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Show FACTS ABOUT CHECKS ; A bank check i9 a written order on n bank by one of its depositors to pay a specified sum to another party. This instrument must be dated, the amount written In full In the body, and signed the same as the depositor's deposi-tor's signature appears on the bank signature card and ledger sheet. A check is payable on demand, provided pro-vided it Is not dated ahead. If dated ahead It becomes a promise to pay, the same as a note or acceptance, payable pay-able on some future date. United States revenue stamps are required on a check dated. ahead, at the rate of 2 cents per hundred dollars, or fraction frac-tion thereof. In case a check carries two different differ-ent figures, that is $2.00 in the figures and "Two Hundred Dollars" in the written part of the body of the cheeky the latter, or part in writing, alwaji controls. A check made out to a person "or order," requires identification, ajid the party presenting the same must assure as-sure the bank that he is the payee. A ! check to a person "or bearer" Is pay-: pay-: able to the one presenting it at the j bank, but a certain amount of identi-I identi-I flcatlon is necessary, for the bank re-i re-i gerves the right to know that ae it 1 titled to recoive tbo tunti. |