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Currency in which
Accounts are kept
By
Govern–
ment
Pounds,
Shillings
and
Cyprus
Piastres
By
the
Public
(Jsually
in
Piastres
Weights -z.[ Pleasures ia common
use, and their equivalents in
Imperial Weights and Measures
CAPACITY.
2 pints = 1 quart
2iquarts= I Cyprus litre
4 quarts = 1 gallon
8 gallons-— 1 kile
( 9.quarts = 1
Liquid )
kouza
Measure j 16 kouzas= 1
(
load
WEIGHT.
400 drains — 1 oke
1$ okes = I Cyprus litre
44 okes = 1 cantur
180 okes = 1 Aleppo cantar
800 okes = 1 ton
LENGTH
12 inches = 1 foot
2 feet ss 1 pic
3 feet or H pics = 1 yard
33 pics = 1 chain
2.640 pics= 1 mile
LAND MEASCRE:
I donnm — 60 pics or 40 yds.
[square
— 14,400 sq. ft. or
-
r
t.
9
r of an acre
1,936 donums = T sq. mile
3*02.5 donums — 1 acre
The above figures as regards
capacity, weight and length
have 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
the inhabitants in different
parts of the Island, and under
the Interpretation Law, 1901,
it is reckoned as 1,600 square
yards.
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Particulars of all Banks doing business in the
Island
Name of
Bank
Imperial
Ottoman
Bank
Xo. of
Establish–
ments in
the Island
Branches
at
Larnaca,
Famagusta,
Nicosia
and
Limassoi
Under
what
authority
estab–
lished
Finnan
of the
Porte
Capital
paid up
£5,000,000
Note
circula–
tion
in the
Island
NIL.
Amount of
Deposits in the
Islaud
£ s. c.p.
(a)
60,346 0 0
of which
£24,840
Government
Accounts
(a) Deposited in Imperial Ottoman Bank. Other Deposits unknown except in the Government Savings Bank,
see Return _X_III.