Cheques in 2400 B.C.
FINDS IN BABYLONIAN RUINS
PARIS, Dec. 12
The ruins of a Babylonian colony dating back 2,400 years beofre the Christian era have been discovered at Koisa Nyek, in Asia Minor. The remains discovered prove that the community which lived there was partly military and partly commercial. Cuneiform inscriptions give many curious details of the organisation of the city, which was governed by a prince and a prefect, assisted by a princess and a female prefect,-whose powers are said to have been precisely equal to tliose of their male colleagues. The city was known to its admirers are Burns and seems to have been one of the earliest homes of female emancipation. Records of a regular postal delivery service have been found, the letters being written cm baked tiles of a circular shape. References to an early form of the cheque sysern have been discovered, a bearer cheque being found which contains instructions to the addressee to pay to the person named in it a stated sum.
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1922, Page 1
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170Cheques in 2400 B.C. Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1922, Page 1
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