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AMOUNT OF PAPER CURRENCY IN CIRCULATION.
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The notes of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, the Hongkong and Shangbai Banking
Corporation, and the National Bank of Chins, Limite 1, in circulation during the year ending 31st December,
1903, were in amount as follows:-
Chartered Bank
of India, Australia | Shanghai Banking
and China.
Hongkong and
Corporation,
National Bank of China, Limited.
Jamary,
February,
3,721,065
13, 169,699
448,889
3,507,713
14,022,232
444,714
March,
3,536,130
11,482,151
434,553
April, ............................
3.467.623
10,377,098
447,343
May,
3,508,175
10,339,409
449,212
June,
3,580,660
10,658,532
449,493
July,
3,584,275
10,174,925
429,752
August,
3,395,319
11,133,377
408,967
September,
3,320,485
11,673,832
445,630
October,
3,855,176
12,092,377
143,736
November,
3,299,296
11,86 1,565
443,040
December,
3,390,749
13,044,183
445,630
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 Dullars, in accordauna with instructions from Her late Majesty's Secretary of State for.
the ('donies.
The Accounts of the Mercantile establishments are and have been always kopt in Dollars,