Avenge Rate of Exchange with Loudon during the
past year.
Demuad.
*. d.
3.
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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
3
"
"
""
Copper.
One cent.
A dollar contains
100 conts.
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. 31, the Queen in Conneil 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 $20,764,370
Estimated Amount of paper money in Circulation
Colonial | Private Government. ! Bauks.
NI.
37,459.432
Currency in which Accounts
are kept.
By By the
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, |
Capital Frid mp.
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.
Aroirdupois.
=0133 oz.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. Chartered Bank of Judia, Australia and China. Mercantile Bank
of India. International Banking Corporation.
Ordinance No. 2 of
1866.
15 million dollars.
$ 26.397,580
No juforina- tion.
British Govt. | £3,000,000 10,061,863
Charter of
29-22-53.
£1,050,000
1,000,009
1
Established G. $3.250.000'
1 Fun
(cun- dareen)
=0-183
..
13
**
1 7'sin
(mace)
1 Loung (tael)
1 Kan
1.
(cally)
= 1334
(picul)
Length.
1 Ch'ck equal to 14ģ English inches,
divided into 10 7's'ün and enchi Ts'ün iuto
10 Fan.
|
Banque de 1*Indo-C'hine. Russo-Asiatic
Bank.
Yokohama
Specie Bank.
Bank of Canton, Limited.
Bank of Taiwan, Netherlands-India
Commercial Bank. Netherlands
Trading Society,
Banque Industrielle
de Chine. Bank of China. Bank of East
Asin, Ltıl.
Chinese
Merchants Bank, Ltd. Industrial and Commercial
Bank. Ltd.. China Specie
Bank, Ltd.,
and numerous nutive Hougs doing some portion of bank- ing business.
1
moder
andlocity of
State of Connectient
Senate Re- ! solution Jan-
mary, 1901.
Fis. 68,400,000
Bls. 45,000,000
|Y,100,000,000)
<L989,060 |
Y.45,000,000
| £1,242,112
£6,666,666
(1, 80,000,0001, Frs. 75,000.000
$12,279,800 $2,000,000
2643,750
£19,026
£96.625
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