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Currency in which
Accounts are kept
By
Govern–
ment
Pounds,
Shillings
and
Cyprus
Piastres
By
the
Public
Usually
in
Piastres
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weights and Measures in common
1
use, and their equivalents in
Imperial Weights and Measures
CAPACITY.
2 pints = 1 quart
2f quarts= 1 Cyprus litre
4 quurts = 1 gallon
8 gallons-= 1 kile
( 9 quarts = 1
Liquid )
kouza
Measure j 16 konzas= 1
(
load
W E I G H T .
400 drams — 1 oke
1£ okes = I Cyprus litre
44 okes = 1 cantur
180 okes = 1 Aleppo cnn tar
800 okes = 1 ton
LENGTH
12 inches = 1 foot
2 feet = 1 pic
3 feet or H pic = 1 yurd
33 pics = 1 chain
2.640 pics= 1 mile
LAXD MEASURE:
1 donum =— 60 pics or 40 yds.
[square
•*•=•> H,40O
or
-j-W of au acre
1,936 donums = 1 sq. mile
3*025 donums •= 1 acre
The above figures as regards
capacity, weight and length
hare been laid down by
"The Weights and Measures
L a w " (No. XI. of 1890.)
The donum is. however, com–
puted at different sizes by
tbe' inhabitants in different
parts of the Island, and under
" T h e Cotton Law, 1889," it
is reckoned as 1,600 square
yards.
,
Name of
Bank
Imperial
Ottoman
Bank
Particulars of all Banks doing business in the
Island
No. of
Establish–
ments in
tbe Island
Branches
at
Larnaca,
Nicosia
and
Limaasol
Under
what
authority
estab-'
lished
Firman
of the
Porte
i
i
.
Capital
paid up
£5,000,000
•
Note
circula–
tion
in the
Island
NIL.
Amount of
Deposits in the
Island
£ S. C.p.
107,000 0 0
of which
£17,800
Government
Accounts
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