SECURITY DELIVERIES, LOANS, AND TRANSFERS 379
receipt. The credit ticket is a signed order by the lender upon
the Stock Clearing Corporation to credit the account of the
borrower with the principal of the new loan. The charge
ticket, on the other hand, is an order signed by the lender upon
the Stock Clearing Corporation to charge the lender’s account
with the principal of the loan, and states that the lender has
received as collateral the securities pledged to obtain it. Both
credit and charge tickets must be approved by the Stock Clear-
ing Corporation and to that effect bear the signature of one of
its tellers.
The lender delivers this form to the cage in the Stock
Clearing Corporation where his own account is kept. The
form is then torn apart along the perforated line, and the
charge ticket is retained in the cage to debit the lender’s account
for the amount of the loan. The lender is given its stub as
evidence of this charge. The credit ticket is then given to the
borrower, after he has delivered the collateral either to the
lender or at the lender’s cage, and the borrower’s account is
credited with the proceeds of the new loan.
Final Settlement with the Stock Clearing Corporation.—
Clearing members settle all their day’s business with the Stock
Clearing Corporation with one check or one draft. For this
reason, the settlement of loan transactions with it is made
together with the settlement for delivery and receipt of cleared
and non-cleared securities and other matters. The detailed
description of this final money settlement will accordingly be
left to the next chapter.’
As for security collateral, there often remains a residue of
it at the Stock Clearing Corporation in the account of a clear-
ing member. This residue results from the fact that not all
the securities placed with the Corporation are withdrawn
“free” during the remainder of the day, for reasons already
given. At the end of the day, therefore, the clearing member
18 See Chapter XIV.