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CURRENCY, BANKING, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES.
Average Rate of Exchange with London
List of coins
during the
current with rela-
tive value.
past year.
Demand.
Legal tender curreney giving particulars and Legislative Authority.
Estimated Amount of Coin in Circulation,
Estimated Amount of paper money in Circulation.
Colonial Government.
Private Banks.
$
3.
d.
Subsidiary coin :
21
Proclamation No. 1. by the Governor of Hong Kong dated 8th January, 1937.
Silver.
50 cents.
20
10
5
- Up to $2.
Copper or Mixed
Metal.
Que cent.
No estimate.
Up to $1.
Do.
Issued since 1923 $340,000
no estimate.
Previously
5,571,000
One Dollar
239,491,955
Notes issued
Currency by Hongkong notes issued and Shanghai by the Tren- Banking
Corporation,
surer.
Legal tender Chartered to any amount Bank of India, under Ordin-Australia aml aneo No. 42 China,
of 1935.
Mercnutile Bank of India, Limited.
Legal tender
to any amount under Ordin- ance No. 54 of 1935.
Cupro Nickel.
10 cents.
Up to $2.
Do.
5
Lure Nickel,
10 cents.
5 cents,
A dollar contains
100 cents.
Up to $2, Proclamation No. 10 by the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong dated 7th October, 1937.
$620,000
$1,807,000
Currency in which Accounts!
are kept.
By By the Govt. Public.
Weights and Measures in com. mon use, 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 Colony.
Under what authority established.
Capital paid
up.
in the
Colony.
Note Circulation
Amount of Deposits
in the Colony,
Dollars Dollars
and
and cents. cents.
Britisa.
The Imperial Weights
and Measures.
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,
2.
Ordinance No. 2 of 1866.
20 million dollars.
210,197,678
No informa-
tion.
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China.
1
British Govt.
£3,000,000 24,852,657
Charter of 29-12-58.
CHINESE.
Weights.
Mercantile Bank
1
£1,050,000|| 4,441,620|
of India, Ltd.
Avoirdupois.
| Fun
(can- dareen) 1 7'sin
(mace) 1 Leung
(trei)
1 Kan
(casty) 176om | (pecul)
=0133,
OZ.
Banque Belge pour l'Etranger,
1
Belgian Frs.
$30,000,000
Extreme-Orient)
S.A.
=0·133 "
=
ก The P. and 0.
Bauking Corpo
If th.
1389
Length.
↓ 1.Ch'ek p-ual to 14ġ
English inches, divided into 10 7's'ün and each Ts'ün into
10 Fun.
ration Limited.
Banque de Uruk-kalne
National City Bank of
New York.
Yokobama Specie Bauk.
Bank of Cantou, Limited.
Bank of Taiwan. Netherlands-Julia Commercial Bank.
Netherlands Trading Society.
Bank of China,
12,594,160
!
Incorporated
in England 1920.
¡
FAL 190DON1,000
:
1
2*
Act of Con
I*41**iFu
grams of
U.S.A. datel
Sad June,
1864.
Ordinance No. 9 of
19:07.
Y.100,000,000
$7,372,660
Y.15,000,000 G.33,000,000
|«.
G.40,030,000
$40,000,000 $5,598,600
Bank of East
Asia, Ltd.
Incorporated
The Chase Bank.
1
in U.S.A.
U.S.$5,000,000!
1930.
1
£10,000,000
The Overseas- Chinese Banking Corporation, Lu.
and numerous astive Houg doing some portion of bau. Ik
ing business.
Kowloon Branch Oftes.
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