. Rand, McNally Washington guide to the city and environs. h imperfect note is rejected, destroyed, and replaced by aperfect one from a reserve supply. The rapid counting, is facilitated—only made possible, intruth—by the fact that the notes, as they fall from the cuttingmachine, lie in exact rotation of numbers (in the upper right-hand corner), so that the counter need only take cognizance ofthe final unit, sure that as long as these run continuously thereis no mistake. Having observed, for example, that the packagebegan 87, 654, 320, that the units were repeated continuouslyin order, i, 2, 3
. Rand, McNally Washington guide to the city and environs. h imperfect note is rejected, destroyed, and replaced by aperfect one from a reserve supply. The rapid counting, is facilitated—only made possible, intruth—by the fact that the notes, as they fall from the cuttingmachine, lie in exact rotation of numbers (in the upper right-hand corner), so that the counter need only take cognizance ofthe final unit, sure that as long as these run continuously thereis no mistake. Having observed, for example, that the packagebegan 87, 654, 320, that the units were repeated continuouslyin order, i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, i, 2, 3, 4, etc., and the packageended 87, 658, 320, the counter could be sure it was full andregular. To guard against any possible mistake, how^ever,these packages go through the hands of five successive countersbefore the last of the fifty-two countings to which the sheetsand notes are subjected is concluded, and the notes are readyfor issue. Each person to whom the packages are temporarily 190 RAND McNALLY WASHINGTON GUIDE. Department of Agriculture The Mall between 12th and 14th Streets Page 196 intrusted is obligedto receipt for them,so that their historymay be traced fromthe paper mills tothe cashiers package,as it comes from thelast counter, con-tains 4,ooo notes;but as these may vary from $i to $ 1,000 in denomination,the value may be $4,000, $8,000, $20,000, $40,000, $80,000,$400,000 or $4,000,000. Each package is now wrapped inbrown paper, sealed with wax impressed with the Treasuryseal, and placed in the currency reserve vault of the cashier ofthe department of issue; and the amount receipted for by thekeeper of the vault (averaging $1,000,000 a day) must cor-respond each evening exactly with the amount received the samemorning from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. These pretty notes, the representatives of the hard cashstored in the vaults, reach the public only through the CashRoom, a large apartment on the main floor, wa
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