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Accounts are kept
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Pounds,
Shillings
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Cyprus
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\Veights and Measures in c o m m o n
use. -ind their equivalents in
Imperial Weights and Measures
CAPACITY.
2 pints = I quart
2£ quarts *•*= I Cyprus litre
4 quarts -= 1 gallon
8 gallons= I kile
( 9 quarts = 1
Liquid )
kouza
Measure ) 16 tr-iizus*-*** 1
(
load
WEIGHT.
400 drain*) — 1 oke
1J okes = I Cyprus litre
44 okes = 1 cantar
ISO okes = 1 Aleppo cuntar
800 okes = 1 ton
L E N G T H
12 inches = 1 foot
2 feet = I pic
1
3 feet or li pics = I yard
3 3 pics = 1 chain
2.64C* p i c s = I mile
L A N D .MEASURE :
1 douuin -— 60 pics or 40 yds.
[square
— 14,400 sq. ft. or
--Vr-- ot an acre
1,936 donums = 1 sq. mile
3*025 donums *•*•— 1 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 inhaiiitauts in different ,
parts of the Islaud. and under
the Interpretation L a w (No .X.
of 1901) it is reckoned aa
"1,600 square yards, ac–
cording to the British Imperial
Standard."
Name of
Bank
Imperial
Ottoman
Bank
Bank of
Athens
'
Bank of
Cyprus
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Particulars of rill Banks doing hu
Island
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the Island
Branches
at
Larnaca,
Famagusta,
Nicosia
and
Lim-insol
Branch at
Limassoi
aud
Agencies
at
Nicosia,
Larnaca,
Famugusta,
Paphos
i estab*
' lished
Finnan
of the
Porte
Decree
ofthe
King of
Greece
(23rd
Novem.,
1893)
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Head Office
at
Nicosia
and
Agencies
at
Lamaca,
Limassoi,
Famagusta,
Paphos,
Kyrenia j
and
llorphou j
,
Sanccion
of H.E.
the
High
Comm.
of
Cyprus
pursuant
to the
provi–
sions of
che
Ottoman
Commer–
cial Code
(No.
11548)
Cyprus
Gazettt
1064 of
20/12/12
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paid up
£5,000,000
Drachm?e
60,000,000
£73,636
si a I-M iu tiie
Note
circula–
tion
in the
Island
NIL."
NIL.
NIL.
Amount of
Deposits in the
Island
£ s. c.p.
(«)
213,927
of which
£82,058
Government
Accounts
(b)
£33,107
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£59,677 (c)
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(a) Deposited in Imperial Ottoman Bank. (6) Deposited in Bank of Athens, (c) • Deposited in Bank of
Other Deposits unknown except in the Government Savings Bank, see Return XXXIII.
Cyprus.