They had been withdrawn from the Fifth Avenue Safe Deposit Company, for they were mostly cheques and negotiable securities, worth about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
In this way the Cheque-Bank extends the use of cheques in the lieu of money to a great multitude of small transactions, and relieves the other banks from what would otherwise be a great deal of troublesome accounting and collection.
The cheques issued by this institution are so different in character and in course from common bank-cheques, and are in some respects so new in principle, that we must give to them a separate heading and a full explanation.
It also ignores the truth, that an advancing country needs less rather than more Money in amount as it advances, because cheques and other forms of non-money Credits are constantly increasing both absolutely and relatively.
It is the custom for everybody to draw his own cheque on his banker to make payments with, and to pass in to his banker the cheques he receives from others.
Each parcel is made up of cheques or credit-claims, the property of the bank that brings it and the debts of the bank to which it is delivered.
The Crossed Cheques Act of Parliament in 1876 makes any obliteration of the crossing or essential alteration of a cheque felony at law.
There he saw on the very date mentioned by Blake, cheques drawn to "Self and P.
He was a poor specimen of the clan who couldn't shear his hundred and twenty sheep between bell and bell; and the price was a pound a hundred, with plenty of stations wanting shearers, so they made good cheques in those days.
The change had been graduated but swift, brought about by an extension of the system of cheques that had even in his previous life already practically superseded gold in all the larger business transactions.
The common traffic of the city, the common currency indeed of all the world, was conducted by means of the little brown, green and pink council cheques for small amounts, printed with a blank payee.
Cheques had been dealt out there, and his uncle's views for his future guidance inculcated on him.
The new suffrages simply became the figures upon the cheques handed over to the Chief by each constituency, with the request that he would fill in the name of the payee.
All a publisher has to do is to write cheques at intervals, while a lot of deserving and industrious chappies rally round and do the real work.
Hunt up your cheque-book and see how many cheques for ten pounds payable to the Ritz Hotel you wrote out between May the fifth and May the tenth.
It couldn't have been for his personal use, for in that case he would have made the cheques payable to self.
I asked the bank manager about these cheques and he looked up a couple of them and found they had been cashed over the counter.
Do you believe that any one of those cheques was made payable to any of the men who are under arrest?
All the storekeepers began to get up fresh goods, and to send money in notes and cheques to pay for them.
When we overhauled the leather sack into which Jim had stowed all the notes and cheques we found that we'd done better than we expected, though we could see from the first it wasn't going to be a bad night's work.
He cashed the cheques and drew the lot in notes and gold--such a bundle of 'em there was.
Egad, if I saw myself in a fair way of being able to write cheques upon such an account as Smithson's I should be as wild as Lady Lesbia,' said one of the damsel's military admirers at the Rag.
The cheques had been sent her as she asked for them; sometimes even before she asked for them; and she had kept no account.
He laughs on the other side of his mouth, however, when he realises the fact that he has cheques he has not sent in.
I never read the name of the firm; I only know that I pay a small sum in monthly, and write a few cheques as occasion requires.
When I investigated Tom's transactions, I found a few of his forged cheques in the bank, and I could hardly tell the difference between my signature and his forgeries.
People came in fairly frequently to cash cheques of two or three pounds, but it was rare that any very large dealings took place.
Probably few of the customers who came to cash cheques suspected that there was anything the matter with the man who paid them their money.
They were in a bad way, and were knocking down their cheques beautifully when Peter M'Laughlan came along.
I asked Tom Hall when I met him and Jack Mitchell down in Sydney with their shearing cheques the Christmas before last.
Only promise me that you will give Clara thecheques as soon as you go home, and let her take care of the cash for a while.
But if they see us going out back they'll reckon that we'll get a shed likely as not, and we'll be sure to call there with our cheques coming back.
It appeared that on the day of my visit to Eastwich a number of forged cheques had been cashed at the three banks.
Jezzard got some stamps made for stamping on the account numbers, and when this had been done I handed over to him the whole collection of forged cheques in settlement of my debts to all of my four companions.
But Jerry was of a practical nature; cheques were occasionally stopped, and officious detectives might come to hear of it, so he decided to decline the tempting offer, but promised revenge on the morrow.
In the course of his career he had had many cheques payable to his order, and he knew where to write his name.
Tradespeople were rapidly losing the first bloom of innocence, and cheques from unknown customers were regarded with considerable suspicion.
When that was done, and only the signature required, he handed bothcheques over to Marston.
And seeing that the gentlemen of the Mint had taken all the blank cheques found in pocket-books and all the cheque-books 'removed from offices' to Smith and Co.
He went carefully over the faint violet outline with a pen and ink, and when he had finished and the signature was dry, he put the two cheques side by side, and dapped his thigh with delight.
Heedless of his own safety, and the use that might be made of the knowledge, he told George all, How the burglary had been planned; how it was George had been suspected; how the cheques had been forged by Smith and Co.
The good souls who spoke up for the young scapegrace didn't know what a plentiful crop of oats Master George had sown, neither had they had to draw the cheques to pay for this rather unprofitable agricultural produce.
We can do with as many blank cheques as you can bring us.
Under the squab of the sofa he placed three of the blank cheques from the book so mysteriously lost by Limpet, junior.
The desks are arranged alphabetically, so that the clerks may lose no time in passing round the room and delivering their "charges" or batches of cheques to the representatives of the various banks.
Cheques were thus collected by correspondence, and each remittance involved a separate payment in London.
The progress of banking on the continent of Europe has been slow in comparison with that of the United Kingdom, and the use of cheques is not so general, consequently the need for clearing-houses is not so great.
Since 1858, accordingly, a country banker sends cheques on other country banks to his London correspondent, who exchanges them at the Clearing-House with the correspondents of the bankers on whom they are drawn.
He could only account for it by the fact that the two cheques were cashed simultaneously at two separate clocks; but even this explanation was not wholly satisfactory.
There had been some little mistake probably; thecheques had been wrongly numbered perhaps, or else they were honoured without regard to chronological sequence, which was most confusing.
I will tear out all these smallcheques and burn them.
The caprices of the Time Cheques were such that it was quite possible he would be thrown back into an earlier interview.
I only went on drawing the cheques because I wanted a little change of air and scene now and then.
Now if he has sentcheques instead of money, we are sold too, after we thought we had escaped.
Within twenty-four hours after the Richardses had received theircheques their consciences were quieting down, discouraged; the old couple were learning to reconcile themselves to the sin which they had committed.
If the cheques already received, and your own, which you are about to draw, are not directly devoted to the purpose for which they are intended, I can guarantee that you shall not be humiliated by their return!
Now, Jesson and Hohsmann had both sent huge cheques to the paper, and interviews with the philanthropic and patriotic capitalists appeared upon the front page.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cheques" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
