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Currency in which
Account*; arc kept
Particular* of
all Banks
(loin-*;
business
™
the
Island
i
Weights ami M*J;W.K'CS in o*>inm.m
By i By
i
Government the- Vr.hh.
use,
and their
equivalents
in
Imperial Weights and
MI-IIMIIVS
N a m e of Bank
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l
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!
K-rablish-
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w h a t
ments in authoriti
thu Island ??
t
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,
-r
I lished
Capital
paid up
Note
circula–
tion
in the
Island
A m o u u t of
Deposits iu the
Islaml
Pounds,
Shillings
ami
Cyprus
Piastres
r
Usually
iu
Piastres
9 quarts = 1
kouza
*iis= 1
load
CAPACITY.
2 pints = 1 quart
2*Jquarts = 1 Cyprus litre
4 quarts = 1 gallon
8 gullous= 1 kile
Liquid j
Measure") 16 ki-uza
WEIGHT.
400 drams — 1 oke —
1J okes = I Cyprus litre
44 okes = 1 cantur
180 okes = 1 Aleppo cantar
803 okes = 1 tou
LENGTH.
12 inches =; 1 toot
2 /eet = 1 pic
3 feet or U pic = 1 yard
33 pics = 1 chain
2,040 pics= 1 mile
LAND MEASURE:
1 donum = 60 pics or 40 yds.
[square
-= 14*400 sq. ft. or
mf:\ of an acre
= 1,936 donums
= 1 square mile
4-10594 donums — 1 acre
The above -figures as regards
capacity, weight ami leugth
have • been laid down by
'•The Weights and Measures
Law" (No. X L of 1*90.)
Tlic Laud Measure 1ms beeu
recognized by Order of the
High Commissioner published
in G-tzette No. IS of 10th
March, 1S7D. Tho.donum is,
however, computed at different
sizes by the inhabitants iu
dttiereut parts of the Islaud,
and under " The Cotton Law,
1SS9," it is reckoned as 1,600 j
square yards.
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Imperial
Ottoman
Bank
Branch
at
Laruaca
and
Cash Office-
nt
Nicosia
and
Limassoi
Firman
of the
Porte
£5,000,000 NIL.
~ 8. C.p.
63,300 0 0
of which
£22,300
Government
Accounts