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Currency in which
Accounts arc kept
By
Government
Pounds,
Shillings
aud
Cyprus
Piastres
• •
By
the Public
Usually
in
Piastres
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Weights and Measures in common
use, and their equivalents in
Imperial Weights and Mcasuru
CAPACITY.
2 pints = 1 quart
2 $ quarts = 1 Cyprus litre
4 quarts = 1 gallou
8 gallons= 1 kile"
I 9 quarts = 1
Liquid. )
konza
Measure j 1 6 k n u z a s = 1
(
load
W E I G H T .
400 drams — 1 oke •—
1j okes = 1 Cyprus litre
44 okes = 1 cantur
180 okes = 1 Aleppo
can tar
Particulars of all Banks doing business'.-t'.ic
Island
Name of Bank
I m p e r i a l
Ottoman
B a n k
800 okes = 1 ton
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LENGTH.
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12 inches = 1 foot
2 feet = 1 pic
8 feet or 1$ pic = 1 yard
33 pics = 1 chain
2,640 pics= 1 mile
LAND MEASURE:
1 donuxn — 40 pics square
— 10*609 square
[feet
4*10594 donums — 1 acre
The abovefiguresas regards
capacity, weight aud length
have been laid down by
"The Weights and Measures
Law" (No. XI. of 1890.)
The Land Measure has been
recognized by Order of the
High Commissioner published
in Gazette No. 13 of 10th
March, 1879. Thedonumis,
however, computed at different
sizes by the inhabitants in
" different parts of the Island,
and under "The Cotton Law,
1889," it is reckoned as 1,600
square yards.
No. ol .
Establish–
ments in
the Island
Branches
at
Nicosia
Larnaca
Limassoi
Agents
at
Famagusta
Paphu
Kyrenia
Under
what
authority
estab–
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of the
Porte
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Capital
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