MONEY, WEIGHTS, AND MEASURES
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The capital amounts to 20,000,000 guilders, the reserve fund to 5,201,479 guilders. The Bank keeps the State-Treasuiy and the cash of the State Postal Savings-Bank. It receives 5 per cent, of the clear gains ; the remainder is divided between the State and the Bank.
There are many savings-banks, all private. Besides thefc there is a State })ostal savings-bank, established in 1881. The following table gives some par- •ticulars of both : —
Number of
Amount
Amount
Total De- posits at
Number of
Amount
Year
1
Savings Banks
deposited
(in 1,000
gldrs.)
withdrawn
(in 1,000
gldrs.)
end of vear (in 1,000 gldrs.)
Depositors at end of year
per inhabi- tant
1892
Private banks .
246
15,526
15,704
57,267
294,105
12-26 gl.
State P. S. B.
15,370
12,473
27,562
358,483
5-90,,
1893
Private banks .
264
17,353
17,102
66,371
328,137
J4-02,,
State P. S. B.
17,651
13,726
32,247
401,046
6-81 „
1894
Private banks .
282
19,186
16,955
70,027
338,979
14-60,,
State P. S. B.
20,102
15,576
37,651
448,581
7-85,,
1895
Private banks .
282
19,313
17.872
72,584
343,592
14-94,,
State P. S. B.
23,220
17,727
44,185
499,963
9-09 ,,
1896
Private banks .
286
19,536
19,067
76,210
363,325
15-46 ,,
State P. S. B.
28,640
21,191
52,863
561,989
10-73,,
1897
State P. S. B.
—
31,736
24,407
61,646
627,409
12-32 „
The reserve fund of the private savings banks amounted in 1896 to 105,620,000 guilders.
Money, Weights, and Measures.
Money.
The standard coin is the 10-ilorin piece weighing 6-720 grammes, -900 fine, and thus containing 6-048 grammes of fine gold. The unit of the silver coin- age is the florin, weighing 10 grammes, "945 fine and containing 9-45gi'ammes of tine silver.
Gold is legal tender, and the silver coins issued before 1875.
The principal coins are : —
The gulden, guilder, ox fi or in of 100 cents. =1 sh. 8d. ; or 12 g. =£1.
The rijksdaalder = 2^ guilders.
The gold-piece of ten guilders.
i guilder, I guilder {kicartjc), -^ giiilder {duhheltje), ^ guilder (stuivertje).
Cent coins are : 1 cent, ^ cent, and 2^ cents.
Weights and Measures.
The metric system of weights and measures, and, with trifling changes, the metric denominations are adopted in the Netherlands.
