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(R2)

Average Rate of Exchange with London during the

List of coins

tive value.

Estimated Amount of

Legal tender currency giving

Amount of

current with rela-

particulars and Legislative Authority.

Estimated

Coin in Circulation,

paper money in Circulation.

past year.

Colonial Government.

Private

Banks.

Demand.

5.

d.

1.

94.

The Hongkong silver dollar. Mexican dollar.

British dollar.. All of equal value.

Subsidiary coin:

Silver.

50 cents.

20

31

10

哪里

5

Current silver dollar no limit.

Subsidiary silver coin up to

$2.

Copper cents up to $1.

Authority in Order of H. M. the Queen in Council of 2nd February, 1895, published in Hongkong Government Gazette, Notification No. 128, of 30th March, 1895,

Silver dollar no estimate.

Subsidiary coin $26,292,370.

31

Copper.

One cent.

A dollar contains

100 cents,

Currency in which Accounts

are kept.

By

By the

Govt. Public.

Weights and Measures in com- mon use, and their

equivalents-in Imperial Weights and Measures.

Nil.

29,844,585

Particulars of all Bauks doing business in the Colony.

'Name of Bank.

Number of

Establislimenta

In the Colony,

Under what authority established.

Capital paid up.

Note Circulation in the Colony.

Amount of Deposits in the Colony.

Dollars Dollars

and and

cents. cents.

BRITISH.

The Imperial Weights

and Measures,

CHINESE.

Weights.

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. Chartered Bank

A

Ordinance No. 2 of 1866.

1

British Govt.

15 Million dollars. £1,200,000

21,793,806

No informa- tion.

6,976,548

of India, Australia

Charter of

and China. Mercantile Bank

29-12-53.

1

£562,500

1,074,291

of India.

1 Fan

(can)

dareen)

Avoirdupois.

='0133 oz.

1 T'sin =0·133 „

(mace)

International Banking Corporation.

1

Established G. $3,250,000

under

authority of

State of Connecticut Senate Re-

solution Jan-

uary, 1901.

KONTAK

Frs. 12,000,000

1 Leung

(tael)

=

1 Kun

(catty)

1 Tám

(picul)

=

Banque de

l'Indo-Chine.

Russo-Asiatic

Bank.

1

1 fb.

Yokohama

1

......

133 »

Specie Bank.

Bank of Canton,

1

Limited,

Length.

1 Ch'ek equal to 148 English inches, divided into 10 Trün and each Tr'ün into

10 Fan.

Baok of Taiwan. Netherlands-India

Commercial

Bank. Netherlands Trading Society.

1

and numerous

native Hongs

doing some portion of bank- iug business.

Rbs. 45,000,000

Y. 30,000,000

$1,066,250

Y. 6,250,000 £1,242,112

£5,000,000 (f.60,000,000)