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Currency in which
Accounts are kept
By
Govern–
ment
the
Public
Weight* and Measures in common
time, and their equivalents in
Imperial Weights and Measures
•
N a m e of
Bank
Particulars of all Banks doing bu HID •*•*« in the
Island
No.of
Establish–
ments in
the Island
Under
what
authority
estab–
lished
CapiUl
paid up
Note
circula–
tion
in the
Island
Amount of
Deposits in tbe
Island
Usually, C A P A C I T Y .
in : 2 pints = 1 <juurt
Piastres 2tquart*?= I Cyprus litre
J 4 quarts *= 1 gallon
8 gnllons= 1 kile
( 9 quarts *= 1
Liquid )
kouza
Measure ^ 16 konzas= 1
(
load
WEIGHT.
400 drains •»-» 1 oke
1 i okes = I Cyprus litre
44 okes = 1 cantar
18-'okes = 1 Aleppo cantar
ftOO-.kes = 1 ton
LENGTH
12 inches = 1 ioot
-j feet -= 1 pi»-
3 l>et nr 1-Js |'i«'** *= 1 yard
33 pics = 1 chain
2.(>4n !>ii-s= 1 mile
LAND MEASURE:
1 donum — 6n pics or 40 yds.
[square
— 14.400 sq. ft. or
y-n- of an acre
1.936 donums = 1 sq. mile
3*025 donums *— 1 acre
The abovefiguresas regards
capacity, weigh r and length
have been laid down by
the Weights and Measures
Law (No. XI. of 1890.1
The donum is. however, com–
puted at different sizes by
rhe inhahiuints 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."
Imperial
Ottoman
Bank
Bank of
Athens
Bank of
Cyprus
Branches j Firman
at t of the
i
Nicosia, , Porte
Larnaca, I
Famusrusta,!
Limassoi i
and i
Paphos ;
Branch at [ Decree
Limassoi , of the
i
and I King of
Agencies j Greece
at i (23rd
Nicosia, ;-Noveiii.,
Larnaca. 1893)
Famagusta,
Paphos
and
Kvrenia
Head Office
1
Sanction
£5,000,0001 N I L .
Drachm*
60,000,000
NIL.
at
Nicosia
and
Agencies
at
Larnaca,
of H.E.
the
High
Comm.
of
Cyprus
Limassoi, 'pursuant
Famagnsta. to the
Paphos, : provi-
Kyrenia sions of
and ! the
Morpiiou Ottoman
Commer–
cial Code
(Xo.
11548)
Cyprus
Gnzette
1064 of
2012/12
£131.500
NIL.
£
s. c.p
(a)
266.584
of which
£69,298
Government
Accounts
(b)
£66,164
£64,635 (r)
(a) Deposited in Imperial Ottoman Bank, (b) Deposited in Bank of Athens, (c) Deposited in Bank of Cyprus.
Other Deposits unknown except in the Government Sarings Bank, see Return XXXIII.