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AMOUNT OF PAPER CURRENCY IN CIRCULATION.
It is impossible to make the calculation with any chanse of approximation to the real amount
The Notes of the Oriental Bank Corporation and the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, Londow and China in circulation during the
ending 31a! December 1859, were in amount as
follows: Oriental Bank
year
$566,332.
545,910. 569.788.
Abercantile Bank
$320,000.
•
324.866.
January February.
March.
April.
663,028
bay
་
503.470.
324,950
334,140
303,854.
June
+
492.085
251,438.
7
July. August. September October Novemba December
490,692
300,277
5541,910
242.089
567.147
• 229,384.
1
557.928 645,607 614,299
1
263,658. 338,687 295,060.
Exclusive of the notes of the Abercantile Bank Still, outstanding
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