WEIGHTS AND MEASURES 5 



Administration 



The Island is administered by a High Commissioner. 

 There is an Executive Council and a Legislative Council 

 consisting of six official members and twelve elected 

 members, of whom three are elected by the Moslem and 

 nine by the non-Moslem inhabitants. The Island is 

 divided into six districts, in each of which the Executive 

 Government is represented by a Commissioner. 



Weights, Measures and Currency 



Nearly everything except corn, wine, oil, carobs, cotton 

 and wool is sold by the oke. 



An oke, dry measure, equals 400 drams, or 2y Ib. 

 The liquid oke is reckoned as equivalent to a quart. 

 Grain is measured by the kile, regarded as equal to a 

 bushel. 



Wool, cotton and oil are sold by the litre of 2f okes, 

 but commonly reckoned as 2| okes. 



Carobs are sold by the Aleppo cantar of 180 okes. 

 This cantar is further divided into 100 litres of i oke and 

 320 drams each. 



Wine is sold by the kartos = 4 okes, the kouza = 

 8 okes, and the gomari = 128 okes. 



kile" of wheat weighs 20 to 22 okes. 

 kile* of barley weighs 14 to 18 okes. 

 kile* of oats weighs 13 to 14 okes. 

 kile* oi vetches weighs 23 to 24 okes. 

 sack of straw weighs about 40 okes. 

 i camel-load of straw weighs about 200 okes, con- 

 sisting of 2 sacks, each weighing about 100 okes. 



Measures of Length 



Metron or metre. 



Yarda or yard. 



Pic = 2 ft. or two-thirds of a yard. 



Inch = English measure. 



The land measure is the donum (called by the villagers 

 " scala "), but it is very uncertain, and varies in different 

 parts of the Island. As recognised by law, i donum, called 



