he find a discrepancy, she makes a certificate of the difference
for return to the sender. Next she proceeds to count the money,
carefully keeping the notes and straps of each parcel separate. If she
discovers an error of count, she notes upon the strap, over her initials
and the date, the sum which she finds the package to be "over" or
"short." Spurious or other notes, for any reason excluded by the rules,
are thrown out, pinned to the straps in which they came, and returned.
After finishing her count she makes a statement of the amounts of
"overs," "shorts," counterfeits, and other rejected notes, and of the
amount for the credit of the sender, and from this statement return
remittance is made. The next duty of the counter is to assort the notes
into the two classes of such as are unfit for circulation and such as
are fit, and into the various denominations. When a hundred notes of one
denomination and class are counted she surrounds them with a white
strap, on which she pencils her initials and the date. Straps printed
for full packages of a hundred notes of the different denominations are
provided. Less than a hundred notes make a package of "odds." The "odds"
arising from a day's count are delivered to "odd" counters, who mass
them into full packages. Each counter, having finished this portion of
her work, enters, in duplicate, upon a leaf of the blank book furnished
her for this purpose, the various items into which she has divided her
cash, and delivers this with the money to the teller. He takes an
inventory of the amount by straps, and finding the counter's statement
to be correct, tears off the half leaf on which the duplicate account is
made, and signs the original as a receipt. After all the full packages
resulting from the day's count have been delivered in this manner, the
teller makes them up into bundles of ten, or one thousand notes, keeping
each denomination and class separate, and in this shape, on the evening
of the day on which the money was received, they are ready for delivery
to the assorting teller's room. Here the amount is inventoried and
receipted for, and the money is locked up for the night in the iron
portion of one of those wonder-waking safes.

None but the most experienced and skilful counters are employed in this
first process, the responsibility both to the Government and the
employee being too great to be imposed upon any but experts. It will
readily be seen not only that correctness