All customers' securities received are usually registered on blotters or journals giving generally:

Date

Security numbers

Par value

Description

From whom received

For whose account

Disposition. All securities removed from vaults are likewise registered, usually on different registers, giving essentially the same information, except that they would show to whom delivered instead of from whom received, and so on. From these registers or journals, postings are made to ledgers and cross reference security index cards which will be explained.