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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