(2)When a figure is to be corrected it shall be cancelled by drawing a pen across it in such a manner that it may remain distinctly legible, the substituted figure shall be written above, below, or by the side of the cancelled figure, and the alteration shall be attested by the initials of the person making it. The practice of erasing, obliterating and changing into other figures, the figures to be corrected, is strictly prohibited.
