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Average Rate of Exchange with London

during the

(R1)

CURRENCY, BANKING, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES.

List of coins

current with rela-

tivo value.

Legal tender currency giving particulars and Legislative Authority,

Estimated A monut of Coin in Circulation,

Estimated Amount of paper money in Circulation.

Colonial Government.

Private

Bunks.

past year.

Demand.

d.

Subsidiary coin:

23

$

Proclamation No. 1. by the Governor of Hong Kong dated 9th January, 1937.

Silver.

50 cents.

20 10

5

Up to $2.

*

1

Copper or Mixed

Metal,

One ceni.

Cupro Nickel,

No estimate.

Previously

Up to $1.

Do.

Issued since 1923 $440,347

no estimate.

Up to $2.

Do,

$210,000

6,143,000

225,600,579

Que Dollar | Nores issued Currency by Hongkong notes issued and Shanghai by the Trea- Banking

Corporation,

surer,

Legal tender Chartered to any amount Bank of India, under Ordiu- Australia niu. ance No. 42,Chinn,

of 1935.

Mercantile Bank of India, Limited.

Legal tender

to any amount under Ordin- anco No. 5 of 1935.

10 cents.

5 +

Lure Nickel.

10 cents.

5 cents.

A dollar contains

Up to $2. Proclamation No. 10 by the Officer Administering the Government of Hong Kong dated 7th October, 1937.

100 cents.

$2,687,500

Currency in which Accounts

are kept.

By By the

Weighis stal Measures in com mon use, amd their equivalents in Imperial Weights and Measures.

Govt, Public.

Dollars Dollars

and

aml

Cuts, cents.

BRITISH.

The Imperial Weights

and Measures,

1 Fan

CHINEST.

Weights.

(can- duteen)

1 T'sin

(maec)

\ Leung

(tnel) 1 Kan

(ently)

(picul)

Avoirdupois. =-0133 oz.

=0-183

=

N

"

138 »

Length.

1 Ch'ek equal to 14ĝ English inches, divided into 10 7s'ün and cuth 7s'ün iuto

10 Fan.

Particulars of all Banks doing business in the Colony,

Name of Bank.

Hongkong an Shanghai Bauking. Corporation,

Chartered Bank

Nun ber of

Estellamente

*Kupaya ut

Under what authority established,

Capital paid up.

Note Circulation

in the Colony.

Amount of

Deposits

in the Colony,

$ 195,232,228 No

2*

Ordinance

No. 2 of 1866.

20 million dollars.

informa- tion.

1

British Govt.

£3,000,000) 25,524,624|

| of India, Australia and China.

Charter of 29-12-33.

Merenatile Bank of India, Lul.

1

Banque Belge pour l'Etranger, (Extreme-Orient).

S.A.

Banque da Flado-Chine.

Bank of New York.

Yokohama Specie Bank,

Bank of Canton, Limited.

gress of U.S.A. datel

3rd June,

1861.

£1,050,000 4,843,727)

Belgian Frs.

$30,000,000]

Fix 120,000,000|

Y.100,000,000)

$7,162,650

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

Bank of Taiwan, Netherlands-India

1

Ordinance

Commercial Bank.

No, 9 of

1907.

G.40,030,000

Netherlands Trading Society.

1

Bank of China. Bank of East

Asis, Lud.

2*

$10,000,000 85,598,600)|

Incorporated

The Chase Bunk.

1

in U.S.A.

U.S.$5,000,000)

1930.

Tue Over-e 3-

1

$10,000,000

| Corporation, Lul.

Chinese Banking

Ku Bumerous nativo fongs doing some

portion of bank-

ing business,

* Kuw Boozt Branch Office,

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