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CURRENCY, BANKING, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES.
Average Rate of
Exchange with London during the
past year,
Demand.
$.
d.
1
12
List of reins current with relas
tive value.
The Hong Kong Silver dollar. Mexican dollar. British dollar. All of equal value.
Subsidiary coin :
Silver.
50 cents. 20
*
""
Copper,
One cent.
A dollar contains
100 cents.
Legal tender enrrency giving particulars and Legislative Authority.
Ç'mirent silver dollar no limit.
Subsidiary silver voin up to
82.
Copper cents up to $1.
Authority in Order af II. M. Go Queen in Council of 2nd February, 1895, published in Hong Kong Government Gazette, Notification No. 128 of F0th March, 1895.
|
Estimated
Amount of
Coin in Cirenlation,
Silver dollar no estimate.
Subsidiary
coin
$17,914370
Estimated Amount of
paper money in Cirenlation
Colonial Government.
Private
Banks.
NII.
127,469,371
Particulars of all Banks doing business in the Colony,
Currency in which Account»
are kept.
By By the Govt. Paldie.
Weighs and Measures in com- mon use, and their equivalents in Imperial Weights and Measures.
Name of Bank.
Number of
Establishments
11. Bit Colony,
Under what authority establisheil.
Capital paid
up.
Note Circulation
in the
Colony,
Amount of Deposits
in the Colony,
Dollars Dollars
and
ecuts
mul
cents, !
BRITISH
The Imperial Weights
and Mensimes.
| Fun
CHINESE.
Heights.
(can- dareen)
| T'ain
(inace)
A Leung (tuel) 1 Kan
(catty)
1 Tam
(picul)
Avoirdupois.
#
=-0133 oz..
=018..
=
= 133)
Length
"
+!
A Ch'ek equal to 1ğ
English inches.
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking, Corporation, Chartered Bank
of India, Australia,
and China.
Mantile Bank
of Indin. laternational Banking Corporation.
P. and O. Banking,
Corporation
Limited Banque do ITudo-Chine.
National City
Bank of
New York.
Yokohama Specie Bauk. Bank of Cantou,
Limited.
Bank of Tajwan,
divided into 10 Teža – Netherlands-Inlin
Ordinance
No. 2 of 1866,
British Govt. Charter of 29-12-53.
だい
104,311,862
million
dollars.
No informa- tion.
£3,000,000 19,600,912
! £1,050.000
Established G.$2,500,000
under authority of
State of Connecticut Senate Re-
solution Jan-
nary, 1901,
Incorporated £2,594,160
in England
1920.
Fra. 68.000KONO
Act of Con- (U.S.§110,000 APLU
gress of U.S.A dated
3rd June,
1861.
Ondinance
Y.100,000,000
$8,665,600
Y.13.127,000
3,556,567
1
atul each 7wbe into
10 Fan.
1
G.55,000,000
Commercial
1
No. 9 of
(£4,543,000)
Bank.
Netherlands
1907.
!
Tuding Society.
£6,669,167 (f.$0,020,000)
P18. £0,000,000
Banque Franco-
Chinoise pour le
Commerce et l'Ilustrie.
Bank of China.
1
Bank of Enst
2.
$24,710,200 $3,000,000
Asix, Lad,
The Ho Hong Bank Limited. and numerous native Hongs king some portion of bank-
ing business.
• Kowloon Branch Office.
$4,000,000
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