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Currency
Accounts
Bj
Govern–
ment
Pounds,
Shillings
and
Cyprus
Piastres
i
in which
are kept
B j
the
Public
L'sually
in
Piastres
Weights and M"'t;*ire-> in common
use, and their equivalent* in
Imperial Wei chr? and Measures
CAPACITY.
2 pints = 1 quart
2}quarts = I Cyprus litre
4 quarts = 1 gallon
8gallons= 1 kile
i 9 quart? = 1
Liquid )
kouza
Measure') 16kouzns= 1
(
loud
W E I G H T .
400 drains — 1 oke
1J okes = I Cyprus litre
44 okes = 1 cantar
180 okes = 1 Aleppo cantar
800 okes = 1 ton
L E N G T H
12 inches = 1 foot
2 feet = 1 pic
3 feet or H pic* = 1 yard
33 pics =*= 1 chain
2,640 pics= 1 mile
L A N D M E AS L" R E :
1 donum = 60 pics or 40 yds.
[square
mmm 14.400 sq. ft. or
•_K?
T
of an acre
1,936 donums = 1 sq. mile
3*025 donums •=— 1 acre
T h e above figures as regards
capacity, weight and length
have been laid down hy
the Weights and Measures
L a w (No. X I . of 1890.)
T h e donum is, however, com–
puted at different sizes by
the inhabitants in different
parts of the Island, and under
the Interpretation L a w . 1901,
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
the Island
Branches
at
Larnaca,
Famagusta,
Nicosia
and
Limassoi
Under
what
authoritv
estab–
lished
Finnan
of the
Porte
•
Capital
paid up
£5,000,000
'
i
Note
circula–
tion
in the
Island
NIL.
-
Amount of
Deposits in the
island
£ s. c.p.
73,59$ 0 0
of which
£31.405
Government
Account*
(a) Deposiced in Imperial Ottoman Bank. Other Deposits unknown.