Up To Date Business by Seymour Eaton

4. Write your name as you are accustomed to write it, no matter how it

is written on the face. If you are depositing the cheque write or stamp "For Deposit" or "Pay to ______BANK______," as may be the custom, over your signature. This is hardly necessary if you are taking the cheque yourself to the bank. A cheque with a simple or blank indorsement on the back is payable to bearer, and if lost the finder might succeed in collecting it; but if the words "For Deposit" appear over the name the bank officials understand that the cheque is intended to be deposited, and they will not cash it.