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The Post Office and 1.0. of ice exist chiefly for the sale of goods, in very large quantities, for small suns of money. Yes. The point of resemblance is that the shroff is in charge of certain valuables such as stampa, postul orders, etc. They

I do not are issued to the public simply against payment. think the Post Office shroffs keep registers of individual

it is a matter of indifference to them

purchases of stampe

who paysŵl as long as he shows $1 for the stamp which is

missing. The same system I suggest would not be sufficient to account for the audit numbered, self-receipting forms in ay

char; e

There is another book involved in that.

There is a register

which the stamp seller keeps, and which the store-keeper koeps. The storekeeper issues stamps in bulk, he makes an entry in his store ledger und gets a receipt from the stamp seller, and these stamps in turn go for sale to the public?

Yes.

It is this register I am anxious to get a little information about. There was a register system when your office opened to

the public?

The system was that the officer in charge of the strong room where the blanks were kept and to which the permits (I use the word in the general sense) were returned during the intervals between the various stages of their career and until their final handing over to public, kept a stock book showing their move-

ments in and out.

That is into and out of the strong room?

Yes.

That was for a time supplemented by a system of receipts which were given by one officer to another against the receipt of the

As for instance the writer of a forme in their many states. permit blank, the officer in charge of the writing section, would give to the officer in charge of the strong room, a rec- eipt for 100 six-months entry permits and in due course obtain from him on return of the 100 forms a counter receipt. Later,