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AMOUNT OF PAPER CURRENCY IN CIRCULATION.

The Notes of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, and the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, in circulation during the year ending 31st December, 1894, were in amount as follows :—

Bank of India, Australia and China.

Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.

January,..

February,

1,831,996

5,160,672

1,782,702

6,446,487

Marchi,

April,

May,..

June,........................

...

1,542,268

5,152,979

1,528,564

5,464,454

1,694,743

5,204,447

1,506,466

·5,219,870

July,

1,685,196

5,172,414

August,.....

1,508,915

5,160,285

September,

1,654,420

5,154,304

October,

1,513,687

5,139,027

November,

1,168,067

5,313,187

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

1,448,767

4,806,871

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 Iler Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for

the Colonies.

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