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Average Rate of Exchange with London during the

past year.

Domand.

4

8. d. 2. 71

(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

10

5

19

34

*T

Copper.

One cont.

A dollar contains

100 cents.

Legal teuler 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 21 February, 1895, published in Hongkong Government

Gazette,

Notification No. 128 of 30th March, 1895.

Estimated Amount of

Estimated Amount of paper money in Circulation.

Private

Banks.

Coin in Circulation,

Silver dollar no estimate.

Subsidiary

coin

$21,264,370.96

Colonial Government.

29,160,029

Currency in -which Accounts

are kept.

By By the Govt. Public.

Weights and Measures in com- mon use, and their equivalents in Imperiul Weights and Measures.

Particulars of all Banks doing business in the Colony.

Name of Bank.

Number of

Establishments

in the Colony,

Under what authority established.

Capital paid up.

Note Circulation in the Colony.

A mount of Deposits

in the Colony.

Dollars Dollars|

and and

cents. cents.

BRITISH

The Imperial Weights

and Mensures,

1 Fan

CHINESE.

Weights.

(can- dareen) 1. T'sin

(mace) I Leung (tael)

1 Kan

(catty)

1 Täm

(picul)

Avoirdupois.

='0133 oz.

=

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking

1

Ordinance

No. 2 of

1866.

15. Million dollars.

21,433,096

No infornm- tion.

}

British Govt.

£1,200,000

6,577,429

Charter of

Corporation. Chartered Bank

of India, Australia

and China. Mercantile Bank

of India.

International Banking Corporation,

Banque de

l'Indo-Chine.

Russo-Asiatic

Bank.

29-12-58.

A

£562,500 1,149,504

Established G. $3,250,000

under authority of

State of

Connecticut Senate Re- solution Jan-

uary,

1901.

=0.133

17

1}

"

1} .

Yokohuma

1

S

133}

19

Bank of Canton,

1

Limited.

Bank of Taiwan,

1

Netherlands-India

1

Commercial

=

Length.

1 Ch'ek equal to 14₤ English inches, divided into 10 Ta'ün and each Tr'ün into

10 Fan.

Specio Bank,

Bauk,

Frs. 12,000,000

Rbs. 15,000,000

Y. 30,000,000

$1,066,250

Y. 6,250,000 £1,242,112

£5,000,000

Netherlands

1

Trading Society.

(f, 60,000,000)

and numerolis

native Hongs doing some portion of bank- ing business.