420 THE WORK OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE
Pacific from some designated Exchange member. The stock
is paid for by Jenkins & Co. under the supervision of the Day
Branch described in a previous chapter.’®* The 100-share cer-
tificate, when received, may be put in a loan envelope by the
cashier and sent to the Forty-first National Bank of New York
as collateral for a loan;* or may be loaned to some other
broker who has sold this amount short and wishes to make a
delivery to his purchaser.®
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Figure 54. Office Sell Slip Figure 55. Office Sale Report Slip
Containing Mr, Blank’s order to sell . Containing report of sale of stock for
100 Southern Pacific ‘“at the market.” Mr. Blank.
Sequel to a Margin Purchase.—But sooner or later Blank
will either sell out this stock at a profit or loss (see Figures 54
and 55), or else pay up what he owes upon it and “take it up,”
to hold outright as an investment. If Jenkins & Co. have
loaned the certificate to some other broker, they may request its
return, upon which they will return to the borrower its money
equivalent which he loaned them in exchange for it, and deliver
the stock to Blank, or to some other firm to whom they have
sold it upon his subsequent instructions. If Blank’s stock is
reposing in a loan envelope at the bank, Jenkins & Co. may
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6 See Chapter VII, p. 187.