TALLY

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TALLY , an old device, now obsolete, formerly used in the English exchequer for the purpose of keeping accounts. The tally was a willow or hazel stick about one inch in depth and thickness, and roughly shaped like a thick knife-blade (see Fig. 1). Notches (see Fig. 2) were cut on it showing the amount
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being then split down the middle through the notches; one half, called the tally, being given as a form of receipt to the person making the payment, while the other half, called the counter-tally, was kept in the exchequer. Payments made into the exchequer were entered into an account-book, from which they were trans-
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were burnt down by the overheating of the stoves through using too many of the tallies.
The so-called tally-trade was an old system of dealing carried on in London and in the manufacturing districts of England, by which shopkeepers furnished certain articles on credit to their customers, the latter paying the stipulated price for them by weekly or monthly instalments (see M`Culloch, Dictionary of Commerce)the precursor, in fact, of the modern instalment system.
See S. R. Scargill-Bird, Guide to the Public Records (Calendar of State Papers) ; H.

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