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Curreuoy in which
Accounts are kept
Weights and Measures in common
use, and their equivalents in
Imperial Weights and Measures
Particular's oc ail Bank* doiug business is. rhe
Island
Name of
Bank
No. of
Establish–
ments in
the Island
Under
whac
auchoritv
estab–
lished
Capital
paid up
l
Note
circula–
tion
in the
Island
Amount of
Deposits in the
Island
Pounds,
!
.Shilling-?
and j
Cyprus
Piastres
Usually C A P A C I T Y .
in I 2 pints = 1 quart
Piastres' 2 j quarts-*= 1 Cyprus Here
-4 quarts = 1 gallon
8 gallons= 1 kile •
I 9 quarts = 1
Liquid )
kouza
Measure ) 16 lcouzas= 1
(
load
WEIGHT.
400 drams — 1 oke
14 okes = 1 Cyprus litre
44 okes = I cantar
1S«> okes = 1 Aleppo cantar
800 okes = 1 t.>n
LENGTH
12 inches = 1 foot
"j feet = 1 pic
3 feet or H pie = 1 y.-ird
33 pic-- = 1 chain
2.04" i'i..--= 1 mile
L A N K M E A S l ' I t E :
1 d:i:i:*.ii-t «= 6" pies or 40 ydi.
[square
•= 14,4"0 sq. fr. or
~-*.i\ of an acre
1,936 d'-uums = 1 sq. mile
3-025 donums «•«= 1 acre
T h e above figures as regards
catacitv. -jveitrht and leucth
m . ' C
*?
have l"reu laid do*v:i by
''The We:-/tits and Measur-:-:
L a w " (No. X L of l>90.)
The donum is, however, com–
puted at ditferent sizes by
tie inlial-itaurs in different
parts of the* Inland, and under
" T h e Cotton L:iw
?
1889," it
is reckoned as 1,600 square
vards.
Imperial
Ottoman
Bank
Branch
at
Larnaca,
Nicosia
and I
Limassoi
Firman £5,000,000,
ofthe j
Porte !
NIL.
£ s. c.p.
99,500 0 0
of which
£26,000
Goverament
Accounts
*-
-