(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 eirenlation during the year ending 31st December,
1909, were in amount as follows:-
Chartered Bank
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and China.
Hongkong and
Corporation.
National Bank
of India, Australia Shanghai Banking of China, Limited.
3,356,942
19,052,242
68,236
January,
3,074,683
16,184,878
62,488
February,
3,240,913
13,599,436
56,$24
March,
April,
3,565,615
12,814,940
52,577
May,
3.276,642
12,356,758
49,273
June,
3,739,520
11,966,330
48,077
July,
3,737,977
12,071,662
47,310
Angust,
3,786,696
12,235,500
52,845
September,
3,782,562
12,777,040
53,265
October,
4,173,548
11,842,694
*53,450
November,
4,357,989
11,460,174
51,336
December,
4,244,759
12,391,952
50,940
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 State for the Colonies.
The Acconuts of the Mercantile establishments are and have been always kept in Dollars,