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Currency
Accounts
By
Gorernment
Pounds,
Shillings
and
Cyprus
Piastres
in which
are kept
By
the Public
Usually
- in
Piastres
t
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Weights ;lnd Measures iu common
use, and their equivalents in
Imperial Weights and Measures
CAPACITY.
2 pints = I quart
2£quarts = 1 Cyprus litre
4 quarts = 1 gallon
8gallous= 1 kill
| 9 quarts = 1
Liquid )
kouza
Measure ) 16 kouzas= 1
( •:
load
WEIGHT.
400 drams **— 1 oke —
1J okes = 1 Cyprus litre
44 okes = 1 cantar
180 okes = 1 Aleppo
cantar
800 okes = 1 ton
L E N G T H .
12 inches = 1 foot
2 feet = 1 ptc
8 feet or 1-V pic = I yard
33 pics = 1 chain
2,640 pics= 1 mile
LAND MEASURE :
1 donum"£— 40 pics square
— 10609 square
[feet
4*10.594 donums = 1 acre
The above figures as regards
capacity, weight and length
have been laid down by
"The Weights and Measures
L a w " (No. X I . of 1890.)
Tbe Land Measure has been
recognized by Order of the
High Commissioner published
in Gazette No. 13 of 10th
March, 1S79. The donum is,
however, computed at different
sizes by the inhabitants in
different parts of the Bland,
and under " T h e Cotton Law,
1389," it is reckoned as 1,600
square yards.
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I'Mticuiur-s of ail Hank-, doing business in the
Isk.nd
•
Name of Bank
I m p e r i a l
Ottoman
Bank
• -
V*
Xo. of
Establish–
ments in
the Island
Branches
at
Nicosia
Larnaca
Limassoi
Correspond–
ents at
Famagusta
Papho
Kyrenia
Under
what
authority
estab-*
lished
Firman
of the
Porte
Capital
paid up
£5,000,000
..
Note
circula–
tion
in the
Island
NIL.
t
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Amount of
Deposits in the
Island
£ s. c.p.
41,321 0 0
of which
£13,968
Government
Accounts
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