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Treasury

2nry

Average Rate of Exchange with Loudon during the

past year.

Demand.

d.

3.

87

16

(R1)

CURRENCY, BANKING, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES.

List of coins current with rela-

tive value.

The Hongkong

silver dollur, Mexican dollar.

British dollar. All of equal value.

Subsidiary coin:

Silver.

50 cents.

20 7.

10

5

++

11

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 II. M.

the Queen in Council of 2nd February, 1895, published in Hongkong Government Gazelle, Notification No. 128 of 30th March, 1895.

Estimated Amount of

Coin in Circulation,

Silver dollar

no estimate.

Subsidiary coin $20,761,370

Estimated Amount of paper money in Circulation.

Colonial Government.

Private

Banks.

NI

36,298,510

Currency in which Accounts are kept.

By By the Govt. Pablic.

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

Dollars Dollars)

Kul

and

dents. | couls.

Particulars of all Banks doing business in the Colony.

Name of Bank.

Number of

Establishment

In the Colony,

Under what authority established.

Capital paid op.

Note Circulation in the Colony.

Amount of Deposits in the Colony.

BRITISH.

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.

1

Ordinance

15

24,874,290

No. 2 of

1866.

million dollurs.

No informa- tion.

The Imperial Weights Chartered Bank

|

British Govt.

£2,000,000

10,454,944

and Measures,

of India, Australin

Charter of

and China.

29-22-53.

Mercantile Book

1

£750,000

969,276

1 Fan

CHINESE.

Weights.

(can- dareen)

Avoirdupois.

0133 oz

1 T'ain =0·133

(mace)

1 Leung

(tnel) 1 Kan

(catty)

Tâm

(picul)

19

I}

»

lj lb.

= = 133}

Length.

#

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

10 Fan.

of India. International Banking Corporation.

Banque de

l'Indo-Chine.

Russo-Asiatie

Bank. Yokohama Specie Bank.

Bauk of Canton, Limited.

Bank of Taiwan, Netherlands-India

Commercial

Bank. Netherlands Trading Society, Banque Industrielle

de Chine.

Bank of China. Bank of East

Asia, Lol.

and numerous native longs doing some portion of bank- ing business.

Established G. $3,250,000

uwder

authority of

State of

Connecticut Senuto Re- solution Jun-

nary, 1901.

LA

A

Fr. 12,000,000

Rbs. 45,000,000

Y. 30,000,000]

$1,066,250

Y.37,500,000 | £1,242,112

£5,000,000 {{F, 60,000,000), Fr. 75,000,000

$12,279.800

$2,000,000