(Q4)
AMOUNT OF PAPER CURRENCY IN CIRCULATION.
The Notes of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, and the National Bank of China, Limited, in eirculation during the year ending 31st December,
1901, were in amount as follows ;—
T
Chartered Bank
of India, Australia and China.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
National Bank of China, Limited,
January.
February............
Mareli,
2,789,303
7,639,676
450,000
3,049,830
10,169,377
450,000
2,693,426
9.416,337
450,000
April..
May,
2,471,468
9,061,867
429,151
2,840,838
7,957,588
441,499
June,
2,808,495
7,905,367
442,272
July...........
2,722,283
8,075,467
440,485
August,
2,925,822
8,126,757
447,566
September.............
2,820,843
7,922,633
439,431
October,
2,885,303
8,108,563
438,438
November,
3,008,198
7,668,500
441,350
December,
3,028,497
8,460,102
444,296
*
ACCOUNTS KEPT IN.
The Accounts of the Colonial Government wero Formerly kept in Sterling, but from the 1st July, 1862, they
have been kept in Dollars, in accordance with instructions from Her Majesty's Priucipal Secretary of State for
the Colonies.
The Accounts of the Mercantile establishments are and have been always kept in Dollars,