p. 278 | A New Departure by John Norton Loughborough

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jul 8, 1875

A New Departure.

By John Norton Loughborough

WE have experienced some confusion in our T. and M. credit accounts with the SIGNS Office, and decide, as you will see by business report of our State quarterly meeting, in this No. of SIGNS, that hereafter “all credit business with the SIGNS Office must be sent to our State Secretary” the same as has formerly been done with business on our periodicals at Battle Creek.

In this case the business agent receives names for the periodicals, with the money, from individuals. He shall pay over the money immediately to the director, and forward the items of business to the district secretary, requesting that it be charged to that church and forwarded by the district secretary to the State Secretary. As the district secretary forwards the items of business to the State Secretary he should state each item distinctly and state also what church each name is from.

When the money is paid by the librarian to the director, he should give him a distinct statement of each item, whose papers it pays for, &c. This should be forwarded by the director to the treasurer when the money is paid to him, so that he can transfer the items in making his credits on his books. If this course is pursued we shall avoid some of the perplexities that have already arisen in some districts being behind on their periodical credit account and not being able to trace the matter.

J. N. L.