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COMMITTEE ON STRAITS SETTLEMENTS CURRENCY.

APPENDIX, No. 19 continued.

TABLE XIII.

IMPORTATION of British Dollars into Straits Settlements.

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

Year.

Amount.

d.

d.

2,201,890

January

25H

2b1%

1895

3,628,000

25

251

1896

February

25,704,908

25

25

1897

March

19,492,168

April

241%

24

1898

29,349,725

2311

2311

1899

May

21,571,488

June -

24.

2311

1900

241

23)

1901

July

■

TOTAL

17,281,263

119,224,442

August

24f

231

September

237

23

931

2218

October

November

2811

22,

TABLE XIV.

December -

12t

2171

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.

161

6,713,133

5,473,750

$ 2,330,555

1901

$ 7,920,908

5,500,250

1902

- 13,393,440

(Month ending 10th December).

TABLE XV.

Straits Settlements Exchange on London.

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

a. d.

a. d.

.. d

4.

d.

1891

36 to 3 1

1897

21 to 19

1892

3 1 to 2 91

1898

2

to 1 10

1893

2 D to 2 41

1800

2- to 1 111

1894

2 37 to 2 -

1900

22 to 111

1895

28 to 111

1901

21 to 1 of

1896

2 3 to 2 I

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APPENDIX:

APPENDIX, No. 10-continued.

TABLE XVI.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE, 1901.

Bank Bills,

January.

February.