Show SIGNATURES ON BANK NOTES 1 Many of Them Are Printed Instead of Written as the Law Requires Taking out new circulation Is easy enough It would seem to make oven tho laziest banker willing to have his Institution carry Its limit says tho American Banker It was formerly thought that the signature of ono official should be actually written on national bank notes before thoy woro Issued but this now seems to be regarded as unnecessary Bank tellers tell-ers say that a very largo proportion of tho national bank notes that pass through their hands have no signatures signa-tures at all written on them Not only are the signatures of the treasury officials printed on tho notes with the rest of the engraving but tho presidents presi-dents and cashiers of tho Issuing banks have fallen Into tho way of having hav-ing their signatures printed on the notes Issued by their banks with rubber rub-ber stamps or by other means that savo tho necessity of their writing their signatures on tho notes Pen written signatures are really becoming vlVtM S raro on national bank notes The result re-sult Is that millions of national banknotes bank-notes aro in circulation that bear absolutely ab-solutely nothing In tho way of a signature sig-nature In tho legal sense of a signature signa-ture made by tho hands of tho persons per-sons whoso signatures are regarded as needful to validate tho notes |