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Curr'.-nov
Account*
By '
Govern-
i
' ment
!
!
Pounds.
Shilling*
and
i
Cyprus
Piastres
-
9{
in which
are kept
the .
Public
L'suallv
in
Piastres
"Weight-* ami Measures in c o m m o n
u-e. ami their equivalent? in
Imperial tYVi-.-iits ami Measure*
CAPACITY.
2 pints = 1 (jimrt
2 * Quartsa= 1 Cyprus litre
4 ouarr* -= 1 gallon
S gallons = 1 kile
| 9 quarts = 1
Li-jui.l )
kouza
Pleasure j 16 konzas*= 1 .
(
load
HEIGHT.
400 drams — 1 oke
liokes = 1 Cyprus litre
44 okes = ] cantar
ISO okes = 1 Aleppo cantar
800 okes = 1 ton
LENGTH
12 inches = 1 foot
2 feet = 1 pic
3 feet or H pics = 1 yard
33 pics = 1 chain
2.640 pics*= 1 mile
LAND MEASURE:
1 donum —• 60 pics or 40 yds.
[square
— 14,400 aq. ft. or
-|-;
0
T
of an acre
1,936 donums = 1 sq. mile
3'02o donums — 1 acre
The above figures as regards
capacity, •weight and length
have been laid down by
the Weights and Measures
La* (No. XI. of 1S90.)
The Jonum is, however, com–
puted at different sizes by
the inhabitants in different
parrs of the Island, and under
the Interpretation Law, 1901,
it is reckoned as 1,600 square
yard*.
Name of
Bank
Imperial
Ottomau
Bank
•
I'r.:-:'.-.'.'. :i:
Xo. of
Il.-tablish-
ments in
the Islar.J
Branches
at
Larnaca,
Famagnsta.
Nicosia
and
Lima-sol
-* e: r.ll Br
Under
what
authority
estab–
lished
.
Firman
of the
Porte
•
..'.'..• lioiEg business iz the
I-land
Capital
paid.up
£5,000,000
ne- "
Xote
circula–
tion
in the
Island
NIL.
1
Amount o.
Deposits ia the
Island
1
£ s. c.p.
S9,600 0 0
of which
£36
:
100
(rovernment
Accounts
-
(c) Deposited in Imperial Ottoman Bank. Other Deposits unknown.