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Currency in which
Accounts arc kept
By
Govern–
ment
By
the
Public
Pounds,
Shillings
aud
Cyprus
Piastres
(Jsuallv
in
Piastres
Weights and Measures in common
use, and their equivalents in
Imperial Weights and Measures
Particulars of all Banks doing business in the
Island
Name of
Bank
No. ot
Establish–
ments in
the Island
Under
what
authoritv
estab–
lished
Capital
paid up
CAPACITY.
2 pints = 1 quart
2 J quarts = 1 Cyprus litre
4 quarts = I gallon
8 gnllous= 1 kile
Liquid
Measure
9 quarts = 1
kouza
16 knuzas*= 1
load
Imperial
Ottomau
Bank
WEIGHT.
400 drams =-• 1 oke
1J okes = 1 Cyprus litre
•44 okes = 1 cantur
180 okes = 1 Aleppo cantar
800 okes = 1 tou
LENGTH.
12 inches = 1 foot
2 /eet = 1 pic
3 feet or lt^ pic = 1 yard
33 pics = 1 chain
2,640 pics= 1 mile
LAND MEASURE:
1 douniu =• 60 pics or 40 yds.
[square
=-= 14,400 sq.ft. or j
- ^ «>f sin acre !
1,931) d'-nums = 1 sq. mile |
3*025 damans =-• 1 aero
The above figures as regards
capacity, weight and leugth
have been laid down by
"Tlie Weigh rs and Measure?
Law" (No. XI. of 1890.)
The donum K however, com–
puted at ditferent frizes by
the inhabitants in different
parts of the Island, and under
"The Cotton Law, 1889.." it
is reckoned as 1,(>')0 square*
vards.
Branch
at
Larnaca,
Nicosia
and
Limaasol
Firman
of the
Porte
Note
circula-
tion
in tbe
Island
Amoant of
Deposits in the
Island
* s. c.p.
£5,000,000 N I L . 37,775 0 0
of which
£6,524
Government
Accounts