Average Rate of Exchange with London during the
past year.
Demand.
$. d.
2.
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(R1)
CURRENCY, BANKING, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES.
List of coins current with rela-
tive value.
The Hongkong
silver dollar. Moxican dollar.
British dollar. All of equal value.
Subsidiary coin:
Silver.
50 cents.
20 10
5
11
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Copper,
Que cent.
A dollar contains
100 cents.
Legal tender curroney 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
Gazette,
Notitiention No. 128 of
30th March, 1895.
Estimated Amount of
Coin in Circulation,
Silver dollar no estimate.
Subsidiary coin $17,814,870
Estimated Amount of paper money in Circulation
Colonial Government.
Private Banks.
NI.
58,974,108
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Currency in which Accounts are kept.
By By the Govt. Publie.
Weights and Measures in com- mon use, and their
equivalents in Imperial Weights and Measures.
:
Particulars of all Banks doing business in the Colony,
Name of Bauk,
Number of
Establishments
in the Colony.
Under what authority establishel.
Capital paid
Note Circulation in the Colony.
A mount of
Deposits
in the Colony.
Dollars Dollars
Aud
and cents. e enis,
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BRITISH.
The Imperial Weights
and Measures.
1 Fra
CHINESE.
Weights.
(can- dareen) I T'sin
(mace) 1 Leung (tuel)
1 Kan
(catty)
Acoirdupois.
= 0133 oz.
=
0183
1"
= I th
Tăm = 1333
(picul)
Length.
31
1 Ch'ek equal to 143 English inches, divided into 10 Trün and ench Ts'ün into
10 Fun.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. Chartered Bank of India, Australia
and China. Mercantile Bank
of India. International Banking Corporation.
P. and Q. Bauking Corporation
Limited.
Banque de Indo-Chine.
Russo-Asiatic
Bank. Yokohama
Specie Bank. Bank of Canton, Limited.
Bank of Taiwan. Netherlands-India Commercial
Bank. Netherlands Trading Society,
Société Franenise de Gerance De la Bruque Industrielle de
Chine. Bank of China. Bank of East Asia, Lil.
Chinese Merchants
Bank, Ltd. Industrial and Commercial Bank, Ltd., Oriental Commer-
cial Bank Limited. The Ho Hong Bank Limited.
and numerous native Hongs doing some portion of bank- ing business.
Ordinance No. 2 of 1866.
British Govt.
20 million dollars.
44,681,129
No informin- tion.
£3,000,000 12,537.830.
Charter of
29-22-53.
£1,050,000
1,455,649
Established G. $3,250,000
under
authority of
State of
Comecticut
Senate Re- |
solution Jan-
uary, 1901.
Jurorporated £2,594,160
in England
1920.
Frs. 68,400,000
Rbs. 55.500.000
|Y.100,000,000
£1,078,530
Y.52,000,000 £1,242,112
£6,666,670| |(1,50,000,000
Fax. 2,500,000
$18,278,600 $5,000,000
$643,750
£19,026
1
$1,500,000
!
$4,000,000
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