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Title: Up To Date Business
Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)
Author: Various
Editor: Seymour Eaton
Release Date: February 6, 2007 [EBook #20531]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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UP-TO-DATE BUSINESS
HOME STUDY CIRCLE LIBRARY
EDITED BY
SEYMOUR EATON
UP TO DATE
BUSINESS
INCLUDING
LESSONS IN BANKING, EXCHANGE, BUSINESS
GEOGRAPHY, FINANCE, TRANSPORTATION
AND COMMERCIAL LAW
FROM THE CHICAGO RECORD
NEW YORK
THE DOUBLEDAY & McCLURE CO.
1900
Copyright, 1897, 1898, 1899, by the CHICAGO RECORD
COPYRIGHT, 1899 by SEYMOUR EATON
COPYRIGHT, 1899, 1900, by VICTOR F. LAWSON
CONTENTS
I
GENERAL BUSINESS INFORMATION
PAGE
I. Commercial Terms and Usages 3
II. Commercial Terms and Usages (_Continued_) 4
III. Bank Cheques 6
IV. Bank Cheques (_Continued_) 8
V. Bank Cheques (_Continued_) 12
VI. Bank Drafts 15
VII. Promissory Notes 18
VIII. The Clearing-house System 21
IX. Commercial Drafts 26
X. Foreign Exchange 31
XI. Letters of Credit 37
XII. Joint-stock Companies 41
XIII. Protested Paper 46
XIV. Paper Offered for Discount 49
XV. Corporations 51
XVI. Bonds 54
XVII. Transportation 57
XVIII. Transportation Papers
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