J. W by J. E. W. | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Aug 30, 1877

J. W

By J. E. W.

Business!

IN No. 19, present volume of the Signs, the following item appeared:—

“CREDIT BUSINESS.—When business is sent to this Office accompanied with the money, we do not care who sends it. But when business is sent to be charged to State T. and M. societies, it should always be sent through the State secretary.

“At this Office we charge the State society with everything ordered by the society, and credit it with all received from it. To avoid mistakes and losses of business by mail, the State secretary must do the same. This cannot possibly be done if business is sent direct to this Office by any other officer than the State secretary. We therefore request that all credit business be done through the State secretary.

J. W

Notwithstanding the above, we receive letters every day from directors, district secretaries and business agents, sending business to be charged to the State society to which they belong. As a consequence we have State Society charged with items about which the State secretary knows nothing, and when we send out our monthly statements, it frequently takes weeks of correspondence before our books are made to agree.

To avoid future trouble and confusion in accounts, all letters ordering business charged to any T. and M. society, not received through the State secretary, will be returned to the writer.

It seldom takes more than a day longer to do business through the State secretary, than it would if sent directly to the Office; and this extra day is frequently made up in having the business done correctly the first time. We are often obliged to return letters to the writer for further explanation. J. E. W.