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Currency iu which
Account* are kept
i
By
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] Weights and Measure;.-, in common
; use. and their equivalents in
Particular-) of all Bank-- doing business in the
Islaud
No. of '
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j Imperial Weight-, and Measures I N a m e of Bank !
Government I the Public ,
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Establish. ! «*»* ?
Ca
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ital
ments iu •«hotit.r;
the Island • J?™
1
*:
lished
paid u|.
Xote
circula–
tion
ia rbe
Lland
Ainount of
Peposirs in the
Island
Pounds,
Shillings
and
Cyprus
Piastres
Csuallv
in
Piastres
CAPACITY.
2 pints • = 1 ijiiarr
2Jqnnrts = 1 Cyprus litre
4 quarts = 1 gallon
8gnllou*-= 1 kile
• 9 quarts = 1
Liquid )
kouza
Measure J IG konza?**= 1 i
(
load
W E I G H T .
!
40(1 .Irani* — 1 oke —
!
1^ okes = 1 Cypru? litre
44 okes = 1 cantar
18t)okes = 1 Aleppo cautar
8 0 0 ..kes = 1 ton
I m p e r i a l Brunch ' Firman • £5,000,000 X I L .
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Ottoman i at ' o f the
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B u n k j Larnaca Pnrre i
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and
i
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Cash Offi.e!
;
at
Nicosia
L E N G T H .
12 inches = 1 foot
-J /eet = 1 pic
S feei <>r H j«ic = 1 yard
33 pics = 1 chain
2.U4U pics= 1 mile
L A X IJ M E A S L P L :
] don.nu — (j(> jii.-s or -40 yds.
[.-quare
-=• 14-4"J sq. ft. or
*"
x
of aii acre
= 1.93»j douums
= 1 a jnare mile
4*10.504 donums «= I «»-re
The aU-ve figures as regards
capacity, weight and length
linve been laid down ly
"Tlie Weights an.I Mea-nivs
L a w " (Xo. XI. of 1*90. i
Tin- Land M.'asure ba- Leen
.v Order of the
H it'll '.'oininissi.nu-i* published
in Ci.iz-'itr ,\... |:'. «.f 10th
March. 1 -iT*.*. Tlie <l<>iitnn is,
li.iwcvci'..-..li)].:itejlat different
sizes by tlic inhabitant.*- iu
d: Helen: j.an's ..{' the Island,
an.! nu h-r * T h • Cotton L a w ,
l-v*>9," it i* r-.-ckoii-dn- 1/500
s marc v.*.-,!-.
£ cj.
;'»0,000 0 0
of wliich
£'22.:}->:,
Government
Accounts