Treasury
2nry
Average Rate of Exchange with Loudon during the
past year.
Demand.
d.
3.
87
16
(R1)
CURRENCY, BANKING, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES.
List of coins current with rela-
tive value.
The Hongkong
silver dollur, Mexican dollar.
British dollar. All of equal value.
Subsidiary coin:
Silver.
50 cents.
20 7.
10
5
++
11
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 II. M.
the Queen in Council of 2nd February, 1895, published in Hongkong Government Gazelle, Notification No. 128 of 30th March, 1895.
Estimated Amount of
Coin in Circulation,
Silver dollar
no estimate.
Subsidiary coin $20,761,370
Estimated Amount of paper money in Circulation.
Colonial Government.
Private
Banks.
NI
36,298,510
Currency in which Accounts are kept.
By By the Govt. Pablic.
Weights and Measures in com- mon use, and their equivalents in Imperial Woights and Measures.
Dollars Dollars)
Kul
and
dents. | couls.
Particulars of all Banks doing business in the Colony.
Name of Bank.
Number of
Establishment
In the Colony,
Under what authority established.
Capital paid op.
Note Circulation in the Colony.
Amount of Deposits in the Colony.
BRITISH.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.
1
Ordinance
15
24,874,290
No. 2 of
1866.
million dollurs.
No informa- tion.
The Imperial Weights Chartered Bank
|
British Govt.
£2,000,000
10,454,944
and Measures,
of India, Australin
Charter of
and China.
29-22-53.
Mercantile Book
1
£750,000
969,276
1 Fan
CHINESE.
Weights.
(can- dareen)
Avoirdupois.
0133 oz
1 T'ain =0·133
(mace)
1 Leung
(tnel) 1 Kan
(catty)
Tâm
(picul)
19
I}
»
lj lb.
= = 133}
Length.
#
1 Ch'ek equal to 148 English inches, divided into 10 Ts'ün and each Trün into
10 Fan.
of India. International Banking Corporation.
Banque de
l'Indo-Chine.
Russo-Asiatie
Bank. Yokohama Specie Bank.
Bauk of Canton, Limited.
Bank of Taiwan, Netherlands-India
Commercial
Bank. Netherlands Trading Society, Banque Industrielle
de Chine.
Bank of China. Bank of East
Asia, Lol.
and numerous native longs doing some portion of bank- ing business.
Established G. $3,250,000
uwder
authority of
State of
Connecticut Senuto Re- solution Jun-
nary, 1901.
LA
A
Fr. 12,000,000
Rbs. 45,000,000
Y. 30,000,000]
$1,066,250
Y.37,500,000 | £1,242,112
£5,000,000 {{F, 60,000,000), Fr. 75,000,000
$12,279.800
$2,000,000