Average Rate of Exchange with Loudon during the
past year.
Demuud.
d.
2. 14
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(R1)
CURRENCY, BANKING, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES.
List of coins current with rela-
tive value.
The Hongkong
silver dollar. Mexican dollar.
British dollar. All of equal value.
Subsidiary coin:
Silver.
50 cents. 20
8997
10
13
17
Copper.
One cent.
A dollar contains
100 cents.
Legal tender currency giving particulars and Legislative Authority,
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
Gazelle,
Notification No. 128, of 30th March, 1895.
Estimated Amount of
Estimated Amount of paper money in Circulation.
Coin in Circulation.
Colonial Government.
Private
Banks.
Silver dollar no estimate.
Nil.
33,741,049
Subsidiary coin $21,264,370.96
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.
Name of Bauk.
Particulars of all Banks doing business in the Colony.
Number of
Establishments
in the Colony,
Under what authority established,
Note Amount of Circulation Deposits
Capital paid up.
in the
Colony.
in the Colony.
$
Dollars Dollare
and and
cents. cents.
BRITISH.
The Imperial Weights
and Measures.
1 Fan
CHINESE.
Weights.
(can- dureen)
1 T'sin
(mace) \ Leung
(tael)
1 Kan
(enity)
Aroirdupois.
=0133 0
=0-133
=
07.
1}
"J
13 lb.
| Tim
133}
(picul)
Length,
1 Ch'ek equal to 14% English inches,
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China. Mercantile Bank
divided into 10 T's'ün 1
and each Ts'ün iuto
10 Fan.
of Indin. International Banking Corporation.
Banque de l'Indo-Chine.
Russo-Asintie
Bank.
Yokohama
Specie Bank.
Bank of Canton,
Limited.
Bauk of Taiwan. ! Netherlands-Indiu
Commercial Bank. Netherlands
Trading Society.
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Ordinance No. 2 of 1866.
15
25,025,355
Million
dollars.
No informa- tion.
British Govt.
£1,200,000
7,765,117
Charter of
29-12-53.
£562,500
950,577
Established G. $3,250,000
1
under
authority of
1
State of
Connecticut
Senate Re- solution Jun-
mary,
1901.
+
Frs. 12,000,000
Rus. £5,000,000
|Y, 30,000,000.
$1,066,250
Y. 6,250,000
£1,242,112 |
......
£5,000,000 |
(F,60,000,000),
Mal numerous
native Hongs
doing some portion of bauk- ing business.