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Avenge Rate of Exchange with London

during the

past year.

Demand.

S.

d.

2.

(R1)

CURRENCY, BANKING, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES.

List of coins enrront with rela-

tive value.

The Hongkong

silver dollar. Mexican dollar. British dollar. All of equal value,

Subsidiary coin :

Silver,

50 cents.

8220

•

10

事项

11

Copper,

Que 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 vents up to $1.

Authority in Onder of H. M. the Queen in Council of 2nd February, 1895, published in Hongkong Government

Gazette,

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

30 790,865

Subsidiary coin $20,7:9,370

Currency in which Accounts

are kept.

By By the Govt. Publie.]

Weights and Measures in rom- mon nse, and their equivalents in Imperial Weights and Measures.

Name of Bank.

Partienlurs of all Banks doing business in the Colony.

Establishments

In the Colony,

Under what xanthority established.

Capitul paid up.

Note Circulation

Amount of Deposits

in the Colony,

in the Colony.

Dollars Dollars

and and

cents. cents.

1

Burrish,

The Imperial Weights

and Mensures,

1 Fun

CHINESE.

Weights.

(can- dareen)

1 7'sin

(mace) 1 Leung (thel) 1 Ka

(cally) Täm

(pienl)

Avoirdupois

— 0133 oz.

=

=0·133

=

=

=

}}

1339

»

Length.

1 Chek equal to 143 English inches, divided into 10 Ts'ün and cach Ts'ün into

10 Fan.

Hongkong and (Shnuglini Banking Corporation, Chartered Bank of India, Australia mul Chinn. Mercantile Bank

of India,

International Banking Corporation.

Barique du l'Indo-Chine, Russo-Asiatic

Bank.

Yokohama

Specie Bank. Bank of Canton, Limited.

Bank of Taiwan. Netherlands-Imlia Commercial Bank. Netherlands Trading Society.

Bank of China. Bank of East

Asin, Latd.

Chinese Merchants Bauk, Ltd. Industrial and

Commercial

Bank, Ltd.,

China Specie Bank, Ltd..

and numerous Dative Ilougs doing some portion of bank- ing business.

Ordinance No. 2 of INGG.

15 million dollars.

40,395,295 No

informa- tion.

British Govt.

£3,000,000

9,071,137

Charter of

29-22-33.

£1,050,000

1,321,503

|

i

Established G. $3,250,000

under

authority of

State of Connection Senate Re- solution Jan.

many, 1901.

Frs, 68.400,000

RIS. 45,001,00

Y.100,000,000),

£959,060

Y.45,000,000 £1,242,112

£6,666,666 ¦(F. 50,000,000)

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

$643,750

£19,026

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1

£96.625

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