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Avemge Rate of Exchange with London during the

past year.

Demand.

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3.

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d.

21

(R1)

CURRENCY, BANKING, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES.

List of coins current with rein-

tive value.

The Hongkong silver dollar. Mexican dollar.

British dollar. All of equal value.

Subsidiary coin:

Silver.

50 cents.

20 10

5

11

"

Copper.

One cent.

A dollar contaius

100 cents.

Legal tender currency giving particulars and Legislative Authority.

Current silver dollar no limit.

Subsidiary silver coin up to

#2.

Copper rents up to $1.

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

Estimated Amount of

Coin in Circulation.

Silver dollar no estimate.

Subsidinry coin $20,764,370

Estimated Amount of paper money in Circulation,

Private

Colonial Government.

Banks.

32.218,512

Currency in which Accounts are kept,

By By the Govt. Public.

I

Weights and Measures in com- mon use, aml their equivalents in Imperial Weights and Measures,

Particulars of all Banks doing business in the Colony.

Name of Bank.

Nomber at

Extabdislaments

In the Colony.

Under what authority established.

Capital paid up.

Note Circulation

in the Colony.

Amount of Deposita

in the Colony.

Dollars Dollars

and ❘ and

cents. cents.

BRITISH.

The Imperial Weights

and Measures.

1 Fan

CHINESE.

Weights.

(un- dareen)

1 7'sin

(niace) 1 Leung (tael) 1 Kun

(catty)

1 Tăm

(picul)

Avoirdupois.

=-0133 oz.

=0.133

=

=

k

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

of Indin. Internationa! Banking Corporation.

1

Ordinance No. 2 of 1966.

British Govt.

--

15 million dollars. £1,200,000

|22,461,355

No informa- tion.

8,718,777

Charter of

29-22-53.

£362,500

1,098,380

Established G. $3,250,000||

under

authority of

State of

Connecticut Senate Re-

solution Jan –

uary, 1901.

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Banque de

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l'Indo-Chine.

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Length.

"

I Ch'ek equal to 148 English inches, divided into 10 Ts'ün and each Ts'ün iuto

10 Fan.

Russo-Asiatic

Bank.

Yokohama

·

Specie Bank.

Bank of Canton,

Limited.

Bank of Taiwan.

1

Netherlands-India

Commercial

Bank. Netherlands Trading Society,

1

--

and numerous

Frs. 12,000,000

Abs. 45,000,00Ù

Y. 30,000,000

$1,066,250

Y. 6,250,000 £1,242,112

£5,000,000 [(f, 60,000,000)|

native Hongs doing some portion of bank- ing business.