b) caufitutes to
my
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