Decision on the rules for setting the rates of the Lebanese-Syrian gold piastre used for collecting various taxes and settling certain expenses

Type

Decision

Number

654

Date of the text

29/09/1926

Official Gazette

published in 1927

Status today

In force as of 27/08/2026

Articles

3

What it provides

This decision sets the rules by which the financial adviser fixes daily and semi-monthly the official rate of the gold piastre against the paper piastre, based on the dollar rate in Paris, and how those rates are notified through the postal and telegraph offices.

The full text

This act was published in the Lebanese Official Gazette in 1927. Its full text and the original scan are in the Gherbal National Gazette archive.