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COMMITTEE ON STRAITS SETTLEMENTS CURRENCY.

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APPENDIX, No. 19-continued.

TABLE XIII.

IMPORTATION of British Dollars into Straits Settlements.

Annual Importation of British Dollars by the Banks since their first Coinage in 1895 has been :-

Year.

Amount.

d.

d.

January

2511

251%

1805

February

25t

251

1896

25

25

1897

2,201,890

3,623,000

25,704,908

March

April

May

June -

24fr

241's

1898

19,492,168

231

2311

1890

94%

2311

1900

29,349,725

21,571,488

July

241

231

1901

17,281,263

August

24

231

TOTAL.

119,224,442

September -

231

23

October

231

2211

November

2811

221%

December

32*

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TABLE XIV.

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1897

1898

1899

1899

1900

Average Monthly Circulation of Notes of Local Banks (Straits Settlements).

$

7,326,693

7,737,057

8,082,210

1900

1901 -

Average Monthly Circulation of Government Notes. Issue commenced 1st May 1899.

*

$ 6,713,133

5,473,755

$ 2,330,555

$

5,500,250

1901

1902

7,926,908

13,393,440

(Month ending 10th December).

TABLE XV,

Straits Settlements Exchange on London.

Highest and lowest Rates for Bank Bills (four months' sight).

d.

L. d.

1891

36 to 3 1

1897

1802

3 1 to 2 91

1898

-

1. d.

a. d.

21 to 1D1%

2

to 1 10

1893

2 94 to 2 41

1800

2 to 111}

1894

2 37 to 2 -

1900

-

22 to 11

1895

23 to 111

1901

21 to 1 91

1806

2 3 to 2 I

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APPENDIX, No. 19-continued.

TABLE XVI.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE, 1901.

Bank Bills.

January.

February.