Average Rate of Exchange with Loodon
during the
past year,
Demand.
5.
d.
3,4
(R1)
CURRENCY, BANKING, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES.
List of coins current with rela-
tive value.
Hong Kong
Silver Dollar. Mexican Dollar. British Dollar. All of equal value.
Subsidiary coin:
Silver.
50 cents.
Legal tender currency giving particulars and Legislative Authority.
No LIMIT, Order of H. M. rite Queen in Council Jated 2nd February, 1893, published in Hong Kong Government Gazette, Notification No. 128 of 80th March, 1895.
Estimated Amount of
Estimated Amount of paper money in Circulation,
Private Banks.
Coin in Circulation,
Colonial Government.
No estimate, $2,300,000 131,712,167
20
899**
19
10
Up to $2,
Do.
$9,483,763
"
ก
Copper. Une ceut.
Up to $1.
Do.
Cupro Nickel.
10 cents.
5
13
A dollar contains.
100 cents.
Up to $2. Proelamustion No. 4 by the Officer Administeriog the Government of Hong Kong dated 9th November, 1935.
Issued since 1923 $340,000
Previously
no estimate.
!
$1,379,999.50
One Dollur
Notes issued
Banking
Currency by Hongkong notes issued and Shanghai by the Trea-
витег.
Corporation,
Legal tender Chartered
to any amount Bank of India, under Ordio-Australia and
unce No. 42 China.
of 1935.
Mercantile Bank of India, Limited,
Legal tender
to any amount under Ordin- ance No. 54 of 1935.
Corrency in which Accomata are kept.
By By the Gort, Public.
Weights and Measures in com. moa nee, and their equivalents in Imperial Weights and Measures.
Particulars of all Banks doing business in the Colony.
Name of Bank.
Number of
Establishmenta
In the Colusy,
Under what authority established.
Capital paid up.
Note Circulation
in the Colony.
Amount of Deposita in the
Colony.
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1
Ordinance No. 2 of 1866. British Govt.
20 million Jollars.
124,863,771 No
informa-
tion.
£3,000,000 22,756,888
Charter of
29-12-53.
1
£1,050,000 4,091,308
of India, Ltd.
International
1
Established
G. 23,000,000
under
Dollars Dollars
and aud cents. vents.
BRITISH.
The Imperial Weights
and Measures.
CHINESE.
Weights.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Chartered Bank of India, Australis and China. Mercantile Book
Banking Corporation.
|
1 Fun
(can- Jareen)
1 Tria
(mace) 1 Leung
(tael) 1 Kun
(catty)
1 Tam
(pieul)
Aroirdupois.
=-0133 oz.
=0-133 ..
The P. and 0. Banking Corpo-
เ
authority of
State of
Connecticut
Senate Re-
solution Jau-
Unry, 1901.
Incorporated
£2,394,160.
=
1A
in England
!920,
Fr. 120,000,000
i
=
17 lb.
= 138.,
Length.
1 Ch'ek equal to 143 English inches, divided into 10 Trün and each Trän juto
10 Fax.
racion Limited.
Banque de l'Indo-Chine.
National City
Bank of New York.
Yokohama Specie Bauk. Bank of Canton, Limited. Bank of Taiwan. Netherlands-Judia Commercial
Hauk. Netherlands Trading Society.
Banque Franco- Chinoise pour le Commerce at
Industrie.
Bank of China.
Bank of East
Act of Con- |C.S.$127,500,000
gress of
| U.S.A. datesh
3rd June, 1564.
Ordinance No. 9 of 1907.
Y.100,000.000
$8,665,600
| Y.15,000,000 G.33,000.000)
G,33,030,000
L
A
Frs. 80,000,000
$25,000.000 $5,398,600
Asia, Ltd.
Tourported
The Chase Book.
1
in U.S.A.
1930.
5.85.000.000|
1
$10,000,000
The OverseaMS- Chinese Banking Corporation, Ltd.
And numerou
native Hoogs Joing some
portion of back.
ing business.
1
• Kowloon Branch Office.
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