Average Rate of Exchange with London during the
past year.
Demand.
S.
d.
1
410
(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
77
Copper.
One 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 cents up to $1.
Authority in Order of II, M. the Queen in Council of 2nd February, 1895, published in Hong Kong Government Gazette, Notification No. 128 of 30th March, 1895.
Colonial Government.
Estimated Amount of
Estimated Amount of Coin in Cireulion,
paper money in Circulation.
Private Banks.
Silver
no esti
$
Nil.
157,583.718
Subsidiary
coin $18,219,370
Currency in which Accounts
are kept.
By By the Govt. Public.
Dollars Dollars,
and and
cents. cents,
Weights and Measures in com- mon use, and their equivalents in Imperial Weights and Measures,
BRITISH.
The Imperial Weights
and Measures,
1 Fan
CHINESE.
Weights.
(can- dureen)
1 T'sin
(mace) 1 Leung
(thel) 1 Kan
(catty)
1 Tin
(picul)
Avoirdupois.
=0133 oz.
=0·133,,
=
=
1}
22
T} B.
133,
Particulars of all Banks doing business in the Colony.
Name of Bank,
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking, Corporation, Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China. Mercantile Bank
of India. International Banking Corporation,
P, ami ✪, Bauking
Corporation
Limited. Banque de l'Indo-Chine.
National City
Bank of
Number of Establishments in the Colety,
Under what authority established.
Capital paid up.
Note Circulation
in the Colony.
Aromat of Deposits
in the Colony.
2*
Ordinance No. 2 of 1866. British Govt,
20 million dollars.
141,168,337 No
informa-
tion.
£3,000,000) 14,950,262
Charter of
29-12-53.
1
£1,050,000 1,465,119
Established G.$2,500,000)
under
authority of
State of
Connecticut Seuate Re-
solution Jan-
dary, 1901. Incorporated
in England
£2,594,160
1920.
Frs. 120,000,000|
I
Act of Con- U.S.$124,000,000
Length.
1 Ch'ek equal to 148
English inches,
New York.
Yokohama Specie Bank. Bank of Canton,
Limited.
Bank of Taiwan.
1
divided into 10 Ts'ün | Netherlunds-India
and each Ts'ün into
10 Fan.
Commercial
Buok.
Netherlands
Trading Society.
gress of U.S.A.datedl
3rd June,
1861.
4
Ordinance No. 9 of 1907.
Y. 100,000,000
$8,665,600
Y, 15,000,000,
6.55,000,000
(£4,583,000),
G.80,030,000
Banque Franc0-
1
Chinoise pour le Commerce et l'Industrie.
Bank of China.
Bank of East
Asin, Ltd.
2.
Frs. 50,000,000
$24,711,700
$5,000,000;
Incorporated in U.S.A.
U.S.$5,000,000,
1930.
$10,000,000
The Chase Bank. 1
The OveraeAU- Chinese Banking Corporation, Ltd.
and numerous native longs doing some portion of hunk-
ing business.
• Kowloon Branch Office.
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