(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,

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