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Currency in which
Accounts are kept
By
Govern-
. ment
Pounds,
Shillings
and
Cyprui*
Piastres
-
•
By
the
Public
Usually
in
Piastres
Weights and Measures in common
use, and their equivalents in
Imperial Weights and Measures
CAPACITY.
2 pints =** 1 quart
2$ quarts = 1 C y p n u litre
4 quarts = 1 gallon
8 gallons******* 1 kile*
1 9 quarts = 1
Liquid J
kouza
Measure ) 1 6 k n u z a s = 1
(
load
WEIGHT.
4 0 0 drams — 1 oke
1£ okea = 1 Cyprua litre
44 okes = 1 cantar
180 okea = 1 Aleppo cantar
800 okea = 1 ton
LENGTH
12 inches = 1 foot
2 feot = 1 pic
3 feet or lj pics *-= 1 yard
33 pics == 1 chain
2,640 pic8= 1 mile
LAND MEASURE :
1 d o n u m — 60 pica or 40 yds.
[square
— 14,400 aq. ft. or
T-V-J-
of an acre
1,936 d o n u m s = 1 sq. mile
3*025 donuniB — 1 acre
T h e above figures as regards
capacity, weight and length
have been laid down bv
.
*
rhe Weights and Measures
Law (No. XI. of 1«90.)
T h e donum is. however, com-
1 tuted iit different, sizes by
the inhabitant*; in different
parts of the Island, and under
the Interpretation L a w (No .X.
of 1901) it is reckoned as
" 1,600 square yards, ac–
cording to the British Imperial
Standard.*'
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Particulars of all Banks doing business in the
Island
Name of
Bank
*
Imperial
Ottoman
Bank
Bank of
Athens
Bank of
Cyprns
No. of
Establish–
ments in
the Island
Branches
at
Nicosia,
Larnaca,
Famagnsta,
Limassoi
and
Paphos
Branches
at
Nicosia
and
Limassoi
Head Office
at
Nicosia,
Branch
at
Limassoi
and
Agencies
at
Larnaca,
Famagusta,
Paphos,
Kyrenia
and
Morphou
Under
what
authority
estab–
lished
Finnan
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
Capital
paid up
£5,000,000
Drachmse
48,000,000
.
£157,164
•
the i
Ottoman j
Commer-'
cial Oodej
(No.
i
11548) |
Cyprus •
Gazette j
1064 oi i
20/12/12 j
Note
circula–
tion
in the
Island
NIL.
NIL.
NIL.
-
Amount of
Deposits in tbe
Island
£ 8. c.p.
(-)
277,400
of which
£116,100
Government
Accounts
(b)
£85,066
£64,980 (c)
(fl) Deposited in Imperial Ottoman Bank.
(IJ) Deposited in Bank of Athens, (c) Deposited in Bank of Cyprus.
Other Deposits unknown except in the
Government Savings
Bank, see Return XXXIII.