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Currency
Accounts
By
Govern-
ment
in which
are kept
By
the
Public
Particulars
of all Banks doing buninww in the
Island
Weigh:** and Measures in common '"
use. and their equivalents in ,
i
Imperial Weights and Measures I
N a m e of
Bank
No.
of
Establish–
ments in
tlic
Island
Under
That
authority
estab–
lished
Capital
paid up
Note
circula–
tion
in the
Island
Amount of
Deposits in the
Island
Pounds. Csually
Shillings' in
and Piastres
Cyprus '
Piastres'
CAPACITY.
2 pints = 1 quart
2Jqiurr*»= 1 Cyprus litre
4 quarts = 1 gallon
8 jrallonss: 1 kil-£
. 9 quarts = 1
j
k.vjza
Liquii
Measure *) 16 k nuzas= 1
load
WEIGHT.
400 drams — 1 oke
l^okes = 1 Cyprus Litre
44 okes = 1 cantar
180 okes = 1 Aleppo cautar
800 okes = 1 ton
LENGTH
12 inches = 1 foot
2 feet = 1 pic
3 fee: or H pics = 1 yard
33 pics = 1 chain
2.64" pics-sB 1 mile
L A X L ' A l E A S l ' R E :
1 dor**:n*i — 6«- pics or 40 yds.
[square
— 14.4DO sq. fr. or
TVT °^
au acre
1.936 donums = 1 sq. mile
3-02-*. Jouums •*— 1 acre
The :.r.;,ve figures as regards
capaolry. -weight ami length
have beeu laul do^n by
the Weighr? and Pleasures
Lav? (No. XI. of 1390.)
The donum is, however, com–
pute! at different sizes by
the inhabitants in different
part; of the Island, and under
tbe Interpretation Law (Xo.X.
of 1901) it is reckoned as
*• 1,600 square yards, ac–
cording :o the British Imperial
Standard."
Imperial Branches ' Firman £5,000,000;
Ottoman
Bank
Bank of
Athens
Bank of
Cyprus
at
Lamaca,
Famagusta,
Nicosia
aud
Lima.-, sol
Branch at
Limassoi
and
Agencies
at
Nicosia,
Larnaca,
Famagusta
and
Paphos
of the
Porte
NIL.
Decree Drachmas
ofthe 160,000,000
I
Kin? of! (exclusive
Greece
(23rd
Xovem.,
1893)
of
Reserve
Funds,
Drachmas
6,180,000)
Branch
at
Nicosia
and
Agencies
at
Larnaca.
Nan en fin
of H.E.
tiit-
High
Comm.
of
Cyprus
XIL.
£ s. c.p.
(a)
90,670 0 0
of -which
£47,510
G-overnmen.c
Accounts
£19,243 (b)
£47,636 X I L .
Limassoi. rursimiit
Famagusta.
Paphos,
Kvrenia
and
to
the !
_ • '
V l " ;
, I
sions of ;
the '
_.oroiiou ;Ot:oi_*m
[Commer–
cial Code!
•Xo. j
11548^1 ]
Cyprus |
Gazette \
1064 of '
20 12/12
£25.141 (c)
(a) Deposited in Imperial Ottoman Bank, (b) Deposited in Bank of Arhen>. "/) Deposited in Bank of Cyprns.
Other Deposits unknown except in the Government Savings Bank, see Return X X X I I I .