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AMOUNT OF PAPER CURRENCY IN CIRCULATION.

The Notes of 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

onding 81st December, 1885, were in amount as follows:-

Mercantile Bank.

Bank of India, Australia and China.

Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.

$

January,

219,758

900,657

2,954,774

February,

368,125

1,892,640

8,702,857

March,.......

241,486

1,045,968

2,900,152

April,..

283,505

988,910

2,785,067

May,

216,055

1,010,120

2,946,839

Juno,

336,217

1,036,263

2,675,767

July,

260,588

979,310

2,943,290

August,

244,495

1,018,613

2,653,806

Soptember,

246,639

1,078,013

2,521,667

October,........

247,884

968,626

2,321,274

November,...

215,585

1,029,007

2,255,000

December,....

268,105

1,163,868

2,595,274

ACCOUNTS KEPT IN.

The Accounts of the Colonial Government wore formerly kept in Storling, but from the 1st July, 1862, they have boon kept in Dollars, in accordance with instructions from Hor Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for

the Colonies.

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

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