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Currency in which
Accounts are kept
By
Bv
Government ' thu Public
Weights and Measures in common
use. and thuir equivalents in
Imperial Weights and Measures
Particulars of all Banks doing business ia the
Lsland
Xauu.- of Bank
Xo. of
Establish–
ments in
the Island
| Under
what
j authority
I estab-
i lished
Capital
paid up
Xote
circula–
tion
in the
Island
! Amount of
1
Deposits in the
Island
Pounds,
Shillings
and
Cyprus
i
Piastres
Csuallv i C A P A C I T Y .
in [ 2 piuts = 1 quart
Piastres | 2$-quarts= 1 Cyprus litre
4 quarts = 1 gallon
8 gallous= 1 kile
{ 9 quarts = ]
Liquid )
kouza
Measure ) 16kouzas= 1
load
WEIGHT.
400 drams — 1 oke *—
l-f okes = 1 Cyprus litre
44 okes = 1 cantur
ISO okes = 1 Aleppo
cuntar
SOO okes = 1 tou
LENGTH. .
12 iuches = 1 foot
2 feet = 1 pie
8 fee: or li pic = 1 yard
33 pics = 1 chain
2,040 pics= 1 mile
L A N D M E A S U R E :
1 donum -=« 40 pics square
«= 10-609 square
[feet
4-10394 donums = 1 acre
The above figures as regards
capacity, weight and length
have beeu laid down by
''The Weights and Measures
L a w " (No. X I . of 1S90.)
The Land Measure has been
recognized by Order of the
High Commissioner published
in Gazttte No. 18 of 10th
March. 1S71». The donum is. i
however, computed at different j
sizjs by the inhabitants iu
different pins of thu Island, j
an J umltM- "Th.- CoitonLaw, j
! lSSli," it is r-.'jkoned as 1,600 •
s m-'.re vards.
i I m p e r i a l
Ottoman
Bank
Branches
at
Nicosia
Larnaca
Limassoi
Correspond–
ents at
Famagusta
Papbo
Kvrenia
Firman i £5,000,000 N I L .
of the :
Porte i
£
c.p.
! 50,000 0 0
! of which
| £15,000
Government
Accounts