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Average Rate of

Exchange with London during the

past year.

Demund.

3.

d.

16%

(R1)

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

"

10

5

11

"

Copper.

One ceut.

A dollar contains

100 cents.

Legal tender currency giving particulars and Legislative Authority.

Current silver dollar no limit.

Subsidiary silver coin up to

82.

Copper cents up to $1.

Authority in Order of 11. M. the Queen in Council of 2nd February, 1895, published in Hong Kong Gorernment Gazette, Notification No. 128 of 30th March, 1895.

Estimate Aniount of

Estimated Amount of puper money in Circulation.

Coin in Circulation.

Colonial Government.

Private

Banks.

Silver dollar

no estimate.

Nil.

153,601,407

Subsidiary

coin $18,429,370

Currency in which Accounts are kept.

By By the Govt. Public.

Weights and Measures in com- mon use, and their equivalents in Imperial Weights and Measures.

Dollars Dollars

and

and

cents. cents.

Particulars of all Banks doing business in the Colony,

Name of Bank,

Number of

Establishments

in the Colony,

Under what authority established,

Sore Circulation

Capital

puik

Amount of Deposits

up.

in the Colony,

in the

Colony.

BRITISH.

Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation.

The Imperial Weights | Chartered Bank

and Measures.

1 Fan

Chinese.

Weights.

(can- dareen)

1 T'sin

(mace) 1 Leung

(tnel) 1 Kan

(catty)

1 Tam

(pienl)

Avoirdupois.

= 0133 oz.

−0·133,,

=

J

i} lb.

133} „

of India, Australia

and China.

Mercantile Bank

of India. International Banking Corporation.

2.

Ordinance

空い

131,755,918 No

No. 2 of 1866.

million

dollars.

informa-

tion.

£3,000,000 19,848,496

P. and O. Banking

1

Corporation

Limited.

Banque de

PIndo-Chine.

National City

Bank of New York.

Length.

1 Ch'ek equal to 148 English inches, divided into 10 Ts'ün and each Ts'ün luto

10 Fan.

| Netherlands-India

Commercial

Bank.

British Govt.

Charter of 29-12-53.

Established

under authority of

State of

Connecticut Senate Re-

solution Jan-

mary, 1901, Incorporated

in England

1920.

£1,050,000 1,596,993

G.$2,500,000

£2,594,160

Frs. 120,000,000|

Act of Con- U.S.3124,000,000,

gress of

U.S.A. dated

3rd June,

1964.

(Y.100,000,000)

$8,665,600

Y.15,000,000,

Yokohama

1

Specie Bank,

Bank of Canton,

1

Limited.

Bank of Taiwan.

1

1

Ordinance

*G,55,000,000!

No. 9 of

(£4,583,000)

1907.

Netherlands

1

Trading Society.

Banque Franco-

1

| G.50,030,000

Fr8. 50,000,000

Chinoise pour le

Commerce et l'Industrie.

Bank of China.

$24.712.200

Bank of East

Asin, Lid,

2.

The Chase Bauk.

The Overseas- Chinese Banking Corporation, Ltd.

and numerous native Hongs doing some portion of bank-

ing business.

• Kowloon Branch Office.

$5,598,600,

Incorporated

1

in U.S.A.

1930.

U.S.$5,000,000

$10,000,000

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