The San Francisco call., 1896-11-09

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BILL OF sALE-A. F., City. If a person pur-
| chases place of business he is not required to
nave the bill OF ale recorded at the Recorders
office, but he can do so Tor his own security in
case OF loss OF the original. The fact that such
Dill is not recorded does not bind the pur-
chaser to pay the debts contracted by the
| 1ormer owner OF the business.
AMOUNT OF LEGAL TENDER-H. D., City. A
| merchant cannot refuse 10 accept standard
dollars to any amount in payment of bill of
goods sold, unless at the time OF the sale he
| stipulated that the payment should be made
! In gold. In this country merchant is not re-
| qu1red to receive coppers in payment of a bill
when the amount rendered exceeds % cents.
| LITHoGRAPHY-S. P. S., Winters, Yolo County,
Cal. There are several lithographic establish
ments in the City of San Francisco, but this
department will not advertise them. Had
TINS correspondent signed his name, instead of
only his initials, he would have received an
answer by mail, but he, like others who are
afraid to sign their names to letters of inquiry,
must not feel disappointed ii the infoI Imation
| asked for is not furnished.
DocKs-H. P. W., Seattle, Wash. The dry
/ dock at Hunters Point, San Francisco, will
admit vessels of 2214 feet draught. The Mer-
chants drydock (foating) will receive vessels
| that have a draught of sixteen feet; the dock
at the Union Iron Works VIII receive vessels
OF seventeen feet draught. There is no dry
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other floating dock in the bay of San Fran
cisco besides the Merchants is the one at the
Union Iron Works.
CAsINo-O. S. H.. Nevada City, Cal. The
rule in casino is that player cannot puiId
from the table. For instance: If a seven and
two are upon the table and player puts an
ace upon them calling it eight his opponent
! cannot employ another two upon the table 10
| build it up to ten. If A and are partners
| and plays card and makes a build OF four
| Is 81 is
| partner, cannot take that six and place it on
an eight on the table and call II fourteen.
Ell DORADO Questioner, Ignacio, Marin
County, Cal. FL Dorado (Spanish) has been ap-
piled to man and place. 1t has been inter-
preted to mean ''the golden city," Milton in
Paradise LOST says:
Guiana, whose great city Greyson's sons
| Call "El Dorado"
| The Muysca Indians of Bogota called each
new chief en- '.E Dorado" 1t was customary
among those people atthe time OF the expiora-
tons in the sixteenth century for each new
chief, with his naked body auointed with res
| inous gums and covered with gold dust to
head solemn procession to the Lake of Co.
| vita and to wash himself therein after much
! impressive ceremony. At the same time the
assembled savages cast into the lake gold
/ trinkets ana precious stones, as offerings to
the goddess OF the lake, the drowned wife of a
| former chfeftain. The Spaniards applied the
name to any place that was supposed to be
| fabulously rich in gold, and they searched at
various tlmeS Tor n FL DORADO In South Amer
| lea, Mexico and Florida in the United States.
MoNEY-E. G. s., LSermore, Cal. check is
8 written order for money drawn on bank or
private banker or bank cashier, payable to a
| person named or to his order or to bearer. In
legal effect it is bill of exchange. certified
| check is one that has been recognized by
competent officer of bank as valid appro-
| priaSon of the amount of money specified
therein to the payee ana bearing the evidence
of such recognition. Notes issued by a Gov
ernment are recognized as money. Walker
in his work on Political Economy"
| says: money is the medium of .ex-
| change. Whatever performs this func-
| ton or does this work, is money, no matter
what it is made of, and no ma tier how it came
| to be a medium at first, or why it continued 10
| be SUCH" In another work, 'Money, Trade
and Industry" Walker says tha: money sis
| that which passes freely from hand to hand
! throughout the community in inal discharge of
! debts and full payment for commodities, being
accepted without reference to the character or
credit OF the person who offers it and without
| the intention of the person who receives it to
consume it or enjoy it or apply it to any other
| use than il turn to tender it to others in dis
| charge of debts or payment for commodities %
| The check OF private individual is an order
| for money. When it is that of an individual
known to have a credit or balance at a solyen I
| bank and is used in payment OF debts or The
| purchase of commodities it is money A cheek