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Average Rate of Exchange with Loodon

during the

past year,

Demand.

5.

d.

3,4

(R1)

CURRENCY, BANKING, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES.

List of coins current with rela-

tive value.

Hong Kong

Silver Dollar. Mexican Dollar. British Dollar. All of equal value.

Subsidiary coin:

Silver.

50 cents.

Legal tender currency giving particulars and Legislative Authority.

No LIMIT, Order of H. M. rite Queen in Council Jated 2nd February, 1893, published in Hong Kong Government Gazette, Notification No. 128 of 80th March, 1895.

Estimated Amount of

Estimated Amount of paper money in Circulation,

Private Banks.

Coin in Circulation,

Colonial Government.

No estimate, $2,300,000 131,712,167

20

899**

19

10

Up to $2,

Do.

$9,483,763

"

ก

Copper. Une ceut.

Up to $1.

Do.

Cupro Nickel.

10 cents.

5

13

A dollar contains.

100 cents.

Up to $2. Proelamustion No. 4 by the Officer Administeriog the Government of Hong Kong dated 9th November, 1935.

Issued since 1923 $340,000

Previously

no estimate.

!

$1,379,999.50

One Dollur

Notes issued

Banking

Currency by Hongkong notes issued and Shanghai by the Trea-

витег.

Corporation,

Legal tender Chartered

to any amount Bank of India, under Ordio-Australia and

unce No. 42 China.

of 1935.

Mercantile Bank of India, Limited,

Legal tender

to any amount under Ordin- ance No. 54 of 1935.

Corrency in which Accomata are kept.

By By the Gort, Public.

Weights and Measures in com. moa nee, and their equivalents in Imperial Weights and Measures.

Particulars of all Banks doing business in the Colony.

Name of Bank.

Number of

Establishmenta

In the Colusy,

Under what authority established.

Capital paid up.

Note Circulation

in the Colony.

Amount of Deposita in the

Colony.

21

1

Ordinance No. 2 of 1866. British Govt.

20 million Jollars.

124,863,771 No

informa-

tion.

£3,000,000 22,756,888

Charter of

29-12-53.

1

£1,050,000 4,091,308

of India, Ltd.

International

1

Established

G. 23,000,000

under

Dollars Dollars

and aud cents. vents.

BRITISH.

The Imperial Weights

and Measures.

CHINESE.

Weights.

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, Chartered Bank of India, Australis and China. Mercantile Book

Banking Corporation.

|

1 Fun

(can- Jareen)

1 Tria

(mace) 1 Leung

(tael) 1 Kun

(catty)

1 Tam

(pieul)

Aroirdupois.

=-0133 oz.

=0-133 ..

The P. and 0. Banking Corpo-

เ

authority of

State of

Connecticut

Senate Re-

solution Jau-

Unry, 1901.

Incorporated

£2,394,160.

=

1A

in England

!920,

Fr. 120,000,000

i

=

17 lb.

= 138.,

Length.

1 Ch'ek equal to 143 English inches, divided into 10 Trün and each Trän juto

10 Fax.

racion Limited.

Banque de l'Indo-Chine.

National City

Bank of New York.

Yokohama Specie Bauk. Bank of Canton, Limited. Bank of Taiwan. Netherlands-Judia Commercial

Hauk. Netherlands Trading Society.

Banque Franco- Chinoise pour le Commerce at

Industrie.

Bank of China.

Bank of East

Act of Con- |C.S.$127,500,000

gress of

| U.S.A. datesh

3rd June, 1564.

Ordinance No. 9 of 1907.

Y.100,000.000

$8,665,600

| Y.15,000,000 G.33,000.000)

G,33,030,000

L

A

Frs. 80,000,000

$25,000.000 $5,398,600

Asia, Ltd.

Tourported

The Chase Book.

1

in U.S.A.

1930.

5.85.000.000|

1

$10,000,000

The OverseaMS- Chinese Banking Corporation, Ltd.

And numerou

native Hoogs Joing some

portion of back.

ing business.

1

• Kowloon Branch Office.

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