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Currency in which
."iccount* are kept
Particulars of all Bauks doing business in the
Island
Weight- and Mcnsures ia common ."""
use. and their equivalents in
Imperial Weights and Measures j Xame of Bauk
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Establish- I "
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1 paidup
l iisbed i
Capital
Note
circula–
tion
in the
Island
Amount of
Deposits in the
Island
Pounds,
Shillings
and
Cyprua
Piastres
it-
Usually
in
Piastres
C A P A C I T Y .
2 pints = 1 quart
2jquar;s= 1 Cyprus litre
4 quarts = 1 gallou
8 gallon - = 1 kile
i 9 quarts = ]
kouza
16kouzas= 1
load
WEIGHT.
400 drams — 1 oke *-»
1* okes = 1 Cyprus litre
44 okes = I cantur
ISU okes = 1 Aleppo cantar
800 okes = 1 ton
LENGTH.
12 inches = 1 foot
2 feet = 1 pic '
3 i'eet or H pic = 1 yard
33 pics = 1 chain
2.G4U pics= 1 mile
LASD MEASURE:
1 douum = 60 pics or 40 yds.
[square
= 14-400 sq. ft. or
ff
f
of au acre
= 1,936 douuins
= 1 square mile
4-10594 donums = 1 acre
The above figures as regards
capacity, weight and leugth
have leen laid dowu by
"The Weights ami Measures
L a w " (Xo. XI. of 1*90. J
The L-...-1 Jb-asuw has l>ee:i
recognized hy Order of the
High Commissioner published
in Gj:e::e No. 13 of 10th
March, 1 i~'.K The douum is,
however, compute.] :il different
sizc-s by the inhabitants ia
difll-ren: pans of the Island,
and u:i !•.- " Th.' Cotton Law,
1S80," it is r-ekonoda? 1,600
square yarJs.
\ I m p e r i a l
; Ottoman
Bank'
Branch
at
Larnaca
aud
Cash Office
at
Nicosia
Firman j £5,000,OO0J
of the
Porte
NIL.
x s. c.p.
41,000 0 0
of which
£19,000
Government
Accounts