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CURRENCY, BANKING, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES.
Legal tender enrrency giving particulars and Legislative Authority.
E. timated Amount of Coin in Circulation.
Estimated Amount of paper money in Circulation.
Colonial Government.
Private Banks.
Avenge Rate of Exchange with London
I
List of coins current with relas
during the
tive value.
past year.
Demand.
5.
નં.
Subsidiary coin :
1
217
Silver.
50 cents.
20 10
+
Up to $2.
"
3
""
Copper or Mixed
Metul.
One cent.
Proclamation No. 1. by the Governor of Hong Kong dated 8th January, 1937.
No estimate.
Up to $1.
Do.
Issued since 1923 $365,000,
Previously
Cupro Nihet,
Up to $2.
Do.
10 cents.
no estimate.
$1,550,000
3,625,000
230,037,967
Notes issued
One Dollar
Currency by Hongkong notes issued and Shanghai by the Trea- Banking
Corporation,
surer.
Legal tender Chartered to any amount Bank of India, |under Ordin-|Australia and
anco No. 42jChina,
of 1935.
Mercantile Bank of India, Limited.
Legal tender
to any amount under Ordin- ance No. 54 of 1935.
ة
Pure Nichel.
10 cents.
5 cents,
A dollar contains
100
cents.
Up to $2. Proclamation No. 10 by the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong duted 7th October, 1937.
$292,500
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.
Particulars of all Banks doing business in the Colony.
Name of Bank.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,
Chartered Bank of India, Australia. and China.
Mervantile Bank
Establishments
Number of
in the Colony.
Under what authority established.
Capital paid tip.
Norg Circulation
in the Colony.
Amount of Deposits
in the
Colony
2
Ordinance No. 2 of 1866.
20 million dollars.
|199,689,793) No
informa-
tion.
£3,000,000 25,172,604
Chorter of 29-12-53.
British Govt.
£1,050,000 $,175,570)
1 Fan
CHINESE.
Weights.
(can- dareen)
1 7'sin
(mace) 1 Leung (tel) 1 Кан
(carty)
1 Tim
(pient)
Avoirdupois.
0133 oz.
=0.185
=
=
"+
of India, Lul.
Banque Belge pour l'Etranger,
S.A.
17 The P. and 0.
Banking Corpo
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1
ration Limitest.
Banque de
1
Indo-Chine.
National City
Bank of
New York,
Length.
1 Ch'ek equal to 142 English inches, divided into 10 7's'àn and ench 7's'ün into
10 Fun.
Yokohamın Specie Bank.
Bank of Canton, Limited,
Bank of Taiwan.
Belgian Frs.
$30,000,000.
{
Incorporated
£2,594,160'
in England
1920.
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FTC 120LUGO ÇÃO
|
Act of Con- U.S.§127,50UO
gress of U.S.A. datel
3rd June,
Į
1861.
1
|Y.100,000,000,
$8,665,60
Netherlands-India )
1
Ordinance
Y.15,000,000 G.33,000,000,
Commercial
No. 9 of
Bank.
1907:
G.35,030,000
Netherlands
1
Trading Society.
Bank of China.
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Bank of East
**
Asia, Lul.
Incorporatel
The Chase Bank,
1
in U.S.A.
1930.
1
The OversEUR- Chinese Banking
Corporation, La.
and numerous native Hanga doing some portion of bank -
ing lenkingerd.
Fowluau Branch Office.
$25,000 000 $5,598,600
U.S. $5,000,000)
$10,000,000