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Currency in which
Accounts are kept
Br
Govern–
ment
Pounds,
Shillings
and
Cyprus
Piastres
B7
the
Public
Usually
in
Piastres
?*T • L.
A-—
— J >ST
Weights and Measures in common
use, and their equivalents in
Imperial Weights and Measures
CAPACITY.
2 pints = 1 quart
2$quarts— 1 Cyprus litre
4 quarts = 1 gallon
8gallons= 1 kile
| 9 quarts = 1
Liquid j
kouza
Measure j 1 6 k n u * a s = 1
(
load
WEIGHT.
400 drams — 1 oke
If okes = 1 Cyprus litre
44 okes = 1 cantar
180 okes = 1 Aleppo cantar
800 okes = 1 ton
LENGTH
12 inches = 1 foot
2 feet = 1 pic
3 feet or l£ pics = 1 yaTd
33 pics = 1 chain
2,640 pics= 1 mile
LAND MEASURE:
1 ilomnn — 60 pies or 40 yds.
[square
— 14,400 s<). ft. or
-r%P
r
of an acre
1.936 donums = 1 sq. mile
3*025 donums — 1 acre
T h e above 6gures as regards
capacity, weight and length
have been laid down by
the Weights and Measures
Law (No. XT. of lS90.'i
T b e donum is, however, com–
puted at different sizes by
tbe inhabitants in different
parts of tbe Island, and under
tbe Interpretation L a w (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
Bank of
Cyprus
Particulars of all Banks doing business in tbe
Island
Nn at
1. U. Ul
TfCatAhliah.
JVSWAUl oU-
menta in
a l l B U W 114
th» Talanri
bUC X UlkUU
Branches
at
Larnaca,
Famagusta,
Nicosia
and
Limassol
Branch at
Limassol
and
Agencies
at
Nicosia,
Larnaca,
Famagusta
and
Paphos
Branch
at
Nicosia
and
Agencies
at
Larnaca,
Limassol,
Famagusta,
Paphos,
Kyrenia
and
Morphon
Under
what
authority
estab–
lished
Firman
of tbe
Porte
Decree
of the
King of
Greece
(23rd
Novem.,
1898)
Sanction
of H.E.
the
High
Comm.
of
Cyprus
pursuant
to the
provi–
sions of
the
Ottoman
Commer–
cial Code
(No.
11548)
Cyprus
Gazette
1064 of
20/12/12
Capital
paid up
£5,000,000
-
Drachmas
60,000,000
(exclusive
of
Reserve
Funds,
Drachmas •
6,180,000)
£48,020
Note
circula–
tion
in the
Island
NIL.
NIL.
•
NIL.
Amount of
Deposits in the
Island
£ B. cp.
(«)
61,614 0 0
of which
£35,014
Government
Accounts
*
(b)
17,447 14 8
1
1
•
s
£35,164 (c) ]
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(a) Deposited iu Imperial Ottoman Bank, (b) Deposited in Bauk of Athens, (c) Deposited in Bank of Cyprus.
Other Deposits unknown except in the Government Savings Bank, see Return X X X f i L