Show BANK hANK OF lANCE Fl-lANCE NOTES low They Are Got Kid hid Ild of After They Hive have lave Served Their Purpose The life le of a bank of Fr Franco note is is' about bont about two It i- i ih tt-hi tt h inO i n i s S J k se i tl sIl w rs T g-T sa saUiS le In tho the matter of destroying their notes noted sot set ap apart rt for or cancellation a new ne departure has been een mado made by the tho bank of France says ays Chambers' Chambers Journal Journal Tho former practice was to in- in their doomed notes for COt three years in a large lorge oak chest boore bo- bo fore ore submitting them to tiara tiara- tion on Thereupon a huge fire fre was sot ot aflame in an open court tho the notes Dotes were thrown into a sort of revolving re- re I wire cage which was kept rotating over the lire tre and the tho minute particles of note ash escaped into nto the air all through the tho meshes of the he cage ago and darkened the atmosphere atmos- atmos pilot pilot-c here all al around Tho The burnings burning took ook place daiy daily and wore of a cerain certain cor- cor tam ain tain amount amount Now the practice is to havo ave about twenty cancellations of notes each year at uncertain times ind as M the noels of the service de- de A hole is punched in each of the tho notes which are also stamped as a follows Canceled the by tho branch at or the head office oce of the he bank of Trance France The notes aro are then marked off ot in the tho registers of bank notes issued according to their outriDers and descriptions A committee committee com corn of the bank directors aro are present at their destruction Tho The canceled notes aro are no longer longet burned but are now i educed i-educed into pulp by bym m means ans of ch chemical agents |