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Avenge Rate of Exchange with Loudon during the

past year.

Demuad.

*. d.

3.

87

(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

3

"

"

""

Copper.

One cent.

A dollar contains

100 conts.

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. 31, the Queen in Conneil 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 $20,764,370

Estimated Amount of paper money in Circulation

Colonial | Private Government. ! Bauks.

NI.

37,459.432

Currency in which Accounts

are kept.

By By the

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, |

Capital Frid mp.

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.

Aroirdupois.

=0133 oz.

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

of India. International Banking Corporation.

Ordinance No. 2 of

1866.

15 million dollars.

$ 26.397,580

No juforina- tion.

British Govt. | £3,000,000 10,061,863

Charter of

29-22-53.

£1,050,000

1,000,009

1

Established G. $3.250.000'

1 Fun

(cun- dareen)

=0-183

..

13

**

1 7'sin

(mace)

1 Loung (tael)

1 Kan

1.

(cally)

= 1334

(picul)

Length.

1 Ch'ck equal to 14ģ English inches,

divided into 10 7's'ün and enchi Ts'ün iuto

10 Fan.

|

Banque de 1*Indo-C'hine. Russo-Asiatic

Bank.

Yokohama

Specie Bank.

Bank of Canton, Limited.

Bank of Taiwan, Netherlands-India

Commercial Bank. Netherlands

Trading Society,

Banque Industrielle

de Chine. Bank of China. Bank of East

Asin, Ltıl.

Chinese

Merchants Bank, Ltd. Industrial and Commercial

Bank. Ltd.. China Specie

Bank, Ltd.,

and numerous nutive Hougs doing some portion of bank- ing business.

1

moder

andlocity of

State of Connectient

Senate Re- ! solution Jan-

mary, 1901.

Fis. 68,400,000

Bls. 45,000,000

|Y,100,000,000)

<L989,060 |

Y.45,000,000

| £1,242,112

£6,666,666

(1, 80,000,0001, Frs. 75,000.000

$12,279,800 $2,000,000

2643,750

£19,026

£96.625

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