(Q4)
AMOUNT OF PAPER CURRENCY IN CIRCULATION.
The Notes of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, Londou and China; the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China; and the Hongkong und Shanghai Banking Corporation, in circulation during the year ending 31st December,' 1839, were in amount as follows :~
Mercantile Bank,
Bank of India. Australia and China,
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.
Jaumury.
1,516,395
1.65.1.238
3,253,598
February,
1,510,157
1,646,458
8,548.223
March,
1,891,403
1,154,129
2,943,179
April.
1,235,156
1,471,060
3,105,001
May,
1,274,596
1,591,280
2.817.920
June,..
1,282,320
1,648,047
3,180,404
July,
1,35 4,339
1.6244.261
3,026,243
August.....
1.412,732
1,186,896
9,077,970
September,
1,482,972
1,748,150
3,174,704
October,
1,390,312
1,696,083
8.880,146
November,
1,303,797
1,466,413
3,695,187
December......................
1,202,855
1,159,290
3,474,485
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 Meresatile establishments are und have been always kept in Dollars.