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Ai.-eouu;.-. ar-.' kept
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Mrasure-i
in
c o m m o n
I'articuia;-.-!
of all 1!
By
Govern-
tho
u.ii!, and their e<iuivalcnis in
Imperial Weights
and Measure-
i
ment Public
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2 pints = 1 quart
2 j quarts-= 1 Cyprus litre
i quarts = 1 gallon
8 >';vlluus= 1 kile
Liquid <
Measure
W E I G H T .
400 drams
9 quarts = 1
kouza
16kouzas= 1
load
1 oke
li okes = 1 Cyprus litre
44 okes = 1 cantar
180 okes = 1 Aleppo cantar
800 okes = 1 tou
L E N G T H
12 inches = 1 foot
2 feet = 1 pic
3 feet or 1-V pic = I yard
33 pics = 1 chain
2,640 pics= 1 mile
LAND MEASURE:
1 donum = 60 pics or -10 yds.
[square
= 14,400 sq. ft. or
-r^.'V of an aore
1,936 donums = 1 sq. mile
3-02.5 donums = 1 acre
The above figures as regards
capacity, weight and length
hare been laid down by
" The Weights and Measures
Law" (No. XI. of 1890.)
The donum is, ho*wever, com–
puted at different sizes by
the inhabitants in different
parts of the Island, and under
"The Cotton Law, 1889," it
is reckoned as 1,600 square
yards.
(ioiui: hii<iiiess *':
N a m e of
Hank
Imperial
Ottoman
Bank
No. of
Nstablisli-
meuts in
the Island
1
Under
what
authority
estab-
! lished
Ca;
pr.:
ital
1 Up
Note
circula–
tion
in the
Amount nf
Deposits iu the
Island
Branch
at
Laruaca,
Nicosia
and
Limaasol
Firman
of the
Porte
£5,000,000 N I L .
£
s. c.p
82,133 0 0
of which
£22,133
Government
Accounts
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