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Average Rate of

Exchange with Loulon

during the

past year,

Demand.

J.

d.

(R1)

CURRENCY, BANKING, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES.

List of coins. eurreal with rela-

tive value,

The Hongkong

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

Subsidiary coin ;

Silver.

50 vents.

20

10

"

**

#

Copper.

One cent.

A dollar contains

100 cents.

!

Legal tender vurrency giving particulars and Legislative Authority.

Current silver dollar no fimit.

Subsidiary silver coin up to

$2.

Copper cents up to $1.

Authority in Order of HI. M. the Queen in Comcil of 2nd February, 1895, published in Hongkong Government

Gazette,

Notification No. 128 of 30th March, 1896.

Amount of

i

paper money in Cirenlation

Estimated Amount of

Estimated

Coin in Circulation.

Colonial Government.

Private

Banks.

Silver dollar

to estimate.

Nil.

58.291,190

Subsidiary coin

$17,889,370

Currency in which Accounts

Weights and Measures in coin- mon use, and their equivalents in

Imperial Weights

are kept.

By

Br the

and Measures.

Govt. Publie.

Name of Bank.

Dollars Dollars)

and

and

cents. cents.

Partienlars of all Banks doing business in the Colony.

in De Culotty,

Nombre of

Estabbstinents

Under wint authority established.

Capital paid up.

Note Cirenlation

in the Colony.

Amount of Deposits

in the Colony.

BRITISH.

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking' Corporation.

Ordinance No. 2 of 1866.

20 million dollars.

42,326,967

No informa- tion.

The Imperial Weights Chartered Bank

British Govt.

£3,000,000 14,504,348

and Measures.

of India, Australia'

Charter of 29-12-53.

£1,050.000

1,459,875

1 Fan

CHINESE.

Weights.

(can- dareen)

1 T'sin

(mace) | Leung (tel) 1 Kar

(culty)

1 Tam

(pien!)

Avoirdupois.

= 0133 oz.

=04133 ..

and China.

Mercantile Bank

of India. International Banking Corporation.

Corporation

Established G$.5,000,000

under

anthority of

State of Commerticul Senate Res

| solution Jan-

llary, 1901,

Iucorporated £2,594,160

1920.

P. ami O, Banking

1

in England

11

Limited.

Banque de

Frs. 64,400,00U

1.

Tlado-Chine.

1339

01

Bank.

Russo-Asiatic

1

Length,

| Ch'ck equal to 14ậ English inches, divided into 10 Tsün and each 7'iæ into

10 Fan.

Yokohama

Specie Bank, Bank of Canton, 1

Limited,

Bank of Taiwan, | Netherlands-India

Commercial

Bank. Netherlands Trading Society,

Banque Franco- Chinoise pour le Commerce et l'Industrie.

-Hank of ChINE.

Bank of Ea

Aria, Lul.

Industrial and Commercial Bauk, Lid..

Oriental

omnier-

cial Bank Limited.

The Ho Hong Bank Limited,

and numerolls

untive Hongs doing some

portion of bankA

lug busiuvas.

2*

• Kowloon Branch Office,

Ordinance No. 9 of 1907.

Rbs. 65,500,00

Capital Contri. buted by Chinese Government Hap. Tis. 3,500,000,00

Y.100,000,000)

£1,078,580

1.52,000,000, £53,000,000

£6,666,670 (1.80,000,000)

Frs. 20,000,000

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

D

$1,303,860

2

$1,500,000

$4,000,000

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