(R 4)
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, 1908, were in amount as follows :—-
Chartered Bank
Hongkong and
Corporation.
National Bank
of India, Australia | Shanghai Banking of China, Limited.
and China.
January,
February,..........
4,124,869
16,444,055
349,059
4,021,672
16,391,369
344,641
Marchi,
3,666,781
15,064,634
305,610
April,
3,699,885
14,893,407
239,560
May,
3,693,358
14,470,231
204,635
Jave,
3,661,452
13,959,440
156,522
July,
3,668,772
15,023,636
126,914
August,
3,765,479
14,594,184
108,230
September,
3,935,775
15,319,673
96,221
October,
3,723,743
15,246,894
86,114
November,.....
3,632,097
15,915,287
79,184
December, ***...........................................
3,735,318
16,776,952
73,056
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 Secretary of Stato for
the Colonies,
The Accounts of the Mercantile establishments are and have been always kept in Dollars,