Pricking Note
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
Where goods intended to be exported are put direct from the station of the warehouse into a ship alongside, the exporter fills up a document to authorise the receiving the goods on board. This document is called a "pricking note," from a practice of pricking holes in the paper corresponding with the number of packages counted into the ship.
Hamel, Oust. 181.