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Average Rate of Exchange with London during the

past year.

Demand.

$. d.

2.

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(R1)

CURRENCY, BANKING, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES.

List of coins current with rela-

tive value.

The Hongkong

silver dollar. Moxican dollar.

British dollar. All of equal value.

Subsidiary coin:

Silver.

50 cents.

20 10

5

11

JJ

>>

Copper,

Que cent.

A dollar contains

100 cents.

Legal tender curroney 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

Gazette,

Notitiention No. 128 of

30th March, 1895.

Estimated Amount of

Coin in Circulation,

Silver dollar no estimate.

Subsidiary coin $17,814,870

Estimated Amount of paper money in Circulation

Colonial Government.

Private Banks.

NI.

58,974,108

i

Currency in which Accounts are kept.

By By the Govt. Publie.

Weights and Measures in com- mon use, and their

equivalents in Imperial Weights and Measures.

:

Particulars of all Banks doing business in the Colony,

Name of Bauk,

Number of

Establishments

in the Colony.

Under what authority establishel.

Capital paid

Note Circulation in the Colony.

A mount of

Deposits

in the Colony.

Dollars Dollars

Aud

and cents. e enis,

I

I

BRITISH.

The Imperial Weights

and Measures.

1 Fra

CHINESE.

Weights.

(can- dareen) I T'sin

(mace) 1 Leung (tuel)

1 Kan

(catty)

Acoirdupois.

= 0133 oz.

=

0183

1"

= I th

Tăm = 1333

(picul)

Length.

31

1 Ch'ek equal to 143 English inches, divided into 10 Trün and ench Ts'ün into

10 Fun.

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. Chartered Bank of India, Australia

and China. Mercantile Bank

of India. International Banking Corporation.

P. and Q. Bauking Corporation

Limited.

Banque de Indo-Chine.

Russo-Asiatic

Bank. Yokohama

Specie Bank. Bank of Canton, Limited.

Bank of Taiwan. Netherlands-India Commercial

Bank. Netherlands Trading Society,

Société Franenise de Gerance De la Bruque Industrielle de

Chine. Bank of China. Bank of East Asia, Lil.

Chinese Merchants

Bank, Ltd. Industrial and Commercial Bank, Ltd., Oriental Commer-

cial Bank Limited. The Ho Hong Bank Limited.

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

Ordinance No. 2 of 1866.

British Govt.

20 million dollars.

44,681,129

No informin- tion.

£3,000,000 12,537.830.

Charter of

29-22-53.

£1,050,000

1,455,649

Established G. $3,250,000

under

authority of

State of

Comecticut

Senate Re- |

solution Jan-

uary, 1901.

Jurorporated £2,594,160

in England

1920.

Frs. 68,400,000

Rbs. 55.500.000

|Y.100,000,000

£1,078,530

Y.52,000,000 £1,242,112

£6,666,670| |(1,50,000,000

Fax. 2,500,000

$18,278,600 $5,000,000

$643,750

£19,026

1

$1,500,000

!

$4,000,000

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