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Average Rate of Exchauge with London Juring the

past year.

Demand.

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(RI)

CURRENCY, BANKING, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES.

List of coins current with rela

tive value.

The Hong Kong

silver dollar, Mexican dollar.

British dollar. All of equal value.

Subsidiary coin:

Silver.

50 cents. 20 17 10

༧ཚཕྲ་

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 cents up to $1. -

Authority in Order of II. M. the Queen in Council of 2nd February, 1895, published in Hong Kong Government Gazette, Notifiention No. 128 of 30th March, 1895.

Estimated Amount of Coin in Circulation.

Estimated Amount of paper money in Circulation

Colonial Government.

Private

Banks,

Silver dollar

$

no estimate.

NI.

64,806,432

Subsidiary coin

$17,914,370

Currency in which Accounts

.are kept.

By

By the

Govt. Public.

Weights and Measures in com- mou use, and their equivalents in Imperial Weights

and Measures.

Name of Bank.

Dollars Dollars

sh

and

centa.

cento.

Particulars of all Banks doing business in the Colony.

Establisbinetits

Snuber of

in the Colony.

Under what authority establishel,

Note Circulation

Capital

paid 1թ.

in the Colony.

Amount of Deposits

in the Colony.

BRITISH.

| Hong Kong and

Shanghai Banking Corporation.

The Imperial Weights | Chartered Bank

and Measures,

CHINESE.

Weights.

| Fan

(onn- dareen)

(mace)

1 T'sin

1 Loung

(tael)

1 Kan

(catty)

1 Täm

(picul)

Avoirdupois. ='01 33oz.

=0.183,,

11

+

13 lb.

1433

"

of India, Australia!

and China.

Mercantile Bank

of India. International Banking Corporation.

P. and O. Banking Corporation

Limited. Banque do l'Indo-Chine.

Ordinance No. 2 of 1866.

20

47,195,645

million

dollars.

No informa- tion.

British Govt.

£3,000,000 ' 15,755,477

Charter of

29-12-53.

£1,050,000

1,855,310

Established G.$2,500,000|

under authority of

State of Connecticut Sennte Re- solution Jan-

uary, 1901. Incorporated in England

1920.

£2,594,160

Frs. 68,400,000

Length.

1 Ch'ek equal to 14% English inches. divided into 10 Ts'ün and each Ts'ün into

10 Fan.

Yokohama

Specie Bank, Bank of Canton, Limited. Bank of Taiwan, Netherlands-India Commercial

Bank. Netherlands Trading Society.

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

Bank of China.

Bank of East

Asia, Ltd. Industrial and

Commercial

ลม

Ordinance

No. 9 of 1907.

Y.100,000,000

$8,663,600

Y.15,000,000] G.55,000,000 (£4,583,000)

£6,666,670 (f_80,000,000)|

Fre. 20,000,000

$19,760,200 $5,000,000

2*

$1,431,110

The Ho Hong 1

$4,000,000

Rank, Ltd.,

Bank Limited.

and numerous

native Hougs doing some portion of bank- ing business.

• Kowloon Branch Office.

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