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AMOUNT OF PAPER CURRENCY IN CIRCULATION.

The Notes of the Chartered Mercantile Bank of India, London mul Chumm; the Chenaredi Bank of India. Australia and China; and the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, im eirendation during the your anding 31st December, 1887, were in amount as follows :—

Mercantile Bank.

Bank of India, Australia and China.

Hong kony and Shanghai Bank.

January,

921,432

1,235,749

3,296,516

February, ....

861,265

1,290,954

3,203,018

March,

978,080

982,490

2,979,967

April,

1,048,682

1,035,043

2,795,700

May,

1,012,973

982,958

2,793,613

June,

991,545

1,057,740

2,904,533

July,

1,053,073

995,932

2,783,322

August,

885,957

1,054,287

2,918,032

September,

1,005,172

1,159,613

2,903,200

October,

1,140,473

1,287,506

2,490,645

Novombor,

1,128,373

1,264,183

2,663,500

December,..............

1,075,242

1,195,171

3,213,742

ACCOUNTS KEPT IN.

The Accounts of the Colonial Government were formerly kopt in Storling, but from the 1st July, 1862, they hava boon kopt in Dollars, in nocordance with instructions from Hor Majesty's Principal Socrotary of Stato for the Colonias.

The Accounts of the Morcantilo establishments aro and bavo boon always kopt in Dollars.