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AMOUNT OF PAPER CURRENCY IN CIRCULATION.
The Notes of the Oriental Bank Corporation; the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China; the Chartered Bank of Todia, Australia and China; and the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, in circulation during the year ending 31st December, 1875, were in amount as follows:-
Hongkong
Oriental Bank.
Mercantile Bank.
Bank of India, Australia and Shanghai
and China.
Bunk.
$
$
January,
343,852
729,265
505,810
2,068,937
February,
537,261
773,880
630,260
1,798,722
March,.......
506,232
741,661
503,779
1,684,841
April,
500,728
085,727
398,973
1,672,848
May,.
530,817
674,189
370,004
1,907,054
June,
499,471
612,050
471,330
1,432,497
July,
443,881
591,003
589,084
1,075,689
August,
530,924
005,847
*593,890
1,378,255
September,
451,830
452,386
521,023
1,430,812
October,
489,875
580,078
512,858
1,455,598-
November,
383,079
582,307
488,223
1,548,982
December,
4901,954
648,954
542,084
1,408,702
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 Iler Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.
The Accounts of the Mercantile Establishments are and have been always kept in Dollars.
WEIGHTS.
English Standard Weights are employed in the Colony, and, also the following Chinese :-
120 catties,
100 catties
or
1334 s.. 16 Taels,
or
1 lb.,
Stouc,
石 579.84 Grains Troy,
Shiek.
l'icul,
Tael,..
担
or
Túm.
Catty,
Fr
57.934 Grains,
Mace,
Kau.
Tael,
Leung.
Mace,
錢
Tsin.
Caudareen,
分
Fan.