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AMOUNT OF PAPER CURRENCY IN CIRCULATION.
The Notes of the Oriental Bauk Corporation; the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China; the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China; and the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, in circulation during the year ending 31st December, 1872, were in amount as follows:-
Oriental Bunk.
Mercantile Bunk.
Bank of
Hongkong
India, Australia and Shanghai
and China.
Bank.
" ",-
$
$
$
January,
740,803
571,038
309,205
1,004,715
February,
•
741,004
534,075
432,795
955,373
March,
738,458
527,021
479,250
1,034,640
April,
727,824
415,613
307,593
1,217,355
May,
705,128
418,519
393,220
1,020,883
Jane,...
545,248
401,275
404,913
1,131,805
July,
533,830
436,297
418,761
1,281,567
August,
462,104
474,075
414,310
1,196,338
September,
352,871
302,197
+
326,376
1,183,413
October,
414,278
322,051
305,021
1,303,131
November,
G04,415
300,117
357,850
1,578,150
December,
500,572
332,008
466,220
1,919,201
Total,......... .$
7,103,231
5,065,189
4,790,414
14,925,637
ACCOUNTS KEPT IN.
The Accounts of the Colonial Government were formerly kept in Sterling, but from the 1st July, 1862, they bave been kept in Dollars, in accordance with instructions from Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.
The Accounts of the Mercantile Establishments are and have been always kept in Dollars,
Accounts generally are kept in Sterling money, but some, purely for local reference, are kept in Dollars also; in all transactions between Her Majesty's Treasury and the Banks, &c., the local currency being the recognized medium, the accounts are kept in Dollars and Cents. All money is paid from and received into the Imperial Treasury at 4/3 per Dollar, except the Colony's contribution on account of the Military Expenditure as before
mentioned.
English weights and measures only are recognized in all dealings.
C. K. CLEEVE,
Assistant Controller.
WEIGHTS.
English Standard Weights are employed in the Colony, and also the following Chinese ones:-
120 catties,
100 catties,
183+bs.,
18 Taels,
Stone,
石
Shik.
Picul,
Tam.
Catty,
Kin.
担
斤
579.84 Grains Troy,
10 One-Tael,
ог
57.984 Grains,
10 Une,
Mace,
Tael,
Lenng.
Mace,
錢
Tseen.
Candareen
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