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AMOUNT OF PAPER CURRENCY IN CIRCULATION.

The Notes of the Oriental Bank Corporation; the Chartered Morcantile Bank of India, London and China; the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and Chinn; and the longkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, in circulation during the year ending 31st December, 1871, were in amount as follows:-

Oriental Bank,

Mercantile Bank.

Bank of India, Australia and China.

Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.

$

$

$

January,

262,073

558,933

180,300

1,546,180

February,

230,351

516,625

289,550

1,553,970

March,....

266,370

501,069

209,175

1,723,330

April,

218,982

391,625

180,050

1,453,396

Muy,

June,

July,

•

300,000

326,425

180,050

1,331,470

463,501

323,504

181,550

1,370,510

620,121

308,865

194,250

1,867,013

August,

·

521,330

500,301

310,050

1,524,914

September,

477,044

550,834

200,150

1,782,235

October,

481,003

602,706

253,050

1,591,652

November,

619,809

606,575

111,050

1,211,362

December,

556,618

014,559

109,990

093,518

Totul,

4,008,434

5,001,804

3,098,215

17,182,450

ACCOUNTS KEPT IN.

The Accounts of the Colonial Government were formerly kept in Sterling, but from the 1st July, 1862, they have been kept in Dollars, in accordance with instructions from IIer Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the

Colonics.

The Accounts of the Mercantile Establishments are and have boen always kept in Dollars.

WEIGHTS.

English Standard Weights are employed in the Colony, and also the following Chinese ones :—

Stone,

120 catties,

石

Shik.

Picnl,

100 cattics,

or

133 lbs., 16 Tacls,

担

Tam.

Catty,

斤

or

Kin.

11.,

Tael,

679.81 Grains Troy,

雨

Leung.

or

10 One-Tael,

67.084 Grains,

10 One

Mace,

Mace,

錢

Tseen.

Candareen,

分

Fun.