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Average Rate of Exchange with Loudon during the

past year.

Demuud.

d.

2. 14

I

(R1)

CURRENCY, BANKING, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES.

List of coins current with rela-

tive value.

The Hongkong

silver dollar. Mexican dollar.

British dollar. All of equal value.

Subsidiary coin:

Silver.

50 cents. 20

8997

10

13

17

Copper.

One cent.

A dollar contains

100 cents.

Legal tender currency giving particulars and Legislative Authority,

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

Gazelle,

Notification No. 128, of 30th March, 1895.

Estimated Amount of

Estimated Amount of paper money in Circulation.

Coin in Circulation.

Colonial Government.

Private

Banks.

Silver dollar no estimate.

Nil.

33,741,049

Subsidiary coin $21,264,370.96

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.

Name of Bauk.

Particulars of all Banks doing business in the Colony.

Number of

Establishments

in the Colony,

Under what authority established,

Note Amount of Circulation Deposits

Capital paid up.

in the

Colony.

in the Colony.

$

Dollars Dollare

and and

cents. cents.

BRITISH.

The Imperial Weights

and Measures.

1 Fan

CHINESE.

Weights.

(can- dureen)

1 T'sin

(mace) \ Leung

(tael)

1 Kan

(enity)

Aroirdupois.

=0133 0

=0-133

=

07.

1}

"J

13 lb.

| Tim

133}

(picul)

Length,

1 Ch'ek equal to 14% English inches,

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China. Mercantile Bank

divided into 10 T's'ün 1

and each Ts'ün iuto

10 Fan.

of Indin. International Banking Corporation.

Banque de l'Indo-Chine.

Russo-Asintie

Bank.

Yokohama

Specie Bank.

Bank of Canton,

Limited.

Bauk of Taiwan. ! Netherlands-Indiu

Commercial Bank. Netherlands

Trading Society.

I

Ordinance No. 2 of 1866.

15

25,025,355

Million

dollars.

No informa- tion.

British Govt.

£1,200,000

7,765,117

Charter of

29-12-53.

£562,500

950,577

Established G. $3,250,000

1

under

authority of

1

State of

Connecticut

Senate Re- solution Jun-

mary,

1901.

+

Frs. 12,000,000

Rus. £5,000,000

|Y, 30,000,000.

$1,066,250

Y. 6,250,000

£1,242,112 |

......

£5,000,000 |

(F,60,000,000),

Mal numerous

native Hongs

doing some portion of bauk- ing business.