This book records the payments and receipts of cash It is kept by making cash Dr. to cash on hand and what is received, and C At the end of every day or week, as may best suit the nature of the business, If there is no error, this will make the sum of the Dr. equal to that of the 267 MERCANTILE FORMS. No. 1. $78,50. Negotiable Note. Boston, May 5, 1827. JAMES HONESTUS. On Demand, I promise to pay Claude Lorraine, or Order, Seventyeight Dollars Fifty Cents, with Interest, for value received. No. 2. $40. Note payable to Bearer. Boston, Sept. 17, 1827 Six months from date, I promise to pay A. B., or Bearer, Forty Dol lars for value received. No. 3. $500. SIMEON PAYWELL. Note by two Persons. Berlin, Oct. 28, 1827. For value received, we, jointly and severally, promise to pay C. D. or Order, on demand, Five Hundred Dollars, with Interest. No. 4. $150. HORACE WALCOTT. Note at Bank.. Boston, Feb. 25, 1819. Ninety-five days from date, I promise to pay Thomas Andrews, or Order, at the Phoenix Bank, One Hundred and Fifty Dollars, for value received JOHN REYNOLDS. Remarks relating to Notes of Hand. 1. A negotiable note is one which is made payable to A. B. or order —It is otherwise, when these words are omitted. 2. By endorsing a note is understood, that the person to whom it is payable writes his name on the back of it. For additional security, any other person may afterwards endorse it. 3. If the note be made payable to A. B., or order, (see No. 1,) then A. B. ran sell said note to whom he pleases, provided he endorses it; and whoever buys said note may lawfully demand payment of the signer of the note, and if the signer, through inability or otherwise, refuses to pay said note, the purchaser may lawfully demand payment of the endorser. 4. If the note be made payable to A. B., or bearer, (see No. 2,) then the signer ouly is responsible to any one who may purchase it. 5. Unless a note be written payable on some specific future time, it should be written on demand; but should the words on demand be omitted, the note is supposed to be recoverable by law. 6. When a note, payable at a future day, becomes due, it is considered on interest from that time till paid, though no mention be made of interest. 7. No mention need be made in a note of the rate of interest: that particular is settled by law, and will be collected according to the laws of the state where the note is dated. In some states it is 6 per cent.; in others, 7. 8. If two persons, jointiy and severally, (see No. 3,) sign a note, it may be collected by law of either. 9. A note is not valid, unless the words for value received be expressed. 10. When a note is given, payable in any article of merchandise, or property other than money, deliverable on a specified time, such articles should be teadered in payment at said time; otherwise the holder of the note may demand the value in money. A Receipt for Money on Account. Received of James Wardell Three Dollars on account. Boston, June 21, 1816. SIMEON BRANDT. A General Receipt. Received of Jonathan Andrews Fourteen Dollars in full of all ac counts. Receipt for Money paid on a Note. Received of Leonard Temple Seventy-two Pounds and Eleven Shillings, on his note for the sum of One Hundred and Seventy-two Pounds, and dated at Enfield, Oct. 27, 1826. D. THOMAS. Boston, August 27, 1828. An Order for Money. Messrs. R. Potter & Co. Pay James Thomas, or Order, Eleven Dollars, and this shall be your receipt for the same. Boston, Sept. 16, 1828. An Order for Goods. Mr. Albion N. Olney, Pay the Bearer Seventy-one Dollars, in goods from your store, and charge R. RAYNAL. Note. A receipt given in full of all accounts cuts off accounts only; but a receipt given in full of all demands cuts off not only all accounts, but all demands whatsoever. An order, when paid, should be receipted on the back, by the person to whom it is made payable, or by some one duly authorized to sign for him; but when it is made payable to bearer, or to A. B. or bearer, it may be receipted by any one who presents it for payment. THE END. |