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AMOUNT OF PAPER CURRENCY IN CIRCULATION,

The notes of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking

Corporation, and the National Bank of China, Limitel, in circulation during the year ending 31st December

1910, were in amount as follows :

Chartered Bank

Hongkung and

Corporation,

of India, Australia | Shanghai Banking

and China.

National Bank

| of China, Limited.

$

January,

4,574,119

13,552,486

51,253

February...........

4,910,508

14,170,593

+8,582

March,

3,821,495

12,467,791

42,190

April,

3,711,766

11,608,971

37,618

May,

3.995,375

11,104,525

34,721

June,

4,178,701

11.339,467

33,037

July,

4,242,447

10,958,589

31,703

August,

4,470,930

11,861,622

30,578

September,

4,761,708

11,998,738

30,045

October,

5,061,483

12.220,944

29,257

$.110.150

12,491,800

25,241

Novomlur,

Descuber,

5,297,799

13,085,170

27.195

ACCOUNTS KEPT IN.

The Accounts of the Colonial Government wera formerly kept in Sterling, bat from the 1st July, 1862, they have been kept in Dollura, in accordance with instrnetious from Hor Majesty's Secretary of State for

the Colonies.

The Accounts of tho merequtila establishments are and bave been always kept in Dollars.