serve as ticklers. Towards the last of each month the cards for the following month are looked over, bills for renewal are made out, and the cards replaced. The bills are made out in duplicate, one copy being mailed to the renter, while one is kept by the teller who receives rent payments, serving as his memorandum of rents due.

Some companies prefer to have the department tickler in book form, as shown in Figure 96. This book is indexed by years and months.

It is desirable to have a record showing the history of each safe, and for this purpose the Safe Register, shown in Figure 97, is used. As will

be seen, this record shows at any time what safes are unrented, and who are the present holders of rented safes, as well as who was the renter of any given safe at any given date.

Figure 98 shows a card form for this same record. filed in cases having index cards for every ten numbers.

These cards are

The tab at the

top of the card shows the last figure of the number, so that the card may be easily picked out after the index card is located. Thus, the card shown in the figure would be the fifth card filed after the index card 970. In addition to the information called for in the form shown in Figure 97, it provides.for the record of the number of the lock on the safe, and the date when the lock was changed. This last memorandum has reference to the practice of the most careful companies, of changing the lock to a safe every time the renter is changed, so that in case duplicates of the keys have been made, they will be useless as a means of gaining access to the safe. This is an example of the extreme care taken to provide against any possible contingency that might occasion loss to a customer through negligence on the part of the company.

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Most companies keep a Visitors' Register, a form of which is shown in Figure 99. In this book the attendants make record of every visit that is made to the safe deposit vaults by customers or by employees or officers having safes. The word "Room" at the top of the last column refers to the coupon room to which the visitor retires with his box. The usefulness of this memorandum lies in the fact that customers frequently are so careless as to leave articles of value in the coupon room when they replace their boxes in the vault. Before another person is admitted to the coupon room, the attendant examines it for any articles that may have been left; and if he finds any, the Visitors' Register shows to whom they belong. It will be seen that from this record the company can learn just what visits have been made to any given safe, by whom they were made, and the other particulars shown in the figure. This information is frequently of great value.

Some companies have the bookkeeping for this department done in the department, while others, especially the larger ones, have the records involving cash kept in another department. If the latter plan is followed, it is necessary to have a set of debit, credit and memorandum slips for bookkeeping information. These include rental tickets, giving full information when a safe is rented, surrender tickets, for use when a safe is surrendered, credit slips for payments, etc. The exact forms of these tickets will depend upon the particular system of the company using them. This department also needs other simple forms, such as bill-heads.

THE STORAGE Department.

As already stated, in addition to the renting of safes, this department undertakes the storage of articles in separate packages, varying from envelopes containing an insurance policy to trunks or chests containing silverware, books or other bulky valuables. This business is simpler than that of renting safes, involves fewer forms, and necessitates fewer precautions, the responsibility of the company being well-defined. The customer

FIG. 102.-RENTER'S RECEIPT FOR CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT, ETC.

is given a receipt, which is sometimes called a Certificate of Deposit, and sometimes a Storage Receipt, a form of which is shown in Figure 100. The back of this receipt contains the printed conditions and regulations of the company governing storage of valuables, and a receipt to be signed when the package is taken and the certificate of deposit surrendered. These Conditions and Regulations read as follows: