(R4)
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 circulation during the year ending 31st December,
1907, were in amount as follows :—
Chartered Bank
Hongkong and
National Bunk
of India, Australia | Shanghai Banking
and China.
Corporation.
of China, Limited,
*
$
3,264,506
14,394,260
125,565
January,
February,
3,308,624
18,705,507
153,496
Murch........
3,043,158
12,537,990
173,995
April,
3,393,086
11,995,840
202.92%
May.
3.197,791
13,857,2×1
213.973
June,.
3.197,611
16,398,873
215,799
July,
3,156,135
16,301,765
233.800
August,
3.448,122
15,925,035
248,0NG
September,
8,724,563
15,617.740
265,167
Detoher,
3.985,168
18,874,732
300,185
November,
#,426,798
13,790,840
#90,IRT
Derember,
3.274.827
13,299,603
311,736
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 instinctions from Her Majesty's Secretmy of State for
the Colonier.
The Accounts of the Mercantile establishments are and have been always kept in Dollars.