The remainder of the document is detached from the tax receipt and presents at first the erlag schein; it is the authentication of the deposit paid to the cashier of the administration of finances and which is sent by an employé of the Central Post Office at Vienna. It bears the name, the profession, the address of the tax-payer, the amount of the payment made by him, and shows what is the nature of the taxes received and the number of the account at the ministry of finances.

The other part of the document is the attestation by the ministry of finances itself of the payment made to its account; this amtliche bestätigung will be detached and sent to the tax-payer: he will thus possess in the end a double authentication. It may be easily imagined how a tax-payer who is an adherent of the clearing service can pay his tax by a simple transfer of accounts, the ministry of finances having itself an account open at the Savings Bank.

If the various modes which concur to the formation of the property of the account holders in the Central Office at Vienna are considered as a whole the total amount of deposits has successively been:

In1883322,284florins
»188446,223,529»
»1885263,853,687»
»1886478,190,612»
»1887610,477,881»
»1888643,735,637»
»1889754,590,345»
»1890880,361,067»
»18911,001,448,400»
»18921,121,000,736»
»18931,255,692,098»
»18941,366,649,116»
»18951,485,308,862»

In fixing the proportional relations per cent of all the statistical data here brought together we see that the factors which concur to form the credit of the double service of cheques and of clearing, the payments made by way of empfang erlag schein represent in 1895, 65%, and the transfers by writing about 35%, while the total amount of the banking of post office orders, of interest in the public funds and of bills does not come to more than 3% of the whole.

Figure II.