(Q4)
AMOUNT OF PAPER CURRENCY IN CIRCULATION.
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The Notes of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China; the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China; and the IIongkong and Shangbai Banking Corporation, in circulation during the year onding 31st December, 1892, were in amount as follows:-
Mercantile Bank.
Bank of India, Australia and China.
Hongkong and Shanghai
Bank.
$
January,
1,537,888
1,778,011
3,748,737
February,
1,505,785
1,800,515
3,553,944
March,
1,392,512
1,548,927
3,131,188
April,
1,060,230
1,799,011
3,428,987
May,
1,138,785
1,783,916
3,183,979
June,..
886,385
1,618,076
3,011,737
July,
.602,413
1,513,231
3,165,850
August...........
516,028
1,485,338
8,511.462
September,
281,067
1,655,790
8,797,337
October,
192,297
1,842,791
3,964,624
November,
146,839
1,660,279
4,125,837
December,.......
105,839
1,943,328
4,389,543
ACCOUNTS KEPT IN.
The Accounts of the Colonia! 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.