(R2)
Average Rate of Exchange with London during the
List of coins
tive value.
Estimated Amount of
Legal tender currency giving
Amount of
current with rela-
particulars and Legislative Authority.
Estimated
Coin in Circulation,
paper money in Circulation.
past year.
Colonial Government.
Private
Banks.
Demand.
5.
d.
1.
94.
The Hongkong silver dollar. Mexican dollar.
British dollar.. All of equal value.
Subsidiary coin:
Silver.
50 cents.
20
31
10
哪里
5
Current silver dollar no limit.
Subsidiary silver coin up to
$2.
Copper cents up to $1.
Authority in Order of H. M. the Queen in Council of 2nd February, 1895, published in Hongkong Government Gazette, Notification No. 128, of 30th March, 1895,
Silver dollar no estimate.
Subsidiary coin $26,292,370.
31
Copper.
One cent.
A dollar contains
100 cents,
Currency in which Accounts
are kept.
By
By the
Govt. Public.
Weights and Measures in com- mon use, and their
equivalents-in Imperial Weights and Measures.
Nil.
29,844,585
Particulars of all Bauks doing business in the Colony.
'Name of Bank.
Number of
Establislimenta
In the Colony,
Under what authority established.
Capital paid up.
Note Circulation in the Colony.
Amount of Deposits in the Colony.
Dollars Dollars
and and
cents. cents.
BRITISH.
The Imperial Weights
and Measures,
CHINESE.
Weights.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. Chartered Bank
A
Ordinance No. 2 of 1866.
1
British Govt.
15 Million dollars. £1,200,000
21,793,806
No informa- tion.
6,976,548
of India, Australia
Charter of
and China. Mercantile Bank
29-12-53.
1
£562,500
1,074,291
of India.
1 Fan
(can)
dareen)
Avoirdupois.
='0133 oz.
1 T'sin =0·133 „
(mace)
International Banking Corporation.
1
Established G. $3,250,000
under
authority of
State of Connecticut Senate Re-
solution Jan-
uary, 1901.
KONTAK
Frs. 12,000,000
1 Leung
(tael)
=
1 Kun
(catty)
1 Tám
(picul)
=
Banque de
l'Indo-Chine.
Russo-Asiatic
Bank.
1
1 fb.
Yokohama
1
......
133 »
Specie Bank.
Bank of Canton,
1
Limited,
Length.
1 Ch'ek equal to 148 English inches, divided into 10 Trün and each Tr'ün into
10 Fan.
Baok of Taiwan. Netherlands-India
Commercial
Bank. Netherlands Trading Society.
1
and numerous
native Hongs
doing some portion of bank- iug business.
Rbs. 45,000,000
Y. 30,000,000
$1,066,250
Y. 6,250,000 £1,242,112
£5,000,000 (f.60,000,000)