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Currency
Account:
By
Govern–
ment
Pounds,
Shillings
and
Cyprus
Piastres
-*»
in which
are kept
By
the
Public
Usually
in
Piastres
Weights ami Measures iu common
use, ami their equivalents in
Imperial Weights and Measures
CAPACITY.
2 pints = 1 quart
2 J quarts = I Cyprus litre
4 quarts = 1 gallon
8 gallons = I kile
( 9 quarts = 1
Liquid )
kouza
Measure J 16 Wouzaa-= 1
(
load
WEIGHT.
400 drains — 1 oke
1£ okes = I Cyprus litre
44 okes = 1 cantar
180 okes •= 1 Aleppo cantar
800 okes = 1 ton
LENGTH
1 2 indies = I foot
2 feet = 1 pip
3 feet or 1); pics •== 1 yard
3 3 pics = " 1 chain
2,640 p i c s = 1 mile
'LAND MEASURE:
1 donum = 60 pics or 40 yds.
[square
— 14,400 sq. ft. or
-P/T of an acre
1,936 donums = 1 sq. mile
3025 donums — 1 acre
The abovefiguresas regards
capacity, weight and length
have been laid down by
the Weights and Measures
Law (No. X L . 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 (No .X.
of 1901) it is reckoned as
•* 1,600 square yards, ac–
cording to the British Imperial
Standard."
Name of
Bank
Imperial
Ottoman
Bank
•
Bank of
Athens
•
Particulars of all Banl.i Joi*v_' hu
I-land
No. of
Establish–
ments in
the Island
Branches
at
Larnaca,
Famagusta,
Nicosia
and
Limassoi
Branch at
Limassoi
and
Agencies
at '.
Nicosia,
Larnaca,
Famagusta
and
Pnphos
Under
what
authority
estab–
lished
Firman
of the
Porte
Decree
of the
King of
Greece
(23rd
Novem.,
1893)
I
Cap i till
paid up
£5,000,000
Drachmas
60,000,000
(exclusive
of
Reserve
Funds,
Drachmas
6,180,000)
!
i
1
1
t
1
!
i
siuft-w in the
Note
circula–
tion
in tho
Island
NIL.
NIL.
Amount of
Deposits io the
Island
£ S. c.p.
(a)
81,420 0 0
of which
£37,050
Government
Accounts
£23,392 (b)
(a)
Deposited
in Imperial Ottoman Banlc.
(b) Deposited in Bank of Athens.
Other Deposits
unknown excepc in the Government Savings Bank, see Return XXXIII.