54 INFORMATION REI^ATING TO CREDIT 



1914 1915 1916 



General turnover .... 56,088,791.13 113,248,525.77 254,464,304.73 

 Turnover of the till . . 26,464,111.32 83 ,518,477.50 177,854,106.08 



Deposits : 



Received 5.073.655-84 17.286,973.53 48,280,827.55 



Paid out 5.039.643-58 13,500,406.74 41.703,955-50 



Turnover, 10,113,309.42 30,787,380.27 89,984,783.05 



Balance 31 December . 3,038,415.50 6,825,022.29 13,401,894.34 



Capitai, in shares and 



RESERVE 318,866.95 343,901.16 386,036.76 



Paper : 



Bills received 9,390,757.12 16,368,624.28 28,686,920.79 



" issued 9,296,671.67 13,438,500.87 23,959,959.28 



Turnover 18,687,428.79 29,807,125.15 52,646,880.07 



Balance 31 December . . 2,073,946.68 5,004,070.09 9,731,031.60 



State SECURITIES . . 409,500.00 1,021,290.00 2,982,553.93 



This bank pays interest on ordinary free savings deposits at the rate 

 of 3 y2 per cent. ; and on engaged savings deposits at the rates of 3 ^/^, 4, 

 4 1/4 and 4 ^ per cent., according to the importance- of the sum and the 

 term for which it is engaged. It also receives small savings deposits at 

 3 ^/4 per cent, and deposits on current account at 3 per cent. It lends, 

 discounts, opens current credit accounts, makes advances on pledged 

 provisions and issues interest-bearing bonds. 



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5. THE " BANCA DI CREDITO AGRICOIyO " OF Fl^ORENCE IN 1916. UAgriciiltura To- 

 scana. No. 6, Florence, 31 M-arch 1917. 



This Bank of Agricultural Credit was founded at Florence in 1913 with 

 the object of advancing capital to its members in order that they might stock 

 their holdings and buy agricultural machinery and implements, seeds, fer- 

 tilizers and all faiming requisites. The bank on 31 December 1916 had 403 

 members having 858 paid-up shares, that is 85,000 liras of paid-up capital. 

 In 1916 it placed at the disposal of its agriculturist members 1,401,060.39 



