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AMOUNT OF PAPER CURRENCY IN CIRCULATION.
The notes of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and Chinn, the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking
Corporation, and the National Bank of China, Limited, in circulation during the year ending 31st December,
1904, were in amount as follows:-
Chartered Bank
of India, Australia | Shanghai Banking
and China.
Hongkong and
Corporation.
National Bank of China, Limited.
January,
3,238,108
13,338,796
433,653
February,
3,497,153
16,983,514
420,743
March,
3,172,620
13,758,861
426,607
April,
3,437,362
11,990,105
407,605
May,
3,498,727
12,400,621
396,289
June,
3,598,439
12,003,790
394,843
July,
3,231,541
12,663,879
397,638
Angust,
3,105,479
11,213,911
397,039
September..
3,660,163
11,148,990
394,775
October,
3,619,177
11,658,202
403,724
November,
3.673,435
12,397,557
354,816
December,
3,733,882
12,520,524
345,462
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 Secretary of State for
the Colonies.
The Accounts of the Mercantile establishments are and have been always kept in Dollars.
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