Average Rate of
Exchange with Loulon
during the
past year,
Demand.
J.
d.
(R1)
CURRENCY, BANKING, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES.
List of coins. eurreal with rela-
tive value,
The Hongkong
silver dollar. Mexican dollar. British dollar. All of equal value. i
Subsidiary coin ;
Silver.
50 vents.
20
10
"
**
#
Copper.
One cent.
A dollar contains
100 cents.
!
Legal tender vurrency giving particulars and Legislative Authority.
Current silver dollar no fimit.
Subsidiary silver coin up to
$2.
Copper cents up to $1.
Authority in Order of HI. M. the Queen in Comcil of 2nd February, 1895, published in Hongkong Government
Gazette,
Notification No. 128 of 30th March, 1896.
Amount of
i
paper money in Cirenlation
Estimated Amount of
Estimated
Coin in Circulation.
Colonial Government.
Private
Banks.
Silver dollar
to estimate.
Nil.
58.291,190
Subsidiary coin
$17,889,370
Currency in which Accounts
Weights and Measures in coin- mon use, and their equivalents in
Imperial Weights
are kept.
By
Br the
and Measures.
Govt. Publie.
Name of Bank.
Dollars Dollars)
and
and
cents. cents.
Partienlars of all Banks doing business in the Colony.
in De Culotty,
Nombre of
Estabbstinents
Under wint authority established.
Capital paid up.
Note Cirenlation
in the Colony.
Amount of Deposits
in the Colony.
BRITISH.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking' Corporation.
Ordinance No. 2 of 1866.
20 million dollars.
42,326,967
No informa- tion.
The Imperial Weights Chartered Bank
British Govt.
£3,000,000 14,504,348
and Measures.
of India, Australia'
Charter of 29-12-53.
£1,050.000
1,459,875
1 Fan
CHINESE.
Weights.
(can- dareen)
1 T'sin
(mace) | Leung (tel) 1 Kar
(culty)
1 Tam
(pien!)
Avoirdupois.
= 0133 oz.
=04133 ..
and China.
Mercantile Bank
of India. International Banking Corporation.
Corporation
Established G$.5,000,000
under
anthority of
State of Commerticul Senate Res
| solution Jan-
llary, 1901,
Iucorporated £2,594,160
1920.
P. ami O, Banking
1
in England
11
Limited.
Banque de
Frs. 64,400,00U
1.
Tlado-Chine.
1339
01
Bank.
Russo-Asiatic
1
Length,
| Ch'ck equal to 14ậ English inches, divided into 10 Tsün and each 7'iæ into
10 Fan.
Yokohama
Specie Bank, Bank of Canton, 1
Limited,
Bank of Taiwan, | Netherlands-India
Commercial
Bank. Netherlands Trading Society,
Banque Franco- Chinoise pour le Commerce et l'Industrie.
-Hank of ChINE.
Bank of Ea
Aria, Lul.
Industrial and Commercial Bauk, Lid..
Oriental
omnier-
cial Bank Limited.
The Ho Hong Bank Limited,
and numerolls
untive Hongs doing some
portion of bankA
lug busiuvas.
2*
• Kowloon Branch Office,
Ordinance No. 9 of 1907.
Rbs. 65,500,00
Capital Contri. buted by Chinese Government Hap. Tis. 3,500,000,00
Y.100,000,000)
£1,078,580
1.52,000,000, £53,000,000
£6,666,670 (1.80,000,000)
Frs. 20,000,000
$18,278,600 $5,000,000
D
$1,303,860
2
$1,500,000
$4,000,000
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