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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · May 20, 1875

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 1, No. 28.

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Instruction.

By John Norton Loughborough

In former numbers we gave some instructions to District Secretaries, Librarians, and Business Agents, respecting keeping their cash books, but we have not said all we designed to say. The cash account of the District Secretary concerns all T. and M. documents received by the district from the President. The Secretary opens an account with each church in his district, making that church Dr. to tracts, pamphlets, and other T. and M. documents furnished to that church by the director from the President. This account is furnished to the Secretary at the same time the documents are dealt out by the director. On the Cr. page of that church is made an entry of all money received for memberships, donations to T. M. Society, or for book sales in that church. Thus far the account of the district may not balance at all.
The cash book of the District Secretary should contain also an account of all the credit business of the SIGNS, or our periodicals at Battle Creek, so entered that it can be readily told, at any time the director may have occasion to examine the book, how much that district owes each office. When money is paid to the director on SIGNS, or Eastern periodicals, he should report at once to the Secretary so that the Secretary can make an entry upon his cash book of the amount for SIGNS or for Battle Creek periodicals, to the credit of that church. The account on periodicals should be balanced at the time of the district quarterly meeting. That portion of money belonging to the SIGNS office, should be paid at the State quarterly meeting, so as to be placed on the office books to the credit of the respective district. That belonging on periodicals at Battle Creek should be paid to the State Treasurer of the T. and M. Society, so as to be forwarded to Battle Creek, and placed there to the credit of the Cal. T. and M. Society. At the same time that each district pays to the State Treasury their indebtedness on periodicals at Battle Creek, let them report the same to our State Secretary so that the amount can be placed to the credit of the respective district on the State Secretary's cash book.
J. N. L.