255
Average Rate of Exchange with London during the
past year.
Domand.
4
8. d. 2. 71
(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
10
5
19
34
*T
Copper.
One cont.
A dollar contains
100 cents.
Legal teuler 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 21 February, 1895, published in Hongkong Government
Gazette,
Notification No. 128 of 30th March, 1895.
Estimated Amount of
Estimated Amount of paper money in Circulation.
Private
Banks.
Coin in Circulation,
Silver dollar no estimate.
Subsidiary
coin
$21,264,370.96
Colonial Government.
29,160,029
Currency in -which Accounts
are kept.
By By the Govt. Public.
Weights and Measures in com- mon use, and their equivalents in Imperiul Weights and Measures.
Particulars of all Banks doing business in the Colony.
Name of Bank.
Number of
Establishments
in the Colony,
Under what authority established.
Capital paid up.
Note Circulation in the Colony.
A mount of Deposits
in the Colony.
Dollars Dollars|
and and
cents. cents.
BRITISH
The Imperial Weights
and Mensures,
1 Fan
CHINESE.
Weights.
(can- dareen) 1. T'sin
(mace) I Leung (tael)
1 Kan
(catty)
1 Täm
(picul)
Avoirdupois.
='0133 oz.
=
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking
1
Ordinance
No. 2 of
1866.
15. Million dollars.
21,433,096
No infornm- tion.
}
British Govt.
£1,200,000
6,577,429
Charter of
Corporation. Chartered Bank
of India, Australia
and China. Mercantile Bank
of India.
International Banking Corporation,
Banque de
l'Indo-Chine.
Russo-Asiatic
Bank.
29-12-58.
A
£562,500 1,149,504
Established G. $3,250,000
under authority of
State of
Connecticut Senate Re- solution Jan-
uary,
1901.
=0.133
17
1}
"
1} .
Yokohuma
1
S
133}
19
Bank of Canton,
1
Limited.
Bank of Taiwan,
1
Netherlands-India
1
Commercial
=
Length.
1 Ch'ek equal to 14₤ English inches, divided into 10 Ta'ün and each Tr'ün into
10 Fan.
Specio Bank,
Bauk,
Frs. 12,000,000
Rbs. 15,000,000
Y. 30,000,000
$1,066,250
Y. 6,250,000 £1,242,112
£5,000,000
Netherlands
1
Trading Society.
(f, 60,000,000)
and numerolis
native Hongs doing some portion of bank- ing business.