18 NOVEMBER 1916, Page 13

" TICKS " AND THEIR MEANING.

(To THE EDITOR Of TEM "SMECI1TOR."1 Sie,-In answer to your note at the foot of my letter in your issue of November 11th, I would say that the document referred to was. I believe, a contractor's bill. It would be the duty of the receiving clerk to check and tick the rates charged for the various articles and the total amounts. These would be the only ticks made in the R.A.C.D. Other ticks might be made by Government auditors after the document had left the R.A.C.D., but in any ease the number of ticks would depend on the sets of figures involved and not upon the number of officials employed in examining the document-I am, Sir, &c., C. G. Jess% Major-General. Royal Army Clothing Department, Grosvenor Road, S.W.