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COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEpartment.
No. S. 196.-Returns of the Average Amount of BANK NOTES in Circulation and of Specie in Reserve in Hongkong, during the month ended 30th June, 1913, as certified by the Managers of the respective Banks:-
BANKS.
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,..
Mercantile Bank of India, Limited, .
TOTAL,
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AVERAGE AMOUNT.
SPECIE IN RESERVE.
1
$
5,123,995
4,000,000
19,489,534
16,000,000
567,054
275,000*
25,180,583 20,275,000
* Securities with Crown Agents £73,000.
No. S. 197. The following statement of the securities lodged with the Crown Agents by the Mercantile Bank of India, Limited, against their notes in circulation, is published for general information under Section 5 of the Mercantile Bank Note Issue Ordinance, 1911, (Ordinance No. 65 of 1911):—
Security.
Amount.
Nominal Value.
Price when deposited.
Latest market price.
India 3% Stock,
£28,000
£100
92/93
923/93
Bombay Port Trust 4% Bonds,...
£10,000
£100
97/981/20
971/981
Bengal Nagpur Railway Co.,
Ltd., 3% Debentures,
£35,000
£100
par.
par.
No. S. 198.--Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted against Hongkong.
Place or Port.
Nature of Measures.
Date.
Reference to Govern- ment Noti-
fication.
Singapore. Hongkong declared an infected port on account of Small-pox.
Orissa.
4th April, 1913. No. S. 85.
18th April, 1913. No. S. 110.
Burmah.
18th April, 1913.
18th April, 1913.
No. S. 111.
No. S. 112.
Plague Regulations imposed in Orissa Ports against arrivals
from Hongkong.
Hongkong declared a Plague-infected port.
Chittagong. Regulations for the prevention of the introduction of Plague
by sea enforced against arrivals from Hongkong.
Netherlands- India.
Hongkong declared an infected port. Importation of the following articles from Hongkong or transshipped at this port is temporarily prohibited :-(1) wearing apparel, old and worn clothes, household effects for daily use, used bedding, unless these goods are transported as personal luggage or in consequence of removal. (2) rags. Re- fuse of new goods coming direct from the weaving-mills, from workshops where apparel is made or from bleaching- establishments, artificial wool, and cuttings of new paper, are not considered as rags.
Quarantine up to 21 days according to the state of health on board the ships but subject to exemption on production of certificates legalised by the Netherlands Consul General at Hongkong.
23rd May, 1913. No. S. 147.
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