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RENCY.
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Estimated Amount of Papci* Money in Circulation at end of year
Currency in which Accounts are kept
Colonial Government
£524.122 11
Tri vate Banks
By Government
Nil.
Pounds, Shillings aud
Cyprus Piastres
By the Public
Csuully in Piastres
WEIGHTS AND MKA.SuRES.
Weights and Measures in comoiim use and their equivalents iu Iinpc-iul Wcitrhu and .Measure**
CAPACITY.
2 [>ints = 1 quart
2iqnarts= 1 Cyprus litre
4 quarts = 1 gallon
8 gallons******** 1 kile
i 9 quarts = 1
Liquid )
kouza
Measure ~) 16 k o u z a s = 1
(
. load
WEIGHT.
400 drams — 1 oke
li okes = 1 Cyprus litre
44 okes = 1 cantar
180 okes = 1 Aleppo cantar
800 okes = 1 ton
LAND MEASURE:
LENGTH
12 inches = 1 foot
2 feet = 1 ni
3 feet or H pics = I yard
33 pics = 1 chain
2.64<> i.ies= 1 mile
1 d o n u m •=— 6<> pics or 40 yds. square
-= 14.400 nq. ft. or f.f
T
of" an acre
1,936 ilouums = I sq. mile 3*025 donum-! «-= 1 acre
T h e above figures as regards capacity, weight and length have
been laid down by the Weights and Measures Law (No. X I . of
1890.) T h e d o n u m is. however, computed :it different sizes In–
die inhabitants iu different parts of the H a n d , and under the
Interpretation L a w (No. X. of 1901) it is reckoned as "1,600
square yards, according to the British Imperial Standard."
t Authorised by Proclamation, uuder Martial Law, of the High Commissioner dated 2nd September, 1915.
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5th September, 1917.
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10th April, 1918.
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29th April, 1920.