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AMOUNT OF PAPER CURRENCY IN CIRCULATION.

It is impossible to make the calculation with any chanse of approximation to the real amount

The Notes of the Oriental Bank Corporation and the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, Londow and China in circulation during the

ending 31a! December 1859, were in amount as

follows: Oriental Bank

year

$566,332.

545,910. 569.788.

Abercantile Bank

$320,000.

•

324.866.

January February.

March.

April.

663,028

bay

་

503.470.

324,950

334,140

303,854.

June

+

492.085

251,438.

7

July. August. September October Novemba December

490,692

300,277

5541,910

242.089

567.147

• 229,384.

1

557.928 645,607 614,299

1

263,658. 338,687 295,060.

Exclusive of the notes of the Abercantile Bank Still, outstanding

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