====================================================================== | [13]Ausgezahlt: | [14]Den obigen Betrag empfangen | | zu haben bestätigt: | | | | | | [15]Datum. | | | | | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- D. S. Nr. 6 II (21.) ex 96. * * * * * [1] Post Office Savings Bank. [2] Advice with reference to an order for repayment. [3] Payable to.... [4] In the Post Office designated on the back. [5] Paid. [6] To be paid without Savings Book. [7] Post Office Savings Bank. [8] Order for repayment. [9] Valid during two months. [10] The Post Office. [11] Pay on this order to.... [12] The sum of.... [13] Paid. [14] In acknowledgement of the receipt of the above sum. [15] Date.] The importance of these payments is not considerable as is seen by the following figures: 1884 99,942 florins. 1885 374,697 " 1886 445,338 " 1887 844,978 " 1888 887,037 " 1889 955,019 " 1890 1,274,607 " 1891 1,091,839 " 1892 1,149,872 " 1893 1,685,791 " 1894 1,697,270 " 1895 1,865,919 " _Fifthly._ The Postal Savings Bank pays in the same way on account of the adherents of the cheque and clearing service, bills, signed bonds, accounts admitted and approved. Bills of exchange are settled at the Postal Office at Vienna. In order to realize their payment, the holder of an account draws a cheque for the amount of the bill and writes on the back: _for payment of the bill herein refered to_. He indicates the date of its falling due and puts his signature below these remarks. This cheque is sent to the Postal Office at Vienna before the bill falls due. It can be addressed also to the possessor of the bill, who will present it at the date it is due to the Postal pay Office with at the same time his claim. If the possessor of the bill is himself affiliated to the cheque service he can have the bill put to the credit of his account. The degree of importance of this branch is indicated by the following figures: 1885 406,451 florins 1886 1,522,404 " 1887 1,877,602 " 1888 3,053,419 " 1889 2,823,845 " 1890 3,436,795 " 1891 4,564,179 " 1892 6,183,954 " 1893 7,343,438 " 1894 7,917,723 " 1895 8,818,997 " From this it will be seen that during the last five years the movement has so accelerated that the amount has in the interval nearly doubled. _Sixthly._