Avenge Rate of Exchange with London
during the
past year.
Demand.
S.
d.
2.
(R1)
CURRENCY, BANKING, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES.
List of coins enrront with rela-
tive value.
The Hongkong
silver dollar. Mexican dollar. British dollar. All of equal value,
Subsidiary coin :
Silver,
50 cents.
8220
•
10
事项
11
Copper,
Que 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 vents up to $1.
Authority in Onder of H. M. the Queen in Council of 2nd February, 1895, published in Hongkong Government
Gazette,
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
30 790,865
Subsidiary coin $20,7:9,370
Currency in which Accounts
are kept.
By By the Govt. Publie.]
Weights and Measures in rom- mon nse, and their equivalents in Imperial Weights and Measures.
Name of Bank.
Partienlurs of all Banks doing business in the Colony.
Establishments
In the Colony,
Under what xanthority established.
Capitul paid up.
Note Circulation
Amount of Deposits
in the Colony,
in the Colony.
Dollars Dollars
and and
cents. cents.
1
Burrish,
The Imperial Weights
and Mensures,
1 Fun
CHINESE.
Weights.
(can- dareen)
1 7'sin
(mace) 1 Leung (thel) 1 Ka
(cally) Täm
(pienl)
Avoirdupois
— 0133 oz.
=
=0·133
=
=
=
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1339
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Length.
1 Chek equal to 143 English inches, divided into 10 Ts'ün and cach Ts'ün into
10 Fan.
Hongkong and (Shnuglini Banking Corporation, Chartered Bank of India, Australia mul Chinn. Mercantile Bank
of India,
International Banking Corporation.
Barique du l'Indo-Chine, Russo-Asiatic
Bank.
Yokohama
Specie Bank. Bank of Canton, Limited.
Bank of Taiwan. Netherlands-Imlia Commercial Bank. Netherlands Trading Society.
Bank of China. Bank of East
Asin, Latd.
Chinese Merchants Bauk, Ltd. Industrial and
Commercial
Bank, Ltd.,
China Specie Bank, Ltd..
and numerous Dative Ilougs doing some portion of bank- ing business.
Ordinance No. 2 of INGG.
15 million dollars.
40,395,295 No
informa- tion.
British Govt.
£3,000,000
9,071,137
Charter of
29-22-33.
£1,050,000
1,321,503
|
i
Established G. $3,250,000
under
authority of
State of Connection Senate Re- solution Jan.
many, 1901.
Frs, 68.400,000
RIS. 45,001,00
Y.100,000,000),
£959,060
Y.45,000,000 £1,242,112
£6,666,666 ¦(F. 50,000,000)
$12,279,800 $2,000,000
$643,750
£19,026
I
1
£96.625
1
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