Average Rate of
Exchango with London during the
past year.
Demand,
d.
2
24
(R1)
CURRENCY, BANKING, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES.
List of coins current with rela
tive value.
The Hong Kong silver dollar. Mexican dollar. British dollar. All of equal value,
Subsidiary coin :
Silver.
50 cents.
20 10
5
++
"3
Copper
One cent.
A dollar coutnins
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 11, M. the Queen in Council of 2nd February, 1895, published in Hong Kong Government
Gazette,
Notifiention No. 128 of
80th March, 1895,
Estimated Amount of Coin in Circulation.
Estimated Amount of paper money in Circulation
Colonial Government.
Private
Banks.
Silver dollar
no estimate.
Nil.
68,185,751
Subsidiary
coin $17,914,370
Currency in which Accounts |
are kept.
By By the Govt. Public.
Dollars Dollars
and and
cents, cents,
Weights und Mensures in com-
mon use, and their
equivalents in Imperial Weights und Measures,
BRITISHI.
The Imperial Weights
and Measures,
| Fun
CHINESE.
Wrights.
(can- dareen)
1 T'sin
(MAcc)
1 Leung
Aroirdupois.
0133 oz.
=0·198
= 14
77
(tnel) Kan (catty)
T¦ lb.
1333
"
(pienl)
Particulars of all Banks doing business in the Colony,
Note Circulation
in the Colony,
Amount of Deposita in the Colony.
Name of Bank,
Hong Kong and |Shanghai Banking, Corporation. Chartered Bank of India, Australin!
und Chinn.
Mercantile Bunk
of Indin. International Banking Corporation.
P, and O. Banking Corporation
Limited.
Banque do
PIndo-Chine.
Number of
Under what authority
Capital paid
establishde,
mp.
*
Ordinance
20
30,842,258
No. 2 of 1866.
million
dollars.
No |informa-
tion.
1
British Govt.
£3,000,000 | 15,612,909|
Charter of 29-12-53.
£1,050,000
1,730,584
1
Established |G $.5,000,000
under
authority of
State of Connecticul
Sennte Re-
solution Jan-
mary, 1901,
Incorporated £2,594,160
in England
1920,
F19, 68,100,000
Yokobmum
Specie Bank,
Length.
1 Ch'ek equal to 14ģ
English inches.
Bank of Canton,
|
1
Limited.
Bank of Taiwun,
divided into 10 7r'ün | Netherlands-Irudin
and ench 7'x'ü» into
10 Fan.
Commercial
Bank.
Netherlands
Trading Soriety.
Banqnu Franco-
Chinoise pour le
Commerce et l'Industrie.
Bank of Eust
Bank of China.
1
2.
2.
Asin, Lol. Industrial and Commoreinl Bauk, tel., The Ho Hong Bank Limited. and numerous native Ilangs doing some portion of bank-
ing business,
* Kowloon Branch Offlce.
|Y.100,000,000|
$8,661,200
Y.39,375,000
Ordinance No. 9 of 1907.
G.55,000,000|
(£4,583,000)
£6,666,670
| (F,80,000,000)}|
Fi-. 2uIIRL,00
$18,278,600 $5,000,000
$1,409,690
$4,000,000
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