Tally
a notched stick employed as a means of keeping accounts. In buying or selling it was customary for the parties to the transaction to have two sticks, or one stick cleft longitudinally into two parts, on each of which was marked with notches or cuts the number or quality of goods delivered, or the amount due between debtor and creditor, the seller keeping one stick and the buyer the oth- The mode of keeping accounts by er. The mode of keeping accounts by the Normans, 1066. Besides accounts, other records were formerly kept on notched sticks, as almanacs, in which redletter days were signified by a large notch, ordinary days by small notches, etc. Such were formerly very common in most European countries. In England ficates of indebtedness to creditors of the state.
The system of issuing exchequer tallies was abolished by an act of George III., and by acts of William IV., be destroyed. They were accordingly burned in a stove in the House of Lords, but the stove being over-heated, unforroom, and the Houses of Parliament were destroyed. Anything made to correspond with or suit another. A label or ticket of wood or metal used in gardens for the purpose of bearing either the name of the plant to which it is gardens for the purpose of bearing eith- er the name of the plant to which it is certain number of alogue. Also, cabbages. a