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Currency
Accounts
By
Gorern-
1
ment
Pounds,
Shillings
• and
Cyprus
Piastre*
in which
are kept
By
the
Public
Usually
in
Piastres
.
i
1
Weigh:* and Measures in common
use. and their equivalents in
Imperial Weights and Measures
C A P A C I T Y .
2 pints = 1 quart
2 J quarts = I Cyprus litre
4 quarts = 1 gallon
8 gal Ion 3 = 1 kile
• i 9 quarts = 1
Liquid )
kouza
M e a s u r e ) I 6 k o u z a s = 1
(
load
W E I G H T .
400 drams — 1 oke
li okes = 1 Cyprus litre
44 okes *•= 1 cantur
ISO okes = 1 Aleppo cantar
SOO okes *•*=- 1 ton
L E N G T H
12 inches -= I Foot
2 :eet -= 1 pic
3 t'eer or H pics =- 1 yard
33 pics = 1 chain
2.64" -.fics'--*- 1 mile
LAND M E A S U R E :
1 ilonnm — (ji) pics or 40 yd*.
[square
— 14,400 sq. ft. or
T
*
;
0
T of an acre
1.936 donums = I sq. mile
3'025 donums — I acre
The above figures as regards
capacity, weight and length
have been laid down by
the Weights and Measures
Law (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 (No.X.
of 1901) it is reckoned as
" 1.600 square yard*, ac–
cording co the British Imperial
Standard."
Name of
Sank
.
Imperial
Ottoman
Bank
Bank of •
Athens '.
:
Bank of
Cyprus
'
i
Particulars of all Banks Join)* hunine-a in the
Island
Xo. of
Establish–
ments in
che Uland
Branches
at
Lamaca,
Famagusta,
Nicosia
and
Limassoi
Branch at
Limassoi
aud
Agencies
at
Nicosia,
Larnaca,
Fam-i-rusta,
Paphos
nnd
Kyrenia
Head Office
ut
Nicosia
and
Agencies
at
Larnaca,
Limassoi,
Famagusth,
Paphos,
Kyrenia
and
Morphou
Under
•--hac
authoriti–
estab-
lished
Firman
of the
Porte
Decree
of the
King of
Greece
(23rd
Novem.,
1893)
Sanction
of
H.E.
the
High
Comm.
of
Cyprus
pursuant
to the
provi–
sions of
the
Ottoman
Commer–
cial Code
(No.
115-48)
Cyprus
Gazette
1064 of
20 12/12
Capital
paid up
£5,000,000
£2,400,000
£54,568
t
Note
circula–
tion
in che
Island
NIL.
NIL.
i
NIL.
Amount of
Deposits in tbe
Isiand
£ S. C.p.
0)
73,010 0 0
of which
£27,680
Government
Account*)
(b)
£23,382
i
»
!
£28,194 (c) j
i
i
!
i
I
i
,
(a) Deposited in Imperial Ottoman Hank. (<5) Deposited in Bank of Athens. (<*) Deposited in Bank of Cyprus.
Other Deposits unknown except in the Government Savings Bank, see Return XXXIII.