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AMOUNT OF PAPER CURRENCY IN CIRCULATION.

The Notes of the Oriental Bank Corporation; the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China; the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China; and the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, in circulation during the year ending 31st December, 1878, were in amount as follows:—

Oriental Bank.

Mercantile

Bank.

Bank of

Honghong India, Australia and Shanghai

and China.

Bank.

January,

292,431

528,452

688,121

1,331,959

February,

268,013

540,810

680,498

1,513,620

March.....

180,495

491,144

580,524

1,623,680

April,.

279,421

544,401

620,921

1,749,534

May,

411,909

434,505

661,637.

*862,915

June,

289,037

440,307

777,008

1,029,527

July,

130,775

418,408

702,133

1,218,204

August,

147,975

*545,446

777,535

1,286,850

September,

140,237

592,690

899,663

1,482,392

October,

194,150

714,334

736,891

1,524,575

November,

346,450

642,452

662,500.

1,430,052

December,...

310,825

531,611

562,742

1,647,726

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 Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies,

The Accounts of the Mercantile establishments are and have been always kept in Dollars.

WEIGHTS.

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

Tael,

Stone,

120 catties,

石

579.84 Grains Troy,................

Loung,

Shek.

Mace,

100 cattios,...

Picul,

or

担

or

Tsin.

57.984 Grains,

1334 lbs., 16 T'aels,.

or

1 tb.,

Tám.

Catty,

斤

Mace,

Candareen,

Fan.

Kan.

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