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RENCY.
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Estimated Amount of Paper Money in Circulation at enii of year
Ourrency in which Account*, are kept
Colonial Govern meut
Private Banks
By Government
By the Public
£ 6 3 2 J 6 9 4
Nil
Pounds, Shillings and
Cyprus Piastres
Usually in Piastres
WEIGHTS AN'l) MEASURES.
Weights and Measures in c o m m o n use and their i-quivulents iu Imperial Weights and Measurc*-
CAPAC1TY.
2 pints = 1 quart
2^quarts = 1 Cyprus litre
4 quarts = 1 gallon
8 gallons = 1 kile
i 9 quarts = 1
Liquid J
kouza
Measure ] l6kouzas= 1
[
load
WEIGHT.
400 drams — 1 oke
1J okes = 1 Cyprus litre
44 okes = 1 cantar
180 okes = 1 Aleppo enntar
800 okes = 1 ton
LENGTH
12 inches = 1 foot
feet = 1 pic
3 feet or H pies = 1 yard
33 pics = 1 chain
2.640 pic3-= 1 mile
LAND MEASURE:
1 donum — GO pies or 40 yds. square
— 14,400 sq. ft. or -rn,
0
*- of an acre
1,936 donums = 1 sq. mile 3*02o donums =- 1 acre
T h e above figures as regards capacity, weight and length have
been laid down by the Weights and Measure? Law (No. XI. of
1890.) T h e donum is. however, computed at different sizes by
the inhabitants in different parts-of the Island, and under the
Interpretation L a w (No. X. of 1901) it is reckoned.-*,* "1,600
square yards, according to the British Imperial Standard.*'
f Authorised by Proclamation, under Martial Law, of the High Commissioner dated 2nd September, 19 K*.
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29th April. 1920.
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