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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 India, Australia and China; and the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, in circulation during the year ending 31st December, 1878, were in amount as follows:—
Oriental Bank.
Mercantile
Bank.
Bank of
Honghong India, Australia and Shanghai
and China.
Bank.
January,
292,431
528,452
688,121
1,331,959
February,
268,013
540,810
680,498
1,513,620
March.....
180,495
491,144
580,524
1,623,680
April,.
279,421
544,401
620,921
1,749,534
May,
411,909
434,505
661,637.
*862,915
June,
289,037
440,307
777,008
1,029,527
July,
130,775
418,408
702,133
1,218,204
August,
147,975
*545,446
777,535
1,286,850
September,
140,237
592,690
899,663
1,482,392
October,
194,150
714,334
736,891
1,524,575
November,
346,450
642,452
662,500.
1,430,052
December,...
310,825
531,611
562,742
1,647,726
ACCOUNTS KEPT IN.
The Accounts of the Colonial Government were formerly kept in Sterling, but from the 1st July, 1862, they have 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.
WEIGHTS.
English Standard Weights are employed in the Colony, and also the following Chinese:-
Tael,
Stone,
120 catties,
石
579.84 Grains Troy,................
Loung,
Shek.
Mace,
100 cattios,...
Picul,
or
担
or
Tsin.
57.984 Grains,
1334 lbs., 16 T'aels,.
or
1 tb.,
Tám.
Catty,
斤
Mace,
Candareen,
Fan.
Kan.
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