Check books

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A CHECK BOOK COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF OVERLYING CHECK BLANKS AND UNDERLYING STUB BLANKS SECURED IN AN ASSEMBLY IN ALTERNATE ARRANGEMENT THEREIN, EACH CHECK BLANK HAVING A NUMERAL SPACE ADAPTED TO RECEIVE THE AMOUNT OF A CHECK WRITTEN IN NUMERALS, INDICIA ON THE CHECK BLANKS OPPOSITE TO AND DEFINING THE LEFT-HAND ENDS OF THE NUMERAL SPACES, THE STUB BLANKS EACH POSITIONED DIRECTLY REARWARDLY OF A CHECK BLANK AND HAVING A DUPLICATING SPACE IN REGISTRATION WITH THE NUMERAL SPACES OF THE CHECK BLANKS AND IN WHICH DUPLICATING SPACE NUMERALS WRITTEN ON A CHECK BLANK MAY BE DUPLICATED, THE STUB BLANKS EACH HAVING ALSO A RECORDING SPACE NEXT ABOVE THE DUPLICATING SPACE AND IN WHICH RECORDING SPACE NUMERALS MAY BE WRITTEN, THE RECORDING SPACES EXTENDING LATERALLY FURTHER TO THE LEFT IN THE ASSEMBLY RELATIVELY THAN SAID NUMERAL SPACES OF THE CHECK BLANKS EXTEND AND EACH ADAPTED TO RECEIVE AT LEAST ONE OF ANY OF THE NUMERAL DIGITS FOR DISPOSITION FURTHER TO THE LEFT IN THE ASSEMBLY RELATIVELY THAN THE NUMERAL SPACES OF THE CHECK BLANKS ARE ADAPTED TO RECEIVE, INDICIA ON THE STUB BLANKS DEFINING THE EXTENT TO THE LEFT WHICH SAID RECORDING SPACES EXTEND, AND DUPLICATING MEANS IN THE CHECK BOOK ADAPTED FOR DUPLICATING IN THE DUPLICATING SPACES OF THE STUB BLANKS NUMERALS WRITTEN ON THE CHECK BLANKS IN SAID NUMERAL SPACES THEREOF.