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AMOUNT OF PAPER CURRENCY IN CIRCULATION.

The Notes of the Charterol Bank of India, Australia and China, the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation and tho National Bank of China, Limited, in circulation during the year ending 31st December, 1895, were in amount as follows:-

Chartered Bank of India, Australia

and China.

Hongkong and Shanghai Bank.

National Bank of China, Limited.

January,

February,..

1,727,560

$

5,990,737

1,163,101

5,435,969

******

March,

1,284,215

5,89.5,785

358,973

April,

1,514,995

5,226,570

351,155

May,...............

1,471,461

4,586,785

366,021

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

1,543,991

4,877,070

375,452

July,

1,322,060

1,845,559

363,606

August,

1,688,127

5,379,075

358,360

September,

1,921,991

3,232,537

369,869

October,

1,797,101

4,885,108

419,571

November,

1,757,062

4,684,170

406,987

December,

1,731,656

4,816,624

458,151

ACCOUNTS KEPT IN.

The Accounts of the Colonial Government were formerly kopt 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,